La Trobe University Press imprint: 12 books
Simon Leys
Navigator Between Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
An award-winning biography of one of the greats.
Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from...
China Matters
Getting It Right for Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Australia and China face a new era, but are we ready?
Australia’s prosperity and security are linked to China as never before. But what kind of a country is China becoming? Will its demand for Australian goods and services increase? Can the Communist Party continue to keep the middle class...
Wrong Way
How Privatisation and Economic Reform Backfired
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Since the 1980s, waves of neoliberal ‘economic reform’ have transformed Australia.
Privatisation, deregulation, marketisation and the contracting out of government services: for three decades now, there has been widespread agreement among policymakers on the desirability of these strategies....
2062
The World that AI Made
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
‘A compelling invitation to imagine the future we want’ —BRIAN CHRISTIAN, author of The Most Human Human
By 2062 we will have built machines as intelligent as us – so the leading artificial intelligence and robotics experts predict. But what will this future look like?
In 2062,...
Donald Horne
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
One of Australia’s leading thinkers for close to fifty years, Donald Horne was probably the best Australian non-fiction writer of his generation.
This definitive collection of Horne’s writing, thoughtfully selected by his son, Nick, tells the story of his life and intellectual development....
Fear of Abandonment
Australia in the World Since 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.
In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established...
A Coveted Possession
The Rise and Fall of the Piano in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
The intriguing cultural history of the piano in Australia
From the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia’s...
Hugh Stretton
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
A public intellectual known for his deeply humane approach to social and urban issues, Hugh Stretton’s thinking has influenced Australian public debates for many decades. Fundamentally, Stretton wanted to make Australia fairer.
His book The Political Sciences was hailed by the Times Literary...
by Hugh White
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously should we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian defence force, do we need?
In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White considers these questions and more. With clarity...
The Four Flashpoints
How Asia Goes to War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
A timely account of the four most troubled hotspots in the world’s most combustible region
Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast, and its regional ambitions are growing. Reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may be assembling more nuclear weapons, despite diplomatic efforts...
Sludge
Disaster on Victoria's Goldfields
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2019
The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush
Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines?
Or that this environmental devastation still affects our...
Superpower
Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2019
The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality: Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world.
We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural...