This closely woven Chinese, Irish and Australian story begins in Canton during the Opium Wars and...

After the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in 1960, sport became a fault-line in internationa...

'GALWAY: Hardiman & Beyond' is a splendid new history of the Irish city, for release in celebrati...

The first volume of this encyclopedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and lin...

Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia: Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner is the first volume ...

The second volume of this encyclopedia is a rich, authoritative repository of the cultural and li...

Like Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan thought that Europeans could reach the Far East by sailing West...

Two-up, a famous Australian soldiers' gambling game, has given Australian English many unique wor...

Fully illustrated in color and most informative, this is a personal story about spiders and arach...

'This book will save lives--human and animals.'Victoria Thompson is a passionate advocate for the...

The first months of London's Great Plague of 1665 give no hope of any improvement, only an ominou...

It is 1665 and London faces two deadly threats - the devastating plague, and dangerous rumblings ...

Dr Fanny Reading arrived in Australia in 1889 as a migrant child and felt the loneliness of the n...

For all the challenges we face in the modern world, those of us in first world democracies live l...

In Australia, clinical neurology emerged as a specialised area of medical practice a century ago,...

This is the story of two internationally famous photographers, the New Zealander George Silk and ...

The 44 essays and other pieces collected in this book range in subject from Adam Lindsay Gordon t...

It's 1476 with the sun close to setting on 700 years of Moorish rule when Boabdil, heir to the th...

A Short History of Modern Internal Medicine

Why is there a sense of unease about Australian politics? William Maley argues that a key reason ...

What happens when you handpick 30 smart, articulate teenagers from across the globe and bring the...

Serving both international good citizenship and the national interest, the Australian Federal Pol...

Intelligencer tells the extraordinary story of Australia's greatest spymaster, Walter Cawthorn. T...

The John Donne Experiment

An Island in the Lake

Lietuvyb¿ Down Under

What little we know of the life of William Shakespeare is at odds with what would be expected of ...

Doctoral Research in Art

Self-Sufficiency for a Sustainable Australian Future

The Chalkies

Raffaello! Raffaello!

Our Forgotten Volunteers

George Higinbotham and Eureka

Social Work

First Know Your Enemy

Redgrave's Ghost

Ring The Chief Justice

Little Demon

The Hum of the Wheels, The Roar of the Crowd

Crippled Immortals

Doctoral studies in music and arts education in Spain and Portugal: View and journey is the first...

Soviet Fairytales

A World of Change

The Spying Game

The Blasphemy Laws

America Looks to Australia

Famagusta Regina

From silent cinema pianist born in the Australian Bush to celebrity virtuoso entertaining Royalty...