Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Teaching Aboriginal Studies
A practical resource for primary and secondary teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Teaching Aboriginal Studies has been a practical guide for classroom teachers in primary and secondary schools, as well as student teachers, across Australia. Chapters on Aboriginal history and culture, stereotypes and racism, government policies and reconciliation provide essential knowledge for...
The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights
A documentary history
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights is the first book of its kind. Not only does it tell the history of the political struggle for Aboriginal rights in all parts of Australia; it does so almost entirely through a selection of historical documents created by the Aboriginal campaigners themselves, many...
by Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
At a time when schooling is more important than ever for families, and where there is great public concern about educational standards and outcomes, Craig Campbell and Helen Proctor show what is new and what is an echo of older agendas. They offer a comprehensive history of Australian schooling from...
by Bain Attwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
Before 1788, the peoples of this continent did not consider themselves 'Aboriginal'. They only became 'Aborigines' in the wake of the British invasion. In this startling and original study, Bain Attwood reveals how relationships between black Australians and European colonisers determined the hearts...
Women, Rites and Sites
Aboriginal women's cultural knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
This book challenges a number of widespread preconceptions about Aboriginal society and its interaction with the wider non-Aboriginal society. It builds on recent scholarship that has drastically changed the view of Aboriginal women propagated by nineteenth and early twentieth century reports. These...
Combat Battalion
The 8th Battalion in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
This book explores the life of Australian infantrymen in the Vietnam War by focusing on the experiences of the men of the Eighth Battalion during their 12-month tour at the height of the war. As well as telling the story of that tour, Combat Battalion examines in detail the issues and themes that...
The Men Who Persevered
The AATTV - the most highly decorated Australian unit of the Viet Name war
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
The first Australians committed to serve in Viet Nam were a group of military instructors known as the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam. Their initial role: to assist in the training of the ground forces of South Viet Nam. But battalion battles and artillery duels, the relief of besieged camps,...
The Minefield
An Australian Tragedy in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
The Minefield tells the story of one of the greatest disasters in Australian military history.
In 1967, Brigadier Stuart Graham issued the calamitous order: First Australian Task Force would construct an 11 kilometre barrier fence minefield containing 20,292 powerful M16 landmines in southern...
Bearing Witness
The remarkable life of Charles Bean, Australia's greatest war correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
'Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the head of the most influential figure in Australia's military history. Rees's superb book shows how Bean bore witness to Australia's Great War.' - Professor Peter Stanley
'Part sophisticated military...
Six Months of Panic
How the Global Financial Crisis Hit Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Few Australian writers can match Trevor Sykes' understanding of the murkier waters of Australian business, as readers of his Pierpont column and his magisterial works The Bold Riders and Two Centuries of Panic have shown. He has now turned his eagle eye on what has become known as the GFC, and the...
Troubled Waters
Borders, boundaries and possession in the Timor Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Joint winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2003.
Troubled Waters tells the story of Australia's northern waters and their dramatic transformation in the twentieth century from a backwater to the most militarised and fiercely guarded region in Australia. Once a bridge between two...
Ian Gawler
The Dragon's Blessing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Before Lance Armstrong and his bike, there was Ian Gawler and his inspirational fight for survival against cancer. At the end of 1974 Dr Ian Gawler, an ambitious young veterinarian and athlete, developed bone cancer in his right leg. The leg was amputated at the hip. The following year, the cancer...
Sixth Sense
Everyday Experiences and What They Reveal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Everyone has a sixth sense, but most of us don't use it.
Learn all about this latent talent, along with great tips on how to develop your own sixth sense to help you make better decisions.
Find out about out-of-body experience and deja-vu, and how to work with your premonitions. If you...
In Search of Angels
True Stories of Beauty and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Every day miracles large and small are taking place, as people experience life-changing encounters with angels. Some see these beautiful angelic presences. Others simply sense them. Sometimes angels come into our lives to inspire us, or give us some hope when life seems hopeless. At other times they...