Publications
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The Eye of the Crocodile
(2012)
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s
Following the Sun: The pioneering years of solar energy research at The Australian National University 1970—2005
(2012)
In 1970 a small group of physicists at The Australian National University decided to veer away from the accepted and expected directions in energy research and pursued the emerging discipline of solar energy. Over the next ...
TA 30 - Archaeological Science Under a Microscope
(2009)
These highly varied studies, spanning the world, demonstrate how much modern analyses of microscopic traces on artifacts are altering our perceptions of the past. Ranging from early humans to modern kings, from ancient ...
Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands
(2011)
The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued ...
Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories
(2007)
This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. The underlying theme is that of ‘transgression’, and Michel Foucault’s account of the ...
Struggling for the Umma
(2006)
Politics and government; Islam; Community leadership; Ulama; Java; Indonesia
State, Communities and Forests in Contemporary Borneo
(2006)
Forests; Forestry; Policy; Community; Management; Land use; Borneo
Timing is Everything
(2009)
This book identifies the critical factors that shaped and influenced New Zealand’s defence acquisition decision-making processes from the election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984 and the subsequent ANZUS crisis, ...
Tracking Rural Change
(2009)
A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population ...
An Uneasy Relationship
(2010)
The situation of Norfolk Island, as a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, is one of the historical anomalies in governance, which has persisted since 1914. It reflects the direct historical linkages between the ...