University Of New South Wales Press: 180 books
Up Came a Squatter
Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839–1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria – a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was...
Populism Now!
The Case For Progressive Populism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Populism can be a dirty word. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump have certainly given it a bad name. But rather than associating it with demagoguery and exclusion, might we better see it as a backlash against free market globalisation? Might it be harnessed as a positive force able to thrive...
Gay Sydney
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Garry Wotherspoon's Gay Sydney: A History is an updated version of his 1991 classic, City of the Plain: History of a Gay Sub-culture, written in the midst of the AIDS crisis. In this vivid book Wotherspoon traces the shifts that have occurred since then, including majority support for marriage equality...
Stop Fixing Women
Why Building Fairer Workplaces Is Everybody's Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue? Wage inequality between men and women seems one of the intractables...
by Vicken Babkenian, Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became...
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo
A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced,...
Darling Mother, Darling Son
The Letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929-1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
"However far away from you I am, you are the real centre of my life ..." —Leslie Walford
For much of the twentieth century the names Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne were synonymous with style and glamour. Walford was the sophisticated, go-to interior designer for Sydney society. His mother,...
The Secret Life of Whales
A Marine Biologist Reveals All
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales she reveals the...
Infectious
A Doctor's Eye-Opening Insights into Contagious Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
A woman's innocuous cold symptoms mask a debilitating rare tick infection. A young man develops shingles, then suffers blinding head pain later in life. After years of frustration, a family eradicates head lice forever. Leading infectious diseases specialist Frank Bowden sheds light the everyday illnesses...
by Jo Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies...
Jewish Anzacs
Jews in the Australian Military
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
A landmark history of Australian Jews in the military, from the First Fleet to the recent war in Afghanistan. Over 7000 Jews have fought in Australia's military conflicts, including more than 330 who gave their lives. While Sir John Monash is the best known, in Jewish Anzacs acclaimed writer and historian...
Tempest-Tossed Church
Being a Catholic Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In The Tempest-Tossed Church award-winning writer Gerard Windsor explores what it is to be a Catholic. Interlaced with twelve moving cameos, he entertains and stimulates with anecdote, history, forays into art and literature, and the occasional bit of gossip. Starting with how you get religion in...
by Tim Rowse
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that ‘Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not ‘dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial...
Shark Tracker
Confessions of an Underwater Cameraman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Ever wondered what it would be like to be up close and personal with a constipated shark? Thought about keeping a great white as a pet? Or fantasised about naming a deadly animal after your ex? Richard ‘Shark Tracker' Fitzpatrick, who wrangles sharks and other deadly marine creatures for a living,...