Australian Studies

ISBN: 9781743791608
Title: 1787 : THE LOST CHAPTERS OF AUSTRALIAS BEGINNINGS
Author: BRODIE NICK
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

For over 200 years Australia’s official history has focused on English colonisation and ‘discovery’, with tales of British explorers and first generation white Australians navigating the vast and unfriendly land. But what of the millennia before the English claimed Australia as their own and wrote the history books. 1787 traces the journey of Australia before the infamous 1788 date, to explore just how ‘discovered’ the southern continent was by not only the Indigenous Australians who had lived and prospered for thousands of years, but also the sailors, traders, fishermen and many others who had visited our shores.

This is not about voyages of ‘discovery’, cartography, geography, or hero-captains and their sailing ship adventures. This is a bigger history—of the rise and fall of empires, the shifts in global economies, and their impact on Australia. By charting the encounters with Australia and its original people by several major groups of visitors, primarily the Portuguese, Dutch, Malay, French, and British from the late Middle Ages, 1787 reveals the stories of first encounters between Indigenous Australians and foreigners, placing Indigenous Australians back into our known history rather than a timeless pre-historical one. It’s a fascinating story that shifts focus away from post-colonial history and engages the reader in the eventful and lively stories of Australia as a vast and active land participating in a global history.

Imprint: HARDIE GRANT BOOKS
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781921421860
Title: ABORIGINAL SELF DETERMINATION : THE WHITEMANS DREAM
Author: JOHNS GARY
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

Land rights, welfare and culture have locked aborigines out of the good life. Land has become a burden, welfare has become disabling, bad behaviour is mistaken for culture. There is a way out. Aborigines must abide by the same rules as every other Australian -- seek out opportunities, study hard, and free themselves from a culture of bad behaviour.

This is in contrast to the white man’s dream of Aboriginal self-determination. This grand experiment has failed. Aborigines, especially those in remote Australia, need an exit strategy from the dream. The exit strategy outlined in this book destroys the rallying cry for culture. Instead, it shows that the way to self-determination is through individual dignity.

Imprint: CONNORCOURT
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9781743056035
Title: ADELAIDE CENTRAL MARKET : Stories People and Recipes
Author: ROBERTS FIONA / SPAIN KATIE
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Adelaide Central Market: Stories, people and recipes tells the tale of Adelaide's greatest treasure.

These pages capture the memories of traders of yesteryear and the familiar faces who make the Adelaide Central Market such a lively place today. Here you'll find delicious seasonal-driven recipes from stallholders' families, producers and chefs around the state.

Adelaide Central Market has been feeding our city, body and soul, for 150 years. This book of fabulous stories, recipes and images tells its tale, from humble beginnings to a world-renowned cultural and culinary cornucopia.

Imprint: WAKEFIELD
RRP: $79.95

ISBN: 9781742232201
Title: ADELAIDE REMEMBER WHEN - 2NDHAND
Author: BYRNE BOB
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

Remember childhood visits to the Adelaide Zoo with a ride in the elephant cart? School lunches and a glass bottle of sun-warmed milk? spending Saturday night at Downtown or Tilt to play arcade games or go rollerskating? rides at Magic Mountain or Dazzleland, dances at local clubs with local bands, early TV shows and sleeping on the lawn on a hot Adelaide summer night?
Adelaide Remember When is the city we remember, in pictures and words. The best of Bob Byrne's hit Facebook page and much more, Adelaide Remember When is a bumper book that shows us bits of Adelaide we've forgotten, local identities and landmarks we loved and reminds us that the best parts of the city haven't changed.

Imprint: NEW SOUTH
RRP: $18.00

ISBN: 9781643167947
Title: ADELAIDE SPORTING SITES
Author: WHIMPRESS BERNARD / CARUSO SANTO
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

An illustrated history of present and past sporting sites around Adelaide including such places as Adelaide Oval, Football Park, Memorial Drive, Rowley Park Speedway, Hindmarsh Stadium, Morphetville Racecourse, Mallala, Oakbank, the parklands, the Torrens and Port rivers, the metropolitan beaches and many more.

Imprint: CONSIGNMENT STOCK
RRP: $40.00

ISBN: 9780522875935
Title: ADVANCING AUSTRALIA : Ideas for a Better Country
Author: DUNN AMANDA
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: July 2019 New Release

Politics in Australia is in a dire state. The Coalition government is led by its third prime minister in four years, two of whom were toppled by their own party. Before that, the Labor government ousted two prime ministers. Voters' trust in politicians is at an all-time low, there is policy inertia on key issues, and ideology and internal politics too often trump good government.


We have the diagnosis, but what's the cure? In this collection of essays, the country's best academic minds look at the key issues and chart a way forward. They examine how Australia's taxation system could be fairer; the priorities in progressing Indigenous Australians' rights; the absurdity of the constant 'left versus right' debate; how to fix private health insurance; and how to settle the conflict between population and migration policies.


Here are innovative and bold ideas to advance Australia.

Imprint: MELBOURNE UNI PRESS
RRP: $19.99

ISBN: 9781863957380
Title: AFTER THE BLAST : AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Author: CALLENDER GARTH
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A very Australian story of heroism and healing.

In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles through the streets of Baghdad and into the desert beyond. But one morning his crew was targeted in a roadside bomb attack. Garth became Australia's first serious casualty in the war.

After recovering from his injuries, Garth returned to Iraq in 2006 as second-in-command of the Australian Army's security detachment in Baghdad. He found a city in the grip of a rising insurgency. His unit had to contend with missile attacks, suicide bombers and the death by misadventure of one of their own, Private Jake Kovco.

Determined to prevent the kinds of bomb attacks that left him scarred, Garth volunteered once more in 2009 – to lead a weapons intelligence team in Afghanistan. He was helicoptered to blast zones in the aftermath of attacks, and worked to identify the insurgent bomb-makers responsible.

Revealing, moving, funny and full of drama, Garth Callender's story is one of a kind.

Imprint: BLACK INC
RRP: $29.99

ISBN: 9780702253539
Title: ALL FALL DOWN
Author: CONDON MATTHEW
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK

The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's best-selling true-crime trilogy.

In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from illegal gambling, prostitution and illicit drugs. As the tentacles of this fraudulent vice network spread, the fabric holding together the police, judiciary and political system starts to unravel. All Fall Down offers an unprecedented insight into the Fitzgerald Inquiry and Lewis's subsequent years in prison, and explores the real story behind the dramatic exit of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Drawing from interviews with key players who have, until now, been afraid to speak publicly, All Fall Down celebrates the bravery of those unsung heroes who risked everything to expose the truth.

This epic trilogy provides the definitive account of an unforgettable period in Queensland's history. The devastating consequences of those decades of corruption still reverberate today.

Imprint: UNI OF QUEENSLAND PRESS
RRP: $32.99

ISBN: 9780143789963
Title: ANY ORDINARY DAY : What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life?
Author: SALES LEIGH
Format: TRADE PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next?

In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who've faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she instead finds strength, hope, even humour. Leigh brilliantly condenses the cutting-edge research on the way the human brain processes fear and grief, and poses the questions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own challenges and what she's learned about coping with life's unexpected blows.

Warm, candid and empathetic, this book is about what happens when ordinary people, on ordinary days, are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don't know we have.

Imprint: HAMISH HAMILTON
RRP: $34.99

ISBN: 9781742667232
Title: ANZAC TREASURES : THE GALLIPOLI COLLECTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
Author: PEDERSEN PETER
Format: HARD COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

A beautifully produced, lavishly illustrated commemorative volume drawing on the Memorial's unique collection of Gallipoli-related objects, photographs, artworks, diaries, letters, maps and personal memorabilia.

This landmark publication commemorates the centenary of the Great War's Gallipoli campaign, 25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916. ANZAC Treasures approaches the subject of Gallipoli not only from a military perspective but also in terms of its social impact and its role in commemoration and nation building. It does so through the Memorial's immensely rich and varied National Collection, which provides a tangible link to ANZAC and gives an unparalleled insight into its many facets. The legend and reality of ANZAC are encapsulated within the relics, photographs, artworks, documentary records, personal diaries and letters that are displayed to dramatic and moving effect in a beautifully designed and produced commemorative volume.

Imprint: MURDOCH BOOKS
RRP: $69.99

ISBN: 9781760641009
Title: ARE WE ASIAN YET? : History Vs Geography : Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 5
Author: PEARLMAN JONATHAN
Format: PAPER COVER
Publishing status: ACTIVE TITLE

The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's struggle to define its place in Asia as it balances its historic ties to the West with its geography. Are We Asian Yet? explores Australia's changing population, outlook and identity as it adjusts to the Asian Century. David Walker- 'Great Australian divide- The Western outpost faces the Asian century- Linda Jaivin- 'As China rises, can its culture conquer the world?- 'The view from Asia- Can Australia be one of us?- 'Migrant flows- The new Australians and the nation's changing identity? PlusSix feature reviews by journalists Correspondence on AFA4- Defending Australia

Imprint: BLACK INC
RRP: $22.99