Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement [HB] Available
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon
Awards: 2005 Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction Book Award
The extensive and stunning publication of Geoffrey Bardon's first-hand records of the beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement.
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Papunya: A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement [PB] Available
Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon
The extensive and stunning publication of Geoffrey Bardon's first-hand records of the beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement.

Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
John Halligan, Robin Miller and John Power
Awards: Winner of the Richard Baker Senate Prize 2007.
Parliament in the Twenty-first Century is an invaluable resource for students of Australian parliament and for all those interested in how parliamentary institutions adapt to change.
Academic Monograph

Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
John Halligan, Robin Miller and John Power
Parliament in the Twenty-first Century is an invaluable resource for students of Australian parliament and for all those interested in how parliamentary institutions adapt to change.
Academic Monograph

Patrick White, Painter Manqué: Paintings, Painters and their Influence on his Writing [HB] Available
Helen Verity Hewitt
It is a little-known fact that a vital source of inspiration for Patrick White was the art of painting. This brilliantly original and revealing book is the first study of this potent source in White's life.
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Per l'Australia: The Story of Italian Migration [HB] Available
Julia Church
'Pushing that handcart I didn't know whether to laugh or cry; laugh because I was happy to go anywhere, with the hope of starting a new life; cry with the fear of never returning to my beloved Fiume.'
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Per L'Australia: The Story of Italian Migration [PB] Available
Julia Church
'Pushing that handcart I didn't know whether to laugh or cry; laugh because I was happy to go anywhere, with the hope of starting a new life; cry with the fear of never returning to my beloved Fiume.'

Performances [PB] Available
Greg Dening
Awards: Shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards 1997
Master historian Greg Dening invites readers to reflect upon their own participation in the 'performance' of history.

Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny [PB] Available
Barbara Creed
The horror film has always been populated by male monsters, many of which do carry out monstrous acts of violation, rape and castration. The horror film is also filled with male monsters who grow fur, change shape, bleed and give birth. What is it that defines male monstrosity? How does the male monster differ from the female monster?

The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer [PB with flaps] Available
Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton (eds)
An expanded edition of The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer, with a new introduction by John Morton.
General Series

The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer [HB] Available
Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton (eds)
An expanded edition of The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer, with a new introduction by John Morton.
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Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial Women Artists and the Amateur Tradition [HB] Available
Caroline Jordan
Picturesque Pursuits explores the breadth and diversity of colonial women artists, including Mary Morton Allport, Annabella Boswell, Georgiana McCrae, Fanny Macleay, Louisa Anne Meredith and Harriet and Helena Scott

Pink Collar Blues: Work, Gender and Technology [PB] Available
Edited by Belinda Probert and Bruce Wilson
Analyses the connections between gender relations and the new technologies.

Pioneers of Modernism: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia [HB] Available
Harriet Edquist
Explores the work of four of Australia's most radical and innovative Arts and Crafts architects.
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Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy [PB] Available
Jonathan Walker
Awards: shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards 2007 in the General History category
Shortlised for the 2008 VIC Premier's Literary Awards in the First Book of History category
Walker's story of intrigue and betrayal will fascinate and enthrall.

A Place Apart: The University of Melbourne: Decades of Challenge [HB] Available
John Poynter and Carolyn Rasmussen
A highly readable history of the University of Melbourne.

Plastered: The Poster Art of Australian Popular Music [HB] Available
Murray Walding with Nick Vukovic
Introductory essay by Roger Butler
'Traffic inches forward with each cycle of the lights and eventually you're stuck beneath the underpass . . . This is commuting in suburban Australia--any year, any place--and the underpass walls are plastered with posters. They tell you who's on tonight, who's touring next month and who you just missed at last night's performance. The walls are plastered deep with acres of paper.'
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Plastered: The Poster Art of Australian Popular Music [PB] Available
Murray Walding with Nick Vukovic
Introductory essay by Roger Butler
'Traffic inches forward with each cycle of the lights and eventually you're stuck beneath the underpass . . . This is commuting in suburban Australia--any year, any place--and the underpass walls are plastered with posters. They tell you who's on tonight, who's touring next month and who you just missed at last night's performance. The walls are plastered deep with acres of paper.'
General series

Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab Middle East: Lebanon and Algeria, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Benjamin MacQueen
This book represents a critical advance in the study of conflict and its resolution in the Arab World.
Academic Monograph

Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab Middle East: Lebanon and Algeria, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Benjamin MacQueen
This book represents a critical advance in the study of conflict and its resolution in the Arab World.
Academic Monograph

Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds)
Few Australians travelled to the Soviet Union in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s; it was a distant place with a notoriously cold winter and harsh living conditions, even for visitors. But it did have one tourist attraction: its politics.
Academic Monograph

Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds)
Few Australians travelled to the Soviet Union in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s; it was a distant place with a notoriously cold winter and harsh living conditions, even for visitors. But it did have one tourist attraction: its politics.
Academic Monograph

The Politics of Everyday Life [PB] Available
Paul Ginsborg
Concern over the present state of the world-its tensions and disparities-fosters in many people the uneasy combination of two sensations: urgency and powerlessness.

The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus [PB] Available
Peter Sutton
The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.

The Porn Report [PB] Available
Alan McKee, Kath Albury & Catharine Lumby
The first mainstream study of pornography in Australia, which draws on extensive empirical research.

Portrait of a Friendship: The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright 1950-2000 [HB] Available
Bryony Cosgrove (ed.)
A fascinating insider's view of Australia's cultural life from two central figures, and a profoundly moving and inspiring portrait of a friendship.
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possession: Aborigines and Protectors 1838-1839, Volume 2B [HB] Reissued
Edited by Michael Cannon
Continues the story of early relations between Aborigines and Europeans in Port Phillip--the appointment and role of Protectors of Aborigines.
Foundation Series

Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History [HB] Available
Bain Attwood
Tells the fascinating story of the only treaties ever made between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia.
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Postmodern Socialism: Romanticism, City and State [PB] Available
Peter Beilharz
Traces and critiques the perspectives generated by juxtaposing postmodernity and socialism.
Interpretations

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Foreword by Paul Kelly
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.
A highly original study of prime ministerial rhetoric that exposes the sources of our most powerful leaders' beliefs about Australia.

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Foreword by Paul Kelly
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.
A highly original study of prime ministerial rhetoric that exposes the sources of our most powerful leaders' beliefs about Australia.

Prince of the Church: Patrick Francis Moran, 1830-1911 [HB] Available
Philip Ayres
This is the first biography of Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), Cardinal of Sydney, based on extensive research in Australia, Italy and Ireland.
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Private Lives: Australians at Home since Federation [flexibound] Available
Peter Timms
Private Lives is a sympathetic, but not uncritical, look inside the suburban house that helps to explain why we live the way we do.
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A Public Life: The Memoirs of Zelman Cowen [HB] Available
Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman was Vice-Chancellor of two universities, including the University of Queensland during times of turbulent student protest, and was appointed Governor-General of Australia in 1977.
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The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed [HB] Available
Julia Horne
Imagine an Australia before the tour buses and well-trodden bushwalks, a wild and often daunting country that did not easily yield the secrets of its natural beauty.
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Queer Theory [PB] Available
Annamarie Jagose
By challenging seemingly fixed notions like 'sexuality' and 'gender', Queer Theory demonstrates a radical new way of analysing human identity itself.
Interpretations

The Question of Zion [PB] Available
Jacqueline Rose
For anyone concerned with the conflict in Israel-Palestine, this timely book offers a unique understanding of Zionism as an unavoidable psychic and historical force.