New South imprint: 178 books
by David Whish-Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Dispelling some of the more unflattering stereotypes of Perth, acclaimed author and Perth native David Whish-Wilson describes how the city strikes a perfect harmony with its own eccentricities and contradictions, presenting a place of surprising beauty—of brilliant light and sand-swept peace—where...
The Europeans in Australia
Volume 3: Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This, the third and final volume of a landmark, award-winning series, gives an account of Australia's settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the 18th century to the end of World War I. It also tells the...
by Vicken Babkenian, Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became...
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo
A Surgeon Cuts through the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. That these claims come from an experienced,...
Time Bomb
Work, Rest and Play in Australia Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Time poverty is a conundrum for many Australian households and workers. Australians start work young, and we are working more, and longer into old age. And while maximising our productivity and enhancing our professional skills, we must raise our children well, care for our aged, be involved in our...
How to Be a Writer
Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.' This gonzo guide is a lesson in the practicalities of writing: how to be productive, professional and maybe one day even pay the rent. Topics covered include 'How to slay writer's block', 'What the hell...
Darling Mother, Darling Son
The Letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929-1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
"However far away from you I am, you are the real centre of my life ..." —Leslie Walford
For much of the twentieth century the names Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne were synonymous with style and glamour. Walford was the sophisticated, go-to interior designer for Sydney society. His mother,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The first of its kind, this landmark poetry anthology contains the work of Australia’s major poets as well as lesser-known but equally affecting writers of Australian poetry since 1788. Ranging from concrete to prose poems, from the cerebral to the naïve, from the humorous to the confessional,...
A Way Through
The Life of Rick Farley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Engaging and informative, this is the biography of a unique man whose determination and sense of justice has left a lasting legacy for many Australians: Rick Farley. From his boyhood in Queensland to his tragic death in 2006, this account demonstrates how Farley became the head of the Cattlemen’s...
The Secret Life of Whales
A Marine Biologist Reveals All
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales she reveals the...
Infectious
A Doctor's Eye-Opening Insights into Contagious Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
A woman's innocuous cold symptoms mask a debilitating rare tick infection. A young man develops shingles, then suffers blinding head pain later in life. After years of frustration, a family eradicates head lice forever. Leading infectious diseases specialist Frank Bowden sheds light the everyday illnesses...
by Frank Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Frank Bowden, a specialist in the field of infectious disease and sexual health, looks at one bug at a time, weaving around them the stories of his patients and their families, the doctors and the difficulties they face and the horrors and successes of hospitals and health care programs. Through Bowden’s...
by Rachel Sommerville
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Marquis is accused of involvement in the murder of a man from a rival neighborhood. Darren has been found guilty of murdering a gas station attendant. Charles has been charged with the murder of a homeless teenage girl. All three men are facing the death penalty in California. A passionate account,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
How were Ned Kelly’s bones finally identified? What makes cockroaches some of the most successful creatures on the planet? Could some obscure bacteria finally rid the world of dengue fever? How did infant reflux become the disease of the moment? From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic...