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Leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present. The book is written with the conviction that we must see the world, and confront its many challenges, with an understanding of what has gone before.

(Paperback)

The essential guide to essay writing for university students. Written by the people who mark your essays, it will show you step-by-step how to write high quality essays that will get you top marks.

(Paperback)

Whether you're a concerned community member, or someone who is already active in social or environmental campaigning, this book will inspire and inform you, and get you fired up to co-create a common, more equitable future. A living democracy.

(Paperback)

Climate change is happening. The world is changing. In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, leading Australian writers come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis as the physical world changes all around us.

(Hardback)

Celebrates the first 100 years of the Local Government Engineers' Association of NSW, a steadfast advocate for both its members and the broader community.

(Paperback)

A history for every Australian who is interested in the story of settler-Australia's relations with Indigenous people - what happened between us, how we learnt to forget and, finally, how we came to confront the truth about our past and build a movement for reconciliation.

(Paperback)

marramarra highlights contemporary Indigenous art from across the planet and how artists and their communities are providing truth-telling about the past and inspiration to imagine better futures.

(Paperback)

A photographic celebration of nostalgia. Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with Bob Byrne as he transports us back in time to a Melbourne that has long since disappeared, the streets and buildings, the personalities and landmarks, the traditions and the times.

(Paperback)

Presents a selection of Mandy Sayer's non-fiction writing from the past twenty years. Each essay has been chosen to reflect a different aspect of Mandy's attraction to Australia's misfits and outsiders, with those who live in the shadows of Australian society.

(Paperback)

With an increasing number of Australian military personnel being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, this collection of insightful essays examines the unseen wounds sustained by combat and peacekeeping forces. They show there are no easy answers or simple solutions, and suggest where existing approaches are misguided.

(Paperback, New edition)

(Paperback)

From the creator of the historical comics Reg Saunders and Gallipoli: The Landing comes a dynamic graphic-novel treatment of the story of Edward Ned Kelly. With all the action rendered in full colour, high school readers and fans of graphic novels alike will see the story of Australias most famous bushranger come alive.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Australian women's football rides high on the sporting landscape now, but this book shows that success has been one-hundred years in the making. It shares stories of triumph in the face of overwhelming odds, and tales of heartbreak and obstacles that seem insurmountable. But it is also about community, endurance and collective success.

(Hardback)

From the creators of the bestselling Alphabetical Sydney comes a counting book set in a bright and quirky streetscape where theres always something new to find. Children will love counting the objects they see as they hop, skip or jump up Numerical Street past cake shops, hair stylists, laundromats, pet stores and shoe repairers, with all their curious wares on display.

(Paperback)

Tells the story of John Blays long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. This epic bushwalking story uncovers the history, country and rediscovery of this significant track.

(Paperback)

Profiles the transformative artwork Parragirls, realised in collaboration with contemporary artists and communities since the Parragirls Memory Project began in 2012. This vividly illustrated book reveals how art can change places and perceptions in this case, the long-neglected site of Parramatta Girls Home in Western Sydney.

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The saviour of many and cursed by the wayward, trackers live in the collective memory as one of the few examples where Aboriginal people's skills were sought after in colonial society. Pathfinders brings the work of trackers to the forefront of New South Wales law enforcement history, ensuring their contribution is properly acknowledged.

(Paperback, new edition)

In the only full history of constitutional change in Australia, George Williams and David Hume examine Australia's referendum record, why success has been so rare and how we can change this.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, updated paperback edition)

Lyrical and sensitive, David Whish-Wilson introduces his readers to the richness of the natural world and the trailblazers, the rebels, the occasional ghost and the ordinary people that bring Australia's remotest capital city to life.

(Hardback)

Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863-1930) was also the most widely viewed British-Australian artist of the Heidelberg era. In this pioneering, richly illustrated biography, Gary Werskey brings Fullwood and his extraordinary career as an illustrator, painter, and war artist back to life.

(Paperback)

Antonia Pont's Plain Life presents a series of essays that think through central ideas of happiness, rest and relaxation, talking and allowing for silence, community and leadership.

(Hardback)

Cottage to mansion, balcony to botanic garden, Planting Dreams will change the way you think about Australian gardens. Acclaimed garden historian Richard Aitken explores the fascinating environmental and social influences that have helped produce a unique gardening culture in Australia.