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Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia

John Fitzgerald

Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History Much has been written about the White Australia Policy, but very little has been written about it from a Chinese perspective.

Sustainable Freshwater Aquacultures

Nick Romanowski

The Little Red Writing Book

Mark Tredinnick

In The Little Red Writing Book, Mark Tredinnick explains technique, style and craft for everyone who writes. It is a lively and readable guide to lively and readable writing.

The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European invasion of Australia

Termites and Borers: A Home-Owner's Guide to their Detection, Prevention and Control 2nd

Phillip Hadlington, Ion Staunton

A consumer-oriented and compact handbook written in plain English for a general audience with an interest in protecting their home against termites (and other timber pests such as borers). The revision brings the book right up to date, discussing new termite detection techniques, as well as treatment options for termite infestations.

9780868409061

No Country is an Island: Australia and International Law

Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam, Devika Hovell, George Williams

9780868409153

The History of Australian Corrections

Sean O'Toole

Beginning with the punishment systems of the ancient world, Sean O'Toole investigates the birth of the modern prison, the transportation process, the convict era and finally the creation of Australia's various State and Territory prisons and community corrections systems.

Island Ministers

Raeburn Lange

Activist Wisdom

Sarah Maddison, Sean Scalmer

Hugh Stretton

The Briefest English Grammar Ever!

Readers have eaten, shot, and left Lynne Truss's bestselling book on punctuation, suddenly realising how little they really know about grammar from their school days. Enter Ruth Colman and The briefest English grammar ever!

9780868409849

DNA and Your Body: What you need to know about biotechnology

Colin Masters

DNA and Your Body is written for a general audience, using non-technical language.

Genre, text, grammar

Peter Knapp, Megan Watkins

9780868408163

Personality and Performance: Foundations for Managerial Psychology

Robert Spillane, John Martin

Why should managers study psychology?

9780868406237

Quagmires and Quandaries: Exploring Journalism Ethics

Ian Richards

Despite best intentions, various codes of ethics and extensive public attention, journalists are repeatedly seen to behave in ways that are less than edifying. With refreshing candour and scholarly rigour, Ian Richards, journalist and academic, examines the reasons why this particular profession is, apparently, so ethically challenged.

A Field Guide to the Fungi of Australia

A. M. Young, illustrated by Kay Smith

An indispensable field guide to Australia’s fungi by one of the nation’s foremost experts.

Ancient and Modern

Stephen Muecke

9781742246239

Disability in Australia: Exposing a social apartheid

Gerard Goggin, Christopher Newell

9780868407982

Reports from a wild country: Ethics of decolonisation

Deborah Bird Rose

Explores some of Australia's major ethical challenges. Written in the midst of rapid social and environmental change and in a time of uncertainty and division, it offers powerful stories and arguments for ethical choice and commitment. The focus is on reconciliation between Indigenous and 'Settler' peoples, and with nature.

A Matter of Fat

Rosemary Stanton, Andrew Hills

Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places

Peter Dunbar-Hall, Chris Gibson

What's Wrong with Contemporary Art?

Peter Timms

Beyond the Great Divide

Judith Gill

Edited by Peter Richard Joyce, Philip Mitchell

The Biology of Civilisation

Stephen Boyden

9780868407418

Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives on Genetic Engineering

Edited by Richard Hindmarsh, Geoffrey Lawrence

Construction Contract Administration

Greg Goldfayl

Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to Aids

Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to Aids

Paul Sendziuk

Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively

Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively

Stuart Rees

In a dark and pessimistic time, A Passion for Peace is a timely and uplifting work. Written in an engaging and optimistic style, combining poetry and prose, this book is both practical and philosophical, showing how a creative use of power can contribute to peace with justice in any context or country.

Beneath the Surface

Edited by Elery Hamilton-Smith, Brian Finlayson

9780868405988

The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society

James Sneddon

Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838

Kamali Kannangara, Burkhard Raguse, M Simmons, G Smith, Michael Wilson

9780868404196

Possums: the Brushtails, Ringtails and Greater Glider

Anne Kerle

9780868404653

Introduction to Australian Insects REV

Phillip Hadlington

Uluru: Kata Tjuta and Watarrka National Parks Field Guide

Anne Kerle