Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
Trillion Dollar Baby
How Norway Beat the Oil Giants and Won a Lasting Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
For most of its history, the near-Arctic nation of Norway eked out a marginal existence from fishing, forestry and shipping. But things began to change in 1969, when the country confirmed it had found one of the world’s biggest offshore oilfields. As the revenue from this field and many others started...
Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks
The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor continue...
Changing Jobs
The Fair Go in the New Machine Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
An essential guide to the future of work in Australia.
For many Australians, rapid progress in artificial intelligence, robotics and automation is a growing anxiety. What will it mean for jobs? What will it mean for their kids’ futures? More broadly, what will it mean for equality in this...
The Kingdom and the Quarry
China, Australia, Fear and Greed
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
China has rapidly become Australia’s most important trading partner. It is also the rising power in our region. In The Kingdom and the Quarry David Uren takes us inside the high-stakes world of the two countries’ relationship. From resource grabs to cybersurveillance, this is an authoritative and...
Vera
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
‘My revenge on Hitler is a lifetime in which delight has reached me from a hundred sources, and been welcomed.’—Vera Wasowski
A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life.
Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish...
The Motivation Hoax
A Smart Person's Guide to Inspirational Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Everywhere you look there’s a motivational quote to greet you.
Pursue your passion! Nothing is impossible! Happiness is a journey, not a destination!
But what if there is actually scant evidence to back up these shimmering proclamations? What if positive thinking does not, in fact,...
Moods
The Peter Moody Saga
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The remarkable story of a champion Aussie horseman
In March 2016 Peter Moody, the man who took his ‘good mare’ Black Caviar to an unprecedented 25 straight victories, walked away from racing. Suspended for six months after he was found to have presented a horse on race day with an illegal...
Short Black 8 Prosper
A Voyage at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
A big liner, brightly lit, passes us one or two cable-lengths ahead. ‘Ow! They are guzzling champagne but cannot see what's in front of them!’ grumbles Etienne, who has the helm and puts Prosper back on course. Our wooden boat, which one long wave can carry, is a mere cork in the wake of that...
Into the Woods
The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Winner, 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Winner, 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage...
The Best Australian Stories
A Ten-Year Collection
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The best of the best …
This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Stories and selects the most outstanding short fiction by the country’s finest writers. These stories range widely in style and subject matter: there is drama and comedy, subtlety and extravagance, tales of suspense,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
‘Great short stories have a power like a depth charge, subtext roiling up to the surface at precisely the right moment.’ —Cate Kennedy
In The Best Australian Stories 2011, Cate Kennedy presents the most outstanding short fiction of the past year.
These stories take us deep into...
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...
The Professionals
Strategy, Money and the Rise of the Political Campaigner in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Henry Mayer Book Prize for Australian Politics Stephen Mills has conducted on-the-record interviews with every living national campaign director of the two major political parties. Their experience covers the 15 federal election campaigns from 1974 to the present day. Built around...
Drawing Funny
A Guide to Making Your Terrible Little Cartoons Funnier
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you can’t learn cartooning, and it can’t be taught.’ And so begins Oslo Davis’ illustrated book on how to draw gag cartoons. Talk about shoot yourself in the foot! But he’s kidding, kind of. There are reasons why your terrible cartoons are not funny,...