Melbourne University Publishing - Alphabetical listing W-Z of

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Waiting, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Edited by Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne.
Academic Monograph

Waiting, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Edited by Ghassan Hage
In this rich and insightful collection of essays, leading anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings together academics across political science, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an examination into the experience of waiting.
Academic Monograph

War and Words: The Australian Press and the Vietnam War, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Trish Payne
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War presented moral dilemmas that divided the nation.
Academic Monograph

War and Words: The Australian Press and the Vietnam War, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Trish Payne
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War threw up moral dilemmas that divided the nation.
Academic Monograph

The War Over Work: The Future of Work and Family [PB] Available
Don Edgar
Many workers are caught in a spiral of longer hours, growing job insecurity, work stress and family conflict.

The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia [HB] Available
Mark Twain
Introduction by Don Watson
Awards: 2007 APA Book Design Awards Shortlist: Best Designed Non-fiction book (text)
'The air was balmy and delicious, the sunshine radiant; it was a charming excursion.

The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia [PB] Available
Mark Twain
The bestselling book that republished Mark Twain's adventures about his time in Australia, The Wayward Tourist is now in paperback form.

Weary: King of the River [HB] Available
Sue Ebury
In a wartime nightmare of starvation, disease, brutality and death, Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's courage and compassion made him an Australian legend.
Miegunyah

The Weather Watchers: 100 years of the Bureau of Meteorology [HB] Available
David Day
Part institutional history, part drama and part natural history, The Weather Watchers is a gripping story of the Bureau of Meteorology.

What If?: Australian history as it might have been [PB] Available
Edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer
What if key episodes in Australia's past had turned out differently?

What's the Alternative?: Orthodox and complementary remedies for common complaints [PB] Available
Malcolm Clark and Terry Robson
General practitioner Dr Malcolm Clark and naturopath Terry Robson provide both conventional and alternative remedies for a host of common health complaints.

What's Wrong with Addiction? [PB] Available
Helen Keane
What's Wrong with Addiction? shows that most of our ideas about addiction take certain ideals of health and normality for granted.

The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Allan Martin
This collection of key essays by the late Allan Martin illustrates the range and diversity of the eminent Australian historian's scholarship and his contribution to the study of Australian history.
Academic Monograph

The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Allan Martin
This collection of key essays by the late Allan Martin illustrates the range and diversity of the eminent Australian historian's scholarship and his contribution to the study of Australian history.
Academic Monograph

Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Bank [PB] Available
Andrew Beattie and Paul R. Ehrlich
Awards: Winner of the 2001 National Outdoor Book Award in the Nature and Environment Category
Wild Solutions urges us to protect the biological wealth of our Earth from destructive human activity.

Wise Thoughts for Every Day: On Love, Spirit and Living a Good Life [HB] Available
Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Peter Sekirin
A treasury of timeless wisdom by Leo Tolstoy that the author of War and Peace considered his greatest and most enduring contribution to humankind.

Word Bytes, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Carolyne Lee
Word Bytes will inspire and teach those who want to learn to recognise and produce word bytes--writing that gets itself noticed and read, in a world of information overload.
Academic Monograph

Word Bytes, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Carolyne Lee
Word Bytes will inspire and teach those who want to learn to recognise and produce word bytes--writing that gets itself noticed and read, in a world of information overload
Academic Monograph

The World of the Book [HB] Available
Des Cowley and Clare Williamson
'All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book.'
Miegunyah

The World of the Book [PB] Available
Des Cowley and Clare Williamson
The World of the Book pays homage to our love of books, and demonstrates the book's long and rich traditions and its great contributions to modern life.

Your Most Obedient Servant: B.A. Santamaria Selected Letters: 1938-1996 [HB] Available
Patrick Morgan (ed.)
Bob Santamaria was involved in Australian public life from before World War II until his death in 1998.
Miegunyah

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Jenny Hocking and Sally Neighbour make Walkley long-list
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