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Current titles include
For the first time, the history of getting women into the Parliament of Victoria and their experiences once there is brought to life in Challenging Women. From the foundation of the Women’s Electoral Lobby to the launch of EMILY’s List, this engaging book draws on historical sources and the MPs’ experiences and perceptions to tell the story of a key twenty-five year period that was critical in laying the foundations for women’s increased political representation.
Since obtaining suffrage in 1908, 89 women have been elected to the Parliament of Victoria. This book examines the push by political activists to get women into Parliament and then gives women MPs the chance to reflect on the experience of getting into Parliament. They share their insights into the experiences of being challenged by the traditional male domain and their strategies for challenging it.
ISBN:978 1 921 509 04 9 | RRP: $39.95
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Weeks after the Twin Towers fell, Australian forces joined their coalition allies in the fight against the Taliban. Over the succeeding years, while US and British reporters have joined their troops in border patrols, on Medevac choppers, and in bloody fire fights, providing compelling dispatches from the front lines, access to ADF personnel has been strictly limited and the Australian public has barely glimpsed its own men and women at war. This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the military-media relations that have shaped Australian media coverage of the war in Afghanistan. It examines the history of the Australian media’s relations with the military, assesses recent changes to ADF public affairs policies, explores the experiences of the public affairs personnel delegated to enforce the information management regime and the journalists who have to work within and around it, analyses the resulting media products, and the understandings of the war they have produced. What are we doing in Afghanistan exposes the ingrained culture of secrecy that dominates the military’s relations with the media, critiques the effects of this culture on military-media relations, the public’s understanding of what its troops are doing in its name, and ultimately questions the military’s understanding of and respect for the principles of democratic accountability. Here, for the first time, is a penetrating look at the information war behind the war in Afghanistan.
ISBN:978 1 921509 36 0 | RRP: $39.95
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When the Labor Party Dreams tells the story of the 1930-32 New South Wales Labor government led by Premier Jack Lang. Labor came to power at a time of unprecedented working class radicalism which had been forged by the experiences of World War I, the class struggles of the 1920s and the crisis of capitalism in the early 1930s. Lang and his associates both manipulated and responded to this radicalism. When the Labor Party Dreams uses previously unexamined archival records and oral histories to show how Lang’s government made policy, engaged with the bureaucracy and pushed the conventions of parliamentary democracy to the limit. For the first time in Australia, it employs ecological regression analysis to examine Depression-era electoral behaviour, and shows how Labor’s radicalism was ultimately constrained by the dependence of working-class voters on capitalism. In today’s age of pragmatism When the Labor Party Dreams recalls a time of dreams and visions and their costs, from the factory floor to the Cabinet table.
ISBN:978 1 74097 194 2 | RRP: $39.95
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The term ‘moral economy’ has been used to demonstrate strong philosophical opposition to neoclassical economics. Over a millennium and across a spectrum of thinkers, it has been maintained that the economy always had, and indeed should always have, a moral foundation. In this timely work Owen retrieves from the history of economic thought a tradition of economic reasoning founded upon popular right, customary entitlement and commercial justice. For social scientists concerned with using ‘moral economy’ to counter the ethical claims of neo-classical economics, the thinkers examined in this work provide a necessary and illuminating starting point.
ISBN:978 1 921509 24 7 | RRP: $44.00
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Australia is actively engaged in the War on Terror. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and the Australian Federal Police have expanded rapidly in size, and their powers have been enhanced by counter-terrorism legislation. Frank Cain argues that these agencies were significantly politicised under the Howard government, though not for the first time. This book also traces the history of the intelligence agencies in Australia and their use by anti-Labour governments against the broad left. In World War I, the nationalist leader Billy Hughes deployed military intelligence against opponents of his war policy. Before and after World War II, Robert Menzies did so in taking steps to counter the activities of the Communist Party. Cain explores the contentious notion that Australia’s surveillance agencies have today become adoptive allies of the Liberal Party.
ISBN:978 1 921509 32 2 | RRP: $39.95
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In a sports entertainment environment where AFL players are sports celebrities there is no place to hide – on or off the field. All areas of a player’s performance and behaviour are constantly scrutinised by coaches, managers, the media and fans. Under this sort of scrutiny what it means to be a professional AFL footballer in the 21st century continues to provoke heated debate?—?in clubs and the media, and among fans.
ISBN:978 1 921509 01 8 | RRP: $39.95
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For forty years, Vincent Buckley (1923–1988) was a central figure in Melbourne’s literary, political and religious life. A major poet, he was also a leading literary critic, a regular book reviewer and a formidable controversialist. Themes in his work include the nature of God, religious and political responsibility and the place of poetry in a modern society. This is the first biography of Vincent Buckley.
ISBN:978 1 921509 29 2 | RRP: $39.95
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Since the establishment of the AfL in 1990, Australian football has increasingly represented itself as Australia’s ‘national game’.
Aboriginal people have played Australian football at the elite level since the early years of the 20th century, and from the 1980s
the number of Aboriginal players has increased significantly. This book utilises football to examine what it means to be an Anglo-
Australian or an Aboriginal Australian in 21st century Australia.
ISBN:978 1 921509 02 5 | RRP: $39.95
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Throughout the nineteenth century British women as diverse as Louisa Meredith, Marianne North and Beatrice Webb travelled to the Australian colonies and wrote about the emerging white civilisation they found there. Some were visitors, others settlers, but all were fascinated by the possibilities of this 'new world'. Here, Australia is seen through the eyes of such women writers. It is a land of strange and un-English flora and fauna and of wondrously growing cities; a place where European cultural institutions were beginning to flourish—and where Indigenous culture was becoming invisible.
ISBN:978 1 921509 07 0 | RRP: $39.95
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Founded in 1930 as an Anglican male religious community, the Brotherhood has a continuous history of contributions in three major areas of welfare—employment, poverty and housing. Over the years, the Brotherhood has undergone dramatic changes that are documented in this book—the first comprehensive history of the charity. It is a well-told story of innovation and controversy, and one that captures the nature and significance of much of the Brotherhood’s work.
ISBN:978 1 74097 152 2 | RRP: $39.95
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To mark the tenth anniversary of the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues editor Andrew Gunstone has collected key essays by leading national experts in Australian Indigenous Studies. These illustrate the diversity and depth of the discipline, and cover many areas, including culture, identity, politics, history, health, education and sport. Covering vital themes,
History, Politics and Knowledge: Essays in Australian Indigenous Studies makes an important contribution to this discipline.
ISBN:978 1 921509 05 6 | RRP: $39.95
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All Saints East St Kilda is no ordinary church or community. Its building is the largest parish church in Australia when measured by floor space. Visitors can be overpowered with the embarrassment of nineteenth century riches in its gemlike interior. It gave birth to one of Melbourne’s earliest all-male choirs, their repertoire modelled on the British cathedral tradition.
Its musicians have gone on to occupy leading positions in cathedrals or sing on the concert platforms of the United Kingdom. For early Melbourne Anglicans, it was the diocese’s leading ‘high’ church at a time when that involved differing radically from the position held by Bishop Charles Perry. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it articulates a new kind of difference, as home to traditionalist Anglicans. The story of the All Saints East St Kilda church
community is told in the context of a growing and changing Melbourne suburbia, and most recently against the backdrop of cultural shifts at a national level.
ISBN:978 1 921509 26 1 | RRP: $44.00
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Light is an elusive and paradoxical force. It cannot be ‘seen’, but neither is it a pure abstraction. The Burning Mirror critically examines the dazzling impact of light’s much-neglected ambivalences on photographic histories, theories and practices. The burning mirror with which Luce Irigaray critiques Plato’s simile of the cave is invoked to direct this blinding light squarely onto photography. The photographic practices of solarisation, lens flare, overexposure and the blinding light of the flash are examined, as well as analyses of photographs by Maurice Tabard, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Catherine Yass, Tokihiro Sato and Danielle Thompson. This is a new, multifaceted mode of photographic critique.
ISBN:978 1 74097 196 6 | RRP: $39.95
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Current scholarship on the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) remains captivated by the overarching US role. Yet Australia also participated in the Occupation, held a vision for a Pacific future, and developed a postwar relationship with Japan. Australia and the United States often disagreed over contentious issues related to Japan’s postwar reforms. This is particularly evident in labour reform policy and on issues of social and economic justice. Comparisons with Iraq and Afghanistan are perhaps inevitable, and the narrative illuminates the paradox of the imposition of democratic reforms via military occupation.
ISBN:978 1 74097 161 4 | RRP: $39.95
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John Howard was once fond of calling himself the most conservative leader the Liberal Party had ever had, and under his leadership and subsequent prime ministership, prominent members of the Liberal Party began referring to themselves conservatives for the first time. Did this represent a conservative revolution or were Liberals merely being encouraged by Howard to emerge from the conservative closet? This book seeks to locate Howard in the broader historical context of Australian conservatism, and sees in his ideology the resurrection of a long-dormant strand of thought that went under the name of liberalism in the 19th century. It argues that he has changed both the Liberal Party and Australian conservatism in general, inflicting heavy damage on both.
ISBN:978 1 921509 30 8 | RRP: $39.95
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The rapid economic development of Queensland in the 19th and early 20th centuries was due in a large way to the work of Aboriginal children. Some as young as two years old, they were forced to work with white people building the region’s industries. This book is the first full-length examination of their exploitation. Drawing on extensive original research, Dr Shirleene Robinson brings to light the exploitation and abuse inflicted on Aboriginal children to benefit white settlers. Many of these children were part of Queensland’s earliest ‘stolen generations’. Their forcible removal from their parents and family groups caused extensive pain and suffering that is still felt today.
ISBN:978 1 74097 187 4 | RRP: $39.95
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In 1526, several ships of a Spanish expedition entered the Pacific from the Straits of Magellan. One of them, the San Lesmes, was never seen again. Four centuries later, in 1929, four iron cannon were found on the reef of Amanu atoll, French Polynesia. The find created little interest until 1975, when Robert Langdon argued that the cannon were from the San Lesmes, the crew had survived and intermarried and that vital aspects of the wider development of Pacific island communities needed to be reassessed. Now, in Kon-Tiki Revisited, Langdon makes an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the complexity of Polynesian origins.
ISBN:978 1 74097 134 8 | RRP: $39.95
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In 1939, young Joan Falkiner’s spirited flight from South Yarra to princely India and her marriage to the Muslim ruler of a small state in Gujarat sent shockwaves through Melbourne society and political reverberations throughout the Raj and – as the kingdoms were about to disappear forever in the maelstrom of Indian Independence – as high as the British throne.
How did it all come about? Through conversations in Melbourne, Mumbai and the South of France, research in the India Office Library in London, and the author’s personal journey while travelling in modern India, Suzanne Falkiner traces the course of a most unusual love story.
ISBN:978 1 74097 162 1 | RRP: $39.95
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Homelessness is best understood as a dynamic process, yet researchers and governments have tended to focus on how many people are homeless and who they are. Many questions, critical for resolving homelessness, remain unanswered. Drawing on longitudinal data and a rich body of material, Johnson, Gronda and Coutts take us into the day-to-day lives of homeless people. They highlight the creativity and resilience of the homeless and how stigma shapes the experience of homelessness, breaking down and challenging many myths and stereotypes.
ISBN:978 1 74097 186 7 | RRP: $34.95
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Nina Crone was principle of Melbourne Girls Grammar School from 1975 to 1994. Between 1982 and 1997, using the nom de plume Alison Dalrymple, she penned numerous articles on plants and gardens and their histories, which were published in the pages of The Age newspaper. The complete collection of articles, and previously unpublished writings, have been brought together in this beautifully illustrated book. Based on her own travels, Nina also transports the reader around the globe to magnificent public gardens with diverse botanical landscapes.
ISBN:978 1 74097 192 8 | RRP: $39.95
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Camden’s place in Australia’s history is a singular one. For most Australians it is bound up with the Macarthurs, owners of Camden Park and the pre-eminent family in early colonial New South Wales. The Macarthurs are central to Alan Atkinson’s Camden, but even more important are the people they and their neighbour, George Macleay, settled on the lands as tenant farmers, and the labourers and tradespeople who came to live at Camden after the village was laid out in 1841.
ISBN:978 174097 139 3 | RRP: $39.95
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The Tame Tasmanian examines the neglected career of Australian prime minister Joseph Lyons and his quest for peace, set in the turbulent 1930s. But Lyons was not just a peacemaker—he also accepted the need for rearmament and presided over five such programs up until 1939, which is itself a striking tale of technical innovation and resource management. Although peace eluded him, Lyons left the nation well prepared for dangerous times. This is a compelling account of one man’s struggle for the security of his country.
ISBN:978 1 74097 157 7 | RRP: $44.00
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A revelation in literary criticism, Philip Mead’s Networked Language offers absorbing new perspectives on Australian poetry and its cultural life. This study presents new ways of understanding Australian poetry, drawing on an equal fascination with the artifice of poetry and the complexity of culture. It is about the ways poetry changes in relation to its social, political and historical contexts, the way poetic communities and the readerships of poetry have changed through history, and continue to change in the present.
Mead’s scholarly tentacles go very deep and his insights are seriously new. This book will be most valuable, and will last. -- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
ISBN:978 174097 197 3 | RRP: $39.95
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Presbyterians comprised 16% of Victoria’s population during the Australian colonial period, and much higher proportions of its elite in landed wealth, commerce and politics. In ‘marvellous Melbourne’, the community’s ‘respectable’ leadership strongly influenced a narrow public morality, failing to empathise with most people’s sense of enjoyment, and working class needs. Unlike previous histories of the Presbyterian Church in Victoria, this book uses letters, diaries and biographies, along with church records, to examine the religion from a secular, critical perspective.
ISBN:978 1 74097 154 6 | RRP: $44.00
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Survival in Our Own Land presents history in South Australia originally and powerfully from the Nunga, the Aboriginal, point of view. In prose and poetry, almost one hundred and fifty Nungas tell how they have been affected by the Goonya, European, invasion and by Goonya law and policy. Nunga stories have rarely been recounted in history books. Many are told for the first time in this book. Extracts from unpublished archival documents are also included to illustrate Goonya attitudes and actions, which have caused the death of many Nungas and the destruction of much of Nunga culture.
ISBN:978 0 340 578 513 | RRP: $39.95
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This timely volume reveals Asia’s rich, diverse and vibrant intellectual life. Written by Australian experts, these 17 highly readable portraits of leading contemporary Asian thinkers and actors combine biography, intellectual and political history and analysis, and explore the many Asian intellectual and political traditions that confront Australian foreign, trade and security policy practitioners and commentators.
ISBN:978 1 74097 177 5 | RRP: $39.95
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They were and they are political pioneers—blazing a trail for women in Australian politics by being the first of their gender to become members of parliament, ministers or heads of government.
No Ordinary Lives spans eighty-six years of Australian political history, from the election of Edith Cowan, the first female MP, to Anna Bligh, the first female Premier of Queensland. Each woman has a remarkable story to tell, and for some it is the first time their story has been told.
ISBN:978 1 74097 156 0 | RRP: $39.95
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This book is a splendid collection of essays on Australian culture, politics, and the “values” debate— illuminated by the ideas of a thinker Australians need to know, Ashis Nandy, one of the foremost critical intellectuals on the globe. Across issues from asylum seekers to sport, this book digs through the clotted layers of official hypocrisy to lay bare both the violence, and the hope, that mark our situation in the world. -- Professor Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney, author of Southern Theory (2007).
ISBN:978 1 74097 176 8 | RRP: $39.95
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The police-hunt for the murderers of an English prostitute fanned anti-Chinese hysteria in colonial Melbourne. The horrific crime was enveloped in mystery for months, until political pressure broke the silence and two Chinese suspects were delivered up to the English. It was a delicate time—the interests of all their countrymen in the colony were balanced against those of a few. The Chief of Detectives schemed to ensure his investigation was a success, while honest men warned: ‘Justice seeks to arrive at Truth, the policeman aims at a conviction’. At the sensational trial before hanging-judge Redmond Barry, the detectives’ star witness intoned: ‘I am Fook Shing. I must tell the truth. If I do not tell the truth may thunder kill me and fire come from heaven and burn me up’. Two men were convicted on the basis of highly suspect and circumstantial evidence. Public disquiet remained about police methods and the fairness of the trial.
ISBN:978 1 74097 164 5 | RRP: $34.95
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When the Japanese invaded the Netherlands East Indies in 1942, over 5000 Indonesians – soldiers, sailors, civilians, political agitators – were evacuated to Australia. Before this period, Australians and Indonesians had little contact with or knowledge of each other, despite their geographic proximity, and Australia was a country whose racism was enshrined in the White Australia Policy. After the War, most returned as rebels to support Soekarno’s fledgling Indonesian republic. This is the story of their time in Australia and of what happened when their struggle for independence found Australian support.
ISBN:978 1 74097 163 8 | RRP: $39.95
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In his second collection of poetry, Joel Deane strives to find truth in the increasingly inconsistent lives we are living and duplicitous language we are speaking.
"The public and the private intersect at a deep level in Joel Deane’s poetry. The politics of the agora colours and is coloured by the politics of self and its anxieties." -- George Szirtes
ISBN:978 1 74097 179 9 | RRP: $19.95
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This timely book challenges the theory and practice of neo-liberalism developed by Friedrich Hayek that has dominated most of the world for the past thirty years and shows how it has led to the menace of global warming, and launched humanity on an unsustainable path.
ISBN:978 1 74097 155 3 | RRP: $34.95
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Once when I was doing fieldwork on French Island, the ranger pointed out to me that around 1995 he noticed a striking change taking place in some of the island forests and woodlands. The dense heathy understorey had begun to die away and ‘fall over’, leaving a more open understorey dominated by grasses or bracken. However, in other woodlands this was not happening. This led me to realise that French Island was experiencing a remarkable ecological development that needed to be investigated.
ISBN:978 1 74097 155 3 | RRP: $39.95
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The Argus — “The Times of the Southern Hemisphere” — was published from 1846 to 1957 and was one of Victoria’s foundational institutions and Australia’s great newspapers.
The stories in this book are a collection of memories from Argus journalists, photographers, press artists, printing and office staff who worked on the paper between 1923 and 1957.
ISBN:1 74097 143 4 | RRP: $39.95
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Sheridan Palmer's forthcoming book throws new light on a recent period of cultural transformation when Europe’s ‘outsiders’ became ‘insiders’ of post-war Australian society and rapidly facilitated progress in the arts and academia.
ISBN:978 1 74097 165 2 | RRP: $39.95
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“On a warm December day in 1985, the Long Room was packed for a luncheon. The venerable lounge of the MCG’s 1928 Pavilion had seen many crowded occasions, but never anything quite like this. Almost everyone at this inaugural gathering of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame was a renowned, if not legendary, identity … Hubert Opperman, Shirley Strickland, Frank Sedgman, Murray Rose, Dick Reynolds, Bill Ponsford, Betty Cuthbert, Bill Roycroft, Heather McKay, Dawn Fraser, Keith Miller, Ted Whitten, the list seemed endless. However, even in this remarkable throng, no one could match the reputation of one man. As he entered the stadium people gathered just to watch him pass. Some were far too young to have seen him play. Nevertheless, they wanted to be able to tell the world ‘I saw Don Bradman’.”
ISBN:978 1 74097 182 9 | RRP: $45.00
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Australia’s colonial gentry found it fashionable to summer in the hills. Mountain resorts at Mount Macedon in Victoria, at Toowoomba in Queensland and in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands of New South Wales and the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, offered a cooler climate, curative mountain air, exotic gardens and a place for high society to gather.
Andrea Inglis takes a close look at these antipodean hill stations, which had their Imperial or Anglo-Indian antecedents and yet a character of their own. She opens a window on a style of life that was distinctive in its aesthetics and its ideas about health and the Australian bush.
ISBN:1 74097 138 8 | RRP: $44.00
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MUSCLE
by Matthew Schreuder
Buckle up. Prepare to fly down night’s highways. You’re taking off in a V8 Holden Torana. Windows down. Wind in your hair. You hang with petrol heads …
There are no laws worth knowing.
‘Sam’: she’s eighteen and beautiful and has never taken the world too seriously.
Days are about sweating it out in a bakery. Nights are spent hooning with Nick. Sitting in the passenger seat of his muscle car, looking hotter than the next bloke’s chick, and forgetting the jobs they hate, the parents who fight, the suburbs where life passes them by.
But the tribe is growing older and Sydney is getting tougher. Street violence, rumours of riots, communities divided.
And Sam’s not as immune as she’d like to think …
ISBN:978 1 74097 180 5 | RRP: $24.95
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Publishing is essential for PhD graduates, early career researchers and established academics. This volume provides relevant up-to-date and useful advice on how to publish in Australia and overseas.
If you want to get published this guide is required reading, encapsulating practical suggestions with an understanding of the history, current realities and future possibilities of publishing.
Packed with practical tips, it comments on examples of journal submission, book proposals and editing, and offers strategies for converting your thesis into a book and overcoming rejection. A guide to the history of Australian publishing – a sector that has undergone significant changes in the past decade – helps authors understand current opportunities for publication. All options are discussed, including online and electronic publishing.
ISBN:1 74097 135 3 | RRP: $34.95
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Art & Time:
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by Jan Lloyd Jones, Paul Campbell & Peter Wylie
“What then is time?” wrote St Augustine. “If no one asks me I know. If I wish to explain it, I know not”.
Time is a challenging concept for philosophers, but no less so for
the artist, critic, and art theorist. The contributors to this collection of essays, who represent humanities disciplines from universities worldwide, have taken up this challenge, providing a range of perspectives on the topic “Art and Time”.
Some engage with the broad philosophical issues at stake, some with the meaning of time for particular artists or works of art – from Fra Angelico to Frank Lloyd Wright, from Hamlet to The Lord of the Rings, from Renaissance dance to rave music. All seek an answer to Augustine’s question when we ask it in the context of artistic endeavour.
As Derek Allan writes in the Introduction to this collection, “Surprisingly little has been written about Art and Time in recent times, even in those academic disciplines such as the philosophy of art in which one would most expect to encounter it”. The topic is, however, of increasing interest and this volume is a response to that development.
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The collapse of the conservative forces in Australian politics during World War II sparked a crisis in Australian liberalism that was exacerbated by the success and popularity of the Federal Labor Government led by John Curtin. The extensive use of wartime regulation to control the economy and the development of far-reaching plans for post-war reconstruction alarmed conservatives and business interests, and was the driving force behind the creation of the modern Liberal Party in 1944–45. But the architects of this liberal revival recognised that they needed more than just a party structure; they needed a new type of leader whose appeal would transcend the established battle lines between Labor and non-Labor. While the redoubtable Bob Menzies carried the flame nationally, it was left to two knockabout leaders with more than a touch of the Australian larrikin, Henry Bolte in Victoria and Bob Askin in New South Wales, to revive the Liberals’ fortunes in the two largest states. Neither was a typical conservative: Bolte was a pragmatic, rough-hewn sheep farmer; the plain-speaking Askin had been a bank officer. Each served as an NCO in the war, conspicuously not as officers; yet each led parties and cabinets dominated by ex-officers. In contrast to the aloof Menzies on the national stage, Bolte and Askin were demonstrably men of the people; they took conservative politics from the saloon bar into the public bar, and it was their efforts, just as much as Menzies’, that saw, the high watermark for the Liberal Party, for a brief period in 1969–70 when it was in government in every jurisdiction in Australia.
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Identity has long been a crucial issue in Australian politics. Territorianism explains how the Country Liberal Party that continuously ruled the Northern Territory between 1978 and 2001 created strong notions of local identity and loyalty among often transient non-Indigenous residents. Particularly important were moves for the achievement of full statehood, strategies promoting rapid economic development, opposition to Indigenous land rights and forceful criticism of Commonwealth governments in Canberra. The challenge was to establish and then maintain the Territory’s legitimacy as a distinct entity. Territorianism selectively explores key episodes, many of which had wider national implications, in the frequently controversial attempts to meet that challenge. In doing so, it focuses on how a particular form of historical memory was institutionalised and understood in the Territory, the Territory’s engagement with Asia, the rise and fall of Chief Minister Ian Tuxworth, the role of heritage legislation, arguments about Aboriginal native title and the election of Labor to office in 2001.
ISBN: 978 1 74097 181 2 | RRP: $39.95
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The young man stood on the scaffold. A Roman Catholic priest, bible in hand, stood to one side. Prayers were read. The signal was given, the drop fell.
So ended a bushranging career that had spanned the best part of two years. This man had left his mark, becoming a legend in his own time; a notorious bushranger who bailed up towns, with huge bounties placed on his head. Renowned for his support of the underdog, he had won a ground swell of supporters. Women who fell into his hands as captives had spoken of his chivalrous conduct, but if he had ever experienced the intimate love of a woman in his life, it is unknown.
A traitor had been executed two days before he fought his last stand, where bullet wounds to the leg led to his final capture, trial, and sentence to hang.
This hanging took place in two separate years – 1826 in Hobart Town, then again during 1880 in Melbourne. Matthew Brady had been the first of the great Australian bushrangers and Ned Kelly, repeating history, the last.
ISBN:978 1 74097 113 3 | RRP: $29.95
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
Henry Handel Richardson’s Epic Trilogy
Introduced and edited by Clive Probyn & Bruce Steele
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony reflects the foundational years of Victoria through the restless, eventually harrowing narrative of the Mahony family, and centrally through the life of Richard Mahony, voyager, questor, idealist.
This is the first time anywhere that all three novels have been published complete, simultaneously and accurately.
The cuts that Richardson was obliged to make for the 1930 single-volume omnibus edition have all been restored from the author’s preferred version.
The four chapters of her planned continuation — bringing the narrative up to the time of Gallipoli — are included.
This unique edition includes notes and source material.
ISBN:9781740970983 | RRP: $120.00
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In the early twentieth century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. Perils of the Studio reveals how the romance and mythology of the artist’s studio defined the character of the Australian artist.
Focusing on Melbourne’s inner-city bohemia, including the famous Grosvenor Chambers at 9 Collins Street, this book is the first major work to examine the role of the studio in Australian art. A unique cultural history, it combines stories and anecdotes drawn from period newspapers and magazines with over 100 rarely-seen works by painters, photographers and cartoonists.
ISBN:9781740971492 | RRP: $59.95
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From the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, European-Australians were actively recording, documenting and collecting Aboriginal heritage. This book examines how they did this, exploring perceptions of authenticity and innovation in Aboriginal heritage and approaches to ethnographic collecting.
ISBN:1 74097 144 2 | RRP: $39.95
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As Victoria’s gold-rush generation matured and colonists began to think of themselves as Victorians they sought to build a civic culture of learning. During the 1860s and 1870s, they created public institutions and subsidised voluntary initiatives so as to nurture an informed citizenry. In Melbourne, the Public Library, National Museum, National Gallery and Industrial and Technological Museum (collectively, the ‘Institution’), with the Botanic and Zoological Gardens, were established as centres of learning and leisure for people of all classes. Progressively, they encouraged learning and individual self-improvement, fostered civic values and promoted the colony’s economic growth as an industrialising, democratic society.
ISBN:9781740971751 | RRP: $39.95
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The 1890s produced an extraordinary outpouring of distinctively Australian writing. The most famous writers now are Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, but others were as well known in
their day. Among the half-forgotten poets is Barcroft Boake, who
as a young man from Sydney found a job up country, and fell in
love with the bush way of life. From Western Queensland in summer to Adaminaby in winter, he lived that life, and it sustains his writing. His wrote about what he found: very real people, often people he knew, and their successes and disasters. But he was also a casualty of the hard times of the early ’nineties. In the grip of depression, aged just twenty-six, he killed himself.
His best-known work is the ballad Where the Dead Men Lie, an Australian classic. He wrote many others as attractive but less well known. Here, they are all carefully edited, and the extensive notes include background on the events and characters in the poems.
ISBN:9781740971539 | RRP: $39.95
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Parliamentary Government in Victoria is now more than
a century and a half old. It is a story of high and low
lights, idealistic dedication and self-serving manipulation, with many colourful figures – but over the decades the development of a great tradition of democratic service to
a demanding public with high expectations. In 150 Years of Spring Street – a History of Victorian Government, author Robert Murray concisely describes the birth in the 1850s
of democratic, independent government and its progress over fifteen decades.
ISBN:1740971337 | RRP: $34.95
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In 1991, the Hawke Government aimed to reconcile Indigenous and non-Indigenous people by implementing a ten-year reconciliation process. Its three broad goals concerned the education of the wider community; Indigenous socio-economic disadvantage; and a document of reconciliation.
The following decade of reconciliation saw some significant achievements. Hundreds of community reconciliation groups were established. Hundreds of thousands of people participated in the Reconciliation Walks in 2000. The wider Australian community developed a greater awareness of Indigenous issues. But neither the aim nor its three goals were successfully achieved. Further, several political goals of Indigenous people were not adequately addressed, including sovereignty, self-determination, a treaty and land rights.
Unfinished Business is the first book to explore the 1991–2000 reconciliation process. It analyses the process’s successes and failures and the factors that affected it, making a substantial contribution to our understandings of reconciliation in Australia.
ISBN:9781740971607 | RRP: $39.95
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This unique book for nurses and other health professionals offers careful and extensive strategies for using essential oils in therapeutic care. It weaves research evidence, traditional uses and personal experience together, reflecting the contribution of practitioners and aromatherapists. It includes many clinical examples of therapeutic applications.
Key chapters
•essential oils in current nursing practice
•aromatherapy research
•professional, legal and ethical issues
•essential oils as therapeutic agents
•carrier oils and substances
•quality use of essential oils
•interactions, contra-indications, precautions
•clinical examples
Emphasis is placed throughout on the need for practitioners to treat essential oils with the same respect as is accorded to medicines. Ways in which practitioners can contribute to aromatherapy research are considered. Comprehensive tables and figures are included.
ISBN:1740971078 | RRP: $44.00
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The papers in this collection develop a vision of higher education for this century, focussed on high quality liberal education for undergraduates in a learning community rich in both classroom and extra-curricular engagement. Maintaining an international focus, Professor Markwell offers a challenging perspective on topics such as maintaining excellence in teaching and learning in higher education in an increasingly competitive environment, issues of equity and diversity, and educational philanthropy.
ISBN:9781740971508 | RRP: $39.95
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Amidst the chaotic displacement of the Aborigines of Victoria’s Western District, Francis Tuckfield and the Mission he served tried to make a difference. A compelling local story, an episode in an unforgettable national history.
ISBN:1740971124 | RRP: $39.95
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Yankee clippers like the Lightning, run by Captain James Forbes and his bosun James Hodge, carried many thousands of new settlers to Australia over numerous voyages. With an artist’s eye for detail and a natural writer’s easy hand, Ralph Neale tells of perilous voyages, hardy characters and fine tall ships. Superb colour plates by Neale.
ISBN:1740971159 | RRP: $44.00
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Australian editors are on the move, rising to the challenge of massive global shifts in the publishing industries. “It’s a matter of changing perceptions of editing in the wider world”, says Loma Snooks. “The development of a strong national organisation is vital”, contends Renée Otmar. “We need to point at laboured academic writing and say, ‘Look, the emperor is wearing no clothes’!”, Shiela Allison.
ISBN:174097137X | RRP: $39.95
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On 4 March 1892 Melbourne newspapers carried sensational reports of the discovery, under a hearthstone of a suburban villa, of the decomposed, naked, bound body of a woman. A frantic police search led to the arrest of Frederick Bailey Deeming, jewel thief, swindler, bigamist, conman, forger — and mass murderer.
This is the incredible story of one of Australia’s most enigmatic killers.
ISBN: 1740971140 | RRP: $29.95
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Love it or loathe it, if we want to understand our current culture of accumulation we need to go back to where it all began. This book comprehensively examines the attempts to define, understand, influence and protect the consumer in postwar Australia. It spans the ‘long boom’ when an abundance of consumer goods exploded onto the market.
ISBN:1740971310 | RRP: $39.95
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Flashing Eyes and Floating Hair explores the poetry of Gwen Harwood, focusing on the teasing slippage of her many pseudonymous poems. Bringing subpersonality theory to bear on these texts, this study subverts the poet’s ostensible claims and games, finding a meaningful coherence in Harwood’s creativity. This is a new, and in many cases first, reading of Harwood’s pseudonymous poetry.
ISBN:1740971299 | RRP: $34.95
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The contribution of the immigrant Irish to politics, law and professional life in general in Australia is well known, but a perception persists that few of the Irish had the skills or drive to set up manufacturing plants. That a vibrant emerald strand ran through the complex fabric of Victoria’s industrial history is revealed in this elegant, original, informative study.
ISBN:9781740971485 | RRP: $34.95
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Australian cinema has effectively popularised the Anzac legend. Just how this has been so is explored in this lucid, clear-eyed study. Here’s a taste: “While European art developed a dominant myth of the horror and meaninglessness of the war,” and some Australian writers interrogated the Anzac myth, “Australia’s [many] war films are almost entirely devoid of irony.”
ISBN:1740971280 | RRP: $39.95
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Bill Ponsford was a cricketing giant. Before Bradman, he was the marathon run-getter, the record breaker.And only he could bat with the Don, as he did many times, and not be outshone. With care and affection, John Leckey tells the life of a humble and shy man, and a very fine Australian sporting hero.
ISBN: 1740971167 | RRP: $39.95
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The Supreme Court was the theatre in which the best stories of life in the penal colony of NSW were told.
The most compelling and dramatic of these, between 1824 and 1836, are collected and retold in this book. Professor Kercher deals in particular with the law’s outsiders, including those who had limited legal capacity: the wives, the convicts, and the Aborigines.
ISBN: 1740971248 | RRP: $34.95
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Archaeologists can tell us a great deal about our history. Here, Susan Lawrence writes lucidly of recent excavations by archaeology teams of two whaling camps on the southern shores of Tasmania. This original research reveals much about the daily life of our early whalers.
ISBN: 174097087X | RRP: $39.95
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The history of the human race is a story of courage and initiative, of ruthless war and rare peace, of long periods of stagnation
and occasional great initiatives. Above all, it is our story, the explanation of how we came to be what we are.
ISBN: 1740970691 | RRP: $34.95
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'[Still glides the stream: The natural history of the Yarra from Heidelberg to Yarra Bend] provides a fascinating account of the history, natural history, and geology of our local section of the Yarra river.
(from a review by Dianne Williamson)
ISBN: 1 74097 059 4
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Before her worldwide fame in the cult TV soapie Prisoner there had been fifty years of hard work during the formative years
of the Australian performing arts. It culminated just days before her death at seventy-five with the AFI Best Leading Actress
award for her last film. This biography is an in-depth exploration of the public and private life of a memorable and inspiring
woman.
ISBN:1740970780 | RRP: $39.95
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Starting with the Aboriginal Dream Time 50,000 years ago, and ending in the 21st century, this is the story
of Australia. It is also an unveiling of a precious, common heritage in the one land that sustains our community
and culture.
Download the first chapter of 'Australia: Our Heritage' by John Molony.
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