Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books

Koala

Origins of an icon

by Stephen Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

Adored for its large fluffy ears, spoon-shaped nose and bright button eyes, the koala is universally recognised and revered as an Australian icon. But it hasn't always been so. After coexisting successfully with Aborigines for thousands of years, the koala was considered sloth-like by the early Europeans...

The Lost World of the Kimberley

Extraordinary glimpses of Australia's ice age ancestors

by Ian Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006

Australia's Kimberley was the cultural hub of the Ice Age world. Today, it holds within its bounds the world's largest collection of Ice Age figurative art, giving us vital clues to the origins of other cultures and civilisations right across the world. Back at a time when most of Europe lay...

Botany Bay

Where histories meet

by Maria Nugent
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005

Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place chosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebrated as the birthplace of Australia. In this remarkable history, Maria Nugent takes her readers...
by Tim Murray
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998

During the past thirty years the human history of the Australian continent has become the object of intense national and international interest. These years have been the 'decades of discovery', featuring fieldwork and analyses which have rewritten the distant past of Australia almost on a yearly...

North of Capricorn

The untold story of the people of Australia's north

by Henry Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005

'This scintillating account by Henry Reynolds, a revisionist history in its best sense, is a door opening wide onto [another Australia].'- Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian 'Reynolds reveals yet another forgotten aspect of our shared history.' - The Age 'This is a fine book, logically...

Black Sheep

Journey to Borroloola

by Nicholas Jose
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

'I was a child when I first heard of him . 'There was a photograph of an old man with a prophet's beard and funny clothes standing outside an odd corrugated-iron dwelling in the middle of nowhere. Roger Jose lived with his Aboriginal wife in an upside-down water tank in a place called Borroloola....

Where the Ancestors Walked

Australia as an Aboriginal Landscape

by Philip Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003

'Philip Clarke has penned an insightful and wide-ranging account of Australia's Aboriginal cultures from a perspective of great learning and insider privilege. It's an immensely significant work, revealing the extraordinary richness of one of the world's oldest continuous cultures.' Tim Flannery,...

Older People, Ageing and Social Work

Knowledge for practice

by Mark Hughes, Karen Heycox
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

'Essential reading for practitioners, educators and researchers within the general field of social work with older people.' - From the foreword by Mark Lymbery, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Nottingham The reality of our ageing population means all social workers need to...

Inside Outside

Life between two worlds

by Andrew Riemer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

On a freezing November day in 1946, Andrew Riemer, then a 10-year-old with mumps, left a bomb-scarred Budapest on his way to Australia. In 1990, just a few days before Christmas, he returns to the city of his birth where, amid the decay of a world waking from totalitarian rule, he tries to reconstruct...

Riddledom

101 riddles and their stories

by David Astle
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015

*Why are ladies like arrows? When is a bird not a bird? What do you call a nun with a washing machine on her head?* Welcome to the weird new word adventure from David Astle, plunging into the realm of riddles, chasing down and prising open 101 curious questions from around the...

The Universal Heart

A practical guide to love

by Stephanie Dowrick
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

'A tour de force in matters of the heart.' Claire Scobie, Kindred Spirit A life worth living is a life of love. Love is the currency that transcends all others. Love connects us most deeply to our best selves, as well as to other people. The presence or absence of love makes the greatest...
by C.K. Stead
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017

A striking new collection of accessible yet elegant stories from literary giant and master craftsman C.K. Stead. Gathered from throughout Stead's career, these stories are a reminder of his deft storytelling and literary power. They are clever, sensual, wry and beautifully written, with Stead's...

Overworked and Underlaid

A seriously funny guide to life

by Nigel Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

Ever felt overworked and underlaid? Or that you're slogging away in a job you don't enjoy to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like? And that sometimes self-help books are no help at all? If so, Nigel Marsh knows how you feel. In this, his latest book, the...

Jungle Warriors

From Tobruk to Kokoda and beyond, how the Australian Army became the world's most deadly jungle fighting force

by Adrian Threlfall
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

Australians are acknowledged as being among the best, if not the best, jungle fighters in the world. So how did the Australian Army transform itself from a military force totally unprepared for conflict of any kind in 1939 into a professional, experienced and highly skilled jungle warfare force by...
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