Review Books in Australian Studies

The following books are currently available for review in Australian Studies as book notes of about 400 words in length. If you are interested in any of these titles, please let me know in person or by email.

Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander

Sean Brennan et al: 'Treaty' ( Annandale , NSW: Federation Press, [2005])

John Chesterman: 'Civil rights: How indigenous Australians won formal equality' ( St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2005)

Jennifer Cramer: 'Sounding the alarm: Remote area nurses and Aboriginals at risk' ( Crawley , WA : University of Western Australia Press , 2005)

Helen MacDonald: 'Human remains: Episodes in human dissection' ( Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 2005)

Art

Penelope Curtin (ed): '2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Contemporary Photo-media' ( Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004)

Margot Osborne (ed): 'Australian glass today' (Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press, 2005)

Communications

Linda Leung: 'Virtual ethnicity: Race, resistance and the world wide web' ( Aldershot : Ashgate, 2005)

Economics

John Braithwaite: 'Markets in vice, markets in virtue' ( Annandale : Federation press, 2005)

Al Rainnie & Mardelene Grobbelaar (ed): 'New regionalism in Australia ' ( Aldershot : Ashgate, 2005)

Environment

Pepe Clarke (ed): 'Environmental law tookit - NSW: A community guide to environmental law' ( Annandale , NSW: Federation Press, 5th edn, 2005)

Stephen Dovers: 'Environment and sustainability policy: Creation, implementation, evaluation' ( Annandale , NSW: Federation Press, 2005)

Florae/Faunae

Rica Erickson: 'A naturalist's life' ( Crawley , WA : University of Western Australia Pressfor the Charles and Joy Staples South West Region Publications Fund, 2005)

Margaret Sommerville: 'Wildflowering: The life and places of Kathleen McArthur' ( St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2004)

History

Robyn Annear: 'A city lost and found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne ' ( Melbourne : Black Inc, 2005)

Tony Dawson: 'James Meehan: A most excellent surveyor' ( Sydney : Crossing Press, 2004)

Jim Gasteen: 'Under the mulga: A bush memoir' ( St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2005)

Judith Johnston & Monica Anderson: ' Australia imagined: Views from the periodical press 1800-1900' ( Crawley , WA : University of Western Australia Press , 2005)

Helen MacDonald: 'Human remains: Episodes in human dissection' ( Carlton : Melbourne University Press, 2005)

Helene Chung Martin: 'Lazy man in China ' ( Canberra : Pandanus Books, 2004)

Frank Molloy: 'Victor J Daley: A life' (Darlinghurst, NSW: Crossing Press, 2004)

A Dirk Moses (ed): 'Genocide and settler society: Frontier violence and stolen indigenous children in Australian history' ( New York : Berghahn Books, 2004)

Richard Stone: 'Fragments of the everyday: A book of Australian ephemera' ( Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2005)

Law

John Chesterman: 'Civil rights: How indigenous Australians won formal equality' ( St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2005)

Pepe Clarke (ed): 'Environmental law tookit - NSW: A community guide to environmental law' ( Annandale , NSW: Federation Press, 5th edn, 2005)

John Hirst (ed): ''Kangaroo court': Family law in Australia ', Quarterly Essay, 17 (2005)

Savriti Taylor (ed): 'Nationality, refugee status and state protection: Explorations of the gap between man and citizen' ( Annandale , NSW: Federation Press, 2005) [Law In Context, 22, 2 (2005)]

John Vrachas et al: 'Migration and refugee law: principles and practice in Australia ' ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Literature/Drama/Screenplays

Sarah Gleeson-White (ed): 'Ray Mathew: An Australian for life' ( Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2005)

Merrilee Moss & Jan Cornall: Women on a Shoestring Theatre Company presents two plays: Empty suitcases, and At the crossroads' (Charnwood, ACT: Ginninderra Press, 2004)

Summer Conversations , 5, 2 (Summer 2005)

UTS Writers' Group: 'nine tenths below' (Broadway, NSW: Halstead press, 2005)

Migration

David Corlett: 'Following them home: The fate of the returned asylum seekers' ( Melbourne : Black Inc, 2005)

Sharon Pickering: 'Refugees & state crime' ( Annandale , NSW: Federation Press, 2005)

Nursing

Jennifer Cramer: 'Sounding the alarm: Remote area nurses and Aboriginals at risk' ( Crawley , WA : University of Western Australia Press , 2005)

Poetry

Susan Hampton: 'The kindly ones' ( Carlton , VIC: Five Islands Press, 2005)

TAG Hungerford: ' "What happened to Joseph?": A collection of short stories and poems by T.A.G. Hungerford' ( Torrens Park , SA: Jacobyte Books, 2005)

Alan Loney: 'Fragmenta nova' ( Carlton , Vic: Five islands Press, 2005)

Yve Louis: 'The yellow dress' ( Carlton , Vic: Five Islands Press, 2005)

Mal McKimmie: 'Poetileptic' ( Carlton , Vic: Five Islands Press, 2005)

John Millett: 'The people singers: The Surfers Paradise poems' ( Carlton , VIC: Five Islands Press, 2005)

Della Thomas (ed): 'C.J. Dennis: A collection of verse' ( Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2005).

Amelia Walker & Shen (ed): 'Blur. Friendly Street Poets 29' (Kent Town, SA: Friendly Street Poets Incorporated in association with Wakefield Press, 2005)

Politics

Sean Brennan et al: 'Treaty' ( Annandale , NSW: Federation Press, [2005])

John Chesterman: 'Civil rights: How indigenous Australians won formal equality' ( St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2005)

Stephen Dovers: 'Environment and sustainability policy: Creation, implementation, evaluation' ( Annandale , NSW: Federation Press, 2005)

Sociology

Carolyn Harris Johnson: 'Come with daddy: Child murder-suicide after family breakdown' ( Crawley , WA :UWA Press, 2005)

Miscellaneous

Eric A Feldman & Ronald Bayer (ed): 'Unfiltered: Conflicts over tobacco policy and public health' ( Cambridge , Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004)

Maryvonne Nedeljkovic: 'Terre et territories: defies et evolutions dans les pays du Pacifique. Land and territories: Challenges and changes in the Pacific Rim countries' ( Paris : L'Harmattan, 2003) [YHI Science politique et sciences humaines (2003)]

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