I am a ‘retired professor' who is sharing here two related series of books written in 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 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 Australian audience’) is a series of ‘personal interest’ books related to the exemplary links between my own 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.