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Shorthand writers in Australia date to the early years of colonisation. They brought with them the method of their time and infectious curiosity prompted inventions and improvements through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Shorthand's popularity surged in the 1920s and beyond, coinciding with the new technology of the wireless. What was

Safer Gardens has information about the flammability of over 500 plants based on scientific research. Most 'fire retardant' plant lists aren't based on research and include plants that research indicates are flammable. The book advises people how to design safer gardens in an increasingly flammable world.

Helps the reader understand the very wide mental health effects of this pandemic.

The Piano Woman highlights the fragility of family, the price of love, and the importance of traditions that can sometimes save us from ourselves.

With a new vision of bio-ecology that linked humans to their past and their evolutionary niche, the 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe constructing morphologies of the biological world.

Nazi Dreamtime is the story of the extreme-righted ultra-nationalism in Australia before and during the World War II. It focuses on those native-born Australians who were attracted to the ideology of Nazism.

Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia is the first volume entirely published on Jelinek's work in Australia and gathers a series of analyses around 'Princess Dramas' at Red Stitch Actors Theatre the first-ever production of one of her plays on an Australian stage, in Melbourne, 2011.

Generations of Australians have been reared on the belief the fall of Singapore in February 1942 was a British betrayal that exposed Australia to Japanese invasion. In The Road to Singapore a young American historian, using archival records from across the globe, exposes the notion of a British betrayal as nothing more than a myth.

After the 1838 Lower Canada rebellion, 58 French Canadians were convicted of treason and transported to life at hard labour in New South Wales. From the day they left Quebec, until the last man returned home, their activities were observed in journals, diaries and newspapers.

The football field was an arena of protest and empowerment for the women's liberation movement of the 1970s. The authors follow the Australian and New Zealand national players in the male-dominated world of football, uncovering stories of vulnerability and strength, sexual harassment and sexual awakening.

This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the twenty-first century.

Costas Taktsis, arguably the most important post-war Greek writer, called himself a 'Sacred Monster', and his life-long Australian friend Carl Plate - an important painter, Gallerist and influencer of modern art in Sydney - the Colossus of Woronora.

In these 22 interviews with notable verse novelists, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the verse novel genre. Her subjects include Bernardine Evaristo, joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019; and what they have to say enriches our understanding of the many ways poetry and narratives can meld.

David Campbell was one of Australia's finest lyric poets. A writer, war hero and grazier, he published 11 books of poems and short stories, and was a regular contributor to The Bulletin under Douglas Stewart's literary editorship.

More than any other 20th century writer, George Orwell responded to a period of historical change by imagining his dystopian '1984'. What if he had been writing today, in an age of Islamist terror, fake news and post-truth politics?