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Table of Contents:
Overview xi Acknowledgements xiii Unit 1 Designing Our Political and Legal System 1 1 The Australian Constitution 3 1.1 Overview 3 1.2 Why do we have a constitution? 4 1.3 Sharing the power 6 1.4 How do we change the Constitution? 10 1.5 How hard is it to change the Constitution? 12 1.6 SkillBuilder: Questioning and researching 14 1.7 Review 16 2 The Australian government 17 2.1 Overview 17 2.2 Role and structure of the Commonwealth Parliament 18 2.3 State and territory parliaments 20 2.4 Winning power 23 2.5 The environment — an issue for all levels of government 25 2.6 SkillBuilder: Evaluating 28 2.7 Review 30 3 The Australian legal system 31 3.1 Overview 31 3.2 What happens in a courtroom? 32 3.3 The presumption of innocence 33 3.4 What is a fair trial? 36 3.5 How can Australians receive access to justice and legal representation? 40 3.6 SkillBuilder: Debating an issue 43 3.7 Review 45 Unit 2 Producing and Consuming 47 4 Consumers and producers 49 4.1 Overview 49 4.2 The importance of businesses as producers 50 4.3 Responding to consumer demand 53 4.4 Determining prices 56 4.5 Influencing overseas producers 58 4.6 SkillBuilder: Communicating 61 4.7 Review 63 5 Entrepreneurship 64 5.1 Overview 64 5.2 What is an entrepreneur? 65 5.3 Business owner or entrepreneur? 68 5.4 Business success: quality product and location 70 5.5 Business success: service and management 74 5.6 SkillBuilder: Writing a business case study 76 5.7 Review 79 6 Working for a living 81 6.1 Overview 81 6.2 What is work? 82 6.3 Why work? 87 6.4 Different types of work 91 6.5 Work, the economy and society 97 6.6 Alternative sources of income 100 6.7 SkillBuilder: Analysing and evaluating 105 6.8 Review 107 Unit 3 Water in the World 109 7 Geography concepts 111 7.1 Overview 111 7.2 Geographical concepts 115 7.3 Review 123 8 Water as a resource 125 8.1 Overview 125 8.2 What is a resource? 126 8.3 What are Australia’s natural resources? 129 8.4 How do we use non-renewable energy? 132 8.5 Should Australia focus on using renewable energy? 135 8.6 SkillBuilder: Constructing a pie graph Online Only 8.7 Is water a renewable resource? 138 8.8 SkillBuilder: Annotating a photograph Online Only 8.9 How is groundwater used as a resource? 140 8.10 How do Aboriginal peoples use groundwater? 143 8.11 Review Online Only 9 Our blue planet: water 149 9.1 Overview 149 9.2 How much water is there in the world? 150 9.3 What are some amazing water facts? 153 9.4 How does Australia’s climate affect water availability? 157 9.5 SkillBuilder: How to read a map Online Only 9.6 How is water used by people? 160 9.7 SkillBuilder: Drawing a line graph Online Only 9.8 How is water used by indigenous peoples? Online Only 9.9 Does everyone have enough water? 164 9.10 How does access to water improve health? 167 9.11 What is virtual water? 171 9.12 How does water quality change? 174 9.13 How can water be managed? 177 9.14 Review Online Only Unit 4 Place and Liveability 183 10 Where do Australians live? 185 10.1 Overview 185 10.2 What creates a sense of place? 186 10.3 Why do people live in certain places? 188 10.4 Where do you live and why? 191 10.5 Why do Australians live in remote places? 194 10.6 SkillBuilder: Using topographic maps Online Only 10.7 What draws people to rural areas? 197 10.8 Are rural communities sustainable? Online Only 10.9 What are ‘lifestyle’ places? 199 10.10 Where is my place? 204 10.11 Where would you like to live? 206 10.12 SkillBuilder: Creating a concept diagram Online Only 10.13 Review Online Only 11 People and places 212 11.1 Overview 212 11.2 Do most Australians live near water? 213 11.3 SkillBuilder: Understanding satellite images Online Only 11.4 Where is the fastest growing place? Online Only 11.5 SkillBuilder: Using alphanumeric grid references Online Only 11.6 What is life like in a country town? 217 11.7 How are places influenced by seasons? Online Only 11.8 Do places change over time? 219 11.9 What are isolated settlements like? 224 11.10 Are all settlements permanent? Online Only 11.11 What is Old Delhi like? Online Only 11.12 How is modern India changing? Online Only 11.13 Review Online Only 12 Liveable places 228 12.1 Overview 228 12.2 What is liveability? 229 12.3 Where are the most liveable cities? 231 12.4 SkillBuilder: Drawing a climate graph Online Only 12.5 What makes Melbourne the world’s most liveable city? Online Only 12.6 Is being the most liveable city sustainable? 234 12.7 Port Moresby — a less liveable city? 237 12.8 Dhaka — a less liveable city? Online Only 12.9 Is there enough to eat? 239 12.10 How can liveability be improved? 242 12.11 What makes a place liveable for you? 245 12.12 SkillBuilder: Creating and analysing overlay maps Online Only 12.13 How could my community be made more liveable? 248 12.14 Review Online Only 13 Geographical inquiry: What is my place like? 252 13.1 Overview 252 13.2 Process 253 13.3 Review 254 Unit 5 Depth Study 1: Investigating the Ancient Past 255 14 Historical skills and concepts 257 14.1 Overview 257 14.2 Examining the evidence 258 14.3 Ages, time and chronology 260 14.4 Detective work 263 14.5 Evidence from archaeology 266 14.6 How old is it? 270 14.7 Perspectives and empathy 273 14.8 SkillBuilder: Sequencing events in chronological order Online Only 14.9 Review Online Only 15 Ancient Australia 277 15.1 Overview 277 15.2 Examining the evidence 279 15.3 The first people of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands 281 15.4 Managing an ancient land 285 15.5 Language and ceremony in ancient Australia 290 15.6 The ancient Australian economy 293 15.7 Society, custom and culture 298 15.8 Conflict and death in ancient Australia 302 15.9 Conserving the past 306 15.10 SkillBuilder: Developing a hypothesis Online Only 15.11 Review Online Only Unit 6 Depth Study 2: Investigating One Ancient Society (Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China) 315 16 Ancient Egypt 317 16.1 Overview 317 16.2 Examining the evidence 319 16.3 The gift of the Nile 320 16.4 The people of Egypt 322 16.5 Pharaoh rules! 327 16.6 Gods and the afterlife 330 16.7 Mummies unwrapped 332 16.8 Write like an Egyptian 335 16.9 Pyramid builders 337 16.10 Tutankhamen, Akhenaten and Nefertiti 339 16.11 Expansion and fall 343 16.12 Rameses II — Egypt’s greatest pharaoh? 345 16.13 Egypt’s heritage 348 16.14 SkillBuilder: Analysing and corroborating sources Online Only 16.15 Review Online Only 17 Ancient Greece 351 17.1 Overview 351 17.2 Examining the evidence 353 17.3 The Minoans and Mycenaeans 355 17.4 The ‘Dark Age’ to the Archaic Period 359 17.5 Government in Athens and Sparta 362 17.6 Everyday life in Sparta 365 17.7 Everyday life in Athens 369 17.8 Laws, myths, gods and oracles 374 17.9 The Olympic Games 377 17.10 Greeks, Persians and Alexander the Great 379 17.11 The heritage of ancient Greece 384 17.12 SkillBuilder: Analysing and corroborating sources Online Only 17.13 Review Online Only 18 Ancient Rome Online Only 18.1 Overview 18.2 Examining the evidence 18.3 The rise of the Romans 18.4 The spreading empire 18.5 The Roman army 18.6 Citizens and rulers 18.7 Spartacus and Nero: two significant individuals 18.8 Living in the Roman Empire 18.9 Death and the Romans 18.10 Roman law and religion 18.11 Decline and fall 18.12 Heritage of Rome 18.13 SkillBuilder: Analysing and corroborating sources 18.14 Review 19 Ancient India Online Only 19.1 Overview 19.2 Examining the evidence 19.3 The geography of India 19.4 Lost cities of the Indus Valley 19.5 Contacts and conflicts: India and the ancient world 19.6 The Mauryan Empire: India’s first unified state 19.7 Ashoka the Great 19.8 The religions of Ancient India 19.9 SkillBuilder: Analysing different perspectives 19.10 Review 20 Ancient China 388 20.1 Overview 388 20.2 Examining the evidence 390 20.3 China’s civilisation begins 391 20.4 The people of ancient China 393 20.5 Everyday life and death 396 20.6 Ancient China and the natural environment 398 20.7 Confucianism, religion and law 400 20.8 Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China 404 20.9 The rise and fall of the Han 408 20.10 The heritage of China 412 20.11 SkillBuilder: Analysing different perspectives Online Only 20.12 Review Online Only Glossary 417 Index 425


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780730349136
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Jacaranda Wiley, Australia
  • Height: 280 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Weight: 913 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0730349136
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 217 mm


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