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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 ...