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Melbourne University Publishing Keeper of the Faith A Biography of Jim Cairns
This biography of former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Jim Cairns journeys through the events that shaped contemporary Australia, offering a portrait of both the inner man and his public career.
£36.38
Melbourne University Publishing Facing Race White Australian Converts to Islam Islamic Studies
Explores the lived experiences of thirty-six white Australian converts to Islam, in a national context where Islam is cast in opposition to the white Australian nation. Oishee Alam details how racialisation is reproduced and experienced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
£62.23
Melbourne University Publishing The First World War the Universities and the Professions in Australia 19141939
Examines how the technical and conceptual advances that occurred during World War I transformed Australian society. It traces the evolving role of universities and their graduates in the 1920s and 1930s, the increasing government validation of research, the expansion of the public service, and the rise of modern professional associations and international networks.
£64.22
Melbourne University Publishing JB Chifley
Reveals the extraordinary convergence of worldviews of two fellow internationalists, former Australian Prime Minister JB Chifley and Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Both believed in the need to adjust to a changing post-colonial world, their support for the United Nations, and their anti-war attitudes.
£64.22
Melbourne University Publishing Unfinished Business Life of a Senator
Derryn Hinch made headlines in 2016 when he went from media personality to Victorian Senator at the head of a new political party and made a lasting impact on the political landscape. This is an unflinchingly honest account of his last two years as a senator, before he lost his seat in the 2019 election.
£42.23
Melbourne University Publishing Edward Said The Legacy of a Public Intellectual Academic Monographs
Offers a critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. This book addresses an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre.
£38.66
Melbourne University Publishing On Artists
The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliché that has forgiven bad behaviour for years: to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. But if we denounce the artist, then what becomes of the work that remains?
£16.30
Melbourne University Publishing Speaking Up Signed by Gillian Triggs
As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She has withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny. Speaking Up shares the values that have guided her convictions and the causes she has championed. She dares women to be a little vulgar and men to move beyond their comfort zones to achieve equity for all.
£43.23
Melbourne University Publishing Whitlams Children
Offers the first systematic study of the Labor and Greens relationship in Australia, examining its history, experience in government, and prospects for the future. Based on over forty interviews with party figures - including leaders and senior ministers - the book asks a number of pressing questions about the relationship.
£57.24
Melbourne University Publishing Not Completely Divorced Muslim Women in Australia Navigating Muslim Family Laws
Based on in-depth research with divorced Muslim women, community leaders and local religious authorities, this book reveals the complexities facing Muslim women in negotiating family expectations, cultural norms and traditional Islamic laws.
£50.22
Melbourne University Publishing Educating Australia Challenges for the decade ahead
Where is Australian schooling headed? What forces will shape its future direction? How ready are students, teachers, policy makers and education institutions for the challenges being thrust on them? In this edited collection, these questions are addressed by some of Australia's leading education researchers, practitioners and policy entrepreneurs.
£62.23
Melbourne University Publishing The Waterlow Killings A Portrait of a Family Tragedy
Anthony Waterlow left his run-down boarding house at 4.45 pm on Monday 11 November 2009. By 6 pm, the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home: his sister Chloe's in Randwick. He left behind her slaughtered body and that of their father. The Waterlow Tragedy delves beneath the public face of a successful and affluent family, to reveal the secrets and tensions that many of their closest friends could not have guessed.
£27.28
Melbourne University Publishing The Porn Book
Draws on wide-ranging empirical research to show the production, distribution and consumption of pornography, its content, its consumers and the public debates within which people make sense of it. This title provides insight into the everyday uses of pornography by ordinary consumers, and the place of pornography in society.
£31.27
Melbourne University Publishing The Conversation Yearbook 2018
Australia's leading thinkers give their robust opinion on the arguments and issues that fuelled public debate in 2018. This collection of essays brings you the best of the authoritative journalism for which The Conversation is renowned. Immerse yourself in the insights of experts and navigate the key questions of our times.
£27.28
Melbourne University Publishing ISS 15 Family Law and Australian Muslim Women
Presents essays that identify the multitude of ways in which Australian Muslim women negotiate both Australian Family Law and Islamic Family Law in the key areas of marriage, divorce, child custody, property settlement and inheritance. The book also provides a timely insight into the legal, cultural and social processes that Australian Muslim women use when disputes in these areas arise.
£38.66
Melbourne University Publishing Proximity and Distance Space Time and World War I
The global magnitude of World War I has meant that proximity and distance were highly influential in the ways the conflict was conducted, and how it was experienced at tactical, political and emotional levels. This book explores how participants and observers in World War I negotiated the temporal and spatial challenges of the conflict.
£62.23
Melbourne University Publishing When Galaxies Collide
The Andromeda Galaxy is rushing towards us at 400,000 kilometres an hour. When Galaxies Collide will guide you to look at the night sky afresh. It peers 5.86 billion years into the future to consider the fate of Earth. Will the solution be to live in space without a planet to call home? Will one of the other 100 billion planets spawn life?
£27.28
Melbourne University Publishing Sex Crimes In The Fifties
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has given national consciousness to the problematic treatment of sexual assault in Australia’s past. Yet we still have little knowledge of the policing, prosecution and punishment of sexual crimes in the past. Sex Crimes in the Fifties examines this history by investigating Australia in the 1950s.
£62.23
Melbourne University Publishing Australia And The Great War Identity Memory and Mythology
The events of the Great War intensified the relationship between the British Empire and Australia; the legacy can still be felt today. This volume explores both the immediate and long-term consequences of the war on this complex relationship, looking in particular at identity, history, gender, propaganda, economics and nationalism.
£57.24
