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9781742237688

The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium

Prudence Gibson

The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales – its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.

9781742237664

Underground Lovers: The Secrets of Fungi

Underground Lovers brings us down to earth, magnifier in hand, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.

9781742237367

Curlews on Vulture Street

Acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities.

9781742237251

Living Democracy

Whether you’re a concerned community member, or someone who is already active in social or environmental campaigning, this book will inspire and inform you, and get you fired up to co-create a common, more equitable future.

Australia & the Pacific

The Bondi to Manly Walk

Wounded Country

Quentin Beresford

Flames of Extinction

Over Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species — koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus — are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing climate behind them.

Beyond Climate Grief

How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?

The Ways of the Bushwalker

Whether you are inclined to put on your walking boots and pack your sleeping bag, or would rather stay in a luxury hut, this surefooted and witty book reveals how the ordinary act of walking can become extraordinary.

Living with the Anthropocene

Edited by Mr Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, Jenny Newell

Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.

We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities?

What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel the looking-glass transition from an ice world to a fire world more fully and suddenly than elsewhere.

An epic journey of discovery into the heart of a vast and contested Australian wilderness.

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn

'I'm going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?'

Botanical Revelation

David J. Mabberley

Acclaimed author David Mabberley provides a ground-breaking analysis of early European understanding of Australia's flora.

Feeding the Birds at Your Table

*Shortlisted for the 2020 ABIA Small Publisher's Adult Book of the Year*

Cosmic Chronicles

LONGLISTED for the 2020 ABIA Small Publisher's Adult Book of the Year

Adani and the War Over Coal

Quentin Beresford

Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics – and our country – into the fossil fuel age.

SHORTLISTED for ACT Book of the Year Latitude 54° 02′ South, Longitude 37° 14' West:

In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.

The Birds At My Table

Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers, scatter the crumbs or seeds, or leave the picnic scraps behind for the birds.

The Secret Life of Whales

Micheline Jenner

Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington

A resounding post–Paris Agreement wake-up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions – and above all, hope.

Mr Richard Fitzpatrick

Killer tales from the deep from an award-winning cinematographer and marine biologist

Weird Dinosaurs

We're in a golden age of discovery – and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined.

Elizabeth Tynan

*Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017*

A History of Life in 100 Fossils

Mr Paul D. Taylor, Mr Aaron O'Dea

This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through some of the most significant fossils ever found.

On Track: Searching out the Bundian Way

On Track tells the story of John Blay's long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation's most remarkable landscapes, from the highest place on the continent to the ocean.

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd

Quentin Beresford

Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all.

Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources

Professor Robert Clark, Mr Mark J Thomson Dr

The transport sector in Australia depends heavily on imported oil-based fuels. With this comes the ever-present risk of oil supply shortages. But Australia is gas-rich and oil-poor, so it makes practical sense to assess how our own gas resources can be used to produce these fuels.

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 .

Conservation in a Crowded World

Edited by John Merson, Rosie Cooney, Paul Brown

This book addresses some key questions for the sustainable use of natural environments: What should be conserved and who decides? Is 'use' compatible with conservation, and under what circumstances? Are trade-offs between conservation and development necessary? How do we find those elusive 'win-win' solutions?

Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals

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

A Modern Dog's Life

Paul McGreevy

Written with clarity and humour, A Modern Dog's Life

Eucalypts of the Sydney Region

Gary Leonard

Designed to fit into the backpack of bushwalkers, students, botanists, field ecologists, and foresters, Eucalypts of the Sydney Region

Sustainable Freshwater Aquacultures

Nick Romanowski

A Field Guide to the Fungi of Australia

Tony Young, illustrated by Kay Smith

Beneath the Surface

Edited by Elery Hamilton-Smith, Brian Finlayson

Anne Kerle

Politics & Current affairs

9781742235707

Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

In 1941, the paper emperors of the newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years — thanks to shrewd and ruthless behaviour from members of the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax families and other key players — they grew into media monsters.

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Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence and the advent of cyber

Clare Birgin, John Blaxland

This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation’s efforts to reveal the secrets of others.

9781742237688

The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium

Prudence Gibson

The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales – its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.

9781742237893

Bhutan to Blacktown

Om Dhungel, with James Button

Om Dhungel was forced to flee Bhutan as a refugee, eventually arriving in Australia — this traumatic upheaval brought a surprising blessing: what Om learned about life when he lost everything except life itself.

The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022

Edited by Michelle Grattan, Brendan McCaffrie, Chris Wallace

Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022

9781742237664

Underground Lovers: The Secrets of Fungi

Underground Lovers brings us down to earth, magnifier in hand, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.

9781742237329

Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy

Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.

9781742237497

Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers

Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.

9781742237831

Voices of us: The independents’ movement transforming Australian democracy

Australian politics is changing. Voices of us looks towards the future with hope and ideas.

9781742237572

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

Edited by Bruce Hunt, Stephen Henningham

9781742237732

How to Rule Your Own Country: The weird and wonderful world of micronations

Harry Hobbs, George Williams

How to Rule Your Own Country is a lively account of the people who decide that ‘enough is enough’ and create their own nation.

9781742237671

Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity

Raina MacIntyre

World-renowned epidemiologist and biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre reveals her insights into biological warfare, pandemics and the threats that lie ahead.

9781742237251

Living Democracy

Whether you’re a concerned community member, or someone who is already active in social or environmental campaigning, this book will inspire and inform you, and get you fired up to co-create a common, more equitable future.

9781742237626

The Art of Coalition

Edited by David Lovell, Andrew Blyth

The Art of Coalition focuses on the relationship between the Liberal and National parties during the Howard years, and the lessons and challenges of this partnership today.

9781742237633

Tom Frame reveals the background to the war crimes allegedly committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2013.

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Waiting for Gonski

Tom Greenwell, Chris Bonnor

Written by two teachers, Waiting for Gonski examines how Australia has failed its schools and offers inspired solutions to help change education for the better.

9781742237480

John Fitzgerald

Cadre Country is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of the Chinese Communist Party and the limits of its achievements.

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Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth

9781742237022

The Power of Podcasting

Siobhán McHugh

The gruesome and compelling tale of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard, longest-serving executioner for the colony of NSW.

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

Edited by James Cotton

Adelaide Remember When

Mr Bob Byrne

Dear Prime Minister

Dear Prime Minister is a fascinating insight into the concerns, assumptions and political beliefs of 1950s and 1960s Australians.

Wounded Country

Quentin Beresford

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Edited by Andrew Dodd, Matthew Ricketson

Captivating yet devastating, Upheaval is an under-the-hood look at Australian journalism as it faces seismic changes.

9781742237404

Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Megan Davis, George Williams

Ruth Balint, Julie Kalman

9781742236919

The New Academic

Simon Clews

What does it mean to be an academic in today's rapidly changing world?

Gender Politics

Edited by Zareh Ghazarian, Katrina Lee-Koo

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea, 1970-1972: The transition to self-governance

Edited by Bruce Hunt, Stephen Henningham

This volume, commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series, is the first comprehensive survey of Australia's approach to the world in the 1920s.

Failures of Command

Flames of Extinction

Over Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species — koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus — are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing climate behind them.

Beyond Climate Grief

How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?

In the Eye of the Storm

Robert Reynolds, Shirleene Robinson, Paul Sendziuk

Coming of Age in the War on Terror

Randa Abdel-Fattah

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Saffron Howden, Dhana Quinn

Age range 10+ You don't need to be an adult to break news and change the world. You can start your career as a young reporter right now.

The Desire for Change, 2004-2007

Edited by Tom Frame

The Liberal-National Party Coalition was elected to office on 2 March 1996 and continued in power until 3 December 2007 making John Howard the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister. This book is the final in a four-volume series examining the four Howard Governments.

Australian Universities

Gwilym Croucher, James Waghorne

Few of Australia's institutions are as significant or as complex as its universities. This first comprehensive history of Australia's university system explores how universities work and for whom, and how their relationship with each other, their staff and students and the public has evolved over a century.

Living with the Anthropocene

Edited by Mr Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, Jenny Newell

Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.

We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities?

How to Win an Election

How To Win An Election spells out the ten things a political leader and their party must excel at to maximise the chance of success, and against which they should be accountable between and during elections.

What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel the looking-glass transition from an ice world to a fire world more fully and suddenly than elsewhere.

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn

'I'm going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?'

The Future of Us

Demography is far more important than destiny. By tracing connections between a population's past and present, demographers can foresee its future. The true wonder of demography, though, is not its ability to predict the future but to shape it. With energy and passion, demographer Liz Allen sets out the potential paths to make Australia better.

Trials and Transformations, 2001-2004

Edited by Tom Frame

Few periods in Australian political history have generated more controversy than 2001–2004.

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

Edited by James Cotton

This volume, commissioned by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy

'A masterpiece of analysis of the politics of transformative change.' — Otago Daily Times

The Politics of the Common Good

Jane R. Goodall

'The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism?

Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs

Jane McAdam, Fiona Chong

Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law. However, successive governments in Australia have declared the need to 'stop the boats' whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal.

*WINNER of the 2020 Colin Roderick Award* *Longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize*

The Women's Atlas

'This is not just an atlas about women. It's a feminist remapping of the world.'

Shirleene Robinson, Alex Greenwich

A compelling, moving account of the long journey to marriage equality in Australia.

The Getting of Garlic

Seamus O'Hanlon

'Our cities are changing fast. Seamus' O'Hanlon tells us how and why, with a keen historian's eye for both the big picture and the local scene. An indispensable guide to the contemporary Australian city.' — Professor Graeme Davison

Adani and the War Over Coal

Quentin Beresford

Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics – and our country – into the fossil fuel age.

Serving in Silence?

Noah Riseman, Shirleene Robinson, Graham Willett

For the first time, Serving in Silence?

Populism can be a dirty word. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump have certainly given it a bad name. But rather than associating it with demagoguery and exclusion, might we better see it as a backlash against free market globalisation? Might it be harnessed as a positive force able to thrive in difficult times?

In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.

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.

Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901

As Australia became a nation in 1901, no-one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation.

Ethics Under Fire

Edited by Tom Frame, Mr Albert Palazzo

Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military's commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire – a timely and compelling book – asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army can't ignore.

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.

Beautiful Balts

Dr Jayne Persian

170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 – the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants.

Stop Fixing Women

Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue?

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington

A resounding post–Paris Agreement wake-up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions – and above all, hope.

Edited by Tom Frame

Helping neighbours and partners stabilise their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force.

Kampong Australia

Mathew Radcliffe

The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.

Chinese for Advanced Learners

Wang Ping, Mr Chen Yangbin

Elizabeth Tynan

*Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017*

Why the future is workless

Even as the robots gather on the near horizon this book argues we have choices about the manner in which we greet them. A world without work as we know it could be a good thing.

The Worst Woman in Sydney

Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?

Madeline Gleeson

What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012?

Who Bombed the Hilton?

I unpick and put in chronological order thousands of pieces of paper — lay out the facts as they arrived the first time, unadorned, uninterpreted, flying in from dozens of sources and every corner of the world.

Mr Garry Wotherspoon

Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A History is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture

Damned Whores and God's Police

Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police

From Victims to Suspects

Shakira Hussein

The so-called War on Terror, in its many incarnations, has always been a war with gender at its heart.

The Oldest Foods on Earth

'This is a book about Australian food, not the foods that European Australians cooked from ingredients they brought with them, but the flora and fauna that nourished the Aboriginal peoples for over 50,000 years. It is because European Australians have hardly touched these foods for over 200 years that I am writing it.'

Edited by Tom Frame

This collection of essays from ex-soldiers, military historians, chaplains and psychologists examines the unseen wounds sustained by Australians deployed to armed conflict, peacekeeping missions, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

The G20 and the Future of International Economic Governance

Edited by Mike Callaghan, Tristram Sainsbury

The G20 needs to be bold and pragmatic if it is to deal effectively with the global economy's big issues.

Key Concepts in Military Ethics

Edited by Dr Deane-Peter Baker

Can war be morally justified? What is the philosophy behind armed conflict? How do you conduct an ethical war? And what guides military action as the nature of conflict changes over time?

Paul Davey

Unfolding like a political thriller, Joh for PM reveals for the first time the details of the campaign that rocked Australian politics.

I'm Not Racist But ... 40 Years of the Racial Discrimination Act

Tim Soutphommasane

Is Australia a 'racist' country? Why do issues of race and culture seem to ignite public debate so readily?

The Martin Presence

Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan, Sheila Shaver

Jean Martin was a pioneer of sociology, inventing a version of the discipline that was uniquely suited to Australia in the post-war period.

Boycotting Israel is Wrong

Philip Mendes, Nick Dyrenfurth

This is the first progressive book to argue that the BDS movement (boycott, divestment and sanctions) against Israel is the wrong way to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; rather, it argues that peace will come ony when both Israelis' and Palestinians' legitimate claims to statehood are recognised – by both sides.

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd

Quentin Beresford

Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all.

Everything you Need to Know About the Referendum to Recognise Indigenous Australians

Megan Davis, George Williams

This book explains everything that Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution.

Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources

Professor Robert Clark, Mr Mark J Thomson Dr

The transport sector in Australia depends heavily on imported oil-based fuels. With this comes the ever-present risk of oil supply shortages. But Australia is gas-rich and oil-poor, so it makes practical sense to assess how our own gas resources can be used to produce these fuels.

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.

Meredith Burgmann

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

Improving Assessment in Higher Education

Edited by Stephen Marshall, Richard Henry, Prem Ramburuth

Jackie Dickenson

The Misogyny Factor

The Misogyny Factor

Conservation in a Crowded World

Edited by John Merson, Rosie Cooney, Paul Brown

This book addresses some key questions for the sustainable use of natural environments: What should be conserved and who decides? Is 'use' compatible with conservation, and under what circumstances? Are trade-offs between conservation and development necessary? How do we find those elusive 'win-win' solutions?

The Flash of Recognition

As a student, Jane Lydon was shocked by the photograph on the cover of Charles Rowley's 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society

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.

Australian Lithuanians

Luda Popenhagen

Close to the Edge

Sujatha Fernandes

The Australian Voter

Ian McAllister

Andrew Leigh

Disconnected Andrew Leigh guides us through the reasons that our social fabric has begun to fray, and outlines steps to creating a better civic and personal life.

Edited by Jon Altman, Melinda Hinkson

Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill

Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s. It includes a range of incidents, people and places, from freeing protestors in the anti-conscription movement, resident action movements in Kings Cross, anarchists in Glebe, to Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street and Black Power in Redfern.

What Were They Thinking?

James Walter

What Were They Thinking? is a compelling story of winners and losers, of individuals interpreting and trying to influence their times, and of how ideas and power are linked.

Connecting and Cooperating

Jenny M. Lewis

Changing Stations

Bridget Griffen-Foley

Shortlisted for the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature

The Vulnerable Country

Tom Conley

The Vulnerable Country

Friday on Our Minds

Friday on Our Minds

Ethics in Practice

Andrew Alexandra, Seumas Miller

Dozens of times a day we are faced with moral dilemmas, and our judgments and actions are guided by our sense of what is right or wrong. But there are times when we find ourselves facing situations of moral complexity and uncertainty. Drawing on numerous case studies, Ethics in Practice

Bills of Rights in Australia

Andrew Byrnes, H Charlesworth, Gabrielle McKinnon

Bills of Rights in Australia , written by the leading experts in the field, examines the arguments for and against greater protection of human rights. Original and timely, it examines the emerging evidence of the impact of these uniquely Australian bills of rights.

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia

Tess Lea

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts

Destination Australia

Eric Richards

Renovation Nation

Fiona Allon

Renovation Nation

History's Children

Anna Clark

The Stupid Country: How Australia is dismantling public education

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

Sustainable Freshwater Aquacultures

Nick Romanowski

Island Ministers

Raeburn Lange

Activist Wisdom

Sarah Maddison, Sean Scalmer

Hugh Stretton

Genre, text, grammar

Peter Knapp, Megan Watkins

Ancient and Modern

Stephen Muecke

Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places

Peter Dunbar-Hall, Chris Gibson

Beyond the Great Divide

Judith Gill

Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838

Popular science

9781742237688

The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium

Prudence Gibson

The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales – its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.

9781742237664

Underground Lovers: The Secrets of Fungi

Underground Lovers brings us down to earth, magnifier in hand, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.

9781742237671

Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity

Raina MacIntyre

World-renowned epidemiologist and biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre reveals her insights into biological warfare, pandemics and the threats that lie ahead.

9781742237459

Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world

The remarkable story of Howard Florey and Mark Oliphant, two Australian scientists who played a vital role in the Allied victory in the Second World War and changed the course of history.

9781742237862

2023 Australasian Sky Guide

The definitive guide to observing the Australian and New Zealand night sky.

9781742237756

The Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch

For lovers of natural history, this is the first book to explore Allan Riverstone McCulloch’s scientific genius, artistic talents and his crucial role in the development of the Australian Museum.

9781742237367

Curlews on Vulture Street

Acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities.

9781742237251

Living Democracy

Whether you’re a concerned community member, or someone who is already active in social or environmental campaigning, this book will inspire and inform you, and get you fired up to co-create a common, more equitable future.

9781742236759

Future Superhuman

Strap in for an exhilarating, and starkly honest, take on the promise and peril of life in the 21st century.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2021

Edited by Dyani Lewis, foreword by Cathy Foley

Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris

Australia & the Pacific

Wounded Country

Quentin Beresford

Artificial Intimacy

Top evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks offers an innovative perspective on human behaviour, AI technologies and the future of sex.

In the Eye of the Storm

Robert Reynolds, Shirleene Robinson, Paul Sendziuk

Beyond Climate Grief

How do we find courage when climate change overwhelms us emotionally?

Flames of Extinction

Over Australia's 2019–20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species — koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus — are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the changing climate behind them.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2020

Edited by Sara Phillips, foreword by Peter C. Doherty

The annual collection – now in its tenth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.

Edited by Tanya Plibersek

COVID-19 has resulted in changes none of us could have imagined, but what happens next?

Living with the Anthropocene

Edited by Mr Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, Jenny Newell

Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans.

We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities?

What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel the looking-glass transition from an ice world to a fire world more fully and suddenly than elsewhere.

An epic journey of discovery into the heart of a vast and contested Australian wilderness.

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Joanna Atherfold Finn

'I'm going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?'

Botanical Revelation

David J. Mabberley

Acclaimed author David Mabberley provides a ground-breaking analysis of early European understanding of Australia's flora.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2019

Edited by Bianca Nogrady, foreword by Lisa Harvey-Smith

This ninth edition of The Best Australian Science Writing

Cosmic Chronicles

LONGLISTED for the 2020 ABIA Small Publisher's Adult Book of the Year

In this mind-bending book, award-winning neuroscientist Henning Beck explains why perfectionism is pointless – and argues that mistakes, missteps and flaws are the keys to success.

Feeding the Birds at Your Table

*Shortlisted for the 2020 ABIA Small Publisher's Adult Book of the Year*

Sex in the Brain

What controls our sex lives? Our brains. Yet there is surprisingly little research into the ways our brains influence our sex drive. Extraordinary insights into how the brain works can be gained when something goes wrong through brain injury or disease.

The web was supposed to transform our world. So why are things so messed up?

Dr Space Junk vs The Universe

Dr Alice Gorman

Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction

The Best Australian Science Writing 2018

Edited by John Pickrell

'For the general reader, there are few better ways to get the backstory to the latest developments and controversies in science than through this annual collection of essays (and poems).' — Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald

The Future of Everything

'A powerful and realistic message of hope for the future' — Professor John Quiggin, University of Queensland

Adani and the War Over Coal

Quentin Beresford

Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics – and our country – into the fossil fuel age.

SHORTLISTED for ACT Book of the Year Latitude 54° 02′ South, Longitude 37° 14' West:

In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.

The Birds At My Table

Darryl Jones is fascinated by bird feeders. Not the containers supplying food to our winged friends, but the people who fill the containers, scatter the crumbs or seeds, or leave the picnic scraps behind for the birds.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2017

Edited by Michael Slezak, foreword by Emma Johnston

The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.

The Secret Life of Whales

Micheline Jenner

Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales

Radio Astronomer

Peter Robertson

Bolton had the unusual distinction of being the inaugural director of two new observatories. In the late 1950s at Caltech he built the first major observatory for radio astronomy in the United States, and then returned to Australia to take charge of the newly completed Parkes telescope in New South Wales - featured in the acclaimed film The Dish .

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington

A resounding post–Paris Agreement wake-up call about the urgency of the climate crisis that offers a range of practical solutions – and above all, hope.

'Professor Bill Gibson is an outstanding man, a great humanitarian and deserving of this well-researched biography about his exceptional contribution to medicine.' - Professor Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO

Mr Richard Fitzpatrick

Killer tales from the deep from an award-winning cinematographer and marine biologist

Weird Dinosaurs

We're in a golden age of discovery – and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2016

Edited by Jo Chandler, foreword by Ms Fiona Stanley

From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it.

Elizabeth Tynan

*Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2017*

A woman's innocuous cold symptoms mask a debilitating rare tick infection. A young man develops shingles then suffers blinding head pain later in life. After years of frustration, a family eradicates head lice forever.

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

You can listen to Rob Kaldor interview Ian Harris for the Co-op podcast .

The Best Australian Science Writing 2015

Edited by Bianca Nogrady, foreword by Adam Spencer

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

A History of Life in 100 Fossils

Mr Paul D. Taylor, Mr Aaron O'Dea

This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through some of the most significant fossils ever found.

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd

Quentin Beresford

Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all.

Transport Fuels from Australia's Gas Resources

Professor Robert Clark, Mr Mark J Thomson Dr

The transport sector in Australia depends heavily on imported oil-based fuels. With this comes the ever-present risk of oil supply shortages. But Australia is gas-rich and oil-poor, so it makes practical sense to assess how our own gas resources can be used to produce these fuels.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2014

Edited by Ashley Hay

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

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 .

The Best Australian Science Writing 2013

Edited by Jane McCredie, Natasha Mitchell

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

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

Conservation in a Crowded World

Edited by John Merson, Rosie Cooney, Paul Brown

This book addresses some key questions for the sustainable use of natural environments: What should be conserved and who decides? Is 'use' compatible with conservation, and under what circumstances? Are trade-offs between conservation and development necessary? How do we find those elusive 'win-win' solutions?

Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals

Ron Sandland, Graham Thompson

Icon in Crisis charts in detail CSIRO's dramatic and successful transformation.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2011

Edited by Stephen Pincock

From the elemental forces that drive our expanding universe to the delicate hairs on the back of your neck, science offers talented writers the kind of scope that other subjects simply can't match. This dynamic genre of Australian writing has never, until now, been showcased in an anthology. With a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty,

Transit of Venus

"In his new book, Transit of Venus, 1631 to the Present , Dr Nick Lomb — an astronomer at the Sydney Observatpry and the author of the Australian Sky Guide The Bulletin

Bryan Gaensler

The universe is all about extremes. Space has a temperature 270°C below freezing. Stars die in catastrophic supernova explosions a billion times brighter than the Sun. A black hole can generate 10 million trillion volts of electricity. And hypergiants are stars 2 billion kilometres across, larger than the orbit of Jupiter. Extreme Cosmos

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Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How evolution has shaped the modern world

Why are people getting fatter? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27?

The Yipping Tiger and other tales from the neuropsychiatric clinic

Perminder Sachdev

Evolution in the Antipodes

Essential Mathematical Skills

S Barry, S Davis

Eucalypts of the Sydney Region

Gary Leonard

Designed to fit into the backpack of bushwalkers, students, botanists, field ecologists, and foresters, Eucalypts of the Sydney Region

Sustainable Freshwater Aquacultures

Nick Romanowski

A Matter of Fat

Rosemary Stanton, Andrew Hills

Edited by Peter Richard Joyce, Philip Mitchell

The Biology of Civilisation

Stephen Boyden

Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to Aids

Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to Aids

Paul Sendziuk

Writing & Reference

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Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

In 1941, the paper emperors of the newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years — thanks to shrewd and ruthless behaviour from members of the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax families and other key players — they grew into media monsters.

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The Briefest English Grammar and Punctuation Guide Ever!

The Briefest English Grammar and Punctuation Guide Ever! is the bestselling book that will teach you all the basics of using the English language.

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Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy

Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.

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Jeff Sparrow is one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals. From great controversies to the heroes and villains of our time, Provocations raises arguments that matter.

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Exquisitely written, Eda Gunaydin’s essays unsettle neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place.

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Sneaky Little Revolutions

edited by Nadia Wheatley

From her wild bohemian years on Hydra to her radical feminist writings, Charmian Clift is a larger-than-life personality of Australian literature.

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Waiting for Gonski

Tom Greenwell, Chris Bonnor

Written by two teachers, Waiting for Gonski examines how Australia has failed its schools and offers inspired solutions to help change education for the better.

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The Power of Podcasting

Siobhán McHugh

The gruesome and compelling tale of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard, longest-serving executioner for the colony of NSW.

Symbols of Australia

Edited by Richard White, Melissa Harper

The Bondi to Manly Walk

The Education of Young Donald Trilogy

Donald Horne, introduction by Julia Horne, Nick Horne, foreword by Tracy Sorensen

A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne’s three autobiographies — The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988) — in one volume.

Beyond the Hero’s Journey

Anthony Mullins

Edited by Andrew Dodd, Matthew Ricketson

Captivating yet devastating, Upheaval is an under-the-hood look at Australian journalism as it faces seismic changes.

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The New Academic

Simon Clews

What does it mean to be an academic in today's rapidly changing world?

Reading like an Australian writer

Edited by Belinda Castles

A delightful, inspirational and heartfelt collection that will enrich your reading of Australian stories and guide you in your own writing.

'At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagreement about how to read the story of the past, about who should write or speak it, and what parts of it should be written or spoken about at all.'

Level Up Your Essays

Dr Inger Mewburn, Katherine Firth, Shaun Lehmann

Level Up Your Essays is the essential guide to essay writing for university students. Written by the people who mark your essays, it will show you step-by-step how to write high-quality essays that will get you top marks.

David Whish-Wilson

David Whish-Wilson's Perth is a place where deeper historical currents are never far beneath the surface. Like the Swan River that can flow in two directions at once, Perth strikes perfect harmony with the city's contradictions and eccentricities.

Dr Amanda Laugesen

*Included in ABR's Books of the Year 2020* Bugger, rooted, bloody oath…

A strong sense of 'otherness' defines Canberra to a point where there is a smugness, bordering on arrogance, that the rest of Australia can hate – but they'll never know just how good it is to live here.

This is a book about the textures, colours, sounds and frontier stories of Darwin, Australia's smallest and least-known capital city.

MONA has done a lot more than just rescue a flagging tourism economy. It has changed the city's body language, teaching it to stand up straight and look others squarely in the eye, even putting a swagger in its step.

Kerryn Goldsworthy

Any place you have experienced first-hand is a museum of memory, one whose exhibits conjure up, in widening ripples of association, a whole city: a red paddle-boat, a photograph of three children on a hot day, a marble Venus fetchingly half-naked in the shade.

Brisbane reveals a city of wooden houses where mango trees abound, where the serpentine river seems to be of the city and yet somehow not, where ghostly memories of demolished landmarks like Cloudland and The Bellevue Hotel hover and where the chime of the City Hall clock echoes through time and place.

Australian Universities

Gwilym Croucher, James Waghorne

Few of Australia's institutions are as significant or as complex as its universities. This first comprehensive history of Australia's university system explores how universities work and for whom, and how their relationship with each other, their staff and students and the public has evolved over a century.

Sydney has always been the sexiest and brashest of our cities, but perhaps the most misunderstood. In this new edition of Sydney , Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity and jacarandas, its fireworks, glitz and magic. But she discards lazy stereotypes to reveal a complex city: beautiful, violent, half-wild, and at times deeply spiritual.

Sophie Cunningham

Melbourne's a city you get to know from the inside out – you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That's when you capture glimpses of people – eating, laughing, talking, arguing, watching TV and reading – through half-open terrace house doors and windows … It is a city of inside places and conversation. Of intimacy.

Katerina Bryant

In the tradition of Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman , Bryant blends memoir with literary and historical analysis to explore women's medical treatment. Hysteria

Frank & Fearless

Nicholas Cowdery, with Rachael Jane Chin

In Frank & Fearless ' Frank & Fearless is not only the ultimate insider's account of some of the state's most sensational murder trials, it is also an account of one man's valiant battle against political and media forces to ensure that justice was done. Society owes Nick Cowdery a debt of gratitude.' — Kate McClymont

The Memory Pool

Therese Spruhan

Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool.

Capturing Nature

Trade Illustration Selection in the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show

The Australian Students' Guide to Writing and Grammar

Age range 12+ Do you ever think about the structure and arrangement of what you say and write? And why it's said and written like that and not some other how?

A Certain Style

Jacqueline Kent

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.

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.

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.

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?

Chinese for Advanced Learners

Wang Ping, Mr Chen Yangbin

Green Bans, Red Union

Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann

Revised edition of a landmark book Green Bans , Red Union

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

The Stupid Country: How Australia is dismantling public education

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

No Country is an Island: Australia and International Law

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