Colin Friels
1) Kangaroo
Author
Language
English
Description
D.H. Lawrence, one of the greatest modernist novelists, wrote Kangaroo as a semi-autobiographical account of his 1922 visit to Australia.
Author
Series
Life At 5 volume 1
Language
English
Description
Resilience explores families and children adrift as we discover ways in which positive outcomes can be achieved with the right amount of emotional support.
Author
Series
Life At 3 volume 2
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the latest scientific research on childhood behaviour, shows how the ordinary and the most challenging hurdles of life can affect a child's behaviour and what they need to learn to control it.
Author
Series
Life At 1 volume 2
Language
English
Description
The first instalment in a landmark series that will follow 11 babies and their families for seven years to discover what it takes to give a child the best chance at life. Join six of our babies to find out if the stress of modern living is too much stress for a child.
Author
Series
Life At 1 volume 1
Language
English
Description
The first instalment in a landmark series that will follow 11 babies and their families for seven years to discover what it takes to give a child the best chance at life. How, and in what way are Australian children unique?
Author
Series
Life At 5 volume 2
Language
English
Description
Even though our eleven children are all unique, one critical factor binds them together, starting school. It's a day all of us remember, sometimes with pleasure, sometimes with pain.
Author
Series
Life At 3 volume 1
Language
English
Description
Breaks the latest science on the biggest health issue facing Australian children. It pinpoints key factors - some surprising - about why our kids are getting too fat.
8) Life at 1
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
How do you give a child the best chance in life? Life at 1 is the first instalment in a landmark series that aims to unlock the secrets of child development by following 11 babies and their families for seven years. Made in conjunction with the long-term study in which 10,000 Australian children have been placed under a sociological and scientific microscope, this groundbreaking program focuses on those first formative years to try to discover what...
9) Life at 3
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The story continues for the children of The life series, now they are three, as they reveal what it takes to give a child the best chance at life. Over two episodes Life at 3 measures our group of children against the latest scientific findings on two of the hottest topics in child development, obesity and bad behaviour. The life series is made in conjunction with a long-term study, Growing up in Australia, in which 10,000 children have been placed...
10) The Nothing Men
Author
Language
English
Description
Panic runs through the lives of a group of hardened factory workers with the arrival of a mystery man, who they fear is a head-office spy sent to rob them of their redundancy payouts.
11) Darkman
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1990
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scientist is horribly disfigured when gangsters break in and destroy his laboratory. After being burned beyond recognition and altered by an experimental medical procedure, he is reborn as Darkman and seeks revenge on the criminals who were responsible.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (318 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When two boys disappear from a remote cattle station, local police sergeant Emma James calls in Indigenous detective Jay Swan to help find out what happened. As Emma and Jay butt heads over their conflicting methods, the unexpected arrival of Jay's troubled daughter only inflames the tension. But when their investigation uncovers other crimes haunting the backwater town, the detectives must look to the past to get justice in the present.