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Black inc. January to June 2011
Black inc.
January to June 2011
Contents
January to June 2011
J a n ua ry
The Australians Ed. John Hirst 4
The Pocketbook of Aussie History Brendan Gullifer 5
Botany Bay Alan Frost 6
Feb ua ry
The Dreaming & Other Essays W.E.H Stanner 7
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 8
Outrageous Fortunes Daniel Altman 9
India Calling Anand Giridharadas 10
M a r c h
Quarterly Essay 41 David Malouf 11
Up from the Mission Noel Pearson 12
A pr il
Snake Kate Jennings 13
The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection Black Inc. 14
The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection Black Inc. 15
God is Not One Stephen Prothero 16
Contents
M ay
Beautiful Thing Sonia Faleiro 17
Illegal Harmonies Andrew Ford 18
Making Trouble Robert Manne 19
Cambodia’s Curse Joel Brinkley 20
Ju n e
Quarterly Essay 42 Judith Brett 21
The First Fleet Alan Frost 22
Radical Hope Noel Pearson 23
The Family Law Benjamin Law 24
R e c e n t R e l e a s e s 25
E s s e n t i a l B a c k l i s t 27
4 January 2011
The AustraliansInsiders & Outsiders on the National Character since 1770
John Hirst
Is there an Australian national character? What are its distin-guishing features? Over the years, how have insiders and out-siders summed up this country and its people, and how have Australians responded to outside criticism?
In The Australians, John Hirst gathers together the key assess-ments of the national character, on topics as diverse as sport, war, mateship, humour, put-downs, suburbia and going native. There is celebration and criticism. There is humour and insight. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like.
Contributors include Winston Churchill, Ned Kelly, Tim Flan-nery, Henry Lawson, Peter Cosgrove, Germaine Greer, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Captain James Cook, David Malouf, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Patrick White, Oscar Wilde and Tim Winton.
John Hirst ’s books include Freedom on the Fatal Shore, Looking for Australia and Sense & Nonsense in Australian History. He wrote the official history of Australia for new citizens and took a prominent part in the History Summit convened by the prime minister in 2006. Until recently he was reader in history at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
ISBN: 9781863955133Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage Extent: 224ppRRP: AU$22.95Publication date: January 2011Rights held: World
5January 2011
The Pocketbook of Aussie History
Brendan Gullifer
When was the first Melbourne cup, and which horse won? Who was the first woman to stand for federal parliament? What’s the second verse of ‘Advance Australia Fair’? And why was Vegemite renamed Parwill in 1928?
Here, in one handy reference, are the dates and deeds, the heroes and villains, the icons and famous words that have shaped our country and its place in the world. Full of useful facts – and a healthy dose of irreverence – The Pocketbook of Aussie History is an entertaining guide to Australia’s curious past.
‘A useful reference for anyone who tuned out of Australian history in high school.’—The Age
‘A terrific idea’—David Koch, Sunrise, Network Seven
‘You can dip into it anywhere and have all sorts of dinner-table conversations based on it’—Jon Faine, ABC Radio Melbourne
Brendan Gullifer has been a reporter, investigative journalist and sub-editor in Australia and overseas and is the author of Sold, a novel.
ISBN: 9781863955140Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 181 x 111mmPage extent: 112ppRRP: AU$9.95Publication date: January 2011Rights held: World
6 January 2011
Botany BayThe Real Story
Al an Frost
For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authen-tic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.
We all know the conventional story. Established as a dumping ground for Britain’s criminals, Australia owes its existence sim-ply to overcrowded jails and a daunting remoteness from every-where else.
In Botany Bay: The Real Story, Alan Frost goes beyond these cli-chés to shed new light on the decision to settle New South Wales. He examines the hopes and fears of the politicians who took the decision, and the larger commercial and military needs that underwrote it.
The culmination of thirty-five years’ study of previously neglected archives, Botany Bay is a groundbreaking work that offers new and surprising insights into how Australia came to be.
Alan Frost is Emeritus Professor of His-tory at La Trobe University in Melbourne. His previous books include The Voyage of the Endeavour; Arthur Phillip, 1738–1814: His Voyaging; Botany Bay Mirages; and The Global Reach of Empire.
ISBN: 9781863955126Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 320ppRRP: AU$32.95Publication date: January 2011Rights held: World
7February 2011
The Dreaming & Other Essays
W.E.H Stanner
W.E.H. Stanner’s words changed Australia. Without condescen-sion and without sentimentality, in essays such as ‘The Dream-ing’ Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale’ regarding the fate of the Aborigines, for which he coined the phrase ‘the great Australian silence’. And in his essay ‘Durmugam’ he provided an unforgettable portrait of a warrior’s attempt to hold back cultural change. ‘He was such a man,’ Stanner wrote. ‘I thought I would like to make the reading world see and feel him as I did.’
The pieces collected here span the career of W.E.H. Stanner as well as the history of Australian race relations. They reveal the extraordinary scholarship, humanity and vision of one of Aus-tralia’s finest essayists. Their revival is a significant event.
With an introductory essay by Robert Manne.
W.E.H Stanner was born in Sydney in 1905. Stanner helped to shape the growth of Australian anthropology, and his princi-pal interest was the peoples of Daly River and Port Keats in the Northern Territory. He was a member of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs and a founding member of the Abo-riginal Treaty Committee. He was appointed to the chair of anthropology at the Austral-ian National University and served as head of the department of anthropology and sociology until his retirement in 1970. He died in 1981.
ISBN: 9781863955171Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage extent: 304ppRRP: AU$24.95Publication date: February 2011Rights held: World
8 February 2011
The Panic VirusFear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
Seth Mnookin
In The Panic Virus, Seth Mnookin takes us inside the anti-vaccination community and the medical establishment. He examines how the anti-vaccination movement spread, and looks at a controversial Australian case that exposed the claims and tactics of the movement to new scrutiny. Sorting fact from rumour, Mnookin confronts difficult questions: with more infor-mation at our fingertips than ever, why is our trust in science so fragile? Why did the anti-vaccination movement take hold so quickly? How to balance fact and intuition when it comes to decisions about health?
The Panic Virus is an extraordinary and gripping feat of research and reporting.
Seth Mnookin is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former senior writer for Newsweek. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New York magazine and many other publications. He is the author of Feeding the Monster and Hard News. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
ISBN: 9781863955188Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 448ppRRP: AU$32.95Publication date: February 2011Rights held: ANZ
9February 2011
Outrageous FortunesThe Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy
Daniel Altm an
A Harvard-trained economist’s startling predictions reveal the key challenges of the decades ahead – and how best to meet them.
In Outrageous Fortunes Daniel Altman brings together hidden trends, social pressures and policy endgames to make twelve surprising but logical predictions for our global economy. His forecasts also raise a pressing question: with so many challenges awaiting us, are our political and economic institutions up to the task?
Outrageous Fortunes tells which industries will grow, which economies will crumble, which investments will pay off, and where the next big crisis may occur. This is an essential guide to the road ahead.
‘Daniel Altman has something to tell you: the world may not turn out the way Thomas Friedman expects. Outrageous Fortunes is provocative, fast-moving, authoritative and imaginative.’—Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist
Daniel Altman is the author of Neoeconomy and Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy. He has a PhD from Harvard and is the founder and president of North Yard Economics, a not-for-profit consulting firm serving developing coun-tries. He has written for the Economist, the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times and teaches at New York Uni-versity’s Stern School of Business.
ISBN: 9781863955157Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage extent: 272ppRRP: AU$29.95Publication date: February 2011Rights held: ANZ
10 February 2011
India CallingAn Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking
Anand Giridhar ada s
Reversing his parents’ immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new.
Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, ‘We’re all trying to go that way,’ pointing to the rear. ‘You, you’re going this way?’
Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors amid an unlikely economic boom. Yet he was interested less in the gold rush than in the cultural upheaval – what would happen when old traditions met new ambitions?
In India Calling, Giridharadas blends the objectivity of the out-sider with the intimacy of the insider; the result is India seen at once from within and without. He introduces us to entrepre-neurs, radicals, industrialists and religious seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families. Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to remain itself.
Anand Giridhar adas is a columnist for the New York Times and its global edi-tion, the International Herald Tribune. A native of Cleveland, he worked in Bombay as a management consultant before joining the NYT in 2005 as its first Bombay-based correspondent in the modern era. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ISBN: 9781863955164Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 288ppRRP: AU$32.95Publication date: February 2011Rights held: ANZ
11March 2011
Quarterly Essay 41: The Happy LifeThe Search for Contentment in the Modern World
David Malouf
In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?
With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life – what it is, and what makes it possible – David Malouf returns to the “highest wisdom” of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson’s way with words, happiness became a “right”, and examines joy in the flesh as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt. In a world become ever larger and impersonal, he finds happiness in an unlikely place. This is an essay to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia’s greatest novelists.
“How is it, when the chief sources of human unhappiness, of misery and wretchedness, have largely been removed from our lives … that happiness still eludes so many of us? … What is it in us, or in the world we have created, that continues to hold us back?”—David Malouf, The Happy Life
David Malouf is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. He is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Liter ary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. In 2000 he was selected as the sixteenth Neustadt Lau reate. His most recent novel is Ransom.
ISBN: 9781863955195Imprint: Quarterly EssayFormat: PBDimensions: 234 x 167mmPage extent: 128ppRRP: AU$19.95Publication date: March 2011Rights held: World
12 March 2011
Up from the MissionSelected Writings
Noel Pearson
Up from the Mission charts the life and thought of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia’s most influential figures.
This is writing of great passion and power, which introduces a fascinating man and a compelling writer. Many of the pieces included have been hard to find until now. Gathered together in a cohesive, broad-ranging book, they show a key Australian thinker coming into being.
Pearson evokes his early life in Hope Vale, Queensland. He includes sections of his epoch-making essay Our Right To Take Responsibility, which exposed the trap of passive welfare and proposed new ways forward. There are pieces on the apology; on Barack Obama and black leadership; on Australian party politics
– Keating, Howard and Rudd; and on alcoholism, despair and what can be done to mend Aboriginal communities that have fallen apart.
Noel Pearson is a lawyer and activist. He has published many essays and news-paper articles. This is his first book.
ISBN: 9781863955201Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 210 x 135mmPage Extent: 448ppRRP: AU$29.95Publication date: March 2011Rights held: World
13April 2011
Snake
K ate Jennings
My life is about to begin. This is the only thought in Irene’s head on the day she marries a handsome Second World War veteran.
But Irene is restless and rebellious, dangerously bored by her life as a farmer’s wife. As they raise children and crops, watch the sky for rain and dream of other lives, the tension between them builds and builds. Meanwhile Girlie, their watchful, thoughtful, fish-out-of-water daughter, is hatching escape plans of her own.
Kate Jennings’s black humour and pared-back prose, at once understated and rich in startling imagery, resonate long after the final unnerving chapter. Set within a parched, uniquely Austral-ian landscape, Snake is a modern classic.
K ate Jennings is a poet, essayist, short-story writer and novelist. Both her novels, Snake and Moral Hazard, were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has won the ALS Gold Medal, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Adelaide Festival fiction prize. Born in rural New South Wales, she has lived in New York since 1979. Her most recent books are Stanley and Sophie, Quarterly Essay 32: American Revolution and Trouble: Evolu-tion of a Radical.
ISBN: 9781863955256Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage extent: 160ppRRP: AU$19.95Publication date: April 2011Rights held: ANZ
14 April 2011
The Best Australian EssaysA Ten-Year Collection
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Setting the benchmark for the Australian essay – the definitive, up-to-date collection.
Each year, The Best Australian Essays brings together the most outstanding non-fiction from around the country. In 2011, to cel-ebrate a rich decade of writing on all manner of topics, Black Inc. presents the best of the best – the best Australian essays of the past ten years, as have appeared in the Best Australian Essays annuals.
This book features our most original and entertaining writers and thinkers at the top of their game. Contributors include David Malouf, John Birmingham, Helen Garner, Inga Clendinnen, David Marr, Clive James, Robyn Davidson, Craig Sherborne, Jes-sica Anderson, JM Coetzee, Brenda Walker, Shane Maloney, Noel Pearson, Robert Manne, Richard Flanagan, Tim Flannery, Ben-jamin Law, David Foster, Tim Winton and many more.
An essential book for the reading nation, full of delight and diver-sion, intelligence and illumination.
ISBN: 9781863955232Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 400ppRRP: AU$34.95Publication date: April 2011Rights held: ANZ
15April 2011
The Best Australian StoriesA Ten-Year Collection
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Australia’s best short stories – the definitive collection.
Each year, The Best Australian Stories anthology showcases the country’s most exciting short fiction. Short stories have enjoyed a remarkable renaissance in the years since the series began, and some of today’s most celebrated short-fiction writers made their debuts in this much-loved annual.
In 2011, Black Inc. presents the best of the best – the best Aus-tralian short stories of the past decade. By turns comic and heartbreaking, devastatingly realistic and dazzlingly inventive, this indispensible book will delight and entertain for years to come.
Contributors include Australia’s most masterful writers: Tim Winton, Murray Bail, Nam Le, Amanda Lohrey, Luke Davies, Steven Amsterdam, Robert Drewe, Cate Kennedy, Mandy Sayer, Delia Falconer, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Goldsworthy, Eva Hor-nung and many more.
ISBN: 9781863955225Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage extent: 400ppRRP: AU$34.95Publication date: April 2011Rights held: ANZ
16 April 2011
God is Not OneThe Eight Rival Religions That Run the World, And Why Their Differences Matter
Stephen Prothero
A fascinating guide to religion and its place in the world today.
In God Is Not One, bestselling author Stephen Prothero makes a fresh and provocative argument that, contrary to popular under-standing, all religions are not simply “different paths to the same God.” Instead, he shows that the differences between the major religions are far greater than we think: they each ask different questions, tackle different problems, and aim at different goals.
God Is Not One highlights the unique aspects of the world’s major religions, with chapters on Islam, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Yoruba religion, Judaism, Daoism and atheism.
Lucid and compelling, God Is Not One offers a new understand-ing of religion for the twenty-first century.
Stephen Prothero is chair of the department of religion at Boston Univer-sity and the author of the New York Times bestseller Religious Literacy (2007). He has appeared on numerous US radio and television shows (including CNN, NBC, FOX, PBS, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Oprah) and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He is a graduate of Yale and Harvard.
ISBN: 9781863955249Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage extent: 400ppRRP: AU$24.95Publication date: April 2011Rights held: World
17May 2011
Beautiful ThingPortrait of a Bombay Bar Dancer
Sonia Faleiro
When Sonia Faleiro set out to report on Bombay’s bar dancers, she thought she knew what she would find: downtrodden, voice-less women, the helpless victims of predictable poverty.
Instead she meets Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken, Leela has been dancing in Bombay’s bars since she was thirteen. With her sharp wit and stubborn optimism, she is the best-paid dancer in a bar on the notorious Mira Road. Leela has a ‘husband’ (who is already married), a few lovers whose names she can’t remember, an insufferable mother camping out in her flat, and an adored best friend, Priya – the most beautiful woman she has ever seen.
Beautiful Thing is the vivid, intimate portrait of a young woman fleeing abuse and poverty to build a life on her own terms, in a city equally bent on reinventing itself.
‘A small masterpiece of observation and intimate reportage.’ —William Dalrymple
‘A magnificent book.’—Kiran Desai
‘Unforgettable’—Gregory David Roberts
Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning Indian journalist. She is the author of a novel, Girl (2005), and has been a contrib-uting editor at Vogue India. She was born in India, studied in the United Kingdom and currently lives in San Francisco, California.
ISBN: 9781863955218 Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 224ppRRP: AU$29.95Publication date: May 2011Rights held: ANZ
18 May 2011
Illegal HarmoniesMusic in the Modern Age
Andrew Ford
A delightful and informative history of modern music.
Harmony is created by bringing sounds together. In music les-sons, we learn how to do this in a formal way: we learn about chords and keys, and we are given rules for using them. This is the textbook way; this is legal harmony. Everything else – includ-ing the sounds that constantly surround us, those of ticking clocks, dogs, traffic, birdsong and aeroplanes – is illegal harmony.
Illegal Harmonies charts the course of music over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, linking it to developments in litera-ture, theatre, cinema and the visual arts, and to popular music from Irving Berlin to The Beatles to rap. The result is a stimulat-ing, provocative and always informative cultural history.
Andrew Ford is a composer, writer and broadcaster and presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National. He is the author of The Sound of Pictures. In 1998 he won the Pascall Prize for critical writing.
ISBN: 9781863955287Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 304ppRRP: AU$32.95Publication date: May 2011Rights held: World
19May 2011
Making TroubleEssays Against the New Australian Complacency
Robert Manne
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne.
In Making Trouble, Australia’s leading public intellectual takes aim at the “new Australian complacency”.
This is a book that will enlighten and provoke. It covers much ground – from Howard to Gillard by way of Rudd, from Victoria’s bushfires to the Apology, from Wilfred Burchett to Primo Levi.
Making Trouble includes an essay on the new Australian compla-cency, as well an exchange of letters with Tony Abbott, an appre-ciation of W.E.H. Stanner, a reflection on ways of remembering the Holocaust and an incisive analysis of the asylum-seeker issue, among others.
Robert Manne is professor of politics at La Trobe University and a regular com-mentator with the Age, the Sydney Morn-ing Herald and ABC radio and television. His most recent books include Goodbye to All That?: On the Failure of Neo-liberalism and the Urgency of Change, Left, Right, Left: Political Essays 1977–2005, Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia (ed.) and W.E.H. Stanner: The Dreaming and Other Essays (ed.)
ISBN: 9780977594979Imprint: Black Inc. AgendaFormat: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage extent: 384ppRRP: AU$34.95Publication date: May 2011Rights held: World
20 May 2011
Cambodia’s CurseThe Modern History of a Troubled Land
Joel Brinkley
A generation after Pol Pot’s regime killed one quarter of the nation’s population, Cambodia shows every outward sign of hav-ing overcome its devastating history – the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But behind this façade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.
In 2008 and 2009, Joel Brinkley – who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the fall of the Khmer Rouge – returned to Cambodia. He discovered a population in the grip of a venal government. He learned that between one third and one half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and that its afflictions are being passed to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia’s Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behaviour. This is a dev-astating and important look at Cambodia today.
Joel Brinkley, a professor of journal-ism at Stanford University, is a twenty-three-year veteran of the New York Times. He has worked in more than fifty nations and writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column on foreign policy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and was twice a finalist for an inves-tigative reporting Pulitzer in the following years. This is his fifth book.
ISBN: 9781863955270 Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 416ppRRP: AU$34.95Publication date: May 2011Rights held: World
21June 2011
Quarterly Essay 42: Fair ShareCountry and City in Australia
Judith Bret t
For many decades Australia was the country that rode on the sheep’s back. No more – now we are a country of mining and services. In QE42, one of Australia’s most original and respected political thinkers, Judith Brett, looks at what this has meant for the country and the city in our politics and culture.
In the 1980s, she argues, the country was cut loose from the city and left to fend for itself. This left many country people feeling abandoned and betrayed. In late 2010, with the country independents deciding who would form federal government, it seemed that rural and regional Australia’s time had come again.
But the politics of independence and dependence are compli-cated, as Murray-Darling water reform shows. And the question remains: what will be the fate of rural and regional Australia in an era of economic rationalisation, water cutbacks, climate change, droughts and flooding rain? Does urban Australia care for or understand the country anymore? Can the country renew itself and make a case again for its central place at the heart of the nation?
Judith Brett is the author of two best-selling Quarterly Essays, Exit Right and Relaxed and Comfortable. She is also the author of the award-winning Robert Men-zies’ Forgotten People, Ordinary People’s Politics (with Anthony Moran) and Austral-ian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard. She is professor of politics at La Trobe University.
ISBN: 9781863955263Imprint: Quarterly EssayFormat: PBDimensions: 234 x 167mmPage extent: 128ppRRP: AU$ 19.95Publication date: June 2011Rights held: World
22 June 2011
The First FleetThe Real Story
Al an Frost
In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1500 people, set out from England for Botany Bay. According to the conven-tional account, it was a shambolic affair: under-prepared, poorly equipped and ill-disciplined. Robert Hughes condemned the organisers’ “muddle and lack of foresight”, while Manning Clark described scenes of “indescribable misery and confusion”.
In The First Fleet: The Real Story, Alan Frost draws on previously forgotten records to debunk these persistent myths. He shows that the voyage was in fact meticulously planned – reflecting its importance to the British government’s secret ambitions for imperial expansion. He examines the ships and supplies, pas-sengers and behind-the-scenes discussions. In the process, he reveals the hopes and schemes of those who planned the voyage, and the experiences of those who made it.
“Compelling … the book [is] essential reading for anyone inter-ested in Australia’s European settlement.”—The Herald-Sun
Alan Frost is emeritus professor of his-tory at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His previous books include Botany Bay: The Real Story; The Global Reach of Empire; Voyage of the Endeavour; Arthur Phillip; and Botany Bay Mirages.
ISBN: 9781863955294Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 234 x 153mmPage Extent: 288ppRRP: AU$29.95Publication date: June 2011Rights held: World
23June 2011
Radical HopeEducation and Equality in Australia
Noel Pearson
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged many, or will it at best raise up a fortunate few?
Pearson argues powerfully that underclass students, many of whom are Aboriginal, should receive a rigorous schooling that gives them the means to negotiate the wider world. He examines the long-term failure of educational policy in Australia, especially in the indigenous sector, and asks why it is always “Groundhog Day” when there are lessons to be learned from innovations now underway.
Pearson introduces new findings from research and practice, and takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues. Throughout, he searches for the radical centre – the way forward that will raise up the many, preserve culture, and ensure no child is left behind.
Noel Pearson is a lawyer and activist, and director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership.
ISBN: 9781863955300Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage extent: 208ppRRP: AU$19.95 Publication date: June 2011Rights held: World
24 June 2011
The Family Law
Benjamin L aw
Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling ques-tions: Why won’t his Chinese dad wear made-in-China under-pants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? Will his childhood dreams of Home and Away stardom come to nothing? What are his chances of finding love?
Hilarious and moving, The Family Law is a linked series of tales from a wonderful new Australian talent.
‘Benjamin Law manages to be scatological, hilarious & heart-breaking all at the same time. Every sentence fizzes like an exploding fireball of energy.’ — Alice Pung
‘A vivid, gorgeously garish, Technicolor portrait of a family. It’s impossible not to let oneself go along for the ride and emerge at the book’s end enlightened, touched, thrilling with laughter.’
—Marieke Hardy
‘Law is a writer of great wit and warmth’—Sydney Morning Herald
‘An addictive read.’—The Courier Mail
Benjamin Law is a senior contributor to frankie magazine and his work has also appeared in the Monthly, the Big Issue, the Courier-Mail, Growing Up Asian in Australia and The Best Australian Essays. The Family Law is his first book. He lives in Brisbane.
ISBN: 9781863955317Imprint: Black Inc.Format: PBDimensions: 198 x 128mmPage Extent: 240ppRRP: AU$22.95Publication date: June 2011Rights held: World
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