Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
Reaching One Thousand
A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
‘Deeply touching but never sentimental, this remarkable book is more than a story of one boy and his mother. It’s a thoughtful meditation on the intricate workings of the human mind and heart.’ TONI JORDAN
When Ben is a baby, Rachel puts his quirks down to eccentricity. He likes to count...
by Meshel Laurie
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
What would Buddha do?
Buddhist philosophy has helped radio, television and comedy star Meshel Laurie survive many life crises. But when she found herself facing the end of her nineteen-year marriage, she realised there were no Buddhist books about break-ups. So she wrote one.
Using Buddhism...
by Noel Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
How many Australians born in the 137 years since Truganini's death learnt her legend and scarcely thought deeper about the enormity of the loss she represented, and the history that led to it? Her spirit casts a long shadow over Australian history, but we have nearly all of us found a way to avert...
Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place
Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia’s original peoples?
Soon we will all decide if and how indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In the words of Professor Greg Craven: “We have a committed...
by W. E. H. Stanner
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as “The Dreaming” Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale,’ regarding...
From Seeds to Leaves
A Complete Guide to Growing Australian Shrubs and Trees from Seed
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
If you have an interest in the power of seeds to transform the earth, or in planting Australian native trees and shrubs on a small scale or large, From Seeds to Leaves is the book for you. It describes how to:
Collect your own fruit and nuts.
Extract, store and germinate the seeds in...
Scorcher
The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? How have big corporations succeeded in preventing real action? Who are the "greenhouse mafia"? In Scorcher, Clive Hamilton reveals a shadow world of lobbyists and...
Blood and Guts
Dispatches from the Whale Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
I pull on my balaclava and step onto the bridge wing. It’s loud outside: I can hear the rumbles of nine vessels’ engines and the hiss of ten water cannons … Suddenly the bridge is full of refugees from the upper deck. They are blocking my view out the back windows, but their faces – afraid, excited,...
The Mighty West
The Bulldogs' Journey from Daydream Believers to Premiership Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In 2016 the Western Bulldogs stunned the AFL world by winning the premiership – the club’s first in 62 years. It was an unprecedented rise to success, capped by a stunning grand final victory that left players and fans alike shedding tears of joy.
Just two years earlier the Dogs had been...
A Coveted Possession
The Rise and Fall of the Piano in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
The intriguing cultural history of the piano in Australia
From the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia’s...
by Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
I will continue my work on my land, building a future. It is the only thing that is certain to me now and I want to advance while I can. I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women. We are setting fires to our own lives as we really should, and the flame will burn and intensify – an...
Project Republic
Plans and Arguments for a New Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
It’s time for some straight talk about Australia’s future. We need a head of state who shares a genuine affinity with our country. True independence does not require us to relinquish affection for the Queen or downplay excitement about a royal birth or wedding. Rather it is a chance for national...
Whitewash
On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
In December 2002, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One by Keith Windschuttle was published. It argued that violence between whites and Aborigines in colonial Tasmania had been vastly exaggerated and sought to rewrite one of the most troubling parts of Australian history. The book soon attracted...
This Time
Australia's Republican Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
To propose an Australian should be our head of state doesn’t seem revolutionary. ‘Isn’t that already the case?” some may even ask. Flip a coin and you’ll have your answer.
In This Time, Benjamin T. Jones charts a path to an independent future. He reveals the fascinating early history...