This book brings together the work of major scholars and practitioners of Australian publishing to examine an industry facing new pressures from de...

Australia has enjoyed an unprecedented period of prosperity in recent decades, yet despite this there has been a widely reported loss of faith in p...

Rose Edouin (née Bryer) and her husband, entrepreneur and circus performer George Benjamin William Lewis, have received little attention in the his...

Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as ...

How Australians fund schooling has been a matter of bitter political, social and religious division for almost two hundred years. And it remains so...

The education of marginalised peoples and communities is a topic of great contemporary importance. Closing the Gap in Education? increases our unde...

'My journey to this book is the culmination of a long-held fascination with the history of Australia's domestic interiors. Even as a child in a rem...

East Asia is a powerhouse of economic and social development, with cultural industries that have burgeoned as countries in the region have generate...

Conceiving the Goddess is a sequel to The Iconic Female: Goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet (2008), an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia,...

Political parties have always been fundamental to Australia's representative democracy. As organisations, however, their continued centrality and l...

One of Australia's leading scholars and a highly distinguished professor of history, Marilyn Lake forged a career that spanned several decades acro...

Trust in Australia democracy has more than halved over the last decade, falling from 86% in 2007 to 41% in 2018. Part of this erosion of trust stem...

Courts aren't just there to settle divorces, sentence law-breakers and resolve corporate disputes. A healthy legal system, one that ensures access,...

The essays in this volume address one of the central issues in literary translation, namely the relationship between the creative freedom enjoyed b...

In Creativity Crisis Robert Nelson argues that university education is systematically uncreative and suggests how this might be changed. Constructi...

Across most of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the spectre of polio, but for fifty years during the twentieth century that fear...

Rarely is the public taken deep into the inner sanctum of major news organisations. In this extraordinary book, award-winning journalist John Lyons...

The Melbourne Age dominated the newspaper stage in Australia from the 1870s to the end of the colonial period. In the 1880s its circulation was far...

The Melbourne Age dominated the newspaper stage in Australia from the 1870s to the end of the colonial period. In the 1880s its circulation was far...

Graham Berry (1822-1904) was colonial Australia's most gifted, creative and controversial politician. A riveting speaker, a newspaper proprietor an...

This book challenges current thinking about education by emphasising the importance of an educational approach capable of taking account of the bac...

As is well documented, there is a distinct under-representation of girls studying computing at high school level and, correspondingly, going on to ...