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Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography [HB] Available
Martyn Jolly
Photographic portraits with ghost figures, spirit writing and ectoplasm crowding the living subjects were all part of the spirit photography craze that swept the world from the 1870s to the 1930s.

The Facing Island: A Personal History [PB] Available
Jan Bassett
This imaginative and moving memoir uses letters sent by a young New Zealand soldier to the author’s maternal grandmother during World War I as a springboard for an account of her own life.

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 1, 1901 to the 1970s [HB] Available
David Goldsworthy (ed.)
Facing North is the first substantial history of Australia’s relations with Asia since Federation.

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 1, 1901 to the 1970s [PB] Available
David Goldsworthy (ed.)
Facing North is the first substantial history of Australia’s relations with Asia since Federation.

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 2, 1970s to 2000 [HB] Available
Peter Edwards and David Goldsworthy (eds)
Foreword by Alexander Downer
Narrative history tracing the development of Australia’s broad political, strategic, economic and people-to-people links with Asia over the century since the federation of Australian colonies.

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 2: 1970s to 2000 [PB] Available
Peter Edwards and David Goldsworthy (eds)
Foreword by Alexander Downer
Narrative history tracing the development of Australia’s broad political, strategic, economic and people-to-people links with Asia over the century since the federation of Australian colonies.

Fair Cop: Christine Nixon [PB] Available
Christine Nixon with Jo Chandler
Fair Cop candidly shares the public and private stories of Christine Nixon—woman, spouse, citizen, constable—on a journey that encounters tragedy, corruption, ambition and humility.

Fair Cop: Christine Nixon [EPUB] Available
Christine Nixon with Jo Chandler
Fair Cop candidly shares the public and private stories of Christine Nixon—woman, spouse, citizen, constable.

A Family History of Smoking [PB] Available
Andrew Riemer
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2008 Age Book of the Year in the Non-fiction category
A compelling memoir about two European families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A Family History of Smoking [EPUB] Available
Andrew Riemer
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2008 Age Book of the Year in the Non-fiction category
A compelling memoir about two European families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Fast, Loose Beginnings: A Memoir of Intoxications [PB] Available
John Kinsella
Fast, Loose Beginnings is a racy anecdotal memoir of John Kinsella's meetings with the great and colourful men and women of poetry.

Feeling the Heat [PB] Available
Jo Chandler
Feeling the Heat reveals startling truths about that delicate, confounding organism we call Earth.

Feeling the Heat [EPUB] Available
Jo Chandler
Feeling the Heat reveals startling truths about that delicate, confounding organism we call Earth.

Fever Hospital: A History of Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital [HB] Available
W. K. Anderson
Fever Hospital is a valuable social and institutional history.

A Field Guide to Insects and Diseases of Australian Potato Crops [Spiral bound] Available
Paul Horne, Rudolf de Boer and Denis Crawford
This handy field guide describes and illustrates the insects and diseases most likely to be encountered by Australian potato growers.

Finding Valentino: Four seasons in my father’s Italy [PB] Available
Angela Di Sciascio
Angela Di Sciascio embarks on a voyage that takes her through four seasons in her father's Italy.

Finding Valentino: Four seasons in my father’s Italy [EPUB] Available
Angela Di Sciascio
Angela Di Sciascio's father can no longer describe his past, lost in a world ravaged by Alzheimer's disease.

The Finger: A Handbook [HB] Available
Angus Trumble
From the author of A Brief History of the Smile, a complete index of the digit.

Finishing the Job: Real-World Policy Solutions in Health, Housing, Education and Transport [PB] Available
Joshua Gans and Stephen King
A policy prescription for reforming economic approaches to health, education, housing and transport.

First Australians: An Illustrated History [HB] Available
Edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton with Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce, RG Kimber, Steve Kinnane, Noel Loos and Bruce Pascoe
The companion book to the epic SBS TV series, First Australians tells the story that gave birth to the nation.
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First Australians PB: An Illustrated History [PB] Available
Edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton with Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce, RG Kimber, Steve Kinnane, Noel Loos and Bruce Pascoe
The companion book to the epic SBS TV series, First Australians tells the story that gave birth to the nation.

First Australians UNILLUSTRATED [PB] Available
Edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton with Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce, RG Kimber, Steve Kinnane, Noel Loos and Bruce Pascoe
The companion book to the epic SBS TV series, First Australians tells the story that gave birth to the nation.

First Australians UNILLUSTRATED [EPUB] Available
Edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton with Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce, RG Kimber, Steve Kinnane, Noel Loos and Bruce Pascoe
The companion book to the epic SBS TV series, First Australians tells the story that gave birth to the nation.

First Principles: The Melbourne Law School 1857-2007 [HB] Available
John Waugh
Australia's first university law course began at the University of Melbourne in 1857

The Flight of the Emu: A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901–2001 [HB] Available
Libby Robin
Awards: Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2003: Science Writing
The Flight of the Emu tells the story of Australian birding in the twentieth century.

The Fog on the Hill: How NSW Labor lost its way [PB] Available
Frank Sartor
The Fog on the Hill is essential reading for anyone interested in the evolving landscape of Australian politics.

The Fog on the Hill: How NSW Labor lost its way [EPUB] Available
Frank Sartor
The crisis in New South Wales Labor is so deep and has such significant ramifications that we need a massive dose of unadulterated, no-holds-barred honesty.

For Love Alone [PB] Available
Christina Stead
Series Editor Margaret Harris. Foreword by Drusilla Modjeska
For Love Alone is the story of the intelligent and determined Teresa Hawkins, who believes in passionate love and yearns to experience it.

For we are young and . . .: Young people in a time of uncertainty [EPUB] Available
Johanna Wyn, Roger Holdsworth, Sally Beadle
For we are young and . . .? offers a provocative perspective on Australia’s young people against a global and local backdrop of uncertainty and change. It asserts the importance of a critically informed and positive approach to youth, moving beyond seeing young people through the lens of shortcomings and problems to
be solved.

For we are young and . . .? draws directly on the work of the Youth Research Centre at The University of Melbourne and its legacy of innovative and significant research on young Australians. Opening with the theoretical context of youth research, the book draws on contemporary examples to discuss new conceptual and research approaches;

For we are young and . . .: Young people in a time of uncertainty, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Johanna Wyn, Roger Holdsworth, Sally Beadle
A provocative perspective on Australia’s young people against a global and local backdrop of uncertainty and change.

For we are young and . . .: Young people in a time of uncertainty, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Johanna Wyn, Roger Holdsworth, Sally Beadle
A provocative perspective on Australia’s young people against a global and local backdrop of uncertainty and change.

Force, Movement, Intensity: the Newtonian imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Ghassan Hage and Emma Kowal
Considers the original and continuing legacy of Newtonian theories and imaginaries in the vast array of human attempts to understand the world.

Force, Movement, Intensity: the Newtonian imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic Monograph [EPUB] Available
Ghassan Hage and Emma Kowal
Considers the original and continuing legacy of Newtonian theories and imaginaries in the vast array of human attempts to understand the world.

Force, Movement, Intensity: the Newtonian imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic Monograph [eBook] Available
Ghassan Hage and Emma Kowal
Considers the original and continuing legacy of Newtonian theories and imaginaries in the vast array of human attempts to understand the world.

The Forest Wars [PB] Available
Judith Ajani
The Forest Wars explains why it is vital to end the conflict over Australia’s forests and shows that there need be no divergence between development and environment.

A Forester’s Log: The Story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest 1882–1897 [HB] Available
Angela Taylor
Awards: Victorian Community and Local History Awards 1999
A Forester’s Log tells the story of John La Gerche, a pioneering forester in the Ballarat-Creswick area.

Forged by War: Australians in Combat and Back Home [PB] Available
Gina Lennox
Powerful, personal stories of Australian soldiers and their families.

A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject [PB] Available
Alec McHoul and Wendy Grace
Concentrates on some of the central concepts in Foucault’s voluminous and complex writings.
Interpretations

Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry, 2nd Edition [PB] Available
Sidney Bloch and Bruce S. Singh (eds)
This is a remarkably consistent, coherent and useful introductory text for students of medicine and other health professions.

Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry, Third edition [PB] Available
Sidney Bloch and Bruce Singh, eds
An essential text on clinical methods.

Franklin and Eleanor: An extraordinary marriage [PB] Available
Hazel Rowley
This groundbreaking new account describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention that kept FDR and Eleanor together.

Franklin and Eleanor: An extraordinary marriage [PB] Available
Hazel Rowley
This groundbreaking new account describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention that kept FDR and Eleanor together.

François Péron—An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager [HB] Available
Edward Duyker
Awards: Winner of the 2007 Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize
In 1800 François Péron gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. He rose rapidly through the expedition's ranks and wrote its official account. In doing so, Péron sought to destroy Baudin's posthumous reputation.
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The French Consul’s Wife: Memoirs of Céleste de Chabrillan in Gold-rush Australia, Paperback Edition [PB] Available
Patricia Clancy and Jeanne Allen (eds)
The vivid memoirs of a former Parisian courtesan and circus performer who scandalised Melbourne in the 1850s.

Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Emily Potter, Alison Mackinnon, Stephen McKenzie and Jennifer McKay (eds)
Is water a resource or is it the source?
Academic Monograph

Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Emily Potter, Alison Mackinnon, Stephen McKenzie and Jennifer McKay (eds)
Is water a resource or is it the source?
Academic Monograph

From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual [PB] Available
Robert Reynolds
A subtle and complex study of how a generation of activists came to reinvent themselves, and an outstanding contribution to the history of the gay movement in Australia.

From the Jaws of Defeat: Amazing comebacks and inspiring capitulations [HB] Available
Tim Lane and Nick Richardson (eds)
A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner carried the day.

From Traveller to Traitor: The Life of Wilfred Burchett, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Tom Heenan
This scholarly study turns up new material from national security files on the career of the Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, who was effectively banned from his home country by the Menzies Goverment during the Cold War.
Academic Monograph

From Traveller to Traitor: The Life of Wilfred Burchett, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Tom Heenan
This scholarly study turns up new material from national security files on the career of the Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, who was effectively banned from his home country by the Menzies Goverment during the Cold War.
Academic Monograph

The Fuss that Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey [PB] Available
Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre and Tom Stannage (eds)
A lively and distinguished assembly of fellow historians take a fresh look at Geoffrey Blainey’s distinguished career.

A Future in Flames [PB] Available
Danielle Clode
A Future in Flames is a personal journey of discovery that attempts to understand why, after so many years, people are still dying in bushfires.

A Future in Flames [EPUB] Available
Danielle Clode
A Future in Flames is a personal journey of discovery that attempts to understand why, after so many years, people are still dying in bushfires.