Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Danger Music
How teaching the cello to children in Afghanistan led to a self-discovery almost too hard to bear
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience - from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful ABC Classic FM morning radio show. But all...
by Barry Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
The man can't help it. Self-parody, sending up other people's expectations, a love of the absurd. Gough's still going strong. To mark another birthday (and in response to popular demand) we've brought together Life With Gough and the best of Whitlam to Winston with some great newly minted Gough stories...
Off the Rails
The Pauline Hanson trip
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
'Kingston is a writer who brings an unusually raw brand of passion to her work. . . . [the book] is much more than a profile of One Nations' leader and her supporters; it's an analysis of political campaigning and media coverage in a post-modern world - a sketch of some emerging faultlines in the...
National Insecurity
The Howard government's betrayal of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2007
It's the most arresting political story of the past decade: the reckless trampling of Australia's interests in one sector after another by a government that vigorously promotes itself as the guardian of national security. Pulled together for the first time in this meticulously researched book, this...
Inside Spin
The dark underbelly of the PR industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Public relations professionals invisibly influence just about every news story we read, see and hear. Even more significant is what they manage to keep out of the news altogether.
Inside Spin is the first behind the scenes investigation of the billion dollar a year Australian PR industry. Bob...
The Passion of Politics
The role of ideology and political theory in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
'Lindy Edwards powerfully shows how politics can be understood as a passionate confrontation of ideas and ideologies. This book gives us a new and compelling way to think about the past, present, and future of Australian politics.' - Professor John Dryzek, Australian National University
Behind...
Sovereign Subjects
Indigenous sovereignty matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Indigenous rights in Australia are at a crossroads. Over the past decade, neo-liberal governments have reasserted their claim to land in Australia, and refuse to either negotiate with the Indigenous owners or to make amends for the damage done by dispossession. Many Indigenous communities are in a...
White Out
How politics is killing black Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
'An independent and fearless book which deftly negotiates a passage between the romanticism of the Left and the hard-heartedness of the Right. We badly need books of this kind.' Robert Manne
Indigenous Australians have a life expectancy almost twenty years below that of other Australians. No...
by Gillian Bottomley, Marie de Lepervanche
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1984
Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Australia is a major study of the impact of immigration on Australian society, and of the fragmentation that has developed along ethnic, class and gender lines. Rather than thumbnail sketches of ethnic groups or celebrations of multiculturalism, it offers detailed critiques...
The Secret Cold War
The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The Cold War between the West and the Soviet Bloc didn't end with detente in 1975: it just went underground. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, tensions between the superpowers continued to play out across the world.
Until now, few would have known of the surprising extent of clandestine...
The Protest Years
The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering,...
The Spy Catchers
The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the...
The Protectors
A journey through whitefella past
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
On 13 February 2008 Kevin Rudd and Brendan Nelson gave two very different apology speeches to the Stolen Generations. Rudd alluded to racism, eugenics and the immorality of past policies. Nelson spoke of benign intentions, goodness and the hurt felt by those accused of wrongdoings. Both cannot be...
Words and Silences
Aboriginal women, politics and land
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
In struggles over access to land, Aboriginal women's concerns have often remained unacknowledged. Their words - and silences - have been frequently misheard, misunderstood, misrepresented, misused.
The controversy about 'secret women's business' in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge conflict has brought...