Backyard Insects, Second edition [PB] Available
Paul Horne and Denis Crawford
Love them or fear them, we can't avoid insects.

Bad Hair Days [PB] Available
Pamela Bone
Pamela Bone, prize-winning journalist and author of Up We Grew , reveals the story of her battle with cancer, from her diagnosis in 2004, through chemotherapy and other invasive treatment, to the process of coming to terms with the inevitablility of dying.

The Battle for Bennelong: The Adventures of Maxine McKew 50something [PB] Available
Margot Saville
In The Battle for Bennelong, Margot Saville hits the campaign trail with Maxine McKew, indulging Maxine's obsession with dim sum, watches her draw yet another raffle, and dance excitedly at the Granny Smith Festival. In a tight contest against John Howard fought on issues such as the economy, WorkChoices and succession plans, did Maxine's dancing affect her primary vote? You'll find out in The Battle for Bennelong.

Battlelines [PB] Available
Tony Abbott
Battlelines is a frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal Party.

Battlelines (Updated Edition), updated edition [PB] Available
Tony Abbott
Battlelines is a frank examination of the way forward for the Liberal Party.

Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures and Self [HB] Available
Greg Dening
Beach Crossings is a book of extraordinary richness that crosses genres as well as beaches, blending memoir and social history, ethnography and elegy, cultural studies and testament.
Miegunyah

Beersheba: A Journey through Australia's Forgotten War [PB] Available
Paul Daley
Paul Daley's search for Beersheba takes him from Australia to Israel, from the battlefields to the archives, where he discovers a dark episode that sits at odds with the Anzac myth and legend.

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science [PB] Available
Peter Doherty
Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty offers readers an insider's guide into just what scientists do all day.

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science [HB] Available
Peter Doherty
Awards: 2007: Shortlist for the National Biography Awards
Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty offers readers an insider's guide into just what scientists do all day.
Miegunyah

Benelong's Haven: Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Abuse within an Aboriginal Australian Residential Treatment Centre, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Richard Chenhall
Benelong's Haven was the first residential alcohol and drug treatment program controlled and operated by an Aboriginal Australian.
Academic Monograph

Benelong's Haven: Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Abuse within an Aboriginal Australian Residential Treatment Centre, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Richard Chenhall
Benelong's Haven was the first residential alcohol and drug treatment program controlled and operated by an Aboriginal Australian.
Academic Monograph

Bert & Ned: The Correspondence of Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan [HB] Available
Patrick McCaughey
Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan were friends and rivals but never antagonists for the whole of their working lives as artists.
Miegunyah

The Best Australian Humorous Writing [PB] Available
Edited by Andrew O'Keefe and Steve Vizard
Andrew O'Keefe and Steve Vizard corral some of Australia's most whimsical, acerbic, witty, thought-provoking and downright funny writing into one densely entertaining anthology.

Best Australian Political Writing 2007 [PB] Available
Tony Jones
Tony Jones selects the most illuminating, provocative and incisive analysis of the past year in politics.

Best Australian Political Writing 2009 [PB] Available
Eric Beecher (ed.)
Eric Beecher selects the most incisive and entertaining writing about the notable events and names of the past year.

Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans [PB] Available
Clare Wright
Awards: Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards 2004
Special Mention, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards 2003
Beyond the Ladies Lounge challenges the myth of the Australian pub as a male domain by documenting the central role that women have historically played in hotelkeeping from colonial times to the present.

The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Volume 1, 1901-1929, Volume 1 [HB] Available
Edited by Ann Millar (Department of the Senate)
The first volume of this readable and authoritative work of reference will provide readers with a biographical account of Australian senators whose period of prominence was between 1901 and 1929.

The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Volume 2, 1929-1962, Volume 2 [HB] Available
Edited by Ann Millar (Department of the Senate)
This second volume of The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate covers the period from 1929 to 1962.

Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator [HB] Available
Peter Golding
Biography of John McEwen, leader of the Federal Country Party from 1958 to 1971 and a complex man.

Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines [PB] Available
Vivienne Rae-Ellis
Controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia.
Australian Lives

Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians [PB] Available
Coordinating editor Michele Grossman
This is a ground-breaking volume--the first collection of critical writing by Indigenous Australian intellectuals addressing contemporary cultural issues.

The Blogging Revolution [PB] Available
Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein conducts a searching examination of the ways the internet is threatening the rule of some of the planet's most repressive governments.

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur [PB] Available
Ben Kiernan
Awards: Blood and Soil won the 2008 gold medal for the best book in the History category, awarded by the Independent Publishers association (Los Angeles, May 30, 2008).
The first global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times to the present

Blood and Tinsel: A Memoir [HB] Available
Jim Sharman
Blood & Tinsel is a remarkable story about Australia. It is also a moving tribute to a family legendary in the entertainment stakes.
Miegunyah

Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town [PB] Available
Heather McDonald
Awards: AIATSIS Stanner Award 2002
Analyses how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion and loss in order to make sense of their own dispossession.

Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television [HB] Available
Patricia Edgar
Bloodbath is a must-read for every Australian in the media industry, every parent raising a child, every woman who ever strove for career success, and anyone interested in how leadership works.

Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia [PB] Available
Jude McCulloch
A detailed investigation of changes to policing in Australia, arising from research into the paramilitarisation of the police.

Body and Mind: Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland and Wilfrid Prest (eds)
Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F.
Academic Monograph

Body and Mind: Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland and Wilfrid Prest (eds)
Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F.
Academic Monograph

The Book of Dead Philosophers [PB] Available
Simon Critchley
The Book of Dead Philosophers chronicles the deaths of almost 200 philosophers-tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck.

Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration [HB] Available
Richard Aitken
Awards: 2007 APA Book Design Awards Shortlist: Best Designed Non-fiction book (illustrated)
With illustrations of extraordinary splendour and beauty, Botanical Riches is a colourful history and enthralling tale of botanical exploration.
Miegunyah

Botanical Riches PB: Stories of Botanical Exploration [PB] Available
Richard Aitken
With illustrations of extraordinary splendour and beauty, Botanical Riches is a colourful history and enthralling tale of botanical exploration.

Bottersnikes and Other Lost Things: A Celebration of Australian Illustrated Children's Books [HB] Available
Juliet O'Conor
Miegunyah

Boxing with Shadows [PB] Available
Brian Johnston
Boxing with Shadows is Brian Johnston's account of the two-and-a-half years he spent living and travelling in China.

The Boyds: A Family Biography [PB] Available
Brenda Niall
Awards: Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2002
Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2002
Shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2003
These were awarded to the hardback edition of this book.
The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. This 'family biography' by award-winning writer Brenda Niall traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition.

The Boyds: A Family Biography [PB] Available
Brenda Niall
Awards: Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2002
Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2002
Shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2003
The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. This 'family biography' by award-winning writer Brenda Niall traces the emergence of an extraordinary artistic tradition.

Brenda Niall on Arthur Boyd, MUP Masterworks #3 [PB] Available
Brenda Niall
The brilliant painter Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty.
MUP Masterworks

Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre (eds)
Britishness Abroad explores the cultural, economic and political aspects of Britishness in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Canada and South Africa, as well as in the United States and within Britain itself.
Academic Monograph

Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre (eds)
Britishness Abroad explores the cultural, economic and political aspects of Britishness in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Canada and South Africa, as well as in the United States and within Britain itself.
Academic Monograph

The Broken Years [PB with flaps] Forthcoming
Bill Gammage
Using the diaries and letters of 1000 Australian soldiers in WW1, Bill Gammage reconstructs with great sensitivity the valour and the tragedy of their experience.

But Wait, There's More. . .: A History of Australian Advertising, 1900-2000 [PB] Available
Robert Crawford
Foreword by Phillip Adams
But Wait,There's More . . . provides a unique insight into the place of advertising in Australian society.