UNSW Press is celebrating 50 years.
Anzac mythologyLegend should not be mistaken for history.
Just another journalist's memoir?Broadcaster, writer and columnist Mike Carlton on Come the Revolution by Alex Mitchell at Gleebooks, Sydney
What would Rick Farley do?What would Rick Farley do?
The story of mathematicsThe story of mathematics
Mr JW Lewin, painter and naturalistJohn William Lewin is one of Australia’s most imaginative and engaging – but least known – colonial artists.
Playground dutyI approached the end of seventeen years teaching at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts with a mixture of emotions. I was excited about leaving Sydney for a new adventure in Melbourne. I knew I’d been at Newtown for long enough. Seventeen years in the one place is long enough for anybody. I even knew how I was going to leave – by taking a group of kids to perform in China and by doing a production of Blackrock.
Design commandmentsTony Seddon discusses the relative merits (or not) of using Comic Sans.
Lucky country?Did you know Australia ranks sixth among twenty-eight countries surveyed by the OECD in terms of average hours worked by full-timers? We’re meant to be the easygoing country, yet full-time workers in Australia work on average, per week, two hours longer than Germans, almost three more than the French and five more than most Nordic countries.
The sportsmen of Changi Seventy years ago an army of athletes was captured at Singapore
Staying cool naturally It’s another stinking hot day, you feel sticky and tired. What can you do to keep cool inside your home?
News and chatIs the traditional idea of ‘authority’ in news delivery important any more?