I am a ‘retired professor’ who is sharing two related series of books written in his retirement. The first for a global audience is the ‘21st Century optimal knowledge-building for sustainable global convergence series’ series linked to my earlier professional work over several decades to do with such areas as lifelong education, teaching critical thinking and academic writing, mentoring PhD students, digital age learning generally, ‘dialogic rhetoric’ studies, and ‘sustainable development’ project development and consultancies. The other series ‘Australiana’ (mainly aimed but not only at an Australin audience’) is a series of ‘personal interest’ books related to the links between family history and genealogical research on one hand, and on the other related connections to both local, global and ‘new world’ histories – and my earlier related interests in literary, cultural and ‘post-colonial’ studies.