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What exactly happens during puberty, and how does it impact on social and emotional development? How is it linked to mental health, gender and sexu...

What seduced publishing trailblazer Hilary McPhee to an exotic writing project in Jordan? Curiosity, political engagement, mad bravery? McPhee's br...

The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years: to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addi...

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The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks re...

Tracing her intellectual development from her university years, when she was trained in a Cartesian and neo-Kantian philosophical tradition, to her...

The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you'll dis...

Showcases the colourful histories of some spectacular vineyards and historic buildings, exploring the wine industry's transformation into an export...

Western women over fifty are a revolutionary generation. They are the first in history to have been in paid work for most of their lives. The power...

Transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky. Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith brings the night sk...

In the 1960s Dale Kent embarked on a lifelong struggle to fulfil the desire of many women of her generation - to be the most she could be. Her stor...

Based on in-depth research and interviews - including with Alan King Jones, Bill Leslie and 'the father of Australian diamonds', Ewen Tyler - Argyl...

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of...

In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's H...

Allan Fels has never been one to shy away from a fight, whether it is taking on the big end of town, transforming cartels or challenging low paid w...

Reveals the extraordinary convergence of worldviews of two fellow internationalists, former Australian Prime Minister JB Chifley and Indian Prime M...

Reveals the extraordinary convergence of worldviews of two fellow internationalists, former Australian Prime Minister JB Chifley and Indian Prime M...

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With contributions from some of Australia's most respected academics and leading thinkers, What Happens Next? sets out a progressive, reforming age...

Derryn Hinch made headlines in 2016 when he went from media personality to Victorian Senator at the head of a new political party and made a lastin...

The definitive guide to identifying flowering plants cultivated and in the wild, Australian and worldwide. This comprehensively updated third editi...

London, 1868: visiting Australian Aboriginal cricketer Charles Rose has died in Guy's Hospital. His body did not go directly to a grave. Possessing...

Explores the lived experiences of thirty-six white Australian converts to Islam, in a national context where Islam is cast in opposition to the whi...

Tells the life story of E.W. Cole, a colourful and much loved figure of 19th century Melbourne. Best remembered for his Funny Picture Books, his se...

Explores the sordid history of Australian government dealings with East Timor and how the actions of both major political parties have enriched Aus...

While the hard work of Asian migrants has been praised, their achievements have ignited fierce debates. What is missing in these debates is an unde...

Where is Australian schooling headed? What forces will shape its future direction? How ready are students, teachers, policy makers and education in...

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Pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It shows a continent always vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It give...

Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an int...

Around the world, forced migration doubled in the decade leading up to 2019. Over that time, the borders of the European Union became the world's d...

By 2018, rates of the most common forms of crime in Australia had fallen between 40 and 80 percent and were lower than they'd been in twenty or in ...

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The fourth title in a landmark five-volume Australian Liberalism series, A Liberal State examines how Australians reasserted their claim to control...

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Tells the story of the political battle after Federation to achieve unprecedented levels of social and economic equality, while preserving both nat...

Takes the relationship between literature and politics seriously, analysing the work of six writers, each the author of a classic text about Austra...

Takes the relationship between literature and politics seriously, analysing the work of six writers, each the author of a classic text about Austra...

Australia will need to engage heightened levels of diplomacy to forge relations with countries of opposing principles. It will need to be agile in ...

Charts the changing policies and practices of the Australian Defence Force, illuminating the experiences of LGBTI members in what was often a hosti...

Reducere. Author Robert Hassan believes we are trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction. In Uncontained, he books a passage on a container ship an...

Examines how the technical and conceptual advances that occurred during World War I transformed Australian society. It traces the evolving role of ...

Australia's leading thinkers give their robust opinion on the arguments and issues that fuelled public debate in 2018. This collection of essays br...

Makes an important contribution to the history of political thought and ideology in Australia, as to understanding the largely forgotten but rich i...

Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two...