Böcker utgivna av Australian Scholarly Publishing

An expert practitioner carefully explains dementia and harshly criticizes current practices and official policies.

A critique of rationalism, this book explains both its powerful contributions to mathematics and the physical sciences and its disastrous failures in cosmology and the moral sciences. In these supposed sciences, rationalism has all but destroyed the social conscience of the West by creating the disastrous political philosophy of neoliberalism.

Places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia into a broad framework of human evolution and habitation with a selection of pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity and current controversies.

GALWAY: Hardiman & Beyond is a splendid new history of the Irish city, for release in celebration of James Hardiman's classic 1820 account of its origins and its recognition today as a European City of Culture.

The European settlement of Australia is a story of first contact between European and Indigenous peoples; of colonisation, disease, famine, cultural misunderstanding, tragedy and resilience.

Japanese War Crime Trials, Tokyo, 1946. General MacArthur is initiating his grand strategy for turning Japan into a democracy. The plot is compelling. Storylines at once personal and historical, militaristic and humane, cleverly interweave.

An international crime novel brilliantly blending humour and mystery with a fascination for typography that is widely shared by today's reading public.

Matthew Flinders charted and named Australia. George Bass, naturalist and businessman, gave his name to the Strait that divides Tasmania from the mainland. Set against the powerful background of the Napoleonic War, historically rigorous, and as gripping as any novel.

Text in English; translated from Albanian.

This pioneering book explores these struggles as white Australia negotiated its place in a post-colonial world.

From silent cinema pianist born in the Australian Bush to celebrity virtuoso entertaining Royalty in Mayfair-an extraordinarily magical and inspirational musical odyssey.The concert pianist Edward Cahill (1885-1975) rose to prominence from humble beginnings in the inauspicious setting of 19th-century rural Queensland. At a time when Australian concert artists were virtually unknown in Europe, he dazzled the salons of royalty, aristocratic patronage and privilege in London, Paris and the French Riviera during the glittering decades of the 1920s and 1930s …'With what vigour, what virtuosity and poetry this master plays the piano!'-Chronique musicale, Montreux, 5 May 1939

As this book shows, films, novels and memoirs enable authors to imagine the deep-seated predilections and peccadilloes of spies and secret agents over the last four centuries of Australian existence. Sex and seduction? Those books and this one are replete with it. Narcissism? It is everywhere in novelistic and filmic treatments of the theme.