Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
AFA7 China Dependence
Australia's New Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2019
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores Australia’s status as the most China-dependent country in the developed world, and the potential risks this poses to its future prosperity and security.
China Dependence examines how Australia should respond to the emerging economic...
by Ruby J. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Why has no one heard of Edna Cranmer?
When a young writer is hired to put together the life of an unknown artist from Geelong, of all places, she thinks it will be just another quick commission paid for by a rich, grieving family obsessed with their own past.
But Edna Cranmer was not...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Brilliant short fiction from some of Australia’s most talented storytellers
A woman suspects her partner of murder. A father seeks to save his son from a looming disaster. A boy finds love in the heat of summer as a dust storm transforms his city and his fortunes. A guard in a detention centre...
by Catherine Deveny
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
At 2am., everything seems like a good idea… In 2008 the Pope came to Sydney, petrol prices soared and Australia proudly became the fattest nation on earth. Big Brother got the chop, Sam Newman mauled a mannequin and the Logies were as wonderfully bad as ever. Thank goodness for Catherine Deveny. Always...
Murder on Easey Street
Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
1977, Collingwood. Two young women are brutally murdered. The killer has never been found. What happened in the house on Easey Street?
On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood – stabbed multiple times...
A Big Fix
Radical Solutions for Australia’s Environmental Crisis: Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
If civilisation is to survive, this century will have to see dramatic transformation, not just in technological capacity but also in our approach to the natural world - and to each other. The road we are travelling on now can only end in disaster. The warnings from scientists are unequivocal: we cannot...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.
The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.
I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.
All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.
I became acutely aware...
Radical Hope
Education and Equality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged...
by Hugh White
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously should we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian defence force, do we need?
In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White considers these questions and more. With clarity...
The Four Flashpoints
How Asia Goes to War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
A timely account of the four most troubled hotspots in the world’s most combustible region
Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast, and its regional ambitions are growing. Reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may be assembling more nuclear weapons, despite diplomatic efforts...
Australian Green Home and Garden
Practical and Inexpensive Ways to Reduce the Use of Chemicals in Your Home and Garden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
**Do you want to live in harmony with the natural environment?
Are you or your family exposed to harmful chemicals at home?**
Australian Green Home and Garden introduces green alternatives, solutions to everyday household tasks that are effective, inexpensive and easy to apply.
It...
Sludge
Disaster on Victoria's Goldfields
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2019
The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush
Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines?
Or that this environmental devastation still affects our...
by Maddy Proud
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Grace Parker needs to figure out how to handle the 3Bs: boys, boy bands and ball sports.
Things were simple for netball nerd Grace Parker at primary school. She was captain of her school team – and with best friends Stella and Mia won the grand final. Back then, her biggest problem was persuading...
The Happiness Show
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
She ached for him. She longed for him. She missed the way he made her feel and how funny and smart and sexy she felt with him. And young. She missed the version of herself that she had left behind. At thirty-eight, Lizzie Quealy thinks she has things sorted: a happy relationship, a couple of gorgeous...