Between Devotion and Design
John J. Taylor
2000
978 1 876268 166 $89.95 Hb 
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Winner of the Australian Christian Literature Award’s
Book of the Year and a Galley Club of Sydney Award for
Excellence in 2001, Between Devotion and Design is a
study of the work of John Cyril Hawes (1876–1956), an
acclaimed architect and devout Christian whose buildings grace
cities in Western Australia, the United Kingdom and the
Bahamas.
Call Girls:
Private Sex Workers in Australia
Roberta Perkins & Frances Lovejoy
2007
978 1920694 913 $39.95 Pb 
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A comprehensive study of women working in the Australian sex
industry – usually outside of brothels and often via
telephone from home (thus their name). Call Girls
makes for surprising and challenging reading and, most
importantly, places the world of the sex worker within
political and legal contexts which will surprise and challenge
the preconceived notions of many readers.
Come With
Daddy
Carolyn Harris Johnson
2005
978 1 920694 420 $34.95 Pb Add to
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Come with Daddy examines the tragic crime of
familicide, the murder-suicide of children and a parent in the
context of a custody or access dispute. Here survivors
courageously relive their devastating experiences in the hope
that their stories can prevent further pain and suffering.
Candid and informative, it is a must-read for counselors,
social workers, court officials, lawyers, police, doctors,
teachers and relatives assisting troubled families.
Community
Voices: Creating Sustainable Spaces
Edited by Sally Paulin
2006
978 1 920694 870 $39.95 Pb Add to
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For the inner activist in everyone comes this timely guide to
community empowerment and sustainability, which uses notable
urban and rural action groups such as the Western Australian
Forest Campaign, Saving the Moore River Campaign and Children
Caring For Our Coastline as informative case studies. Issues
canvassed in Community Voices include recognition and
empowerment, Indigenous approaches to sustainability, political
ecology, funding, organisational issues and leadership.
Corporate
Elders
Leonie Still
2006
978 1 920694 617 $39.95 Pb Add to
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Corporate Elders lifts the veil of boardroom secrecy
by documenting the careers and lives of fifty managerial and
professional men in their fifties.
Recently voted by The Australian Financial Review as
one of its ‘Fifty Best Management Books For 2006’,
Professor Leonie Still presents a rare look at the core beliefs
and values underpinning Australian business and management
processes, revealing a surprising consistency that transcends
all epochs and eras – even the corporate scandals of the
1980s.
Edging Towards
BioUtopia: A New Politics of Reordering Life and the Democratic
Challenge
Richard Hindmarsh
2008
978 0 980296 58 7 $34.95 Pb 
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Edging Towards BioUtopia interrogates the history of
biotechnology development and regulation in Australia,
especially with regard to technocratic policy control,
suppressed public debate and environmental issues.
It offers a unique perspective on the GM debate from a renowned
expert in the interaction between science and politics.
Elvis is Titanic
Ian Klaus
2008
978 1921401 17 6 $26.95 Pb
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Why would an American go to Iraqi Kurdistan to teach
American history?
In the spring of 2005, Ian Klaus, a
twenty-six-year-old American Rhodes Scholar, traveled eight
hours from Turkey, via broken-down taxi and armed convoy, to
reach Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in Iraqi
Kurdistan.
Elvis Is Titanic is the poignant, funny, and
eye-opening story of the semester he spent there teaching U.S.
history and English in the thick of the war for hearts and
minds. A runaway success in the United States, we are pleased
to bring Ian Klaus’ inspiring work to Australia.
“Captivating…A fascinating exploration of a
society jolted by great change…Klaus imbues the
narrative with an easy humor…[and he] also has an eye
for the characters who are churned up in war’s
aftermath…Klaus, who is not yet 30 displays greater
insight than many authors twice his age and twice as self
important. Elvis is Titanic beautifully captures the
quotidian and often chaotic realities behind how history is
made.” -The Wall Street Journal
The Great Energy Debate: Energy Costs, Minerals and the
Future of the Western Australian Economy
Kenneth W. Clements, Ye Qiang, Robert A.
Grieg
2002
978 1 876268 743 $39.95 Pb Add to
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The Great Energy Debate provides a critical analysis
of energy costs to the Western Australian economy as well as
the State’s changing policy and regulatory climate.
Proposing a series of provocative benchmarks against which
policy proposals addressing competition and regulation across
the State’s energy, mining and mineral-processing sectors
can be measured, The Great Energy Debate is essential
reading for everyone interested in energy policy reform in
Western Australia.
If Only:
Personal Stories of Loss Through Suicide
Edited by Belinda Woolley
2006
978 1 920694 684 $39.95 Pb Add
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If Only is a collection of deeply moving personal
stories from people who have lost a family member or loved one
through suicide. They tell of the tragic loss of children,
partners, parents and siblings, and relate the difficulties and
struggles experienced as well as the profound pain and despair
that may be encountered in grief.
As well as offering hope and support for survivors of suicide,
If Only is a valuable resource for professionals
working with the bereaved, as well as a means to broaden
awareness and understanding in the wider community.
The Jihad Seminar
Hanifa Deen
2008
978 1 921401 12 1 $29.95 Pb
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In March 2002, three Muslim converts attend an Evangelical
Christian seminar promising to reveal the inner secrets of
‘Holy Jihad’. Shocked by what they hear, they
convince the Islamic Council of Victoria to lodge a complaint
against Catch the Fire Ministries, under a controversial new hate
speech law. A case expected to be over in three days turns into
an unholy war of words lasting five long years – freedom of
speech versus freedom from vilification is under the spotlight.
Award-winning author Hanifa Deen follows this case from beginning
to end, witnessing the religious impulse at its best – and
worst. Through Deen’s eyes we discover a wider meaning to
this conflict, as we come to realise that religious vilification
is only one strand of a more complex story with hidden
agendas.
A Jury Of Whose Peers?
The Cultural Politics of Juries in Australia
Edited by Kate Auty and Sandy Toussaint
2004
978 1 920694 17 X $38.95 Pb Add to
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How well does our jury system work, and does trial by jury
guarantee justice to those brought before it?
A Jury Of Whose Peers? examines the workings of the
Australian jury system from a variety of perspectives,
including jurors, lawyers, barristers, an anthropologist and an
Indigenous writer.
This unique collection of essays offers historical, cultural
and political insight into the role of juries and explores
complex issues of silence, compromise, language, prejudice,
social justice and ambiguity in circumstances where issues of
'reasonable doubt' are inevitably involved.
Living With Your Looks
Roberta Honigman & David J. Castle
2007
978 1 920694 9 51 $29.95 Pb Add
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Living with Your Looks outlines the social, cultural
and historical influences that affect the way people view their
bodies and how concerns about body image can give rise to a
range of body image disorders such as: Muscle Dysmorphia, Body
Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa &
Habit Disorders.
The book covers how these problems are diagnosed and treated
as well as what family and friends can do to assist in the
recovery process. In an unsensational way Living With Your
Looks also gives straightforward information about the
controversial area of cosmetic surgery.
Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education
Edited by Quentin Beresford and Gary
Partington
2003
978 1 920694 03X $39.95 Pb Add
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Reform and Resistance in Aboriginal Education examines
the widespread failure of the Australian education system to
meet the needs and aspirations of Indigenous students.
With chapters focusing on the family, language, health,
attendance, classroom management and the criminal justice
system, this landmark title views education as a complex
interaction between schools, government agencies and Indigenous
communities – particularly for schools in remote areas.
'Experts in the various fields provide well–researched
and strongly argued chapters...' Campus
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"Socialism is Great!": A
Worker's Memoir of the New China
Lijia Zhang
2008
978 0 9802965 56 $24.95 Pb Add to
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BANNED IN CHINA!
"This revealing memoir will have readers rooting for Zhang as
she fights her way out of an oppressive system." -
Booklist
Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing
missiles designed to reach North America, queing every month to
give evidence to the "period police" that she wasn't
pregnant.
In the oppressive routine of guarded compounds and political
meetings, Zhang's disillusionment with "The Glorious Cause" drove
her to study English, which strengthened her intellectual
independence - from bright, western-style clothes, to organising
the largest demonstration by Nanjing workers in support of the
Tiananmen Square protest in 1989.
Written in English, "Socialism is Great!" is a testament to
Zhang's personal triumph over the controlled existence that was
supposed to be her destiny.
The War on Democracy:
Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press
Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler
2006
978 1 920694 900 $29.95 Pb Add to
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If current conservative opinion writers are to be believed,
Australian political and cultural life continues to be
dominated by plotting left-wing ‘Marxists’ and
‘extremists’. While conservatives see themselves as
representing the interests of ‘ordinary’
Australians, they see ‘the left’ as politically
correct and self-serving elitists, intent on imposing their
undemocratic views on the media, schools, universities and
other public institutions and cultural practices.
The authors of The War on Democracy think otherwise.
Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler argue that the real opponents of
democracy are conservatives, whose attack on ‘the
left’ reveals hostility for the ideals of liberty,
equality and fraternity.
The War on Democracy focuses on the published ideas of
seven of Australia’s most influential conservative media
commentators – Luke Slattery, Miranda Devine, Gerard
Henderson, Janet Albrechtsen, Andrew Bolt, Michael Duffy and
Christopher Pearson - analyzing how each tries to discredit
those they label ‘extremists’ as a way of
disguising their own self-interested support of the powerful
and the privileged.
Find out more at www.myspace.com/warondemocracy
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Water:
Histories, Cultures, Ecologies
Edited by Marnie Leybourne and Andrea
Gaynor
2006
978 1 920694 803 $39.95 Pb Add to
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Water: Histories, Cultures, Ecologies provides a
multidisciplinary exploration of issues relating to water and
its management. The product of a highly successful
international symposium held at The University of Western
Australia, Water includes contributions from Chief
Scientists of Israel and the Chairman of the Western Australian
Environmental Protection Authority as well as scholars in
ecology, history, anthropology, geography, history, limnology,
indigenous studies and political economy.
The Years of
Scandal
Edited by Allan Peachment
2006
978 1 920694 579 $39.95 Pb Add to
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Spanning the tumultuous and bitter period in Western Australian
public life from the late 1980s through until 2004, The
Years of Scandal offers valuable perspectives on the
procedural machinery and role in politics of royal commissions
and similar enquiries.
Nine specialist authors analyze key aspects of selected
inquiries – including police corruption, financial
scandals, medical improprieties, family violence, child abuse
and local government imbroglios – bringing fresh insights
to this contentious and misunderstood area.
