University Of New South Wales Press imprint: 105 books

First Vintage

Wine in Colonial New South Wales

by Julie McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Exploring the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry, this book reveals the challenges of choosing vine stock, the battles to protect against pests and diseases, and the innovation of new technologies that assisted small-scale growers, many of whom worked in wine regions that have...

HIV in China

Understanding the Social Aspects of the Epidemic

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

The result of collaboration between the University of New South Wales and the Tsinghua University in Beijing, this unique chronicle maps some of the most important social, political, and cultural characteristics of the HIV epidemic in China. Demonstrating that the epidemic was propelled by three main...
by Colin McPhedran
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017

A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder...
by Richard Neville
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Author, illustrator, printmaker, and natural historian John William Lewin was the first professional artist to arrive in Australia as a free man. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, this record takes a fascinating look at Lewin’s life and work, his place in colonial Australian society, and...

On Track

Searching out the Bundian Way

by John Blay
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

On Track tells the story of John Blay’s long-distance search for the Bundian Way, an important Aboriginal pathway between Mt Kosciuszko and Twofold Bay near Eden on the New South Wales far south coast. The 360-kilometre route traverses some of the nation’s most remarkable landscapes, from the...
by Bob Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Six years after vacating his position as the longest-serving premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr returned to politics in his dream job: as foreign minister of Australia and a senior federal cabinet minister. For 18 months he kept a diary documenting a whirl of high-stakes events on the world stage—the...
by Ned Manning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple body shirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced a classroom of children in remote New South Wales. It was the start of many years of teaching, by turns exhilarating, nerve-fraying, and inspiring. Packed with...

Snake-Bitten

Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park

by Nancy Cushing, Kevin Markwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

Based on extensive interviews with park staff and supporters, this intriguing biography traces the life of Eric Worrell, the original reptile man and naturalist who established the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales. Depicting Worrell’s larger-than-life personality and his pioneer work with...

The Idea of Art

Building an International Contemporary Art Collection

by Anthony Bond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Curator Anthony Bond began building a contemporary international art collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 1984. The collection now features many important artists, including Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley, Francis Bacon, Anish Kapoor, Mike Parr, Doris Salcedo and Janet Laurence....
by Hannah Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

In 1857 all of the Arts students at the University of Sydney could fit into a single photograph. Now there are more than one million university students in Australia. After World War II, Australian universities became less elite but more important, growing from six small institutions educating less...
by Peter Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skillfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonization in Southeast Asia, and Australian domestic politics. The Vietnam War was Australia’s longest and most controversial military commitment of the 20th century, ending...

Australian Women War Reporters

Boer War to Vietnam

by Jeannine Baker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

The common picture of the war correspondent is a heroic, male reporter on the frontline, but women reporters have been more numerous and significant than we ever knew. Against the vehement opposition of newspaper editors, their male colleagues and military hierarchies, twentieth-century women journalists...

What the Frack?

Everything You Need to Know About Coal Seam Gas

by Paddy Manning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Australia has a new $50 billion industry; it carries unprecedented environmental risks, but could be the path to energy salvation: cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear, a complement to renewables. While big oil and gas companies believe Australia could be the biggest liquid natural gas exporter in...
by Sarah Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

A fascinating and enigmatic man, Davis McCaughey was a theologian equally at home in the secular world. As governor of Victoria, deputy chancellor of Melbourne University, and master of the prestigious Ormond College for 20 years, he played a groundbreaking role in Australian public life. This compelling...
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