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At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account, first published as ""Into the Smother"", received international acclaim for its realistic depiction of POWs living, working and dying in a Japanese camp deep in the Thai jungle.

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The brilliant painter, Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty. This excerpt reveals Arthur Boyd as a man who lived in a private world of painting, family, friends and familiar surroundings, yet developed into an iconic Australian artist.

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The publication in 1964 of "The Lucky Country" changed the way that Australians thought about themselves. This work is an extract from Horne's memoirs that recalls the personal and public circumstances, which led him to write "The Lucky Country".

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Outlines the history of change to Australia's environment and explains why so many plants and animals are now on a downward slide to extinction. This book examines what the main conservation approaches are, and how these are affected by law and politics.

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Melbourne writer, critic and teacher A A Phillips coined the term 'the cultural cringe' to describe an Australian tendency to identify our literature and art as inferior to work produced overseas. This work includes his essay on the cringe with two of his other essays on Australian culture, and with additional biographical and critical material.

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During WWII, the people of Melbourne experienced years of social dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of daily life. As women left their homes to replace men in factories and offices, the traditional roles of women were challenged, and the presence of US soldiers raised questions about Australian identity.

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Cole Goodwin goes deep undercover to infiltrate the Australian Mafia. The covert investigation busts open the organisation. Unbeknownst to Cole, a lieutenant from the Calabria Mafiosi despatched to terminate the main undercover operative. And, too late, Cole realises that someone in the Australian Crime Authority is not quite who he seems.

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Reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world. Selecting writings from combatants abroad as well as the reflections of sightseers who travel to foreign battlefields and war sites, this work reveals how the experience of war has both broadened and refined Australian views of the world.

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Janet McCalman writes about people and the environments, events and forces that shape them. This extract from her award-winning book Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990 is a vivid account of the school years of Australians who were young in the 1930s, and are grandparents and great-grandparents now.

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Waltzing Matilda is the one song that belongs to all Australians. It has been bringing people together spontaneously since 1895. This book tells the story and evolution of Australia's favourite song up until the twenty-first century. It tries to answer the riddles within the song, and unpick its inherent contradictions.

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Presenting the history of Australia gastronomically, this work challenges myths such as that Australia is 'too young' for a national cuisine, and that immigration caused the restaurant boom. It shows us that Australia is unique because its citizens have not developed a true contact with the land, have not had a peasant society.

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As in life, Sam Dastyari's memoir is unexpected and unorthodox. This is the man who introduced Pauline Hanson to the halal snack pack and accountability to big banks. Named Sahand by his hippy Iranian parents, he changed his name to Sam to fit in with his schoolmates. But Sam was always going to stand out.

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Offers a new perspective on the lives of single people. One gives insight to the once maligned and now increasingly chosen status of being single. It is an inspiring call to politicians, business leaders and individuals, challenging us all to recognise the worth and standing of One.

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Presents climate change as potentially the 'best crisis we ever had'. This title maps the many opportunities for communities large and small, local and international, making the transition to a low carbon economy.

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Between 1989 and 2013 every industry sector covered by the Transport Workers Union in New South Wales was utterly transformed by processes of globalisation and technological and market change. Large players consumed small firms; in turn, the bigger companies were often acquired by global players. The lesson that emerges from Organising Union is simple: the value of solidarity.

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A contribution to the history of Australian women and the family. This book traces the struggle of Australian women to change approaches to childbirth, to claim their right to choices in childbirth, and to educate themselves about birth and breastfeeding. It explores the movement which radically changed our maternity care practices.

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Demonstrates the main convention of the short story-specifically the heightened reader response that the author terms narratorial presence'. The intensity of the short story encourages readers to appropriate the fictive world, as rendered through one or more represented subjectivities in the narrative.

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Australia has found it difficult to effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests. Informed by interviews with key decision makers, Pacific Power analyses why Australia has had difficulty exercising influence in the Pacific Islands and identifies how Australia can more effectively influence Pacific Island states in pursuit of its strategic interests.

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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.

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Roy Douglas ("Pansy") Wright was one of the great Australians of the 20th century. Born on a hill-country farm, he became a medical scientist and a builder of institutions such as the Australian National University. This biography reveals the many contradictions in this complex man.

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An account of the development of the parliamentary committee system in Australia from 1970 to 2006. It explores the implications the system has for both governance and careers of parliamentarians. It examines the different roles of House of Representative and Senate committees.