Faculty of Arts and Society

The Palmerston Dingo Glee Club was one of the earliest musical groups in the Northern Territory. In this book, Paolo Fabris and Steven Farram explo...

The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the shee...

Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Aust...

Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history. How di...

The history of Australia’s north coast is a story of ancient industry and international trade with tentacles that reached as far as China. It tells...

Australia's contribution to Indonesia's independence struggle is broadly well-known and this book explores an important part of the story: Australi...

Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produc...

This is the story of the birth of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory.

This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and ...

Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the govern...

Using war diaries, combat reports, and other official correspondence and records, this fast-paced narrative reconstructs in detail the prolonged ai...

The five steps to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multi-culturally Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere gives readers five simple key gui...

Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media The Visual Story teaches you how to manipulate components such as space, line and shap...

  Learning the art of mixing has never been easier. For more than two decades, The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook has been the best selling and most re...

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia's brutal colonial history and offers new insights into the ...

Fall in love with Singapore's most prominent feminist playwright. Ovidia Yu dissects all things female—from breasts to virginity, motherhood to les...

Acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the moder...

'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting' …..so wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journe...

  The job of a journalist has changed dramatically over the past few decades with satellite links, 24 hour rolling news, and the Internet creating ...