Publications
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Forts and Fortification in Wallacea
(2020)
This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and ...
Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia
(2020)
Histories of the colonisation of Australia have recognised distinct periods or eras in the colonial relationship: 'protection' and ‘assimilation’. It is widely understood that, in 1973, the Whitlam Government initiated a ...
Goodna Girls
(2020)
Goodna Girls tells the story of children incarcerated in Wolston Park Hospital, an adult psychiatric facility in Queensland, Australia. It contains the personal testimonies of women who relate—in their own no-holds-barred ...
Communicating Science
(2020)
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science ...
Collaboration for Impact
(2020)
Collaboration is often seen as a palliative for the many wicked problems challenging our communities. These problems affect some of the most vulnerable and unempowered people in our community. They also carry significant ...
Like Fire
(2021)
Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his ...
The Visnu Purana
(2021)
Viṣṇu is a central deity in the Hindu pantheon, especially in his manifestation as the seductive cattle-herding youth, Kṛṣṇa. The purāṇas are sacred texts, which, as the Sanskrit name implies, are collections of narratives ...
Politics, Policy and Public Administration in Theory and Practice
(2021)
This festschrift celebrates the extensive contribution John Wanna has made to the research and practice of politics, policy and public administration. It includes both personal acknowledgements of his work and substantial ...
Intermediate Ancient Greek Language
(2021)
Intermediate Ancient Greek Language is a series of Lessons and Exercises intended for students who have already covered most of an introductory course in the ancient Greek language. It aims to broaden and deepen students' ...
Crisis
(2021)
The year 2020 was marked by a series of rolling crises. The Australian wildfires at the start of the year were a catastrophic sign of the global climate crisis. Xi Jinping's announcement in September that the People’s ...
Learning Policy, Doing Policy
(2021)
When it comes to policymaking, public servants have traditionally learned 'on the job', with practical experience and tacit knowledge valued over theory-based learning and academic analysis. Yet increasing numbers of public ...
Cooperative Evolution
(2021)
Cooperative Evolution offers a fresh account of evolution consistent with Charles Darwin's own account of a cooperative, inter-connected, buzzing and ever-changing world. Told in accessible language, treating evolutionary ...
Xinjiang Year Zero
(2022)
Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in 'reeducation camps' in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region. While the official reason ...
A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy
(2022)
In 1975, M.R. Kurkrit Pramoj met Mao Zedong, marking the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations and a discursive rupture with the previous narrative of Communist powers as an existential threat. This book critically ...
Honouring a Nation
(2022)
The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system's transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution. From the extension ...
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society
(2022)
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society brings to the reader anthropologist Marie Reay's field research from the 1950s and 1960s on women’s lives in the Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. ...
Australian Economic History
(2022)
In a time of pandemics, war and climate change, fostering knowledge that transcends disciplinary boundaries is more important than ever. Economic history is one of the world's oldest interdisciplinary fields, with its ...
Capital and Inequality in Rural Papua New Guinea
(2022)
That large-scale capital drives inequality in states like Papua New Guinea is clear enough; how it does so is less clear. This edited collection presents studies of the local contexts of capital-intensive projects in the ...
Rethinking Social Media and Extremism
(2022)
Terrorism, global pandemics, climate change, wars and all the major threats of our age have been targets of online extremism. The same social media occupying the heartland of our social world leaves us vulnerable to ...
Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative
(2023)
Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture,
encapsulating and perpetuating insights and values central to Indian thought and
practice. This volume brings together eighteen ...
Return to Volcano Town
(2023)
Wally Johnson and Neville Threlfall re-examine the explosive
volcanic eruptions that in 1937–43 killed more than 500 people in the Rabaul
area of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. ...
After the Coup
(2023)
The coup in Myanmar on 1 February 2021 abruptly reversed a
decade-long flirtation with economic and political freedoms. The country has
since descended into civil war, the people ...
Adapting for Inertia
(2023)
Despite much learning and research over many decades, large ICT
software projects have continued to experience poor outcomes or fallen short of
original expectations—some spectacularly ...
Memory in Place
(2023)
Memory in Place brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous
scholars and practitioners grappling with the continued potency of memories and
experiences of colonialism. While many ...
The Road to Batemans Bay
(2023)
The Road to Batemans Bay is the story of competing ventures to
create 'the Great Southern Township' on the South Coast of New South
Wales in the early 1840s. The idea of developing ...
The Compleat Busoni, Volume 1
(2023)
VOLUME 1: Busoni and the piano: The works, the writings, and
the recordings. Larry Sitsky, professor emeritus at The Australian National
University, is an internationally known ...
Sisters in Peace
(2023)
Is preparing for war the best means of preserving peace? In
Sisters in Peace, Kate Laing contends that this question has never been solely
the concern of politicians and strategists. ...
Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity
(2023)
Resisting Indonesia's Culture of Impunity examines the
role of Indonesia’s first truth and reconciliation commission—the Aceh Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, or KKR Aceh—in ...
A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong
(2023)
In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for
Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular
Service. He would stay for almost 40 ...
Subjects and Aliens
(2023)
Subjects and Aliens confronts the problematic history of
belonging in Australia and New Zealand. In both countries, race has often been
more important than the law in determining who ...
Grassroots Law in Papua New Guinea
(2023)
The introduction of village courts in Papua New Guinea in 1975
was an ambitious experiment in providing semi-formal legal access to the
country's overwhelmingly rural population. ...
The Compleat Busoni, Volume 2
(2023)
VOLUME 2: Busoni's other music: A complete survey. Larry
Sitsky, professor emeritus at The Australian National University, is an
internationally known composer, pianist, scholar, and ...
The Compleat Busoni, Volume 3
(2023)
VOLUME 3: I. Ending to Dr. Faust II. Definitive version of the
Fantasia Contrappuntistica for two pianos III. Concerto for Orchestra:
Completion and orchestration of the Fantasia ...
Watershed
(2023)
Australia's 2022 federal election played out in ways that
few could have expected. Not only did it bring a change of government; it also
saw the lowest number of primary votes for ...
Southern Limestones under Western Eyes
(2023)
Science, the growth of reliable knowledge, became a major
triumph of the European Enlightenment in the seventeenth century, under the
guise of 'natural philosophy': investigating ...
China between Peace and War
(2023)
In China between Peace and War, Victor S. C. Cheng explores the
gripping history of peace talks and international negotiations from 1945 to 1947
that helped determine the shape of ...
A Grammar of Nese
(2023)
Nese is a dying Oceanic language spoken on the island of
Malekula, in northern Vanuatu. This book, based on first-hand fieldwork data,
and without adhering to any particular syntactic ...
Dilemmas in Public Management in Greater China and Australia
(2023)
This book draws on more than a decade of workshops organised by the Greater China Australia Dialogue on Public Administration, involving scholars and practitioners from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia. ...
'Order, Order!'
(2023)
Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representativesshines a first-ever historical light on the remarkable men and women who have served in these ...
The Australian Constitution and National Identity
(2023)
What does Australia's Constitution say about national identity? A conventional answer might be 'not much’. Yet recent constitutional controversies raise issues about the recognition of First Peoples, the place of migrants ...