New South imprint: 178 books
The Sydney Wars
Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians—described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist—around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this...
by Henry Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
"How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?" Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing...
The Future of Everything
Big, audacious ideas for a better world
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
We are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre lies in Silicon Valley, but its impacts are felt on all corners of the earth. It could give all of us a better quality of life and new, more cooperative ways of living. Or it could further concentrate the world's...
Beyond Combat
Australian military activity away from the battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
"Even a military that is solely dedicated to preparing for war creates, simply by existing, a suite of responsibilities that has very little to do with combat."––Tristan Moss and Tom Richardson
There is a lot more to military life than war. From an army nurse's letters home during...
Mahabharata in Polyester
The Making of the World's Richest Brothers and Their Feud
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Dhirubhai Ambani was a rags-to-riches Indian tycoon whose company Reliance is now one of India’s major corporations. Ambani’s sons Anil and Mukesh, who took over after their father's death in 2002, are worth $43 billion and $42 billion respectively, but their relationship is anything but amiable....
Rupert Murdoch
A Reassessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Rather than focusing on particular aspects of Rupert Murdoch’s personality or career, this comprehensive biography traces the whole of the Australian media tycoon’s business trajectory, the entrepreneurial strategies that led to his early successes, and his later exercises of monopolistic power....
How to Do a Liver Transplant
Stories from My Surgical Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
As a female surgeon, Dr. Kellee Slater works in one of the most demanding areas of medical operations, liver transplantation. In this inspiring, heartbreaking, and darkly humorous memoir, she opens up the fast-paced world of donor surgery. She takes readers with her as she flies across the Rocky Mountains...
by Brendan Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, this work tells the story of the intertwined lives of four people: Ludwig von Beethoven; a concert pianist who was a self-taught child prodigy; a fanatical inventor who disassembled pianos as a child; and a television cameraman...
Stranger Thingies
From Felafel to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer.The pieces contained within...
Up Came a Squatter
Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839–1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria – a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was...
Big Coal
Australia's Dirtiest Habit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A look at the underbelly of an industry whose power continues to soar even as its expansion feeds catastrophic climate change, this work dissects the Australian coal industry’s influence to publicly, and behind closed doors, get its way. The book exposes the myth of clean coal and the taxpayer-funded...
Populism Now!
The Case For Progressive Populism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Populism can be a dirty word. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump have certainly given it a bad name. But rather than associating it with demagoguery and exclusion, might we better see it as a backlash against free market globalisation? Might it be harnessed as a positive force able to thrive...
by Andrew Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A forensic examination of Australian life, this insightful book suggests that contemporary society has lost touch with its communities and its people. Written from an economist’s perspective and based on organizational membership records and surveys, it presents the reasons why the social fabric...
In the Shadow of Gallipoli
The Hidden Story of Australia in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons; the war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. This bookcorrects such historical amnesia by looking at what occured on the Australian home front during WWI, showing that...