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The Best Australian Science Writing 2014

Edited by Ashley Hay

The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year.

Australia 1901 - 2001

Tink's story is driven by people, whether they be prime ministers, soldiers, shop-keepers, singers, footballers or farmers; a mix of men or women, Australian-born, immigrants and Aborigines. He brings the decades to life, writing with empathy, humour and insight to create a narrative that is as entertaining as it is illuminating.

Shark attacks and sewage slicks, lifesavers and surfers, amusement parks and beach camps — the beach is Sydney's most iconic landscape feature. From Palm Beach in the north to Cronulla in the south, Sydney's coastline teems with life. People from around the city escape to the beaches to swim, surf, play, and lie in the sun.

Homelessness in Australia

Edited by Chris Chamberlain, Guy Johnson, Catherine Robinson

The first book to explore the complexities of homelessness in Australia – and the future policies likely to improve the situation.

A History of the Modern Australian University

Dr Hannah Forsyth

Professor Tim Harcourt

Is Japan running out of husbands? Is China running out of wives? Did Genghis Khan really invent free trade? And why can't you see the price of a Big Mac at McDonalds in Argentina? In Trading Places, The Airport Economist, a bestseller in several languages, Trading Places The Airport Economist Trading Places. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Visiting the Neighbours

Agnieszka Sobocinska

Visiting the Neighbours 'Sets out a range of fascinating and different roles played by Australians in Asia.' – Michael Wesley, author of There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the rise of Asia .

What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy?

Edited by Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi

Anzac, The Unauthorised Biography

Carolyn Holbrook

Raise a glass for an Anzac. Run for an Anzac. Camp under the stars for an Anzac. Is there anything Australians won't do to keep the Anzac legend at the centre of our national story?

The Europeans in Australia

Alan Atkinson

This is the third and final volume of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia that gives an account of settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the eighteenth century to the end of World War I.

The Search for HMAS Sydney

Edited by Ted Graham, Bob King, Bob Trotter, Kim Kirsner

In November 1941 HMAS Sydney , the pride of Australia's wartime fleet, and its crew of 645 disappeared without a trace off the Western Australian coast. All that was known was Sydney had come under fire from the German raider HSK Kormoran , which also sank.

Victoria at War

Michael McKernan

During the First World War, in Melbourne and communities throughout Victoria, schoolchildren knitted socks for the troops serving in Gallipoli, the Middle East and on the Western Front. Their families set up Red Cross branches to support the 91,000 Victorian servicemen and women overseas.

Kokoda Air Strikes

Anthony Cooper

The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played – or failed to play – in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea.

Anne Henderson

In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little.

Edited by Paul Hogben, Judith O'Callaghan

Dinner at Australia Square's revolving Summit Restauran t, sipping cocktails at the Chevron in Potts Point, ha nging out at a Skyline drive-in …

Flying Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew and journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic .

Meredith Burgmann

Well-known Australians – mavericks, activists, movers and shakers – reflect on their own ASIO files.

Diary of a Foreign Minister

Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as Foreign Minister of Australia and a senior federal cabinet minister.

Lost Boys of Anzac

Australians remember the dead of 25 April 1915 on Anzac Day every year. But do we know the name of a single soldier who died that day? What do we really know about the men supposedly most cherished in the national memory of war?

Australia and the Vietnam War

Was Vietnam a case of Australia fighting 'other people's wars'? Were we really 'all the way' with the United States? How valid was the 'domino theory'? Did the Australian forces develop new tactical methods in earlier Southeast Asian conflicts, and just how successful were they against the unyielding enemy in Vietnam?

The Australia Day Regatta

Christine Cheater, Jennifer Debenham

The Australia Day Regatta has been held on Sydney Harbour every year since 1837. Believed to be the oldest continuously held annual regatta in the world, it has grown and flourished and today involves close to 700 vessels − from ocean-going yachts to small sailing dinghies − and thousands of participants.

Piranesi's Grandest Tour

The majestic works of eighteenth-century Italian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi have never ceased to inspire artists, printmakers and architects.

Tony Abbott thinks that Rupert Murdoch is one of the most influential Australians of all time and that we should support our 'hometown hero'. Murdoch, who has mainly lived in New York since 1973 and renounced his Australian citizenship in order to move into American TV, has aroused much more controversy than most hometown heroes.

Improving Assessment in Higher Education

Edited by Stephen Marshall, Richard Henry, Prem Ramburuth

Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change

Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change

Mark Diesendorf

This book is a call to action on climate change, filled with clear and detailed information on the strategies we need to adopt to ensure a sustainable future for the planet. Unlike other books on the subject, it brings together both the technology and policy issues to provide a truly interdisciplinary approach.

From Eden to Byron Bay, the New South Wales coast is more than 2000 kilometres long, with 130 estuaries, 100 coastal lakes, and a rich history.

Black and Proud

Matthew Klugman, Gary Osmond

It is one of Australia's most iconic images. On 17 April 1993, the Indigenous AFL footballer Nicky Winmar stood up against racial abuse and made history. Facing the Collingwood crowd that had taunted him all day the St Kilda player pulled up his shirt, pointed to his chest and declared: 'I'm black and I'm proud to be black'.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2013

Edited by Jane McCredie, Natasha Mitchell

Australian painter and theatre artist Loudon Sainthill and his partner, entrepreneur and gallery director Harry Tatlock Miller, were at the heart of avant-garde artistic and literary circles in mid-twentieth century Melbourne, Sydney and London.

Before the Anzac Dawn: A military history of Australia to 1915

Edited by Craig Stockings, John Connor

Before the Anzac Dawn is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the whole story of Australia's military history.

Alphabetical Sydney

Hilary Bell, Antonia Pesenti

This is our Sydney, the brightest and best of it, North to the south to the east and the west of it. Bats and cicadas, lawn bowls and the zoo, This is our town. Let us share it with you.

Kings Cross: A biography

Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly 'sex and sin' narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters – some household names others little-known - that not even a writer could conjure up.

Making Medicare

Anne-Marie Boxall, James Gillespie

Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that we largely take for granted. But the road there wasn't easy. Making Medicare

The Beethoven Obsession

The Beethoven Obsession tells the story of how the greatest piano music ever written acquired a unique Australian voice, played on a revolutionary grand piano that shook up the conservative music establishment.

How to do a liver transplant

'I loved Kellee Slater's book. And not just because she's a transplant surgeon and I have had a liver transplant. At times I felt like she had been reading my mail!' – Derryn Hinch

Jackie Dickenson