Though there exist many biographical dictionaries of the achievements of Chinese people throughout history, few women feature. Since the mid-1980s,...

Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henr...

BUYING AND SELLING THE POOR ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia ...

Camouflage has been linked with military and natural history contexts, but growing interest in the connections with areas such as ecology, evolutio...

'[Turvey] is an extremely entertaining writer who has the capacity to turn what could be a relatively dry subject in scientific history into a trul...

Winner of the Walter McRae Russel Award 2021Although Christina Stead is best known for the mid-century masterpiece set in Washington D.C. and Balti...

For more than 30 years, archaeologists have recorded and studied the colonial past of Parramatta, the second-oldest European settlement in New Sout...

John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942) is Australia's great lyric poet and Collected Poems (1934), dedicated to Louise Dyer, bears his imprimatur. Encourage...

Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared - and disappeared - in Australian literature: the swagman, the l...

The concept of Community-Led Research has taken off in recent years in a variety of fields, from archaeology and anthropology to social work and ev...

Throughout the world, city planners and governments grapple with the challenges of urban planning using remarkably similar land use regimes. Yet th...

Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly ren...

COUNT YOUR DEAD is the first novel written about the Vietnam War by a professional soldier. A fictional story with drama, violence, strong characte...

Based on ten years of surveys and excavations in Nyiyaparli country in the eastern Chichester Ranges, north-west Australia, Crafting Country provid...

Most Australians are familiar with the concept of land ownership and understand the meaning of native title, which recognises Indigenous peoples' r...

The lives of non-human animals, their ways of being and seeing, their experiences and knowledge, and their relationships with each other, continue ...

Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a ding...

Longlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's History Awards for Australian History. "The patterns and designs were laid down on the country and in the min...

Are artists, designers and musicians inventors? Or does the invention originate from scientific discovery alone? Ecologies of Invention is the firs...

Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (1796-1880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem "The Aboriginal Mother," written i...

Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists a...

Humans and nonhuman animals engage with each other in a multitude of fascinating ways. They have always done so, motivated by both necessity and ch...

In Enter the Animal, Teya Brooks Pribac examines academic and popular discourse on animals' experiences of grief and spirituality, which are rooted...

'Fallen Among Reformers' focuses on Stella Miles Franklin's New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women...