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It was Simon P. Lock's determination that put Sydney on the international fashion week circuit alongside New York, London, Milan and Paris. In the Front Row charts the rise of Australian Fashion Week from one man's ambition to make the world take note of the frocks, fashions and models from down under to the glittering international event it is today.

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By exploring Australian responses to death, this book contributes to the growing interest in what such responses reveal about our society and how we might better deal with death as a part of life. The authors - a theologian and a funeral director - look at the social history of this topic, and look squarely at the questions we persist

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This book is the culmination of a multi-year research project funded by the Australian Research Council and represents the first detailed discussion of the theory, policy and practice of employee share ownership plans (ESOPs) in Australia.

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Examines the struggle for equality of citizenship of Indian Muslims in light of the release of the Sachar Committee report of 2006, which sparked widespread awareness of socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religious minorities in India, especially Muslims. The contributors are some of the most eminent social scientists in the fields of applied economics, politics, sociology and demography.

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For two years police detective Colin McLaren disappeared off the face of the earth, eventually surfacing in Griffith as a dodgy art dealer with a pretty girlfriend, and talking his way into the Mafia. Colin eats with them and cuddles their kids, all the while climbing the N'Drangheta, finally befriending the Griffith Godfather, Antonio Romeo.

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A study of contemporary Islamic consciousness, this title provides insight into aspects of the Muslim faith, and its place in the 21st century. It examines attitudes to issues such as religious commitment; the status of women; the concept of jihad and its alleged links to terrorism; Islamic philanthropy; and, attitudes towards blasphemy.

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Celebrates the centenary of Bradman's birth; ponders the quintessence of the 'Don'; dissects the Australian way of cricket across demography, politics and the politics of race; attempts to unravel the mystery that is cricket administration. This title explains the finer points of cricket technique from taking guard to the leave.

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Throughout the Cold War Paul Dibb worked with the highest levels of Australian and American intelligence, and was one of very few Australian officials to be given the top-secret security clearance for access to Pine Gap. Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors is Paul's unique insight into how Australia saw the threat from the Soviet Union during the Cold War era and beyond.

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Draws on a wide range experts including academics, former and current strategic advisers and members of government, private industry professionals and intelligence community experts, to provide a diagnostic, clear-eyed approach in explaining, accessing and exposing the central foundations and frameworks necessary for effective practice of intelligence.

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Investigating the uses of the zine form for life writing, this title examines the recurrent themes in texts circulating in Australian zine culture, including depression, consumerism, popular culture and political identity. It also examines zine culture as a unique community of life writing and reading.

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The author travels across twenty thousand kilometres of the Australia's remote outback, to its coast and its cities in search of the Australia of the stereotypes and discovers that Australia is, contrary to popular imagination, resolutely urban, with a rich multicultural population struggling to be tolerant.

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Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceed European settlement. She believed they originated in regular visits to the northern coast of Australia by Macassan fishermen from southern Sulawesi and nearby islands.

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Examines the complex debates and dilemmas facing Islam today, both internally and in its relations with Western civilisation. Rane provides a concise, comprehensive introduction to Islam and modern developments in Muslim thought, and tackles questions of Islamic law, human rights, democracy, jihad and the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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Examines the growing presence of Islam and Muslims in Australia and how it is transforming, and transformed by, social, cultural and religious spaces. The book illuminates how socio-cultural, economic, and political processes maintain and manage the ways Australian Muslims build their religious lives and identities and engage in the wider world.

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The central focus of this volume is to explore and highlight the nexus between the ideology of Islam and social and cultural milieus with the aim of reconceptualising the sacred as a socially constructed reality and not a transcendental supernatural phenomenon.

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Few issues have captured media headlines over the past two decades like Islam and Muslims. This tackles head-on the Australian news media's treatment of Islam and Muslims. It brings together the research and insights of academics, editors and journalists on the representation of Islam and its impact on social relations, the newsworthiness of Muslim issues and the complexities of covering Islam.

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The individuals and movements in Islam and the Question of Reform are determined to push aside existing political and social elites and the historically accepted interpretations of Islam and its place in society. The perspectives examined in this volume scrutinise the Islam's public role, often questioning the validity of dogmas that have acted as tools of empowerment for centuries.

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In recent years, all over the western world, a conversation has begun about the role of Islamic law or Shariah in secular liberal democratic states. Often this has focused on the area of family law, including matters of marriage and divorce. Islamic Family Law in Australia considers this often-controversial issue through the lens of multiculturalism and legal pluralism.

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This work examines the life of John Croaker, clerk at the Isle of Thanet Bank in Margate, who was transported to Australia in 1815 for embezzlement. His involvement in banking, brewing and the law has enabled the authors to investigate the economic, judicial and social conditions of his age.

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The son of Jewish immigrants, Monash graduated from the University of Melbourne. He achieved fame as a soldier in World War I. Before the War he pioneered the Australian use of reinforced concrete, and on his return he become the first chairman of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria.

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Says that John Howard is the first professional politician the country has seen, who has left a deep and lasting impact on modern politics, government and the country. Based on interviews with Howard's family, friends, political supporters and detractors, this book offers insight into the man and the government he runs.

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Joseph Mason: Assigned Convict is a first-person account of the convict experience.