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  • Hanged
    Derek Pugh
    Ten men were legally executed in Australia’s Northern Territory.Some were hanged on their own Country, their deaths intended as warnings. Others were buried behind the walls of Darwin’s Fannie Bay Gaol in unmarked graves and forgotten.They were Indigenous tribesmen, Chinese gold miners, and European refugees. Their crimes, trials, and punishments unfolded in a frontier society ...
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    23,94 €

  • Darwin
    Derek Pugh
    What does it mean to live in a place no one else believed in?Then known as Palmerston, Darwin at the dawn of the 20th century was a remote and volatile frontier town considered a white elephant by its distant government. Cyclones raged, supplies were scarce, and the promised railway never came. But despite the struggles, many Territorians chose to stay, clinging to the boundles...
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    33,32 €

  • The Ragged Thirteen
    Derek Pugh
    In 1886, a notorious gang of horsemen wreaked havoc on the Overlanders’ Trail that stretched across the Northern Territory into the wild Kimberley region. They stole cattle with audacity, brazenly held up pubs and cattle stations, and drove a herd of stolen horses with unmatched daring. As part of the Halls Creek goldrush, these men became infamous as the Ragged Thirteen.Dubbed...
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    22,02 €

  • Darwin
    Derek Pugh
    The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia’s Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of mining, pastoralism, and agriculture suffered from downturn, disease and distance. The South Australians had had enough of their ’white elephant’ and, when Palmerston blew away in the Great Hurricane of 1897, the calls for the Northern Terri...
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    33,17 €

  • Twenty to the Mile
    Derek Pugh
    The greatest engineering problem facing Australia - the tyranny of distance - had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the sheep-farming colony of South Australia.In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, constructed a telegraph line across the centre of the continent from Port Augusta to Darwin. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long and using...
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    33,10 €

  • Great Writers on Organizations
    David J. Hickson / Derek S. Pugh
    Great Writers on Organizations presents succinctly each of the contributions made by 80 of the most prominent management thinkers to the understanding of organizational behaviour and managerial thinking. New writers included in the Third Omnibus Edition are: Lex Donaldson, Stewart Clegg, Richard Whitley, Michel Foucault and Kathleen Eisenhardt. ...
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    74,25 €

  • Darwin
    Derek Pugh
    The 1880s started with a boom in Palmerston and the Top End. South Australian investors flocked to put their money into gold mines, sugar and coffee plantations, and the pastoral industry. Cattle stations bigger than a British county were carved out of the bush. The Overland Telegraph Line stretched across the continent, and the Top End was alive with Aborigines, explorers, agr...
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    32,98 €

  • Port Essington
    Derek Pugh
    For many of the Royal Marines sent to Port Essington, life was a living hell of malaria, scurvy, termites, shipwrecks, cyclones, boredom, isolation and death. For one man, it was the ’most useless, ill-managed hold in Her Majesty’s dominions’ which deserved ’all the abuse that has ever been heaped upon it’.But it wasn’t always so: in the beginning, French visitors shared their ...
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    32,93 €

  • Fort Wellington
    Derek Pugh
    The Iwaidja woman, her belly opened by a bayonet, slipped below the dark water. Her 6-year-old daughter, Reveral, watched in terror. Her baby sister was already dead, hit by a slug in the first volley or drowned, but a young man lying on the sand with his intestines spilling out had to be finished off - out of mercy! Reveral, wounded in her side, was carried back to the fort in...
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    22,11 €

  • Schoolies
    Derek Pugh
    It's Schoolies Week in Bali. Ras follows Jess to the party town of Kuta and finds that protecting his girl is easier said than done. He also has to learn how to handle his newfound freedom as an adult. What could possibly go wrong? ...
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    9,22 €

  • Darwin
    Derek Pugh
    A crocodile pulls a sleeping man into the river by one leg. Another breaks the neck of a swimming policeman. An out-of-luck miner drowns himself in the town's well.Once called Palmerston, the City of Darwin began in the 1870s. Darwin was a pioneer's paradise: sometimes as exciting as it was dull, full of potential but, too often, dangerous. Not everyone survived.The fir...
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    25,23 €

  • Darwin 1869
    Derek Pugh
    This is the story of the birth of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory.At first called Palmertston, Darwin is the only pre-Federation capital city in Australia which is young enough to have been photographed since its earliest days. When George Goyder and his survey teams arrived in Port Darwin in February 5, 1869, one of the draftsmen, Joseph Brooks, doubl...
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    14,68 €

  • Darwin 1869
    Derek Pugh
    Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn.The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the governance of South Australia. Land was sold to investors, unseen and unsurveyed and in an unknown location. The sales raised the funds needed to found the new colony of Palmerston, the future capital of the Northern Territory of South ...
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    20,54 €

  • Escape Cliffs
    Derek Pugh
    This is a true story of greed, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and extraordinary bushmanship, amid government bungling and Aboriginal resistance, during South Australia's first attempt at colonising their Northern Territory in 1864.The South Australians wanted their state to be the premier state of Austr...
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    24,34 €

  • Writers on Organizations
    David J. Hickson / Derek S. Pugh
    Who has said what about organizations and their management? This handy compendium gives easy access to the principal ideas of the leading authorities. Brief clear resumes bring out the main thrust of their thinking. The fifth edition of this evergreen resource for student and manager alike summarises the work of a wide range of experts to provide a truly comprehensive overview...
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    23,77 €