Bücher von David Hunt

Winner of the 2014 Indie Award for Non - Fiction. Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock - ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Mark Twain wrote of Australian history: 'It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies ... but they are all true, they all happened.' In Girt, Hunt uncovers these beautiful lies, recounting the strange and ridiculous episodes that conventional histories ignore. The result is surprising, enlightening - and side - splittingly funny. Girt explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup, the Dutch obsession with nailing perfectly good kitchenware to posts, and the settlers' fear of Pemulwuy and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamingcoat. It introduces us to forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the typically Irish crime of 'felony of sock'; Patyegarang, the young Eora girl who co - authored the world's most surprising dictionary; and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. Our nation's beginnings were steeped in the unlikely, the incongruous and the frankly bizarre. Girt restores these stories to their rightful place. Not to read it would be un - Australian.

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407388335 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407388342 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860544135 (Volume set).

This volume is part of a two volume set: ISBN 9781407388335 (Volume I); ISBN 9781407388342 (Volume II); ISBN 9780860544135 (Volume set).

This book is intended for anyone who has to deliver any form of presentation or public speaking activity. Whether you are a sales or marketing professional, a senior business person, a technician, teacher or student; this book will help you become more confident and achieve greater success with your life.This book could help you land a new job or promotion, win new sales, gain management approval for your proposals, persuade financiers to invest in your business, deliver improved training or demonstrations, improve your standing with your colleagues and management and so much more.This could be the best investment you have ever made!

Having been made redundant at the ripe old age of 45, the author was told he was too old to get another sales or marketing management job in the IT industry. So, what happens when a businessman reaches that magical age of 45? Does a dramatic change suddenly take place? Does he suddenly no longer understand how business operates? Does he lose the power of coherent thought or speech? Are his limbs no longer under the strict control of his brain? Does he become, in effect, ga-ga? This book represents observations and learnings from 30+years working with senior managers in the UK, Europe and USA. It includes first-hand experience of how some businesses have managed well, or mis-managed, their way out of recession. A thought-provoking, controversial and, at times, humorous review of business practices, good and bad and how we can be smarter in business today.

This is a story of a prophecy told millennia ago and handed down mother to daughter. The reopening of Pandora's Box unleashes monsters and mayhem on the English countryside. But the event also releases magic into the world. The gathered companions must find and destroy the Orb, but first, they must set their own house in order. Merriam finds herself mated to four strong, caring men who will do anything to protect her. The group finds events spiraling out of control as they fend off monster attacks and make friends with new races never seen before.

The saga of Australia continues with ... GIRT NATIONDavid Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation -an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore.Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the jihadist who called on God and the Prophet to drive the Australian infidels from the Sudan 'like sand before the gale'. And meet Catherine Helen Spence, the feminist polymath who envisaged a utopian future of free contraceptives, easy divorce and immigration restrictions to prevent the 'Chinese coming to destroy all we have struggled for!'Thrill as Jandamarra leads the Bunuba against Western Australia, and Valentine Keating leads the Crutchy Push, an all-amputee street gang, against the conventionally limbed. Gasp as Essendon Football Club trainer Carl von Ledebur injects his charges with crushed dog and goat testicles. Weep as Scott Morrison's communist great-great-aunt Mary Gilmore holds a hose in New Australia. And marvel at how Labor, a political party that spent a quarter of a century infighting over how to spell its own name, ever rose to power.

In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier.

Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia...In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.