Publications
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Viet Nam - a transition tiger?
(2004)
Economic conditions; Economic policy; Vietnam
Troubled Waters: Confronting the Water Crisis in Australia's Cities
(2008)
Australian cities have traditionally relied for their water on a ‘predict-and-provide’ philosophy that gives primacy to big engineering solutions. In more recent years privatised water authorities, seeking to maximise ...
Talking and Listening edited
(2007)
Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin’s injunction ...
The Spanish Lake
(2004)
Discovery; Exploration; Civilization; Economic conditions; European influences; History; Spain; Latin america; Pacific area
Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land
(2006)
Ethnology; Southeast asia; Oceania
Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times
(2010)
This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited ...
Security and Privacy
(2011)
This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology – electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling – in the context of transnational crime and global ...
Soeharto's New Order and its Legacy
(2010)
Indonesia’s President Soeharto led one of the most durable and effective authoritarian regimes of the second half of the twentieth century. Yet his rule ended in ignominy, and much of the turbulence and corruption of the ...
Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media
(2009)
Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media presents a systematic treatment of the interaction of seismic waves with Earth structure. The theoretical development is physically based and is closely tied to the nature of ...
The Social Effects of Native Title
(2007)
The papers in this collection reflect on the various social effects of native title. In particular, the authors consider the ways in which the implementation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth), and the native title process ...