Subjects | UNSW Press

Since 1967 more than 25,000 students have graduated from UNSW after studying at Duntroon, HMAS Creswell , the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tom Frame examines the productive 50-year partnership between UNSW and the Australian Defence Force.

How to be an Academic

Dr Inger Mewburn

Welcome to the world of university academics, where the Academic Hunger Games, fuelled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality – a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life needn't be so grim.

Stranger Thingies

John Birmingham

John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer.

A Charter of Rights for Australia

George Williams, Daniel Reynolds

Australia does not have a bill or charter of rights, which means there is no comprehensive law that enshrines human rights in Australia – even though these laws are standard in the rest of the developed world. So what does this mean for the rights of Australian citizens?

Green Bans, Red Union

Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann

Revised edition of a landmark book Green Bans , Red Union

Chinese for Advanced Learners

Wang Ping, Mr Chen Yangbin

The Tim Carmody Affair

Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Gabrielle Appleby, Andrew Lynch

When Tim Carmody was appointed Chief Justice of Queensland by Premier Campbell Newman in 2014, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months.

How to Be a Writer

John Birmingham

'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.'

The Art of Free Travel

Patrick Jones, Meg Ulman

Patrick, Meg and their family had built a happy, sustainable life in regional Victoria. But in late 2013, they found themselves craving an adventure: a road trip.

The Australian Schoolkids' Guide to Debating and Public Speaking

Age range 10+ Welcome to the world of school debating and public speaking, the best training ground for speaking, reasoning, arguing and looking critically at the big issues of today.

Edited by Phillipa McGuinness

Writers, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, lawyers and academics talk about why copyright matters to them – or doesn't.

Inside Australia's Anti-Terrorism Laws and Trials

Andrew Lynch, Nicola McGarrity, George Williams

Most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is a danger in itself.

The Story of Australian English

Kel Richards

Kel Richards talks about The Story of Australian English on the Today Show

Improving Assessment in Higher Education

Edited by Stephen Marshall, Richard Henry, Prem Ramburuth

Kel Richards' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Kel Richards

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

Edited by Elizabeth Finkel

What Makes a Good School?

What Makes a Good School?

Jane Caro, Chris Bonnor

What Makes a Good School? will help you to cover all bases.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge (Revised edition)

Peter Spearritt

'...clear, concise and vibrant history takes the reader on the journey from 19th-century dreams to 20th-century reality.' — Troy Lennon, Daily Telegraph

History's Children

Anna Clark

9780868408064

The Stupid Country: How Australia is dismantling public education

Chris Bonnor, Jane Caro

This book warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion and a great sense of urgency Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro show how government, anxious parents, the church and ideology are combining to undermine public schools. The Stupid Country THE STUPID COUNTRY

The Little Red Writing Book

Mark Tredinnick

9780868409061

No Country is an Island: Australia and International Law

Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam, Devika Hovell, George Williams

Genre, text, grammar

Peter Knapp, Megan Watkins

Beyond the Great Divide

Judith Gill