The Rise & Fall of Marvellous Melbourne

Business & Money

Davison, Graeme

Economics

Melbourne University

A history of Brighton

Weston Bate

This book examines the Kelly Outbreak against its geographical and social background. Failure to unlock the land through selection had created a class of struggling selectors who felt that the established authority of squatters and police denied them justice. Their sympathy and support helped Ned come and go as he pleased, despite the price on his head.McQuilton's exciting narrative maintains suspense, and his unobtrusive scholarship fills in the details and corrects many errors whch the Kelly myth has accumulated over the years.

The Kelly Outbreak 1878-1880

John McQuilton

In this book, a special edition of the journal Australian Historical Studies, essays by leading academic and freelance historians look at the newest trends in teaching and appreciating the past.

Packaging the Past?: Public Histories (Miegunyah Press Series)

Rickard, John

Spearritt, Peter [Editors]

This volume surveys current knowledge and ideas about sexuality, social theory and research. There has been much debate about controversial issues of sexual conduct from contraception to AIDS prevention but, until now, few books have offered systematic thinking across the whole field of sexuality. This book brings together state-of-the-art social theory, public policy issues, and historical and survey research. It covers issues ranging from AIDS and gay identity to perceptions of women's sexuality and relations between the state and our sexual behaviour.

Rethinking Sex: Social Theory & Sexuality Research

Self-Help

W, Connell R

John Perceval

Attractively illustrated book which explores the life and career of this renowned Australian artist from the 1920s to the present. Contains a catalogue raisonn}}, list of principal exhibitions, summary of biographical details and an extensive bibliography are included. The hardback is a limited edition.

Perceval, John

Allen, Traudi

Working in areas as diverse as intelligence and chemical warfare research, the 27,000 women who served in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force changed the role of women in wartime. Joyce Thomson firmly establishes the WAAAF 's place in history and examines the political and public debate stirred by its formation and development amidst male prejudice and the changing status of women.

The Waaaf in Wartime Australia

Thomson, Joyce A.

From the coining of the word 'homosexual' in 1869 by a Swiss doctor through the mid-century homophile movements in the United States, gay liberation and feminism, Annamarie Jagose clearly traces the consciousness and consequences of same-sex sex to the currently evolving field of queer theory, lucidly demonstrating how insights gained from the AIDS epidemic, post-structuralism and other contemporary theoretical movements have made queer theory both personally and intellectually stimulating.

Queer Theory (Interpretations,)

Politics & Social Sciences

Jagose, Annamarie

Social Sciences

The life of George Johnston, author of the best-selling My Brother Jack, was in many ways symbolic of Australian post-war cultural life. He was a complex character, dogged by feelings of mediocrity, betrayal and failure that he ultimately transformed though the writing of his brilliant trilogy. In this award-winning biography, Garry Kinnane examines the process by which Johnston selected people, places and events for this creative transformation. In doing so, he reveals the reality that lay behind the glamorous outer facade of the life of Johnston and his wife, the writer Charmian Clift.

George Johnston

Biographies & Memoirs

Kinnane, Garry

Arts & Literature

Everyone has seen disturbing video footage, of police brutality against prisoners, suspects and even innocent bystanders. The record of police shootings, police beatings, deaths in custody - both black and white - and violent police tactics against peaceful demonstrators is a long and sorry one. 
Violence and Police Culture makes a significant contribution to the debate that has arisen around some specific cases, while analysing the much broader problem-a police culture that permits and even encourages such behaviour among its members. The relationship between the internal culture of police forces and the unacceptable use of violence remains a burning public issue. 
In Violence and Police Culture, a group of eminent practitioners and theoreticians collaborate to discuss the problems associated with the use of violence by police.

Violence And Police Culture (Ethics in Public Life)

James, Steven

Coady, Tony

Business Culture

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