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This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has …

This book is the first of its kind to showcase a range of fresh and expert perspectives on decolonising history education in Australia. The research-informed chapters by First …

The important theoretical dimension of this book is the refinement of the concept of the sojourner to take into account the migrants' settlement phases. Although the sociological …

Exploring Gifted Education focusses on the most fundamental and pressing topics in gifted education from across Australian and New Zealand contexts and gives particular attention …

Inclusive Growth in Australia overturns two decades of assumptions that social policy is wasteful and a source of dependency. It reflects a global resurgence of the understanding …

This book explores one of the great paradoxes of our era. Western culture has almost imperceptibly come to secularize the sacred, while at the same time sacralizing the secular. …

The mounted soldier is one of the most evocative symbols in Australian military history. Now a celebrated part of Australia's army heritage, the role and very existence of mounted …

When Greg Fisher was a child his mother said he’d either be very successful or end up in jail.After a comfortable upbringing in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, Greg Fisher did what he …

"Inalienable Possessions" tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and …

The story follows four Scottish Highland families who, because of the potato famine in the Scottish Hebridean Islands have to emigrate to Australia and start new lives Mary …