University Of Wales Press: 420 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the first ordination of women priests in the Australian Anglican Church, this book analyzes the ordination debate and reviews how it occupied church synods, ecclesiastical tribunals, civil courts, and media headlines. It also highlights the accomplishments of...
by Jane Lydon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Marking its...
A Forger's Progress
The Life of Francis Greenway
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
A forger and convicted felon, Francis Greenway was transported to Sydney in 1814. Only a decade later, his dreams of a “city superior in architectural beauty to London” began to be realized as he designed Hyde Park Barracks, St James’ Church, the Supreme Court, St Luke’s Church in Liverpool,...
Born in Hope
The Early Years of the Family Court in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Family Law Act of 1975 and the establishment of the Family Court of Australia in the following year aimed to revolutionize the settlement of marital disputes. But the court quickly became the focus of hostility, and many saw it as a failed experiment. Drawing on interviews with judges, lawyers,...
Icon in Crisis
The Reinvention of CSIRO
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
An insider’s account of the transformation—and recovery from potential ruin—of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), this book details how the iconic research agency reinvented itself through its National Flagship Initiative. In 2001, facing the...
by S Magarey
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This work offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, located in rich cultural, social and political context, which also presents a new view of the decades around federation.
From Vienna to Yogyakarta
The Life of Herb Feith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Herb Feith came to Australia as a Jewish refugee from war-torn Europe in 1939 and went on to become an internationally renowned and passionate scholar of Indonesia. This engaging biography tells Feith's extraordinary story and traces his interest in Indonesia, his determination to establish networks...
Islam Dreaming
Indigenous Muslims in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
From the Malay pearl divers of Broome to the Afghan camel drivers of the interior, Muslims have lived and worked in Australia for more than three centuries. This comprehensive account reveals the life stories of the Muslim pioneers and their descendants as they formed bonds with the indigenous people...
Making Girls and Boys
Inside the Science of Sex
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
What is it that makes a person a boy or a girl? From our cradles to our graves, a pair of letters, either XX or XY, will define much of our lives. It’s a girl!” or It’s a boy!” will be the first label applied to us, the first thing said about who we are as an individual. For every person...
Widening Minds
The University of New South Wales and the Education of Australia's Defence Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Since 1967 more than 25,000 students have graduated from UNSW after studying at Duntroon, HMAS Creswell, the Australian Defence Force Academy. Tom Frame examines the productive 50-year partnership between UNSW and the Australian Defence Force.In a candid exploration of the highs and lows of the longest...
Radio Astronomer
John Bolton and a New Window on the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (1922–93), was born in Sheffield and educated at Cambridge University. After wartime service in the Royal Navy, he arrived in Sydney and joined the CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory. In the late 1940s he discovered and identified the first...
by Henry Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a three-year conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had ostensibly nothing to do with Australia....
Ethics Under Fire
Challenges for the Australian Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military's commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire – a timely and compelling book – asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army...
Populism Now!
The Case For Progressive Populism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Populism can be a dirty word. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump have certainly given it a bad name. But rather than associating it with demagoguery and exclusion, might we better see it as a backlash against free market globalisation? Might it be harnessed as a positive force able to thrive...