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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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On the Outside takes us into the day-to-day lives of homeless people. Its authors challenge many myths and stereotypes in highlighting the creativity and resilience of the homeless and the significance of stigma in shaping homelessness.
This book throws a strong light on the link between people’s pathways into homelessness and their experience of it. Policy-makers, welfare providers and students are given a framework for thinking about ways to break the cycle of homelessness, and the reasons why intervention to help the homeless is sometimes so difficult.
ISBN:978 1 74097 186 7 | RRP: $34.95
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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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John Bromwich played the most unusual game of any Australian champion in100 years of top-class tennis. World champion Fred Perry said that unless he changed his double-handed style he would never “reach the top of the tree”. Not even Adrian Quist, his long-time doubles partner, was sure whether he was right- or left-handed. Bromwich listened politely to the doubters, but employed his own methods.
By the age of 17 he was representing Australia. At 20, in 1939, he won the vital fifth rubber to bring the Davis Cup to Australia for the first time. As a young Australian champion he was ranked second in the world behind Bobby Riggs. War service suspended his rapid rise; a knuckle-breaking bullet wound to the left hand almost ended his career; but he fought his way back to the top, only to miss the 1948 Wimbledon crown by a whisker. He helped Australia regain the Davis Cup in 1950, and was an inspiration to many in the post-war Golden Era of Australian tennis.
ISBN:978 1 74097 183 6 | RRP: $44.00
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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.
ISBN:978 1 74097 173 7 | RRP: $34.95
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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.
ISBN:978 1 74097 151 5 | RRP: $39.95
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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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Two lives preserved in a biography: John Colquhoun, orthopaedic surgeon, and Joyce McGrath, Arts librarian and portrait painter. John’s life began in Scotland with the gifts of intellect and mastery. He was robust yet gentle, self-made yet lucky. Joyce’s life began in Victoria, with bad luck and frailty, but she was given the gifts of grace, perseverance and artistic talent. Twenty-five years apart, these lives intersected but fleetingly, and yet each had something valuable to offer the other.
ISBN:9781740971720 | RRP: $34.95
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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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Ned Kelly was no angel, but how much better was his nemesis and trial judge, the autocratic, sanctimonious Sir Redmond Barry? He and Kelly had Irish origins and personal qualities such as arrogance and a natural tactical ability in common, but their social backgrounds and values were vastly different. The trial is seen through a lawyer’s eyes – and found wanting.
ISBN:1740970918 | RRP: $34.95
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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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