Books from Melbourne Univ. Publishing

  • The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
    By Peter Beinart

    ... many years been a cherished professional and personal guide. In addition, I worked on this project with three remarkable recent college graduates, who served, in succession, as my research assistants. The first was William Evans, ...

  • Triumph and Demise: The broken promise of a Labor generation
    By Paul Kelly

    ... 461 on time in Opposition 60–1 as treasurer 470 Bowles, Martin 398 Boyce, Sue 265 Bracks, Steve 224,434 Bradbury, David 379 Bradley, Graham 322, 440–1 Brandis, George 252,253,257, 264,393, 407 Briggs, Jamie 112,113, 115, 118 Brown, ...

  • On Passion
    By Dorothy Porter

    Her poems were copiously copied and performed by professional singers all over the Greek world. In her own time she was famous, much like a modern internationally celebrated singer-songwriter such as Joni Mitchell ...

  • The Shop: The University of Melbourne, 1850-1939
    By Richard Joseph Wheeler Selleck

    Packer , John S. , The First Fifty Years : The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering , University of ... Perry , Warren , The School of Mines and Industries Ballarat : A History of Its First One Hundred and Tielve Years ...

  • Cultural Studies Review: Homefronts
    By Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke

    ... Todd Russell Story, Pier 9 (Murdoch Books), Millers Point, 2006, p. 317. 3. Alison Caldwell, 'TV Networks Battle for Miners' Story', PM, ABC Online, . 4.

  • The Protection of Employee Entitlements in Insolvency: An Australian Perspective
    By Helen Anderson

    Despite the short time for its consideration and despite the committee only being able to conduct one public hearing on the Bill, Senator Grant Chapman, the chair of the committee, said that 'the committee believes that it received the ...

  • A New Kid on the Block: The University of South Australia in the Unified National System
    By Alison Mackinnon

    Interview with Frank O'Neil, 23 July 2015. UASA Special General Meeting, 8 June 1989, Motion 3, University of Adelaide Council Files. Standing Committee of the Senate, 9 June 1989, University of Adelaide Council Files.

  • Inside Kevin07: The People, the Plan, the Prize
    By Christine Jackman

    Indigenous leader Noel Pearson landed his first official job working for Rudd after he was invited by Goss to serve on the government's land rights taskforce, while still a promising law student at the University of Sydney.

  • Minority Policy: Rethinking governance when parliament matters
    By Richard Denniss, Brenton Prosser

    ... Archive/CIB/cib0203/03CIB01 (accessed 27 July 2014). Macionis, J and Gerber, L (2010). Sociology, 7th edn, Toronto, Pearson. Maddison, S and Denniss, R (2009). An Introduction to Australian Public Policy: ...

  • Stepping Up to the Plate: America, and Australian Democracy
    By Graham Maddox

    America, and Australian Democracy Graham Maddox ... 140, 188, 190, 306 Hollier, N., 252 Holt, H., 134, 137, 212, 231–2, 233 Holton, W., 138 Hook, S., 188 Hooker, R., 104, 138, 234 Horwitz, R. H.,36, 140, 306 Howard, J., 1, 30, 49–52, ...

  • Shooting the Picture: Press photography in Australia
    By Sally Young, Fay Anderson

    Woodcock Postle's lying most down famous in sporting the stalls photograph with the is famous one of racehorse veteran strapper Reckless. Tommy It's a beautiful seventy-four,' photograph, he told Postle. and he 'If badgered people see ...

  • An Unwinnable War: Australia in Afghanistan
    By Karen Middleton

    Their extremely robust discussion was described variously as 'very terse' and 'a full-scale barney'. Australia also wanted the Dutch to do more fighting and there had been a great deal of private grumbling that they weren't much in the ...

  • An Unwinnable War: Australia In Afghanistan
    By Karen Middleton

    Howard, Williams and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer later denied receiving any specific advice about possible threats in Bali. Four days after the bombings, Howard acknowledged in Parliament that he had been aware of US intelligence ...

  • Cultural Studies Review
    By Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke

    Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, Vintage Books, New York, 1973, p. 23. 34. Gibbs, 'Pauline Hanson'. 35. Donald L. Nathanson, 'Affect, Affective Resonance and a New Theory for Hypnosis', Psychopathology, vol. 21, no. 2–3, 1988, pp.

  • Life As I Know It: The bestselling book, now a major film 'Ride Like a Girl'
    By Michelle Payne, John Harms

    In Life As I Know It, Michelle Payne tells her deeply moving story. It will lift your spirits, stir your heart and give you courage. Michelle was put on a horse aged four. At five years old her dream was to win the Melbourne Cup.

  • Climate Politics And The Climate Movement In Australia
    By Verity Burgmann, Hans Baer

    This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it.

  • Return To The Badlands: Twelve Enthralling True Cases Of Crooks, Cults And Crackpots
    By Liam Houlihan

    ... 92–3 Halm, Kim, 92–3 Hamilton-Byrne, Andrea, 97 Hamilton-Byrne,Anna, 60, 62, 89, 96, 97 Hamilton-Byrne, Anne, 50–77, 87–112 Hamilton-Byrne,Anouree, 58, 62 Hamilton-Byrne, Antoniette, 95 Hamilton-Byrne, Arrianne, 70 Hamilton-Byrne, ...

  • Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin: Their early political careers and the making of the modern Labor Party
    By Liam Byrne

    This is the story of two young men striving to better the world they had inherited, a story of optimism and hope with enduring relevance for today’s troubled politics. This is an extraordinarily engaging book by a rising young historian.

  • Double Helix, Double Joy: David Danks
    By Carolyn Rasmussen, Alister Danks

    Professor David Danks explained in a public lecture revealingly titled, Double Helix, Double Joy, that 'Even from its infancy it was apparent that the double helix was going to change not only science, but also the community's image of ...

  • Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny
    By Barbara Creed

    Freud's choice of Hoffman's ' The Sandman ' to illustrate the powerful effects of the uncanny is of particular relevance to an understanding of the structures of the uncanny gaze . As psychoanalytic critic and film theorist Joan Copjec ...