In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia.
The August Offensive was the last attempt by the Allied forces to break the stalemate with the Turkish defenders that had developed since the Anzac landings in late April 1915. This book recreates in compelling detail the first five days of the offensive.
The Little Black Book of Business Writing is for everyone who writes for business purposes, in the commercial world, the private sector, the trades and the professions. Helps people write at work with economy, impact and efficiency.
Climate change is happening. The world is changing. In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, leading Australian writers come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis as the physical world changes all around us.
So-called “unloseable” elections are lost, reminding us that every election is a real contest. In this indispensable book drawing from years of close-up observation and analysis,... Læs mere
Can fish feel pain? Does it matter if a dingo is different from a dog? Is there life in a glob of subterranean snot? Science tackles some unexpected questions.... Læs mere
Offers a powerful literary consideration of historic violence in two different parts of the world, the seldom-visited mulga plains of south-west Queensland and... Læs mere
Letting rip with a choice swear word or two has long been a very Aussie thing to do. From the defiant curses of the convicts and bullock drivers to the... Læs mere
In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large proportion of the population was engaged in illegal gambling and... Læs mere
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... Læs mere
The story of Tasmania’s most controversial forestry giant, the corruption that gave it power and the forces that brought it down. Gunns’ collapse in 2012 was a major... Læs mere
Is a multicultural approach to integration and diversity really as destructive as critics say? Have we been too quick to declare its... Læs mere