Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his ...

Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he en...

17 September 2011 will mark 10 years exactly since the formal opening of the Monash University Prato Centre, Monash Universitys teaching and resear...

In honour of Alberta's Centenary year, The Albertans profiles 100 individuals from our province who have either made a significant contribution to ...

An Imperial Affair, by awardwinning author John Rickard, takes us into the marriage of an Australian couple during a time when private lives were p...

Books of Mana celebrates the rich tradition of Māori authorship in Aotearoa New Zealand. It reveals the central place of over 200 years of print li...

A full-colour portrait of Canada's curling giants--Randy Ferbey, Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer and Marcel Rocque--winners of three world championship...

It was not by chance nor by a trick of fate that Javier Mariátegui dedicated himself to gardening. He grew up among gardens. Both his grandmothers ...

The word khan is not a name, but a title. It means chieftain or king. It is a word used in various forms by the different tribes and nations that f...

Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the...

Manchester in the late 1960s and early 1970s revolved around the exploits of one man -- George Best. At his side throughout this exciting period wa...

Given the focus on foreign affairs and national security following 9/11, it is easy to overlook the domestic and economic legacies of the George W....

The George W Bush Presidency reshaped American politics through its policies and its use of executive power. This volume engages fundamental debate...

While candidate George W. Bush promised a humble foreign policy, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks President Bush implemented a highly...

The life of Washington reveals to us the state of society in our land, the manners and customs of the people, their joys and griefs, one hundred ye...

This book packs the wallop of a .30-30 rifle. Legendary hunting guide Gerry Bracewell recounts tales of extraordinary toughness and perseverance in...

When Giacomo Meyerbeer died in 1864 at the age of seventy-two, he was widely regarded as having written the greatest operas since Mozart. And yet, ...

My brother officers. Are they human? Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of...

Suniti Namjoshi grew up between the rich and the poor, between the ruling house of the Ranisaheb and the servant woman Goja, between the East of ex...

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn’t know she would be facing a constant battle with cold,...

Michael Gomez was a talented featherweight with the world at his feet but his meteoric rise was derailed by his activities outside the ring. Yet he...

Knitting is a booming pastime enjoying a resurgence of interest, spawning books, movies, a brisk online trade in wool and knitted goods -- even tra...