Allen Unwin: 2237 books
The Journalist's Guide to Media Law
A handbook for communicators in a digital world
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
We are all journalists and publishers now: at the touch of a button we can send our words, sounds and images out to the world. No matter whether you're a traditional journalist, a blogger, a public relations practitioner or a social media editor, everything you publish or broadcast is subject to the...
by David Horner, Neil Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The SAS is a disciplined and elite force. The men in this force are trained to operate deep behind enemy lines to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance operations, usually in very close proximity to the enemy and are often involved in violent actions with that enemy.
The SAS first went into...
by Shamus Sillar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
'Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together.'
This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean sea change only to find themselves in the sprawling Sicilian city of Catania - the 'anti-Tuscany' of Italy. There, any romantic visions they'd had of...
Producing Videos
A complete guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Producing Videos has been called the 'bible' of video making. A bestseller over many years, it offers a comprehensive and user friendly guide to all aspects of video production - from the first chapter on using a camera (if it doesn't go in easily, don't force it) to the chapter on distribution (no...
Making Radio
A practical guide to working in radio in the digital age
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
'The distilled wisdom and passion of top practitioners makes this an invaluable guide to making radio in Australia.' - Siobhan McHugh, award-winning radio feature producer and lecturer, University of Wollongong
'a very useful hands-on guide to radio production in Australia' - Gail Phillips,...
Stubborn Buggers
Survivors of the infamous POW gaol that made Changi look like heaven
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
'It made Changi seem like heaven.'
This is the little known story of Singapore's Outram Road Gaol and the POWs who endured it. Deprivation here was so extreme that there really was a fate worse than death.
Powerful and shocking, Stubborn Buggers tells of twelve Australian POWs who fought...
by Kate Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
In 1979, at the age of fourteen, Ray McCullough ran away from his home on a western New South Wales sheep property following a violent confrontation with his dad, Jim McCullough. He left behind his mother, Delly, and his sisters, Ursula and Tilda.
Now forty-one, Ray works as an itinerant cook...
by Peter Brune
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
'. . . Brune's book is a timely reminder that despite the warmest alliances, nations sometimes have to stand up and save themselves.' - The Weekend Australian Financial Review
'. . . A Bastard of a Place undeniably ranks as the best book ever written about the Aussie battles in Papua . . ....
Flight Command
From the farm to the frontline
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
As a farm boy in western Victoria, John Oddie would watch RAAF jets pass overhead as he ploughed hay fields, wondering what it would be like to fly such a machine. Thirty-five years later - having flown Hueys, Chinooks, Hercules, jets and C-17s in a range of operations - John had risen to the rank...
Walking the Gallipoli Peninsula
Making the most of your visit to the battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Tony Wright first travelled to Gallipoli with an Australian prime minister at the start of this century. He found himself intrigued by the swelling crowds of mainly young people at Old Anzac. He has returned again and again over the decade, shouldering a backpack containing his great-uncle's Gallipoli...
by Louis Nowra
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
You have possessed me, let me go.
An iceberg is towed through the Heads to the astonishment of colonial Sydney. As it melts, the iceberg is revealed as a tomb to the perfectly preserved body of a young sailor, who died forty years before.
A man lost in grief for his wife is haunted by...
by Gail Terrassin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Having trouble making ends meet?
Want to know some simple techniques to help you get ahead financially?
Are money issues causing you difficulties in your relationship?
The Commonsense Money Book looks at some back to basic ideas regarding money and relationships in the 21st century....
Super Green Smoothies
60 delicious recipes for weight loss, energy and vitality
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
LEAN, FAB, FAST. That's the best way to describe the green smoothie lifestyle.
After battling and surviving a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer, Sally Obermeder decided to take back control of her health. By making one simple changev -- switching to the green smoothie lifestyle -- she...
The End of Charity
Time for social enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Nic Frances is a social entrepreneur. He once worked for charity. This is the story of how he came to understand that charity can never deliver a just and sustainable world. It is only through a value-centred market economy that we will ever see real social change.
Breaking new ground and drawing...