September 2008 Australian Studies
The Land Of Plenty: Australia In The 2000s
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
The book that tells the story of Australia today: how we got here, and where we’re going. A blistering exposé and manifesto for every Australian.
Australia, Davis argues, is built on a dream. A unique democratic exper... More »
Review
The Racket
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan )
A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets.
The Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of in... More »
Review
Quarterly Essay 31: Now Or Never: A Sustainable Future For Australia?
$15.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
Professor Tim Flannery investigates the latest climate science and the challenges facing Australia and the world. He looks at what the Rudd government needs to do if the nation is to play its part in averting a global ca... More »
Private Lives: Australians At Home Since Federation
$49.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
In Private Lives: Australians at Home since Federation, Peter Timms traces the revolutionary changes that have transformed domestic life over the past hundred years or so. Privacy, security, comfort and happiness have al... More »
Eating Between The Lines: Food And Equality In Australia
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
We live in an age of gastronomic soul-searching. Why is childhood obesity on the rise, especially among the poor? Is the traditional family dinner really dying out – and if so, does it matter? Jamie Oliver and Bill Grang... More »
In The Vernacular: A Generation Of Australian Culture And Controversy
$45.00 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
In the Vernacular brings together important writing over a twenty year period from one of Australia's leading scholars of media, culture and policy.
This insightful book engages with the notion of Australia's lack of a s... More »
The Jihad Seminar
$29.95 (Paperback book / Univ. West Aust Press )
In March 2002, three Muslims attend an evangelical Christian seminar promoted to reveal the inner secrets of Holy Jihad. Shocked by what they hear, they convince the Islamic Council of Victoria to lodge a complaint again... More »
Human Rights Overboard
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a ... More »
Beneath the Dardanelles: The Australian Submarine At Gallipoli
$24.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
In the Australian psyche, the Gallipoli campaign is the action
on Gallipoli Peninsula. But an important addition to that land
campaign was the part played by the Australian submarine HMAS
AE2.
The AE2 achieved a daring ... More »
Other Anzacs: Nurses At War, 1914 -1918
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen & Unwin )
'I had my right arm under a leg, which I thought was [the patient's], but when I lifted I found to my horror that it was a loose leg with a boot and a puttee on it. It was one of the orderly's legs which had been blown o... More »
Australians In Italy
$37.95 (Paperback book / )
Long before the advent of modern tourism, Australians have travelled to live in Italy, or have undertaken extensive visits there. Indeed they continue to do so in increasing numbers, as women and men find Italian partner... More »