In 1998, during the cataclysmic Asian Financial Crisis, the hastily established Indonesian Bank R...

Azadi, or 'freedom', represents a woman's right to choose, and to live by the choices she makes. ...

In this stunning experimental mix of memoir and fictocriticism, Emma Marie Jones unravels the sin...

Set in an ominous underwater world marred by humandestruction, the stories in Mer unsettle tradit...

An Australian Bush Track (1896) is a dark novel, a colonial fantasy-adventure by author J.D. Henn...

When editor Joseph Fraser is asked to publish the diaries of a local merchant, he can hardly beli...

An Australian Girl in London, first published in 1902, is an endearing look at the journey of sel...

John Lang was Australia's first locally born novelist, publishing early work in Sydney in the 184...

Author Robert Hassan believes we are trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction. In Unco...

Ella and Theo's relationship is young and evolving and so are they. Their lives are going mostly ...

A bad-tempered squatter is murdered in country Victoria and the local townsfolk are swept up in t...

A man imprisoned by taboo learns the price of love. A child visits the grave of a cousin she's ne...

Small Data is Beautiful investigates the conceptual, artistic, and computational qualities of sma...

A volcano erupts and famine takes hold. A young girl steals an axe and makes her way in the world...

What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tr...

Australia is less secure than it has ever been and the greatest threat comes from our elected gov...

John Cawte looks back in amazement to his years as a young doctor in an Australian madhouse. He n...

In 1988 the United States Congress passed laws declaring improbably that the USA would be 'drug f...

This study describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded Australians' enjoyment o...

Provides concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of prominent men and women of Australi...

One of the first national historic sites of Australia, the historic gold-rush town Hill End is pr...

Paquita Delprat and explorer Douglas Mawson became engaged on the eve of his 1911 Antarctic exped...

Journalists do not often get the chance to reflect on the ethical side of their work, and the pub...

Modern Australia was in part defined by its early embrace of China--a turning from the White Aust...

The greatest drugs scandal in Australian sport goes well beyond who took what. What happened at E...

Examines the struggle for equality of citizenship of Indian Muslims in light of the release of th...

The Arab community in Australia is one of the oldest and most established of its immigrant ethnic...

This ground-breaking study of work placements and practicums looks at the experience of 50 young ...

This is the second of two volumes to deal with Australians who died between 1981 and 1990. It inc...

Throughout the Cold War Paul Dibb worked with the highest levels of Australian and American intel...

Set against the shifting social and political backdrop of a nation throwing off the shackles of o...

The Forest Wars explains why it is vital to end the conflict over Australia's forests and shows t...

Why did Imam Samudra explode bombs in Balinese nightclubs? It is not possible to answer this ques...

Australia's extraordinary contribution to World War I extended well beyond its military forces to...

The reliable, hard-working and loyal Emma Southgate began her diary when she journeyed across rou...

'A most significant text that says something new about how student achievement is shaped. Richard...

At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he ...

Investigates the stories, motivations and challenges of a group of Muslim women in Australia and ...

This was not the ending either of them expected. Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge and h...

Céleste de Chabrillan became the most prolific female stage writer in nineteenth-century France. ...

Western women over fifty are a revolutionary generation. They are the first in history to have be...

John McEwen, thirty-seven years a politician, twenty-three days a Prime Minister and always a far...

An invaluable academic resource, this investigation tracks the trends of contemporary Australian ...

Explores the literary representation of Australian places by those who have walked them. In parti...

The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused pass...

The Dawkins reforms of the late 1980s and the creation of the Unified National System roused pass...

1943: shopkeeper's son Brian Sherman is born into a tight-knit Jewish community in a small South ...

Now more than ever we need leaders who can be strong yet humble, bold and assertive when it count...