La Trobe: The Making of a Governor, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Dianne Reilly Drury
Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851-54). His administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the Victorian gold rushes, was highly controversial.
Academic Monograph

La Trobe: The Making of a Governor, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Dianne Reilly Drury
Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851-54). His administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the Victorian gold rushes, was highly controversial.
Academic Monograph

The Land Boomers: The Complete Illustrated History [PB] Available
Michael Cannon
Michael Cannon's extraordinary study of boomtime Australia, now profusely illustrated with contemporary, photographs, cartoons and etchings.

The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s [PB] Available
Mark Davis
The book that tells the story of Australia today: how we got here, and where we're going. A blistering exposé and manifesto for every Australian.

The LAP BAND Solution: A Partnership for Weight Loss [PB] Available
Paul O'Brien
Obesity has become a major problem in our society and is the major health challenge of the 21st century. The Lap-Band Solution: A partnership for weight loss is an information book for those interested in this procedure.

The Last of the Lunatics [PB] Available
John Cawte
A searing historical account of the treatment of the mentally ill in our society before the invention of tranquillizers.

The Latham Diaries (paperback) [PB] Available
Mark Latham
'Now that the Diaries are published, politicians and political journalists will have flipped through the index looking with apprehension and horror for the entries about themselves and cackling with delight at the author's jibes about their colleagues.

The Latham Diaries [HB] Available
Mark Latham
Awards: Shortlisted for two ABA awards:
Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2006
Australian Marketing Campaign of the Year 2006
Here are the political diaries of one of Australia's most promising national leaders-published within twelve months of his resignation from office-an historic first.

Learning to Work: Students' experiences during work placements, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Joanne M. Reidy
This ground-breaking study of work placements and practicums looks at the experience of 50 young short-term trainees in various Australian work settings.
Academic Monograph

Learning to Work: Students' experiences during work placements, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Joanne M. Reidy
This ground-breaking study of work placements and practicums looks at the experience of 50 young short-term trainees in various Australian work settings.
Academic Monograph

Leaving Paradise: My Expat Adventure and Other Stories [PB] Available
Sonia Harford
In this entertaining and thoughtful personal investigation, Harford explores the boom in Australian expatriatism-the ideals, reality and dislocation of being an Australian living abroad-and the often heart-wrenching decision to return home.

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines: Edited by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker [HB] Available
David Unaipon
In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith.

Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines: Edited by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker [PB] Available
David Unaipon
In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith.

Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead [PB] Available
Peter van Onselen (ed.)
An invaluable analysis of the challenges, pitfalls and opportunities that lie ahead for the Liberal Party.

Life After Death: The Art of the Obituary [HB] Available
Nigel Starck
Beginning with the first accounts of the deaths of princes published in early seventeenth-century newsbooks, athis lively book traces the development of the obituary in Britain, the United States and Australia.

Life Class: The Education of a Biographer [HB] Available
Brenda Niall
Awards: shortlisted for the 2007 Victorian Premier's Nettie Palmer Prize
A biographer's memoir, in the tradition of Richard Holmes' Footsteps.

A Life on the Ocean Wave: The Journals of Captain George Bayly 1824-1844 [HB] Available
Edited by Pamela Statham and Rica Erickson
Awards: Shortlisted for the WA Premier's Literary Awards, Historical and Critical Studies Prize 1998
Cannibals, convicts and pirates feature in this account of eleven voyages to Australia and other places in the early 1800s.
Miegunyah

A Light History of Hot Air [HB] Available
Peter Doherty
From a life lived on three continents Doherty has collected a vast repertoire of information on illumination, hot air and burning, and presented it in a narrative written with great style, intimate with stories, concerned with the world around him, and the simple beauty of science.

A Light History of Hot Air PB [PB] Available
Peter Doherty
Nobel Prize-winner Peter Doherty's enthusiasm and curiosity about the world around him informs this atmospheric collection of stories on illumination, hot air and burning in all their guises.

Lina Bryans: Rare Modern 1909-2000 [HB] Available
Gillian Forwood
Lina Bryans--beautiful, generous and unconventional--was a significant and influential artist of the modernist movement in Australia.
Miegunyah

Lionel Lindsay in Spain: An Antipodean Abroad [HB] Available
Colin Holden
This book presents a selection of the dramatic etchings and brilliant water colours of the Mediterranean countries produced by Lindsay in the 1920s and 1930s.
Miegunyah

A Little History of Australia [HB] Available
Mark Peel
Illustrated by Andrew Weldon
Highly readable, often surprising and always enjoyable, A Little History of Australia tells the whole story of this Great Southern Land, from its Aboriginal origins to the present day.

A Little History of Australia [HB] Available
Mark Peel
Highly readable, often surprising and always enjoyable, A Little History of Australia tells the whole story of this Great Southern Land.

A Little History of Australia [PB] Available
Mark Peel
Highly readable, often surprising and always enjoyable, A Little History of Australia tells the whole story of this Great Southern Land.

Living Anatomy: Structure as the Mirror of Function [HB] Refer MUP
Robert Marshall
Living Anatomy is a sound introduction to the subject of human anatomy.

Living Large: The World of Harold Mitchell [HB] Available
Harold Mitchell
Living Large explores Harold Mitchell's remarkable personal journey from son of a sawmiller to owner of a $100 million business, rubbing shoulders with Australia's most powerful people.

Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire [PB] Available
David Goldsworthy
Losing the Blanket shows how Australia's foreign policy during the 1950s and 1960s was affected by the end of empire.

LOST: Illegal Abortion Stories [PB] Available
Jo Wainer (ed.)
Foreword by Helen Garner
Here for the first time are edited transcripts of women who had illegal abortions dating from the 1930s in Australia.

The Lost Mother PB: A Story of Art and Love [PB] Forthcoming
Anne Summers
A poignant narrative about Anne Summers' relationship with her mother, told through her search for a lost painting of her mother as a child.

The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love [HB] Available
Anne Summers
A poignant narrative about Anne Summers' relationship with her mother, told through her search for a lost painting of her mother as a child.

Lost Waters, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Erica Nathan
Lost Waters is a history of one rural waterscape, but with implications that extend to our wider understanding of how water resource conflict is framed and how our waterways are managed. It shows that water has been distilled from its past to produce a resource removed from history and landscapes disconnected from community.
Academic Monograph

Lost Waters, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Erica Nathan
Lost Waters is a history of one rural waterscape, but with implications that extend to our wider understanding of how water resource conflict is framed and how our waterways are managed. It shows that water has been distilled from its past to produce a resource removed from history and landscapes disconnected from community.
Academic Monograph

Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851-1901 [HB] Available
Weston Bate
Awards: FAW Local History Award 1978
Ballarat was a makeshift boom town that matured to become a 'Golden City', a 'City of Gardens and Sculptures'.

Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851-1901, Paperback Edition [PB] Available
Weston Bate
Ballarat was a makeshift boom town that matured to become a 'Golden City', a 'City of Gardens and Sculptures'.