Publications
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Peopled Landscapes (Terra Australis 34)
(2012)
This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia, ...
Julia 2010: The caretaker election
(2012)
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of one of Australia’s most historic elections, which produced a hung parliament and a carefully crafted minority government that remains a heartbeat away from collapse, as well ...
The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat Among Javanese Muslims
(2006)
Cirebon; Rituals; Islam; Muslims; Indonesia
Islamising Indonesian
(2008)
The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is the most interesting phenomenon in contemporary Indonesian politics. Not only is it growing rapidly in membership and electoral support, it is also bringing a new and markedly different ...
Islands of Turmoil
(2006)
Politics and government; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Fiji
Journey of a book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things
(2007)
De proprietatibus rerum, ‘On the properties of things’, has long been referred to by scholars as a medieval encyclopedia, but evidence suggests that it has been many things to many people. The sheer number of extant ...
A Kind of Mending
(2010)
With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fertile environment for developing new approaches to crime and conflict. Interactions between formal justice systems and ...
Japan's Future in East Asia and the Pacific
(2007)
Japan’s Future in East Asia and the Pacific takes a ’big-picture‘ approach to Japan’s economic place in East Asia alongside that of China. It analyses Japan’s successes and experiments in trade policy as well as its failures ...
El lago espanol
(2006)
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Altered Ecologies
(2010)
Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging ...
In the Eye of the Storm
(2010)
To read this evocative book is to be thrust into a Fiji that has, for the moment, been snuffed out by military might: a Fiji of political parties, parliamentary politics, elections, manifestoes, campaigns, democractic ...
The Future of Audit
(2010)
At a time when increased independence requirements for auditors, legal backing for auditing standards, and increased audit documentation requirements have occurred, this book examines key issues in the market for audit ...
Anomie and Violence
(2010)
Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia ...
Himalayan Dreaming
(2010)
How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s ...
China - Linking Markets for Growth
(2007)
China’s prosperity is at the core of the emerging Platinum Age of global economic growth. Rapid economic growth has been underpinned by expansion in its domestic markets, and the integration of domestic and international ...
Changing South-Pacific
(2008)
The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations ...
Asian Socialism and Legal Change
(2005)
Law and socialism; Socialism; Law reform; China; Vietnam
Agriculture and Food Security in China
(2008)
China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had profound consequences for the structure of its economy, and there will many more before the full benefits of an open trading regime will be realised. Agriculture ...
Experiments in Modern Living: Scientists' Houses in Canberra 1950-1970
(2012)
When a group of brilliant young scientists arrived in Australia’s national capital after World War II to take up leading roles in the establishment of national research institutions, they commissioned Australia’s leading ...
Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences: Strengthening the Prohibition of Biological Weapons
(2010)
At the start of the twenty-first century, warnings have been raised in some quarters about how – by intent or by mishap – advances in biotechnology and related fields could aid the spread of disease. Science academics, ...
Dislocating the Frontier
(2006)
History; Frontier; Pioneer life; Australia
Does History Matter?: Making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand
(2009)
This volume of essays represents the first systematic attempt to explore the use of the past in the making of citizenship and immigration policy in Australia and New Zealand. Focussing on immigration and citizenship policy ...
Directions in Australian Electoral Reform: Professionalism and Partisanship in Electoral Management
(2012)
Australia has a proud history of being an international leader in electoral administration, and Australian electoral commissions continue to have a professional, non-partisan approach to the management of elections. Yet ...
Double Vision - Asian Accounts of Australia
(2011)
Do Australians care about what their Asian neighbours think of them — and does it matter if they don’t? This collection of essays reveals that admiration for Australia is not widespread, particularly among Japanese and ...
Fiducial Governance: An Australian republic for the new millennium
(2010)
Fiducial Governance: An Australian republic for the new millennium represents an attempt to grapple with the challenges of designing governance regimes suited to the new millennium. Power’s monograph asserts the need for ...
E-engagement: A guide for Public Sector Managers
(2007)
Over the last twenty years, advanced communication technologies have become pervasive throughout Western society. These technologies have not only revolutionised the delivery of public and private services, they have shaped ...
The Dilemmas of Engagement
(2009)
‘Consultation’ has become something of a mantra in contemporary governance. Governments well understand that policy occurs in a highly contestable environment in which there are multiple, and often competing interests. ...
Now is the Psychological Moment'
(2020)
Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880–1961) – surgeon, Country Party leader, treasurer and prime minister – was perhaps the most extraordinary visionary to hold high public office in twentieth-century Australia. Over decades, ...
A Bridge Between
(2020)
This sensitive account of Spanish Benedictine women at an Aboriginal mission in Western Australia is poignant and disturbing. Notable for its ecumenical spirit, depth of research and deep engagement with the subject, A ...
Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons
(2020)
Imprisoned people have always been vulnerable and in need of human rights protections. The slow but steady growth in the protection of imprisoned people's rights over recent decades in Australia has mostly come from ...
The Bible in Buffalo Country
(2020)
Arriving in the remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) in 1925, Alf and Mary Dyer aimed to bring Christ to a former buffalo shooting camp and an Aboriginal population many whites considered ...
'We Are All Here to Stay'
(2020)
In 2007, 144 UN member states voted to adopt a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US were the only members to vote against it. Each eventually changed its position. This ...
Unequal Lives
(2021)
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western ...
The China Alternative
(2021)
In this collection, 17 leading scholars based in Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and China analyse key dimensions of the changing relationship between China ...
Australian Travellers in the South Seas
(2021)
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how ...
Traversing the Divide
(2021)
While devoting fine attention to the stuff of everyday life, Deborah Cass was also a brilliant scholar. Although the deep sense of loss and sadness at Deborah's death remains, it is wonderful to have her writings as a ...
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19
(2021)
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late ...
Britain's Second Embassy to China
(2021)
Lord Amherst's diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects ...
At Home in Exile
(2021)
This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family’s search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous ...
Refugee Journeys
(2021)
Refugee Journeys presents stories of how governments, the public and the media have responded to the arrival of people seeking asylum, and how these responses have impacted refugees and their lives. Mostly covering the ...
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 ...