AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, small closed tear spine, minor edgewear. 181 pp. Shakira Hussein looks at the lives of Muslim women negotiating the hazards of the post-9/11 terrain, from volatile Afghan refugee camps and Pakistani weddings to Australian suburbia and campaigns to ‘ban the burqa’. This is a unique perspective on feminism, multiculturalism,… Read more about this item

Sydney / Melbourne: Melbourne University Press / Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1992. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white & colour text-photos, faint foxing inside covers & edges, minor edgewear. 194 pp. This beautiful and authoritative book of essays is about life in a new society - its architecture and literature, political and economic… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022. 1st ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good condition, laminate coating slightly frayed bottom edge rear cover, minor edgewear. 459 pp. In an important and compelling book, Julianne Schultz explains the idea of Australian culture, and suggests ways Australia can realise her true potential. She presents the vision we need to appreciate Australian strengths and… Read more about this item

Perth: Upswell Publishing, 2022. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear, some pencil annotation few pages (including comments ast page). 269 pp. Kath Kenny relates the story of five women who, in January 1972, took to the stage of Carlton's Pram Factory to preview their women's play 'Betty Can Jump'. This book is set against… Read more about this item

Sydney: Picador / Pan Macmillan Australia, 2021. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, front hinge slightly split (all pages firm), minor edgewear. 376 pp. This book is about the big city of Sydney in the future of a radically changing world. Elizabeth Farrelly has used her own adopted city of Sydney to create a… Read more about this item

Sydney: Pluto Press Australia, 2005. Paperback octavo, very good condition, sticker top corner front flyleaf. 248 pp. Wayne Swan, then Labor Federal Shadow Treasurer, explains how Australia is a prosperous country, but the benefits of this prosperity are not being fairly shared. About 1 million working Australians and their dependents are below the poverty line. The Australian nation has… Read more about this item

Perth, Crawley: University of Western Australia Press (UWAP), 2006. Paperback octavo, very good condition, pages lightly toned as usual. minor edgewear. 172 pp. This book by Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler has a focus on the published ideas of seven of Australia's most influential conservative media commentators, analysing how each one tries to discredit those they label 'extremists'. This… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1956. 2nd ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in fair dustjacket), black & white photos, frontispiece, map, edgewear jacket (few tiny chips, lightly foxed covers & reverse side, few small stains), pages lightly toned & foxed, endpapers lightly toned, bookshop label front pastedown, protected by removable semi archival plastic sleeve. 131 pp.… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Black Inc., 2013. 2nd or revised ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minimal edgewear. 289 pp. Revised edition. Does Australia now have the best living conditions in the world? Is our country both fair and free? Are we the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past 20 years? Takes readers on a vastly… Read more about this item

Canberra: University House, ANU, 2003. Paperback quarto, very good condition, stapled, thin card covers, staples slightly rusted, minor edgewear. 80 pp. An online conference organised by Manning Clark House in association with Nature and Society Forum Inc. and In Search of Sustainability on October 9, 2003 at University House, ANU, Canberra. The conference speakers discussed our population and the… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor creasing spine, minor edgewear. 350 pp. First edition. The secret history of John Howard's campaign against boat people that began with the Tampa incident, and ended 10 extraordinary weeks later with the Australian voters giving Howard his third election victory. (This early printing does not have… Read more about this item

Brisbane, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press (UQP), 2001. Reprint ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, top corner tips front cover little scuffed, tiny tear base spine, top corner rear cover creased, minor edgewear. 268 pp. This collection of readings offers an introductory guide to Australian Studies. The historical development and changing contours of Australian culture and identity… Read more about this item

Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1999. Reprint ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos & cartoons, tiny scuff top spine, front hinge slightly split (pages firm), minor edgewear. 295 pp. A remarkable insight into the Australian character by a migrant from Singapore - a must for new migrants and travellers to Australia (and Australians… Read more about this item

Sydney: Penguin Random House Australia, 2017. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 286 pp. This book is a broad-ranging, wise and compelling look at who we are now and where we are heading in the future, based on social research. She knows what Australians are really thinking. Written by one of Australia's most experienced and knowledgeable social researchers… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Richmond: Greenhouse Publications, 1988. 1st ed.. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white & colour text-photos, light foxing edges, spine & corner front cover little creased, covers little toned in places, minor edgewear. 106 pp. A charming and very funny look at Australia and Australians. In the years leading up to Federation a desire for a… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), tables, minor edgewear jacket, bottom edge lightly marked, little pencil annotation. 282 pp. A very good reference book that compares Australia with 17 other developed democracies on a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. A double-page spread is devoted to… Read more about this item

Sydney: NewSouth / University of New South Wales Press, 2017. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour & sepia (brown-tinted) & black & white photos centre spread, minor edgewear. 299 pp. In this fascinating book Mandy Sayer puts together a vivid, wide-ranging history that begins at the start of the Romani culture, tracing the first Gypsy people to arrive in… Read more about this item

Sydney: University of New South Wales Press (UNSW Press), 2010. Paperback octavo, very good condition, tables, black & white text-photos, maps, corner tip creased one page, minor edgewear. 368 pp. Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill relate the history of the Sydney that is more than a place on a map, but also a product of the radical imagination, which… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hybrid Publishers, 2015. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, covers little creased, single page creased, minor edgewear corners. 273 pp. This book is about the Australian effort in the release of Soviet Jewry. The book also refers to the wider story, inside the Soviet Union and internationally. Between 1959 and 1989, Australian Jews and their community leaders… Read more about this item

Talybont, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa Cyf, 2008. 1st ed.. Paperback small, very good condition, black & white text-photos, maps, minor edgewear. 96 pp. Reports on the contribution Welsh people have made in industry, media, education and the arts in Australia.