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The 2008 campaign for President of the USA has attracted more attention and prompted more people to get out and vote in caucuses and primaries than any other. Vote for Me reveals what it takes to become president of the biggest democracy of them all.

Intended to encourage critical, responsible and creative thinking about law as a system of ideas and a social institution, this title includes chapters on human rights, liberal democracy, economic efficiency, problems of the market, and distributive justice.

This book tells the story of the ACTU's 'Your Rights at Work' campaign against Work Choices, the largest, most expensive and most sophisticated political campaign ever mounted in Australia, and one with a decisive impact on the 2007 federal election.

We think of retirement as something to be celebrated, even envied, a time when you are finally free to do your own thing. This title explores the experience of retirement from the point of view of those not yet retired, those newly retired, and those who are further down the track.

Addresses the flood of new DNA-related information that has flowed from the recent revolution in biotechnology: information that is transforming the food we eat; the way medicine is practised, and even changing the ways in which crimes are solved.

From the early 1970s, Indigenous Australians helped build a global movement of indigenous peoples, reforming international institutions and discussions about human rights. This book is a transnational history of indigenous Australians. It closes by assessing the achievements of the struggle, both within and outside Australia.

Offers an exploration of strategic issues facing NFP organisations. This book considers the local and global drivers of change, as well as the industry, policy and community imperatives impacting upon NFP sustainability, providing an insight into not only the strategic issues, but also strategic responses available to the sector.

A group of Australia's leading thinkers examine the relations between social science and research, informed public opinion and the policy community. This book presents a challenging and important analysis of practice and argues for how to achieve more workable policy of broad social as well as political benefit.

Bridging the Disciplinary Divides brings together some of the world's leading environmental researchers in the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and humanities to bridge the disciplinary divides in understanding the environment.

International law does not seem immediately relevant to domestic Australian politics and law, let alone to our everyday lives. This book shows that international law has a growing significance for trade, human rights, crime, terrorism and climate change.

Provides a history of prostitution in Australia from before European colonisation, and situates this history within an international context of labour migration and policy formation. This work draws on archival research and interviews to chart the ways in which prostitution contributed to women's economic survival and to colonisation.

Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the corridors of parliament, as seen through the eyes of a practitioner of thirty years experience in the bear pit of Macquarie Street.

Traces the complex relationships between animals and humans in Australia. This book starts with the colonial period - when unfamiliar native animals were hunted almost to extinction and replaced with preferred species - and brings us full circle to the time when native species are protected above all others.

Asks why we have become so wrapped up in our homes. It explores the ways we are distorting our lives in the pursuit of prestige and tax- free caital gains as we play the real estate game with mindless passion. The great Australian dream of owning a home seems to have become the great Australian nightmare.

Develops an understanding of how Australia is responding to new realities in work, globalisation, industrial relations reform, retirement, citizenship, political trust and family and community life. This book draws on research and analysis of some of Australia's leading social scientists to challenge conventional wisdoms about Australia.

Provides identification information on 77 of the most common eucalypts species that occur in the Sydney region. This title is illustrated with each species description accompanied by a photograph of the bark, illustrations of buds and fruit, a tree structure diagram and a distribution map to assist with easy identification.

Reveals the untold story of the people who struggled to get asylum seekers out of detention and change government policy. Some like Petro Georgiou, Julian Burnside and Phillip Ruddock, are very well known. Others are not as famous but felt compelled to follow their consciences.

Identifies the faultlines and tensions that exist within the contemporary Anglican Church. Helps Anglicans understand their own complex religious institution and illuminate it for outsiders as well.

Gives consumers confidence that they can find certifiably organic and more ecologically sound products in the market place without being duped by false advertising.

High-rise buildings dominate the skyline of modern cities around the world. But how do they affect urbanism and culture? Are they necessary to cities? Can they be made more formally engaging? This examines the global phenomenon of the tall building.

Traces the history of the Bank of New South Wales and Westpac in the second half of the twentieth century. It provides a case study for the impact of mechanisation and government regulation and deregulation on a major service industry.

There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia's modernity. These are the starting points for the essays contained in Stephen Muecke's book.

Looks at the administrative and leadership style of Prime Minister John Howard's second and third governments. This work features key policy issues including education, immigration, GST, and the republican debate.

Examines the resurgence in Australia of locality based social policy after the political failures of the market-oriented approach to regional reform.

Presents a comprehensive overview of Australia's telecommunications regulatory framework. Written by experienced insiders, this work describes the laws and policies affecting competitors and consumers, and the regulatory and self regulatory bodies that administer them.

Written in an engaging and optimistic style, combining poetry and prose, this book is both practical and philosophical, showing how a creative use of power can contribute to peace with justice in any context or country.

In 14 essays by Australian and New Zealand writers critiquing the new biology, and with a foreword by Mae-Wan Ho (the UK scientist leading a global attack on genetic engineering as 'bad science') 'Recoding Nature' challenges the assumptions of those preparing the world for a 'recoded' DNA future.

Written as a text and reference for project management courses in both undergraduate and postgraduate building construction courses and quantity surveying, architecture and civil enginering programs.

Provides an insight into what Australians think about contemporary political and social issues, using data collected form the inaugural Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, on the expressed opinions of some 4300 Australian adults. This is a resource for students, teachers, researchers, and policy makers.

This book celebrates the diversity of cultural history but also asks hard questions about its popularity, and assesses the ways in which it is practiced. Australian historians reflect on the theoretical assumptions from which cultural history draws, and its strategies and assumptions.