Victorian Child Health Record
The information guide gives parents useful contact numbers and vital information on issues like Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or how to recognise if your child has hearing difficulties, as well as practical advice on sleeping habits, toilet ... [... more]
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Chris Willis
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915), Victorian England's bestselling woman writer, blends Dickensian humor with chilling suspense in this "exuberantly campy" (Kirkus Reviews) mystery. The novel features Jabez North, a ... [... more]
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George Gissing
Hailed as Gissing's finest novel, New Grub Street portrays the intrigues and hardships of the publishing world in late Victorian England. In a materialistic, class-conscious society that rewards commercial savvy over ... [... more]
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Morton N. Cohen
Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thirty years in the writing and drawn from a voluminous fund of ... [... more]
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Aged Care - Helping People At Home
Victorian ACAS is a joint Commonwealth and State funded program within the National Aged Care Assessment Program. The service provides information and assistance to frail older people and, in some circumstances, younger people with disabilities. ... [... more]
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Charles H.M. Kerr
A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard's She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love ... [... more]
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Alison Goodman
Alison is the author of Singing the Dogstar Blues, a science-fiction comedy thriller, which won an Aurealis Award for best Young Adult Novel, was listed as Children's Book Council Notable Book, and was shortlisted for the 1999 Victorian Premier's ... [... more]
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Clement C. Moore
"A snow-covered Victorian New York City is the location for Anita Lobel's version of this classic Christmas poem. The cozy interiors show a cat curled up under the tree; portraits of ancestors in every room; argyle, ... [... more]
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Alice Thomson
In 1855, Charles Todd and his impetuous young bride Alice--for whom Alice Springs would be named--left the comfort of Victorian England for the wilds of South Australia, a place... Read more > Following the tradition of Daisy Bates in the Desert ... [... more]
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Marilyn Chase
The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase's fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today's headlines. The ... [... more]
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Burns And Scalds - Children
By law, all new hot water systems are now required to comply with the Victorian plumbing regulations, which limit all hot tap water to no more than 50°C in bathrooms at the basin, bath and shower in new houses and new renovations. (The only ... [... more]
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