Robyn Maynard

Alan Powell

D. Carment

Christine Edward

Barbara James

Helen J. Wilson

This revised edition of the Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography brings together the entries from the original three volumes, published in 1990, 1992 and 1996. The Dictionary spans the period from the early British and French explorers of the Northern Territory coast to the mid 1990s and aims to provide a broad reflection of life in the Territory rather than focusing on eminent public figures. In some cases this has meant that some subjects are included about whom relatively little is known. Authors come from the widest possible cross-section of the community and there is a considerable range of writing styles. The principal interest of the volume is the Northern Territory. In all cases, the Territory experience of subjects, however eminent they might have been elsewhere, is thus the focal point of entries.This volume is available on CD (ISBN 9780980384697) and in this limited paperback edition.

Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography

The intriguing and daring story of the Australian coast-watchers in New Britain and the Solomon Islands during World War II is fairly well known, but they were part of a wider organisation. The Allied Intelligence Bureau was General MacArthur's intelligence, special operations and field propaganda unit in the Pacific War, 1942-45. The AIB was unique in its multinational composition. Under American leadership, it included British, Dutch, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian members, although many of the leaders and most of the field operatives were Australian. Its area of operations stretched from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands and from Indonesia, including Borneo, to the Asian mainland. Using much newly released, formerly secret archival material from Britain, the USA and Australia, this new full-scale study of the AIB examines for the first time relations between operatives and native peoples - a relationship critical for the success or failure of missions that were often appallingly dangerous. It also lays bare the power struggles within the organisation itself - conflicts over national, military and personal interests that were constant and intense - heightened by the conduct of war at a time that was, without doubt, the most desperate in Australian history.

Australians and the Allied Intelligence Bureau, 1942-1945

War by Stealth

Powell writes with passion. This is history with the explanations left in. - Sydney Morning Herald . . . most comprehensive, covering every conceivable aspect of wartime Darwin. - Mufti . . . a well-wrought study of Australians, not so much at war, but in it. - Advertiser . . . highly readable, entertaining and thoughtful. - Journal of Australian War Memorial

Australia's Northern War

The Shadow's Edge

Physical arguments are developed to show how aerodynamic sound is generated as a result of the movement of vortices, or of vorticity, in an unsteady fluid flow. In a very simple model the aeolian tone is attributed to the dipolelike flow caused by the stretching of vortex rings. There is no net stretching of vortex rings in a free flow, but each moving element of vorticity still causes a local dipole-like flow, so that equal and opposite elements act together to form quadrupoles. Mathematical developments follow. The simple aeolian tone model is shown to be valid for low Strouhal numbers, the general result also incorporating the effect of the fluctuating Bernoulli pressure at the surface of the body. The free flow quadrupole model is shown to be exact, and also to agree with Lighthill's result. Using vorticity as a common basis, the compressible flow is compared to the corresponding incompressible one, the hydrodynamic field and the relationship to classical field theory being discussed. (Author).

Alan Powell

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