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.

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.

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.

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.

Beautiful Balts

Dr Jayne Persian

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

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.

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?

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.

Chinese for Advanced Learners

Wang Ping, Mr Chen Yangbin

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.

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.

Elizabeth Tynan

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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?