The Orontes Valley in western Syria is a land 'in between', positioned between the small trading centres of the coast and the huge urban agglomerat...

A Life for Animals is the story of a life devoted to a radical idea: that animals should be treated with dignity and respect. Christine Townend fou...

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Academic Writing Is ... demystifies many of the practices of academic writing for students in an Australian university. This is an indispensable gu...

ALEX MILLER: THE RUIN OF TIME is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels. While these books ar...

Macbeth is often read in a singular fashion: either as a cautionary morality tale warning against ambition, or as a psychological study of evil. In...

Zooarchaeology has emerged as a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, z...

Zooarchaeology has emerged as a powerful way of reconstructing the lives of past societies. Through the analysis of animal bones found on a site, z...

ANIMAL DREAMS collects David Brooks' thought-provoking essays about how humans think, dream and write about other species. Brooks examines how anim...

Peter J. Li’s pathbreaking new book, Animal Welfare in China, is timely and valuable. ANTHROZOÖSThe issue of animal welfare has attracted attention...

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Much of the discussion on the Anthropocene has centred upon anthropogenic global warming and climate change, and the urgency of political and socia...

. The original PhD is frequently acknowledged as a foundation for international scholarship on the archaeology of the "overseas Chinese". It has lo...

Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond was co-published with the University of Hawai'i Press. It is also available in open access through t...

Art and Reality is a collection of general theoretical reflections and particular critical studies, in which John Anderson asserts the essential ro...

Australia is at a much-needed turning point in work, care and family policy. Australian women, families and communities are struggling to manage th...

The essays in Australia and the Wider World bring together a lasting contribution to the story of Australia and the history of ideas in this countr...

Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia...

Shortlisted for the Walter McRae Russel Award 2019Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s explores how Australian writ...

Around the world, democracies have seen a decline in social and political trust. Australian Social Attitudes IV: The Age of Insecurity is an in-dep...

Reshapes the current public and academic conversations about higher education policy and practice to determine what is ‘good’ higher education poli...

Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal Archaeology in South-eastern Australia explores Indigenous archaeology around the Murray River.

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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...