Dancing with De Beauvoir: Jazz and the French [PB] Available
Colin Nettelbeck
Explores the powerful synergies between jazz and the French to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture and influenced cultural icons from Ravel, Matisse, Sartre and De Beauvoir to Derrida.

Dangerous to Know: An Australasian Crime Compendium [PB] Available
James Morton and Susanna Lobez
From the bestselling authors of Gangland Australia comes
Dangerous to Know, an A to Z of Australasian crimes, criminals and their victims.

Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753-1782 [HB] Available
Edited and translated by Edward Duyker and Per Tingbrand
Foreword by Alan Frost
Some 180 letters written either by or to the Swedish naturalist and pioneer are reproduced here.
Miegunyah

Darwin's Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema, academic monograph [e-book] Available
Barbara Creed
Darwin's Screens addresses a major gap in film scholarship--the key influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema.
Academic Monograph

Darwin's Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Barbara Creed
Darwin's Screens addresses a major gap in film scholarship--the key influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema.
Academic Monograph

Days Like These [PB] Available
Michael Gurr
This memoir by a leading Australian playwright casts a shrewd eye over Australian culture and politics.

Dearest Munx: The Letters of Christina Stead and William J. Blake [HB] Available
Edited by Margaret Harris
From the time Christina Stead, a shy Australian girl in London, met William J. Blake, a cosmopolitan American, theirs was one of the great love stories.
Miegunyah

Death of Labour Law?: Comparative Perspectives, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Martin Vranken
Death of Labour Law? questions the on-going relevance of labour law in Western industrialised society and Australia in the twenty first century.
Academic Monograph

Death of Labour Law?: Comparative Perspectives, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Martin Vranken
Death of Labour Law? questions the on-going relevance of labour law in Western industrialised society and Australia in the twenty first century.
Academic Monograph

The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology [PB] Available
Greg Dening
Greg Dening uses the incident of the murder of William Gooch, the young astronomer on board the Daedalus, as the basis for a penetrating study of historical narrative and meaning.

Death, Sex and Money: Life Inside a Newspaper [PB] Available
Michael Young
Death, Sex and Money will take you behind a newspaper's news desk, and afford you a glimpse into the frenetic world of newspaper journalism.

Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art [HB] Available
Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller with Judith Pugh
The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art was the most momentous art exhibition ever held in Australia.
Miegunyah

Denial: History Betrayed [PB] Available
Tony Taylor
Denial is the first book to draw together the ideological and psychological elements involved in historical denial.

Departures: How Australia Reinvents Itself [PB] Available
Xavier Pons (ed.)
Departures of every kind have shaped Australian culture. This stimulating and energetic collection of essays investigates how Australia reinvents itself.

Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks [PB] Available
Leigh Sales
Awards: Winner of the 2007 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism
Shortlisted for the 2007 Walkley Award
Shortlisted for the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction category
Detainee 002 is a chilling reminder that, in a war with ever-changing rules and no end in sight, there are no limits. If you care about the Australia you live in, you must read this book.

Diary of a Lady's Maid: Government House in Colonial Australia, Journals of Emma Southgate, 'Between Stairs' Servant, 1884-1886 [HB] Available
Edited by Helen Vellacott
The reliable, hard-working and loyal Emma Southgate began her diary when she journeyed across rough seas and under stormy skies from England to Australia in 1884.

Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8500 Battles from Antiquity to the Twenty-first Century [HB] Available
Tony Jaques
This is the most extensive and comprehensive dictionary of battles and sieges ever published in English, with more than 8500 meticulously researched entries.

A Dictionary of Sea Quotations [HB] Available
Edward Duyker
A Dictionary of Sea Quotations is an anthology of surprising breadth that is both a valuable reference work and a book to be enjoyed by all who love the sea.
Miegunyah

The Diggers: Makers of the Australian Military Tradition, Lives from the Australian Dictionary of Biography [HB] Reissued
Selected and condensed by Chris Coulthard-Clark
A fascinating look at the men and women who established the Australian Digger in the annals of world history.

Digging People Up for Coal: A History of Yallourn [PB] Available
Meredith Fletcher
Awards: Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards, Community and Regional History Prize 2002
This book is about the birth, life and loss of a community.

Disasters That Changed Australia [PB] Available
Richard Evans
Australian history is full of disasters.

The Dismissal: Where were you on November 11, 1975? [PB] Available
Sybil Nolan (ed.)
The dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government on November 11, 1975, was stunning news to most Australians, whichever side of the political divide they inhabited.

Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide to Being Free [PB] Available
Damon Young
Distraction is a book of popular philosophy, exploring the nature of distraction and its role in modern life.

Diversity and Discovery: The History of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1965-1996 [HB] Available
Sir Gustav Nossal
The history one of Australia's foremost medical research centres from 1965 to 1996, related by it then director, Sir Gustav Nossal.
Miegunyah

Divided Nation?: Indigenous Australians in Australian Political Culture [PB] Available
Tim Rowse and Murray Goot
In May 1967, more than 90 per cent of Australians voted to strike parts of the Constitution that discriminated against Indigenous Australians.

Doing Anger Differently: Helping Adolescent Boys [PB] Available
Michael Currie
Easy-to-follow, step-by-step principles designed to help parents, carers and teachers understand teenage male anger and aggression.

The Doing Anger Differently Manual: A School Group Program for Talking About Aggression, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Michael Currie
Presents complex theoretical issues from existing adolescent aggression treatment literature in a set of clear and practical principles, illustrated with case studies.
Academic Monograph

Doing Leadership Differently: Gender, Power and Sexuality in a Changing Business Culture [PB] Available
Amanda Sinclair
Australian organisations are clinging to an outdated concept of leadership. Doing Leadership Differently shows why the traditional male style of leadership has failed us.

Doing Leadership Differently: Gender, Power and Sexuality in a Changing Business Culture [PB] Available
Amanda Sinclair
Revised edition of a bestselling business title, with a new preface.

Doing Postgraduate Research in Australia [PB] Available
Kate Stevens and Christine Asmar
Provides practical suggestions and assistance for current and intending postgraduate students and their supervisors.

Donald Horne on How I Came to Write The Lucky Country, MUP Masterworks #4 [PB] Available
Donald Horne
The publication in 1964 of The Lucky Country changed the way that Australians thought about themselves.
MUP Masterworks

Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land, Paperback [PB] Available
Donald Thomson, compiled and introduced by Nicolas Peterson
In 1932, anthropologist Donald Thomson a superb and enthusiastic photographer, made the most comprehensive photographic record of any fully functioning, self-supporting Aboriginal society that we will ever have.
General series

Don't forget me, cobber: The Battle of Fromelles [HB] Available
Robin S Corfield
The extraordinary story of the lead up to the battle of Fromelles, the battle itself, as well and the successful search for the 'missing of Fromelles'.
Miegunyah

Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality [PB] Available
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
Awards: Winner 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Award in the History Book category
Winner 2009 Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the History of Australia or New Zealand.
'This book by two of Australia's most respected historians is a tour de force. . .'
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago