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Martin Boyd, the Anglo-Australian novelist and member of the famous family of artists, possessed a complex personality - witty, generous, sociable, yet deeply reserved. Brenda Niall traces his development and life from pre-World War I Melbourne to England and Italy.... More

The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. Among the descendants of landscape painter Emma Minnie a Beckett and her husband Arthur Merric Boyd are talented painters, potters, sculptors, architects, writers and musicians.The Boyds is based on family papers, letters and diaries a... More

Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early ... More

Georgiana, illegitimate daughter of a Scottish duke and gifted portrait painter in 1820s Edinburgh, followed her husband to Melbourne in March 1841. This biography, of a talented and independent woman, draws on diaries, letters and unpublished manuscripts.... More

Schooldays are the most remembered part of everyone's life. This wonderful collection records many such memories from the earliest periods of white settlement to the multicultural Australia of the present.... More

Emergency management university programs have experienced dramatic and exponential growth over the last twelve years. This new, fully updated edition introduces majors and minors to the field and provides content accessible to those students taking introductory emergency management courses. The book... More

A definitive resource, the Introduction to Emergency Management and Disaster Science presents the essentials to better understand and manage disasters. The third edition of this popular text has been revised and updated to provide a substantively enriched and evidence-based guide for students and em... More