Books from ANU E Press
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A Vision for Change: AD Patel and the Politics of Fiji
By Brij V. Lal"Dr Lal's book is more than an eloquent account of the political struggle of one of Fiji's outstanding leaders.
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APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy
By Peter Drysdale, Ligang Song, Zhang Yunling"This book assembles papers that were produced under a three year collaborative research program on 'China and APEC' undertaken by the AustraliaJapan Research Centre, in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at The Australian ...
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Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives
By James F. Weiner, Katie Glaskinof non-indigenous planning and land management entities. ... and having a capacity to subsume any politicisation and power politics within the native title group. ... Holding Title and Managing Land in Cape York.
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The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence
By Frances Morphy, Benjamin Richard SmithWhile it might be useful to incorporate such a consideration in the constitution for the PBC or land trust for the ... As for the claimant group for the Batavia claim, the processes of the Cape York Land Council and the native title ...
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Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography
By James J. Fox, Clifford SatherRutherford, Noel 1971 Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 1977 George Tupou I and Shirley Baker. In N. Rutherford (ed.) Friendly Islands: a history. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
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Green Carbon Part 1: The Role of Natural Forests in Carbon Storage
By Sandra L. Berry, Brendan Mackey, Heather KeithThe colour of carbon matters.
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China. Linking Markets for Growth: Linking Markets for Growth
By Ross Garnaut, Ligang SongCHINA: LINKING MARKETS FOR GROWTH gathers together leading scholars on Chinas economic success and its effect on the world economy into the next few decades.
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Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices
By Paul 't Hart, John UhrSo, no amount of 'dressing-for-success' or finding the right height of shoe heel (too high=sexually available, too flat=lesbian or feminist) will necessarily imbue an image of leadership. A different way forward may lie in leaders — of ...
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Chalo Jahaji: On a Journey Through Indenture in Fiji
By Brij V. Lal“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or ...
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A Time Bomb Lies Buried: Fiji's Road to Independence, 1960-1970
By Brij V. Lal65 The Federation Party protested against the characterisation of the Indo-Fijians as an 'immigrant' community — with all ... Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the 20th Century, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, pp.
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Rising China: Global Challenges and Opportunities
By Ligang Song, Jane GolleyThe book delves into these issues to reflect upon the wide range of opportunities and challenges that have emerged in the context of a rising China.
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Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam
By Hirofumi Matsumura, Marc F. Oxenham, Nguyen Kim DungThis book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context.
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The Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things
By Elizabeth KeenWhat was it about the work that propelled it through a progression of medieval cultures and into an exalted position in the world of English letters?
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Introducing China: The World's Oldest Great Power Charts Its Next Comeback
By Ronald HuiskenChina's transformation has been patiently, methodically and very deliberately constructed by a leadership group that has equally carefully protected its monopoly on power. Today's China is proceeding with great seriousness...
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Fiji Before the Storm: Elections and the Politics of Development
By Brij V. LalAlthough I understood that the Fiji Labour Party-National Federation Party coalition had won the 1987 general election fairly under the rules, that was not a matter that weighed much in the thinking of the leaders of the Taukei movement ...
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What's Changing: Population Size Or Land-use Patterns?: The Archaeology of Upper Mangrove Creek, Sydney Basin
By Val AttenbrowLate Pleistocene economies of the French Pyrenees. In G. Bailey (ed.), Hunter-Gatherer Economy in Prehistory: A European Perspective, pp. 168–86. Cambridge University Press. Bailey, G. N. 1983a. Concepts of time in Quaternary prehistory ...
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I Succeeded Once: The Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula, 1839-1840
By Marie Hansen FelsThere were two schooners named Defiance running up and down the east coast of Australia in the 1830s, ... which left Launceston on 18 August.83 Every voyage up and down the coast can be tracked as this other vessel named Defiance plied ...
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Migration and Transnationalism: Pacific Perspectives
By Helen Lee, Steve Tupai FrancisHer publications include Becoming Tongan: An ethnography of childhood (Helen Morton, University of Hawai'i Press) and Tongans overseas: Between two shores (University of Hawai'i Press). Her current work is on second generation Tongan ...
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Directions in Australian Electoral Reform: Professionalism and Partisanship in Electoral Management
By Norm KellyThis book assesses Australian electoral reforms of the past 30 years using personal interview data and parliamentary debates, to provide a picture of the reform process as well as the outcomes.
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Ethics and Auditing
By Tom Campbell, Keith A. Houghtonmay create additional tensions with the objective of converging with international auditing standards. Finally, auditing standards boards have traditionally undertaken broader agendas than only setting financial statement auditing ...