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052118066X 02 03 9780521180665 15 9780521180665 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521180665 1 A01 Bely, Pierre-Yves 2 A01 Christian, Carol 3 A01 Roy, Jean-René 1 296 PG 02 Are we alone in the Universe? Was there anything before the Big Bang? Are there other universes? What are sunspots? What is a shooting star? Was there ever life on Mars? This book answers the fascinating questions that we have been asking ourselves for hundreds of years. Using non-technical language, the authors summarize current astronomical knowledge, taking care to include the important underlying scientific principles. Plentiful color illustrations, graphs and photographs lend further weight to their simple yet meticulously written explanations. An extensive bibliography allows you to pursue or recap on the subjects that rouse your particular interest. Dip in to discover and learn fascinating facts about our Solar System and the Universe beyond! 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/80665/cover/9780521180665.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 39.95 0521741289 02 03 9780521741286 15 9780521741286 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521741286 1 A01 O'Meara, Stephen James 1 168 WNX 02 In this journey of discovery, Stephen James O'Meara shows you how to observe our Solar System's wonders with ease, using nothing more than the unaided eye and inexpensive handheld binoculars. The guide presents a new way to identify and appreciate the wonders of the Solar System in detail, such as lunar and solar eclipses, sunspots, the Moon's craters, the planets, meteors, and comets. It is a unique observing guide for all amateur astronomers, proving you don't need big and expensive equipment to enjoy astronomy from your own backyard. You will learn a variety of skills, including how to find Venus in the daytime, how to identify faint features in bright comets, how to increase your chances of seeing an abundant meteor shower, and how to track the changing aspects of the planets and their moons. A must for Solar System explorers everywhere! 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/41286/cover/9780521741286.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 21 64.95 0521705193 02 03 9780521705196 15 9780521705196 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521705196 1 A01 Sugimoto, Yoshio 3 352 JHB 02 Essential reading for students of Japanese society, An Introduction to Japanese Society now enters its third edition. Here, internationally renowned scholar, Yoshio Sugimoto, writes a sophisticated, yet highly readable and lucid text, using both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. The book challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. Covering all aspects of Japanese society, it includes chapters on class, geographical and generational variation, work, education, gender, minorities, popular culture and the establishment. This new edition features sections on: Japan's cultural capitalism; the decline of the conventional Japanese management model; the rise of the 'socially divided society' thesis; changes of government; the spread of manga, animation and Japan's popular culture overseas; and the expansion of civil society in Japan. Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press AU 02 20100702 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 59.95 0521691575 03 03 9780521691574 15 9780521691574 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521691574 1 A01 Poole, Adrian 1 480 D 02 In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/91574/cover/9780521691574.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091210 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 69.95 0521871190 03 03 9780521871198 15 9780521871198 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521871198 1 A01 Poole, Adrian 1 480 D 02 In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/71198/cover/9780521871198.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091210 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 225.00 0521721679 02 03 9780521721677 15 9780521721677 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521721677 1 B01 Sellers, Susan 2 304 DSBH 02 Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes new chapters on race, nation and empire, sexuality, aesthetics, visual culture and the public sphere. The remaining chapters, as well as the guide to further reading, have all been fully updated. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf remains the first port of call for students new to Woolf's work, with its informative, readable style, chronology and authoritative information about secondary sources. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/21677/cover/9780521721677.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 55.00 0521896940 02 03 9780521896948 15 9780521896948 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521896948 1 B01 Sellers, Susan 2 304 DSBH 02 Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes new chapters on race, nation and empire, sexuality, aesthetics, visual culture and the public sphere. The remaining chapters, as well as the guide to further reading, have all been fully updated. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf remains the first port of call for students new to Woolf's work, with its informative, readable style, chronology and authoritative information about secondary sources. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/96948/cover/9780521896948.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 160.00 0521713935 02 03 9780521713931 15 9780521713931 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521713931 1 B01 De Grazia, Margreta 2 B01 Wells, Stanley 2 376 DSB 02 Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one brand new essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/13931/cover/9780521713931.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 49.95 0521886325 02 03 9780521886321 15 9780521886321 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521886321 1 B01 De Grazia, Margreta 2 B01 Wells, Stanley 2 376 DSB 02 Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one brand new essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/86321/cover/9780521886321.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 119 0521514711 02 03 9780521514712 15 9780521514712 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521514712 1 B01 Patell, Cyrus R.K. 2 B01 Waterman, Bryan 1 280 DSB 02 New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/14712/cover/9780521514712.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 160.00 0521735556 02 03 9780521735551 15 9780521735551 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521735551 1 B01 Patell, Cyrus R.K. 2 B01 Waterman, Bryan 1 280 DSB 02 New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/35551/cover/9780521735551.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521514703 02 03 9780521514705 15 9780521514705 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521514705 1 B01 McNamara, Kevin R. 1 224 DSB 02 Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion, the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/14705/cover/9780521514705.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521735548 02 03 9780521735544 15 9780521735544 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521735544 1 B01 McNamara, Kevin R. 1 224 DSB 02 Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion, the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/35544/cover/9780521735544.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521713943 02 03 9780521713948 15 9780521713948 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521713948 1 A01 Mulligan, William 1 264 HBJD 02 Providing a new interpretation of the origins of the First World War, this textbook synthesises recent scholarship and introduces the major historiographical and political debates surrounding the outbreak of the war. William Mulligan argues that the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and suggests instead that there were powerful forces operating in favour of the maintenance of peace. His fresh perspective on the pre-war international system takes account of new approaches to the study of international politics since the end of the Cold War and the acceleration of globalisation. Thematic chapters examine key issues, including the military, public opinion, economics, diplomacy and geopolitics, and analyse relations between the great powers, the role of smaller states, the disintegrating empires and the July crisis. This compelling account will significantly revise our understanding of diplomacy, political culture, and economic history from 1870 to 1914. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/13948/cover/9780521713948.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 55.00 0521886333 02 03 9780521886338 15 9780521886338 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521886338 1 A01 Mulligan, William 1 264 HBJD 02 Providing a new interpretation of the origins of the First World War, this textbook synthesises recent scholarship and introduces the major historiographical and political debates surrounding the outbreak of the war. William Mulligan argues that the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and suggests instead that there were powerful forces operating in favour of the maintenance of peace. His fresh perspective on the pre-war international system takes account of new approaches to the study of international politics since the end of the Cold War and the acceleration of globalisation. Thematic chapters examine key issues, including the military, public opinion, economics, diplomacy and geopolitics, and analyse relations between the great powers, the role of smaller states, the disintegrating empires and the July crisis. This compelling account will significantly revise our understanding of diplomacy, political culture, and economic history from 1870 to 1914. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/86338/cover/9780521886338.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 140.00 0521693217 02 03 9780521693219 15 9780521693219 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521693219 1 A01 Denov, Myriam 1 248 JP 02 Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front, Myriam Denov compassionately examines how child soldiers are initiated into the complex world of violence and armed conflict. She also explores the ways in which the children leave this world of violence and the challenges they face when trying to renegotiate their lives and self-concepts in the aftermath of war. The narratives of the Sierra Leonean youth demonstrate that their life histories defy the narrow and limiting portrayals presented by the media and popular discourse. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/93219/cover/9780521693219.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 59.95 0521872243 02 03 9780521872249 15 9780521872249 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521872249 1 A01 Denov, Myriam 1 100 JP 02 Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front, Myriam Denov compassionately examines how child soldiers are initiated into the complex world of violence and armed conflict. She also explores the ways in which the children leave this world of violence and the challenges they face when trying to renegotiate their lives and self-concepts in the aftermath of war. The narratives of the Sierra Leonean youth demonstrate that their life histories defy the narrow and limiting portrayals presented by the media and popular discourse. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/72249/cover/9780521872249.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521127262 03 03 9780521127264 15 9780521127264 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521127264 1 A01 Boldrin, Michele 2 A01 Levine, David K. 1 312 KC 02 'Intellectual property' - patents and copyrights - have become controversial. We witness teenagers being sued for 'pirating' music - and we observe AIDS patients in Africa dying due to lack of ability to pay for drugs that are high priced to satisfy patent holders. Are patents and copyrights essential to thriving creation and innovation - do we need them so that we all may enjoy fine music and good health? Across time and space the resounding answer is: No. So-called intellectual property is in fact an 'intellectual monopoly' that hinders rather than helps the competitive free market regime that has delivered wealth and innovation to our doorsteps. This book has broad coverage of both copyrights and patents and is designed for a general audience, focusing on simple examples. The authors conclude that the only sensible policy to follow is to eliminate the patents and copyright systems as they currently exist. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/27264/cover/9780521127264.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press US 04 20100301 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 39.95 0521136407 02 03 9780521136402 15 9780521136402 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521136402 1 A01 Durant, Alan 1 272 CFB 02 Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such as bitter public controversies and expensive legal disputes. Alan Durant draws attention to the pervasiveness and significance of such meaning-related disputes in the media, investigating how their 'meaning' dimension is best described and explained. Through his analysis of deception, distortion, bias, false advertising, offensiveness and other kinds of communicative behaviour that trigger interpretive disputes, Durant shows that we can understand both meaning and media better if we focus in new ways on moments in discourse when the apparently continuous flow of understanding and agreement breaks down. This lively and contemporary volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of linguistics, media studies, journalism and law. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/36402/cover/9780521136402.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 69.95 0521199581 02 03 9780521199582 15 9780521199582 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521199582 1 A01 Durant, Alan 1 272 CFB 02 Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such as bitter public controversies and expensive legal disputes. Alan Durant draws attention to the pervasiveness and significance of such meaning-related disputes in the media, investigating how their 'meaning' dimension is best described and explained. Through his analysis of deception, distortion, bias, false advertising, offensiveness and other kinds of communicative behaviour that trigger interpretive disputes, Durant shows that we can understand both meaning and media better if we focus in new ways on moments in discourse when the apparently continuous flow of understanding and agreement breaks down. This lively and contemporary volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of linguistics, media studies, journalism and law. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/99582/cover/9780521199582.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 0521715067 03 03 9780521715065 15 9780521715065 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521715065 1 B01 O'Gorman, Francis 1 326 D 02 The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/15065/cover/9780521715065.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100121 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521886996 03 03 9780521886994 15 9780521886994 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521886994 1 B01 O'Gorman, Francis 1 326 D 02 The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/86994/cover/9780521886994.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100121 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 0521709326 03 03 9780521709323 15 9780521709323 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521709323 1 B01 Shattock, Joanne 1 346 D 02 The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the 1830s, and the roots of modernism in the years leading up to the First World War. The Companion demonstrates how science, medicine and theology influenced creative writing and emphasizes the importance of the visual in painting, book illustration and in technological innovations from the kaleidoscope to the cinema. Essays also chart the complex and fruitful interchanges with writers in America, Europe and the Empire, highlighting the geographical expansion of literature in English. This Companion brings together the most important aspects of this prolific and popular period of English literature. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/09323/cover/9780521709323.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521882885 03 03 9780521882880 15 9780521882880 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521882880 1 B01 Shattock, Joanne 1 346 D 02 The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the 1830s, and the roots of modernism in the years leading up to the First World War. The Companion demonstrates how science, medicine and theology influenced creative writing and emphasizes the importance of the visual in painting, book illustration and in technological innovations from the kaleidoscope to the cinema. Essays also chart the complex and fruitful interchanges with writers in America, Europe and the Empire, highlighting the geographical expansion of literature in English. This Companion brings together the most important aspects of this prolific and popular period of English literature. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/82880/cover/9780521882880.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 0521741033 03 03 9780521741033 15 9780521741033 WW http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521741033 1 A01 Zanders, Edward 2 A01 MacLeod, Lindsay 1 80 PSA 02 Scientists are rarely given formal training in presentation skills and yet are often called upon to present the results of their research. This book provides a practical guide to the creation and delivery of scientific presentations, whatever the topic. Its practical 'how-to' style leaves discussion of the background psychology of public speaking to others and focuses instead on the issues that are of immediate concern to the busy scientist. The text covers all of the important aspects of scientific presentations, ranging from audience awareness to handling questions. Links are included throughout the text to the accompanying DVD, which contains annotated video clips of speakers delivering a talk and demonstrates the common problems found with many presenters, as well as the exercises designed to overcome them. Image files of different slide layouts, colour schemes and font styles demonstrate the design issues that one must consider when creating visual material. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/41033/cover/9780521741033.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100304 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 69.95 0521765277 02 03 9780521765275 15 9780521765275 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521765275 1 A01 Yule, George 4 344 CF 02 This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study - from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/65275/cover/9780521765275.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521749220 02 03 9780521749220 15 9780521749220 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521749220 1 A01 Yule, George 4 344 CF 02 This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study - from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/49220/cover/9780521749220.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521690374 02 03 9780521690379 15 9780521690379 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521690379 1 A01 Plantinga, Richard J. 2 A01 Thompson, Thomas R. 3 A01 Lundberg, Matthew D. 1 656 HRC 02 Far from being solely an academic enterprise, the practice of theology can pique the interest of anyone who wonders about the meaning of life. Inviting readers on a journey of 'faith seeking understanding', this introduction to Christian theology - its basic concepts, confessional content, and history - emphasizes the relevance of the key convictions of Christian faith to the challenges of today's world. In the first part, this book introduces the project of Christian theology and sketches the critical context that confronts Christian thought and practice today. In a second part, it offers a survey of the key doctrinal themes of Christian theology - including revelation, the triune God, and the world as creation - identifying their biblical basis and the highlights of their historical development before giving a systematic evaluation of each theme. The third part provides an overview of Christian theology from the early church to the present. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/90379/cover/9780521690379.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521870267 02 03 9780521870269 15 9780521870269 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521870269 1 A01 Plantinga, Richard J. 2 A01 Thompson, Thomas R. 3 A01 Lundberg, Matthew D. 1 656 HRC 02 Far from being solely an academic enterprise, the practice of theology can pique the interest of anyone who wonders about the meaning of life. Inviting readers on a journey of 'faith seeking understanding', this introduction to Christian theology - its basic concepts, confessional content, and history - emphasizes the relevance of the key convictions of Christian faith to the challenges of today's world. In the first part, this book introduces the project of Christian theology and sketches the critical context that confronts Christian thought and practice today. In a second part, it offers a survey of the key doctrinal themes of Christian theology - including revelation, the triune God, and the world as creation - identifying their biblical basis and the highlights of their historical development before giving a systematic evaluation of each theme. The third part provides an overview of Christian theology from the early church to the present. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/70269/cover/9780521870269.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 160.00 0521697549 03 03 9780521697545 15 9780521697545 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521697545 1 B01 Bett, Richard 1 392 HPCA 02 This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas on subjects including belief, action, and ethics. Finally, they explore the effects which these forms of scepticism had beyond the ancient period, and the ways in which ancient scepticism differs from scepticism as it has been understood since Descartes. The volume will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/97545/cover/9780521697545.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.95 0521874769 03 03 9780521874762 15 9780521874762 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521874762 1 B01 Bett, Richard 1 392 HPCA 02 This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas on subjects including belief, action, and ethics. Finally, they explore the effects which these forms of scepticism had beyond the ancient period, and the ways in which ancient scepticism differs from scepticism as it has been understood since Descartes. The volume will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/74762/cover/9780521874762.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 165.00 0521493226 03 03 9780521493222 15 9780521493222 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521493222 1 B01 Aston, Elaine 2 B01 Diamond, Elin 1 214 D 02 Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics - ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood - providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill's major collaborations, her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill's career-long experimentation - her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage, both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years, the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill's poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805214/93222/cover/9780521493222.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091210 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 135.00 0521728940 03 03 9780521728942 15 9780521728942 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521728942 1 B01 Aston, Elaine 2 B01 Diamond, Elin 1 214 D 02 Caryl Churchill's plays are internationally performed, studied and acclaimed by practitioners, theatre scholars, critics and audiences alike. With fierce imagination the plays dramatise the anxieties and terrors of contemporary life. This Companion presents new scholarship on Churchill's extraordinary and ground-breaking work. Chapters explore a cluster of major plays in relation to pressing social topics - ecological crisis, sexual politics, revolution, terror and selfhood - providing close readings of texts in their theatrical, theoretical and historical contexts. These topic-based essays are intercalated with other essays that delve into Churchill's major collaborations, her performance innovations and her influences on a new generation of playwrights. Contributors explore Churchill's career-long experimentation - her risk-taking that has reinvigorated the stage, both formally and politically. Providing a new critical platform for the study of a theatrical career that spans almost fifty years, the Companion pays fresh attention to Churchill's poetic precision, dark wit and inexhaustible creativity. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/28942/cover/9780521728942.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091210 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 58.95 0521697484 03 03 9780521697484 15 9780521697484 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521697484 1 B01 Woodman, A. J. 1 386 HBLA1 02 Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence which will be invaluable for students and non-specialists as well as of interest to established scholars in the field. First situating Tacitus within the tradition of Roman historical writing and his own contemporary society, it goes on to analyse each of his individual works and then discuss key topics such as his distinctive authorial voice and his views of history and freedom. It ends by tracing Tacitus' reception, beginning with the transition from manuscript to printed editions, describing his influence on political thought in early modern Europe, and concluding with his significance in the twentieth century. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/97484/cover/9780521697484.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100121 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521874602 03 03 9780521874601 15 9780521874601 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521874601 1 B01 Woodman, A. J. 1 386 HBLA1 02 Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence which will be invaluable for students and non-specialists as well as of interest to established scholars in the field. First situating Tacitus within the tradition of Roman historical writing and his own contemporary society, it goes on to analyse each of his individual works and then discuss key topics such as his distinctive authorial voice and his views of history and freedom. It ends by tracing Tacitus' reception, beginning with the transition from manuscript to printed editions, describing his influence on political thought in early modern Europe, and concluding with his significance in the twentieth century. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/74601/cover/9780521874601.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100121 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 225.00 052177246X 02 03 9780521772464 15 9780521772464 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521772464 1 A01 Deigh, John 1 256 HPQ 02 This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of theories of right and wrong that are found in the great ethical works of Western philosophy. It focuses on theories that continue to have a significant presence in the field. The core chapters cover egoism, the eudaimonism of Plato and Aristotle, act and rule utilitarianism, modern natural law theory, Kant's moral theory, and existentialist ethics. Readers will be introduced not only to the main ideas of each theory but to contemporary developments and defenses of those ideas. A final chapter takes up topics in meta-ethics and moral psychology. The discussions throughout draw the reader into philosophical inquiry through argument and criticism that illuminate the profundity of the questions under examination. Students will find this book to be a very helpful guide to how philosophical inquiry is undertaken as well as to what the major theories in ethics hold. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/72464/cover/9780521772464.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 0521775973 02 03 9780521775977 15 9780521775977 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521775977 1 A01 Deigh, John 1 256 HPQ 02 This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of theories of right and wrong that are found in the great ethical works of Western philosophy. It focuses on theories that continue to have a significant presence in the field. The core chapters cover egoism, the eudaimonism of Plato and Aristotle, act and rule utilitarianism, modern natural law theory, Kant's moral theory, and existentialist ethics. Readers will be introduced not only to the main ideas of each theory but to contemporary developments and defenses of those ideas. A final chapter takes up topics in meta-ethics and moral psychology. The discussions throughout draw the reader into philosophical inquiry through argument and criticism that illuminate the profundity of the questions under examination. Students will find this book to be a very helpful guide to how philosophical inquiry is undertaken as well as to what the major theories in ethics hold. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/75977/cover/9780521775977.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 59.95 052154940X 03 03 9780521549400 15 9780521549400 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521549400 1 A01 Persson, Karl Gunnar 1 270 HBJD 02 This concise and accessible introduction to European economic history focusses on the interplay between the development of institutions and the generation and diffusion of knowledge-based technologies. The author challenges the view that European economic history before the Industrial Revolution was constrained by population growth outstripping available resources. He argues instead that the limiting factor was the knowledge needed for technological progress but also that Europe was unique in developing a scientific culture and institutions which were the basis for the unprecedented technological progress and economic growth of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Simple explanatory concepts are used to explain growth and stagnation as well as the convergence of income over time whilst text boxes, figures, an extensive glossary and online exercises enable students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the subject. This is the only textbook students will need to understand Europe's unique economic development and its global context. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/49400/cover/9780521549400.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521840090 03 03 9780521840095 15 9780521840095 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521840095 1 A01 Persson, Karl Gunnar 1 270 HBJD 02 This concise and accessible introduction to European economic history focusses on the interplay between the development of institutions and the generation and diffusion of knowledge-based technologies. The author challenges the view that European economic history before the Industrial Revolution was constrained by population growth outstripping available resources. He argues instead that the limiting factor was the knowledge needed for technological progress but also that Europe was unique in developing a scientific culture and institutions which were the basis for the unprecedented technological progress and economic growth of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Simple explanatory concepts are used to explain growth and stagnation as well as the convergence of income over time whilst text boxes, figures, an extensive glossary and online exercises enable students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the subject. This is the only textbook students will need to understand Europe's unique economic development and its global context. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/40095/cover/9780521840095.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521716160 02 03 9780521716161 15 9780521716161 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521716161 1 B01 Ramet, Sabrina P. 1 600 JP 02 The only textbook to provide a complete introduction to post-1989 Central and Southeast European politics, this dynamic volume provides a comprehensive account of the collapse of communism and the massive transformation that the region has witnessed. It brings together 23 leading specialists to trace the course of the dramatic changes accompanying democratization. The text provides country-by-country coverage, identifying common themes and enabling students to see which are shared throughout the area, giving them a sense of its unity and comparability whilst strengthening understanding around its many different trajectories. The dual thematic focus on democratization and Europeanization running through the text also helps to reinforce this learning process. Each chapter contains a factual overview to give the reader context concerning the region which will be useful for specialists and newcomers to the subject alike. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/16161/cover/9780521716161.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 69.95 0521888107 02 03 9780521888103 15 9780521888103 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521888103 1 B01 Ramet, Sabrina P. 1 600 JP 02 The only textbook to provide a complete introduction to post-1989 Central and Southeast European politics, this dynamic volume provides a comprehensive account of the collapse of communism and the massive transformation that the region has witnessed. It brings together 23 leading specialists to trace the course of the dramatic changes accompanying democratization. The text provides country-by-country coverage, identifying common themes and enabling students to see which are shared throughout the area, giving them a sense of its unity and comparability whilst strengthening understanding around its many different trajectories. The dual thematic focus on democratization and Europeanization running through the text also helps to reinforce this learning process. Each chapter contains a factual overview to give the reader context concerning the region which will be useful for specialists and newcomers to the subject alike. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/88103/cover/9780521888103.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 0521727588 03 03 9780521727587 15 9780521727587 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521727587 1 A01 Magee, Gary B. 2 A01 Thompson, Andrew S. 1 314 HBJD1 02 Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/27587/cover/9780521727587.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100304 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521898897 03 03 9780521898898 15 9780521898898 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521898898 1 A01 Magee, Gary B. 2 A01 Thompson, Andrew S. 1 314 HBJD1 02 Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/98898/cover/9780521898898.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100304 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 160.00 0521747546 02 03 9780521747547 15 9780521747547 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521747547 1 A01 al-Rasheed, Madawi 2 344 HBJF1 02 This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century. Two new chapters discuss the political, economic and social developments in the aftermath of 9/11, painting a vivid picture of a country shocked by terrorism and condemned by the international community. Madawi Al-Rasheed reveals that fragmentation of royal politics, a failing economy and fermenting Islamist dissent posed serious threats to state and society in 2001. She assesses the consequent state reforms introduced under pressure of terrorism, international scrutiny and a social mobilisation of men, women and minorities struggling to shape their future against a background of repression and authoritarian rule. While Saudi Arabia is still far from establishing a fourth state, there are signs that the people are ready for a serious change that will lead them to a state of institutions rather than princes. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/47547/cover/9780521747547.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 21 54.95 052176128X 02 03 9780521761284 15 9780521761284 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521761284 1 A01 al-Rasheed, Madawi 2 344 HBJF1 02 This updated edition analyses the challenges, both internal and external, facing Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century. Two new chapters discuss the political, economic and social developments in the aftermath of 9/11, painting a vivid picture of a country shocked by terrorism and condemned by the international community. Madawi Al-Rasheed reveals that fragmentation of royal politics, a failing economy and fermenting Islamist dissent posed serious threats to state and society in 2001. She assesses the consequent state reforms introduced under pressure of terrorism, international scrutiny and a social mobilisation of men, women and minorities struggling to shape their future against a background of repression and authoritarian rule. While Saudi Arabia is still far from establishing a fourth state, there are signs that the people are ready for a serious change that will lead them to a state of institutions rather than princes. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/61284/cover/9780521761284.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 21 163.00 0521131383 02 03 9780521131384 15 9780521131384 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521131384 1 A01 Lambourne, Robert 1 312 PGK 02 Aimed at advanced undergraduates, this self-contained textbook covers the key ideas of special and general relativity together with their applications. The textbook introduces students to basic geometric concepts, such as metrics, connections and curvature, before examining general relativity in more detail. It shows the observational evidence supporting the theory, and the description general relativity provides of black holes and cosmological space-times. The textbook is in full colour, with numerous worked examples and exercises with solutions. Key points and equations are highlighted for easy identification, and each chapter ends with a summary list of important concepts and results. This textbook provides the essential background for an up-to-date discussion of modern observational cosmology. Each chapter builds on the previous one as concepts are developed, making it ideal for self-study. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/31384/cover/9780521131384.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 21 110.00 0521761190 02 03 9780521761192 15 9780521761192 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521761192 1 A01 Lambourne, Robert 1 312 PGK 02 Aimed at advanced undergraduates, this self-contained textbook covers the key ideas of special and general relativity together with their applications. The textbook introduces students to basic geometric concepts, such as metrics, connections and curvature, before examining general relativity in more detail. It shows the observational evidence supporting the theory, and the description general relativity provides of black holes and cosmological space-times. The textbook is in full colour, with numerous worked examples and exercises with solutions. Key points and equations are highlighted for easy identification, and each chapter ends with a summary list of important concepts and results. This textbook provides the essential background for an up-to-date discussion of modern observational cosmology. Each chapter builds on the previous one as concepts are developed, making it ideal for self-study. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/61192/cover/9780521761192.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 21 236.00 0521737400 02 03 9780521737401 15 9780521737401 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521737401 1 A01 Dessler, Andrew 2 A01 Parson, Edward A. 2 230 RBP 02 The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change. Aimed at the educated non-specialist, and at courses in environmental policy or climate change, the book clearly lays out the scientific foundations of climate change, the issues in current policy debates, and the interactions between science and politics that make the climate change debate so contentious and confusing. This new edition is brought completely up to date to reflect the rapid movement of events related to climate change. In addition, all sections have been improved, in particular a more thorough primer on the basic science of climate change is included. The book also now integrates the discussion of contrarian claims with the discussion of current scientific knowledge; extends the discussion of cost and benefit estimates; and provides an improved glossary. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/37401/cover/9780521737401.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 79.95 0521747813 02 03 9780521747813 15 9780521747813 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521747813 1 A01 Richter, Burton 1 256 TQ 02 Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has served on many US and international review committees on climate change and energy issues. He provides a concise overview of our knowledge and uncertainties within climate change science , discusses current energy demand and supply patterns, and the energy options available to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Written in non-technical language, this book presents a balanced view of options for moving from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels into a much more sustainable energy system, and is accessible to a wide range of readers without scientific backgrounds - students, policymakers, and the concerned citizen. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/47813/cover/9780521747813.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 21 45.95 0521763843 02 03 9780521763844 15 9780521763844 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521763844 1 A01 Richter, Burton 1 256 TQ 02 Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has served on many US and international review committees on climate change and energy issues. He provides a concise overview of our knowledge and uncertainties within climate change science , discusses current energy demand and supply patterns, and the energy options available to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Written in non-technical language, this book presents a balanced view of options for moving from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels into a much more sustainable energy system, and is accessible to a wide range of readers without scientific backgrounds - students, policymakers, and the concerned citizen. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/63844/cover/9780521763844.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 21 180.00 0521875218 02 03 9780521875219 15 9780521875219 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521875219 1 B01 Leatherbarrow, William 2 B01 Offord, Derek 1 472 D 02 The history of ideas has played a central role in Russia's political and social history. Understanding its intellectual tradition and the way the intelligentsia have shaped the nation is crucial to understanding the Russia of today. This new history examines important intellectual and cultural currents (the Enlightenment, nationalism, nihilism, and religious revival) and key themes (conceptions of the West and East, the common people, and attitudes to capitalism and natural science) in Russian intellectual history. Concentrating on the Golden Age of Russian thought in the mid nineteenth century, the contributors also look back to its eighteenth-century origins in the flowering of culture following the reign of Peter the Great, and forward to the continuing vitality of Russia's classical intellectual tradition in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. With brief biographical details of over fifty key thinkers and an extensive bibliography, this book provides a fresh, comprehensive overview of Russian intellectual history. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/75219/cover/9780521875219.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100729 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 275.00 0521819172 03 03 9780521819176 15 9780521819176 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521819176 1 A01 Grabowski, Christophe 2 A01 Rink, John 1 994 AV 02 This Annotated Catalogue presents the most ambitious and comprehensive research ever carried out on the first editions of Chopin's music. It begins with an in-depth introduction to these unique sources and the publishing practices that gave rise to them. A detailed description then follows of each Chopin first edition and the later impressions produced by the original publishers or their successors. The Annotated Catalogue facilitates identification of the Chopin scores held in libraries and private collections around the world by attempting to reconstruct the creative history of each edition. It features entries on 1,552 distinct impressions - of which some 4,830 copies are individually described - along with explanatory essays, appendices and facsimiles of over 200 title pages which illustrate their respective catalogue entries. Musicians and musicologists alike will gain an unprecedented understanding of the creative history of each Chopin edition and the music within it. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/19176/cover/9780521819176.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100121 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 450.00 0521765927 03 03 9780521765923 15 9780521765923 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521765923 1 A01 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 2 A01 West III, James L. W. 1 308 D 02 F. Scott Fitzgerald had a busy and productive literary apprenticeship, writing in a great variety of genres. This volume contains his writings for the student magazine at his high schools and his Princeton writings for the Daily Princetonian, the Princeton Tiger, and the Nassau Literary Magazine. Of special note in this volume are the complete lyrics that Fitzgerald composed for three student musical comedies mounted by the Triangle Club at Princeton - Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! (1914), The Evil Eye (1915), and Safety First! (1916). The volume includes a scholarly introduction, a record of variants and emendations, and numerous facsimiles and other illustrations. Explanatory notes identify the literary works, Broadway shows, movie queens, stage stars, politicians, historical figures, criminals, sports heroes, and popular songs referred to by Fitzgerald in these early writings. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/65923/cover/9780521765923.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100304 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 0521688515 02 03 9780521688512 15 9780521688512 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521688512 1 A01 Connah, Graham 1 234 HDA 02 In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology. Based on his own experiences, he presents his personal views about the task of writing about archaeology. The book is not intended to be a technical manual. Instead, Connah aims to encourage archaeologists who write about their subject to think about the process of writing. He writes with the beginning author in mind, but the book will be of interest to all archaeologists who plan to publish their work. Connah's overall premise is that those who write about archaeology need to be less concerned with content and more concerned with how they present it. It is not enough to be a good archaeologist. One must also become a good writer and be able to communicate effectively. Archaeology, he argues, is above all a literary discipline. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/88512/cover/9780521688512.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press US 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 49.95 0521868505 02 03 9780521868501 15 9780521868501 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521868501 1 A01 Connah, Graham 1 234 HDA 02 In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology. Based on his own experiences, he presents his personal views about the task of writing about archaeology. The book is not intended to be a technical manual. Instead, Connah aims to encourage archaeologists who write about their subject to think about the process of writing. He writes with the beginning author in mind, but the book will be of interest to all archaeologists who plan to publish their work. Connah's overall premise is that those who write about archaeology need to be less concerned with content and more concerned with how they present it. It is not enough to be a good archaeologist. One must also become a good writer and be able to communicate effectively. Archaeology, he argues, is above all a literary discipline. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/88512/cover/9780521688512.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press US 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521513618 03 03 9780521513616 15 9780521513616 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521513616 1 A01 Loehle, Craig 1 258 PSA 02 Scientific research requires both innovation and attention to detail, clever breakthroughs and routine procedures. This indispensable guide gives students and researchers across all scientific disciplines practical advice on how to succeed. All types of scientific careers are discussed, from those in industry and academia to consulting, with emphasis on how scientists spend their time and the skills that are needed to be productive. Strategic thinking, creativity and problem-solving, the central keys to success in research, are all explored. The reader is shown how to enhance the creative process in science, how one goes about making discoveries, putting together the solution to a complex problem and then testing the solution obtained. The social dimension of science is also discussed from the development and execution of a scientific research program to publishing papers, as well as issues of ethics and science policy. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/13616/cover/9780521513616.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091224 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 135.00 0521745950 03 03 9780521745956 15 9780521745956 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521745956 1 A01 Blute, Marion 1 250 PSAJ 02 Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social-learning based cultural and social change. With a multidisciplinary approach for graduate biologists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, archaeologists, linguists, economists, political scientists and science and technology specialists, the author presents this model of evolution drawing on a number of sophisticated aspects of biological evolutionary theory. The approach brings together a broad and inclusive theoretical framework for understanding the social sciences which addresses many of the dilemmas at their forefront - the relationship between history and necessity, conflict and cooperation, the ideal and the material and the problems of agency, subjectivity and the nature of social structure. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/45956/cover/9780521745956.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.95 0521768934 03 03 9780521768931 15 9780521768931 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521768931 1 A01 Blute, Marion 1 250 PSAJ 02 Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary processes. Darwinian sociocultural evolutionary theory applies the logic of Darwinism to social-learning based cultural and social change. With a multidisciplinary approach for graduate biologists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, archaeologists, linguists, economists, political scientists and science and technology specialists, the author presents this model of evolution drawing on a number of sophisticated aspects of biological evolutionary theory. The approach brings together a broad and inclusive theoretical framework for understanding the social sciences which addresses many of the dilemmas at their forefront - the relationship between history and necessity, conflict and cooperation, the ideal and the material and the problems of agency, subjectivity and the nature of social structure. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/45956/cover/9780521745956.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 165.00 0521707722 02 03 9780521707725 15 9780521707725 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521707725 1 A01 Stace, Clive 3 1272 PST 02 Since its first publication in 1991, New Flora of the British Isles has become established as the standard work on the identification of the wild vascular plants of the British Isles. The Flora remains unique in many features, including its full coverage of all British wild plants, its user-friendly organisation, and its specially compiled keys and descriptions. This new edition includes the addition of more than 160 species, so that 4,800 taxa are now covered in varying degrees of detail. It also incorporates the new molecular system of classification based on DNA sequences. Furthermore, it includes 1600 species illustrations, rewritten distributions and an overhaul of the designation of degrees of rarity, with the introduction of a third, less rare, category. These revisions should ensure that this third edition remains the essential reference source for all taxonomists, ecologists, conservationists, plant hunters and biogeographers, whether they be researchers, teachers, students or amateurs. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/07725/cover/9780521707725.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 052188523X 03 03 9780521885232 15 9780521885232 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521885232 1 B01 Panayotakis, Costas 1 542 HBLA1 02 This is a newly revised, critical text of the fragments attributed to the Roman knight and mimographer Decimus Laberius, a witty and crudely satirical contemporary of Cicero and Caesar. Laberius is perhaps the most celebrated comic playwright of the late Republic, and the fragments of plays attributed to him comprise the overwhelming majority of the extant evidence for what we conventionally call 'the literary Roman mime'. The volume also includes a survey of the characteristics and development of the Roman mime, both as a literary genre and as a type of popular theatrical entertainment, as well as a re-evaluation of the place of Laberius' work within its historical and literary context. This is the first English translation of all the fragments, and the first detailed English commentary on them from a linguistic, metrical, and (wherever possible) theatrical perspective. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/85232/cover/9780521885232.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100211 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 235.00 0521769345 02 03 9780521769341 15 9780521769341 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521769341 1 B01 Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim 2 B01 Molina, Mario 3 B01 Stern, Nicholas 4 B01 Huber, Veronika 5 B01 Kadner, Susanne 1 416 TQ 02 Arising from the 1st Interdisciplinary Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Potsdam, this book brings together Nobel Laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics and Peace - top-level representatives from politics and NGOs, and renowned experts on sustainability. In an unparalleled attempt to address humankind's transformation to global sustainability, the authors explore the best scientific and political strategies for reconciling our civilization with its physical and ecological support systems. The book features a radically interdisciplinary approach through a broad range of contributions, covering the latest insights from climate impact research, environmental economics, energy resource analysis, ecosystems science, and other crucial fields. It is for everyone interested in sustainability issues. Intellectually stimulating articles address the complex challenges arising from the need to avoid dangerous climate change, covering both advanced mainstream concepts and novel transformational approaches. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/69341/cover/9780521769341.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 140.00 0521407443 03 03 9780521407441 15 9780521407441 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521407441 1 A01 Archer, David 2 A01 Rahmstorf, Stefan 1 260 RBP 02 An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances have been made in computer modelling of our climate. This book provides a concise and accessible overview of what we know about ongoing climate change and its impacts, and what we can do to confront the climate crisis. Using clear and simple graphics in full colour, it lucidly highlights information contained in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, and brings the subject completely up-to-date with current science and policy. The book makes essential scientific information on this critical topic accessible to a broad audience. Obtaining sound information is the first step in preventing a serious, long-lasting degradation of our planet's climate, helping to ensure our future survival. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805214/07441/cover/9780521407441.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091224 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 0521887690 03 03 9780521887694 15 9780521887694 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521887694 1 A01 Wyngaard, John C. 1 406 PHVJ 02 Based on his 40+ years of research and teaching, John Wyngaard's textbook is an excellent up-to-date introduction to turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering flows for advanced students, and a reference work for researchers in the atmospheric sciences. Part I introduces the concepts and equations of turbulence. It includes a rigorous introduction to the principal types of numerical modeling of turbulent flows. Part II describes turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Part III covers the foundations of the statistical representation of turbulence and includes illustrative examples of stochastic problems that can be solved analytically. The book treats atmospheric and engineering turbulence in a unified way, gives clear explanation of the fundamental concepts of modeling turbulence, and has an up-to-date treatment of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. Student exercises are included at the ends of chapters, and worked solutions are available online for use by course instructors. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/87694/cover/9780521887694.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 160.00 0521747635 03 03 9780521747639 15 9780521747639 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521747639 1 A01 Musgrove, Peter 1 338 TQ 02 Climate change caused by burning fossil fuels and escalating fossil fuel prices make the further rapid development of renewable energy sources a global imperative. Energy provided by wind power, though no panacea, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to meeting electricity needs in many countries. This concise and accessible account of the history and future development of wind power technology offers a complete overview of this vital field for engineers, scientists, students and all readers interested in wind power. Requiring no prior technical knowledge, this book provides a global historical assessment of wind power use, encapsulating sequential experimental changes, and concluding with narration of wind deployment, and an assessment of future options. Wind power is shown as compatible with large scale use: a clean, competitive and abundant energy source to help meet our future needs. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/47639/cover/9780521747639.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091224 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.95 0521762383 03 03 9780521762380 15 9780521762380 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521762380 1 A01 Musgrove, Peter 1 338 TQ 02 Climate change caused by burning fossil fuels and escalating fossil fuel prices make the further rapid development of renewable energy sources a global imperative. Energy provided by wind power, though no panacea, has the potential to make a substantial contribution to meeting electricity needs in many countries. This concise and accessible account of the history and future development of wind power technology offers a complete overview of this vital field for engineers, scientists, students and all readers interested in wind power. Requiring no prior technical knowledge, this book provides a global historical assessment of wind power use, encapsulating sequential experimental changes, and concluding with narration of wind deployment, and an assessment of future options. Wind power is shown as compatible with large scale use: a clean, competitive and abundant energy source to help meet our future needs. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/62380/cover/9780521762380.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091224 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 165.00 0521766907 03 03 9780521766906 15 9780521766906 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521766906 1 B01 Lomborg, Bjørn 1 724 KCM 02 Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not effective. Latin American Development Priorities shows how limited resources could be used for the greatest benefit of the Latin American and Caribbean region. A panel of economists met over three days in San José to review proposals to tackle the ten most important challenges, which emerged from a survey by the Inter-American Development Bank. The expert panel was asked a question which appears simple but is actually very difficult to answer: What should Latin American governments do with an additional nominal $10 billion? Hard choices are needed if Latin America's problems are to be tackled effectively. This book provides the means to make those choices as objectively as possible. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/66906/cover/9780521766906.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 250.00 052174752X 03 03 9780521747523 15 9780521747523 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521747523 1 B01 Lomborg, Bjørn 1 724 KCM 02 Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not effective. Latin American Development Priorities shows how limited resources could be used for the greatest benefit of the Latin American and Caribbean region. A panel of economists met over three days in San José to review proposals to tackle the ten most important challenges, which emerged from a survey by the Inter-American Development Bank. The expert panel was asked a question which appears simple but is actually very difficult to answer: What should Latin American governments do with an additional nominal $10 billion? Hard choices are needed if Latin America's problems are to be tackled effectively. This book provides the means to make those choices as objectively as possible. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/47523/cover/9780521747523.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 110.00 0521513693 02 03 9780521513692 15 9780521513692 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521513692 1 A01 Reddy, J. N. 1 248 TG 02 As most modern technologies are no longer discipline-specific but involve multidisciplinary approaches, undergraduate engineering students should be introduced to the principles of mechanics so that they have a strong background in the basic principles common to all disciplines and are able to work at the interface of science and engineering disciplines. This textbook is designed for a first course on principles of mechanics and provides an introduction to the basic concepts of stress and strain and conservation principles. It prepares engineer-scientists for advanced courses in traditional as well as emerging fields such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, energy systems, and computational mechanics. This simple book presents the subjects of mechanics of materials, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer in a unified form using the conservation principles of mechanics. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/13692/cover/9780521513692.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press US 02 20100729 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 200.00 0521515521 03 03 9780521515528 15 9780521515528 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521515528 1 B01 Kennedy, Dennis 2 B01 Li Lan, Yong 1 304 DSB 02 Addressing both theoretical and practical questions surrounding Shakespeare in contemporary Asia, this book asks why Shakespeare has been of use in these vast regions of the world that have no need to call on him. By investigating some of the ways Shakespeare has been reinvented and deployed, the study notes the differences between standard western approaches and those that can be seen in Japan, China, India, and South East Asia. The contributors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and traditions, West and East, and present distinctive, and sometimes conflicting, views on topics as diverse as speaking Shakespeare in Japanese, the importation and exportation of Shakespeare in Asia, and the uses of the English national poet in Indian film and Japanese popular culture. The debates which occur within the book highlight the diversity of production and reception for the world's most popular playwright, whose work is now global cultural capital. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/15528/cover/9780521515528.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100204 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521760674 03 03 9780521760676 15 9780521760676 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521760676 1 A01 Holbrook, Peter 1 256 DSB 02 Providing a provocative and original perspective on Shakespeare, Peter Holbrook argues that Shakespeare is an author friendly to such essentially modern and unruly notions as individuality, freedom, self-realization and authenticity. These expressive values vivify Shakespeare's own writing; they also form a continuous, and a central, part of the Shakespearean tradition. Engaging with the theme of the individual will in specific plays and poems, and examining a range of libertarian-minded scholarly and literary responses to Shakespeare over time, Shakespeare's Individualism advances the proposition that one of the key reasons for reading Shakespeare today is his commitment to individual liberty - even as we recognize that freedom is not just an indispensable ideal but also, potentially, a dangerous one. Engagingly written and jargon free, this book demonstrates that Shakespeare has important things to say about fundamental issues of human existence. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/60676/cover/9780521760676.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100121 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521764343 03 03 9780521764346 15 9780521764346 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521764346 1 A01 Rokison, Abigail 1 248 DSB 02 Using evidence from theatrical hand-books, performance practice and drama training, Abigail Rokison provides a new synthesis of academic and theatrical approaches to the Shakespearean text. Her work combines scholarship with practical exploration in the rehearsal room. In looking at theatrical interaction with early printed and modern edited texts, Rokison investigates the potential impact of editorial principles of lineation and punctuation on theatrical delivery. The book alerts editors to ways in which actors may interpret editorial emendations, and theatre practitioners to diverse authorial, editorial and compositional methods. It contains suggestions for a 'theatrical text' which makes clear the metrical structure of a scene whilst also indicating areas of ambiguous lineation. Providing a fresh perspective on Renaissance actors' parts, the book includes detailed analysis of the structural properties of the verse, in particular short lines, shared lines, end-stopping and enjambment in a range of Shakespearean texts. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/64346/cover/9780521764346.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100121 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521129052 03 03 9780521129053 15 9780521129053 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521129053 1 A01 Dean, Martin 1 448 HBJD 02 Robbing the Jews reveals the mechanisms by which the Nazis and their allies confiscated Jewish property; the book demonstrates the close relationship between robbery and the Holocaust. The spoliation evolved in intensifying steps. The Anschluss and Kristallnacht in 1938 reveal a dynamic tension between pressure from below and state-directed measures. In Western Europe, the economic persecution of the Jews took the form of legal decrees and administrative measures. In Eastern Europe, authoritarian governments adopted the Nazi program that excluded Jews from the economy and seized their property, based on indigenous antisemitism and plans for ethnically homogenous nation-states. In the occupied East, property was collected at the killing sites - the most valuable objects were sent to Berlin, whereas items of lesser value supported the local administration and rewarded collaborators. At several key junctures, robbery acted as a catalyst for genocide, accelerating the progression from pogrom to mass murder. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/29053/cover/9780521129053.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press US 04 20100118 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 63.95 0521713897 03 03 9780521713894 15 9780521713894 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521713894 1 B01 Tallett, Frank 2 B01 Trim, D. J. B. 1 426 HBJD 02 The period 1350-1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this period is usually written from either medieval or early-modern, and either Western or Eastern European, perspectives. These chronological and geographical limits have produced substantial confusion about how the conduct of war changed. The essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of land and sea warfare across Europe throughout this period of momentous political, religious, technological, intellectual and military change. Written by leading experts in their fields, they not only summarise existing scholarship, but also present new findings and new ideas, casting new light on the art of war, the rise of the state, and European expansion. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/13894/cover/9780521713894.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.95 0521886287 03 03 9780521886284 15 9780521886284 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521886284 1 B01 Tallett, Frank 2 B01 Trim, D. J. B. 1 426 HBJD 02 The period 1350-1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this period is usually written from either medieval or early-modern, and either Western or Eastern European, perspectives. These chronological and geographical limits have produced substantial confusion about how the conduct of war changed. The essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of land and sea warfare across Europe throughout this period of momentous political, religious, technological, intellectual and military change. Written by leading experts in their fields, they not only summarise existing scholarship, but also present new findings and new ideas, casting new light on the art of war, the rise of the state, and European expansion. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/86284/cover/9780521886284.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 165.00 0521125987 03 03 9780521125987 15 9780521125987 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521125987 1 A01 Gale, Fay 2 A01 Bailey-Harris, Rebecca 3 A01 Wundersitz, Joy 1 172 LA 02 This book is a 1990 account of the ways in which young Aborigines were at a disadvantage before laws and legislation had been introduced, intended to improve their position. Aboriginal Youth and the Criminal Justice System focuses on South Australia, where detailed statistics are available, in a sophisticated analysis of the exact nature of the discrimination experienced by young Aborigines. Fay Gale, Rebecca Bailey-Harris and Joy Wundersitz examine the criminal justice system in operation; from the initial intervention by a police officer, through the process of screening and assessment to the final outcome - which all too often is a criminal record. The research clearly shows that at every point where discretion was exercised within this system, Aboriginal youths received the harsher option. Thus disadvantage is heaped on disadvantage until young Aboriginals were imprisoned at 23 times the rate of other young Australians. Even for those who escaped detention, participation in the criminal justice system was often such an ordeal that it became a form of punishment in itself. Discretion, though preferable to inflexible rules could operate against a group whose lifestyle and values differed from mainstream society. Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press AU 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 55.00 0521888700 03 03 9780521888707 15 9780521888707 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521888707 1 A01 Moloney, Niamh 1 500 LNC 02 As governments around the world withdraw from welfare provision and promote long-term savings by households through the financial markets, the protection of retail investors has become critically important. Taking as a case study the wide-ranging EC investor-protection regime which now governs EC retail markets after an intense reform period, this critical, contextual and comparative examination of the nature of investor protection explores why the retail investor should be protected, whether retail investor engagement with the markets should be encouraged and how investor protection laws should be designed, particularly in light of the financial crisis. The book considers the implications of the EC's investor protection rules 'on the books' but also considers investor protection law and policy 'in action', drawing on experience from the UK retail market and in particular the Financial Services Authority's extensive retail market activities, including the recent Retail Distribution Review and the Treating Customers Fairly strategy. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/88707/cover/9780521888707.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100121 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 425.00 0521513294 03 03 9780521513296 15 9780521513296 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521513296 1 B01 Edwards, Alice 2 B01 Ferstman, Carla 1 640 LNDC 02 The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Threats of terrorism and the impacts of globalisation and mass migration have shaped our identities, politics and world views. This volume of essays analyses these shifts in thinking and, in particular, critically engages with the concept of 'human security' from legal, international relations and human rights perspectives. Contributors consider the special circumstances of non-citizens, such as refugees, migrants, and displaced and stateless persons, and assess whether, conceptually and practically, 'human security' helps to address the multiple challenges they face. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/13296/cover/9780521513296.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 210.00 0521734940 03 03 9780521734943 15 9780521734943 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521734943 1 B01 Edwards, Alice 2 B01 Ferstman, Carla 1 640 LNDC 02 The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Threats of terrorism and the impacts of globalisation and mass migration have shaped our identities, politics and world views. This volume of essays analyses these shifts in thinking and, in particular, critically engages with the concept of 'human security' from legal, international relations and human rights perspectives. Contributors consider the special circumstances of non-citizens, such as refugees, migrants, and displaced and stateless persons, and assess whether, conceptually and practically, 'human security' helps to address the multiple challenges they face. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/34943/cover/9780521734943.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 87.95 0521167701 03 03 9780521167703 15 9780521167703 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521167703 1 A01 Scharf, Michael P. 2 A01 Williams, Paul R. 1 336 LN 02 Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis grew out of a series of meetings that the authors convened with all ten of the living former U.S. State Department legal advisers (from the Carter administration to that of George W. Bush). Based on their insider accounts of the role that international law actually played during the major crises on their watch, the book explores whether international law is real law or just a form of politics that policymakers are free to ignore whenever they perceive it to be in their interest to do so. Written in a style that will appeal to the casual reader and serious scholar alike, the book includes a foreword by the Obama administration's State Department legal adviser, Harold Koh; background on the theoretical underpinnings of the compliance debate; an in-depth case study of the treatment of detainees in the war on terror; and a comprehensive glossary of the terms, names, places, and events that are discussed in the book. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/67703/cover/9780521167703.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press US 04 20100226 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 59.95 052176680X 03 03 9780521766807 15 9780521766807 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521766807 1 A01 Scharf, Michael P. 2 A01 Williams, Paul R. 1 336 LN 02 Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis grew out of a series of meetings that the authors convened with all ten of the living former U.S. State Department legal advisers (from the Carter administration to that of George W. Bush). Based on their insider accounts of the role that international law actually played during the major crises on their watch, the book explores whether international law is real law or just a form of politics that policymakers are free to ignore whenever they perceive it to be in their interest to do so. Written in a style that will appeal to the casual reader and serious scholar alike, the book includes a foreword by the Obama administration's State Department legal adviser, Harold Koh; background on the theoretical underpinnings of the compliance debate; an in-depth case study of the treatment of detainees in the war on terror; and a comprehensive glossary of the terms, names, places, and events that are discussed in the book. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/67703/cover/9780521167703.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press US 04 20100111 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 170.00 0521121477 03 03 9780521121477 15 9780521121477 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521121477 1 A01 Diehl, Paul F. 2 A01 Ku, Charlotte 1 214 LBB 02 Paul F. Diehl and Charlotte Ku's new framework for international law divides it into operating and normative systems. The authors provide a theory of how these two systems interact, which explains how changes in one system precipitate changes and create capacity in the other. A punctuated equilibrium theory of system evolution, drawn from studies of biology and public policy studies, provides the basis for delineating the conditions for change and helps explain a pattern of international legal change that is often infrequent and sub-optimal, but still influential. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/21477/cover/9780521121477.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 69.95 0521198526 03 03 9780521198523 15 9780521198523 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521198523 1 A01 Diehl, Paul F. 2 A01 Ku, Charlotte 1 214 LBB 02 Paul F. Diehl and Charlotte Ku's new framework for international law divides it into operating and normative systems. The authors provide a theory of how these two systems interact, which explains how changes in one system precipitate changes and create capacity in the other. A punctuated equilibrium theory of system evolution, drawn from studies of biology and public policy studies, provides the basis for delineating the conditions for change and helps explain a pattern of international legal change that is often infrequent and sub-optimal, but still influential. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/98523/cover/9780521198523.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 0521719798 03 03 9780521719797 15 9780521719797 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521719797 1 A01 Lieber, Rochelle 1 228 CFF 02 Morphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject, this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics. Providing data from a wide variety of languages, it includes hands-on activities such as 'challenge boxes', designed to encourage students to gather their own data and analyse it, work with data on websites, perform simple experiments, and discuss topics with each other. There is also an extensive introduction to the terms and concepts necessary for analysing words. Topics such as the mental lexicon, derivation, compounding, inflection, morphological typology, productivity, and the interface of morphology with syntax and phonology expose students to the whole scope of the field. Unlike other textbooks it anticipates the question 'Is it a real word?' and tackles it head on by looking at the distinction between dictionaries and the mental lexicon. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/19797/cover/9780521719797.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091224 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 62.95 0521895499 03 03 9780521895491 15 9780521895491 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521895491 1 A01 Lieber, Rochelle 1 228 CFF 02 Morphology is the study of how words are put together. A lively introduction to the subject, this textbook is intended for undergraduates with relatively little background in linguistics. Providing data from a wide variety of languages, it includes hands-on activities such as 'challenge boxes', designed to encourage students to gather their own data and analyse it, work with data on websites, perform simple experiments, and discuss topics with each other. There is also an extensive introduction to the terms and concepts necessary for analysing words. Topics such as the mental lexicon, derivation, compounding, inflection, morphological typology, productivity, and the interface of morphology with syntax and phonology expose students to the whole scope of the field. Unlike other textbooks it anticipates the question 'Is it a real word?' and tackles it head on by looking at the distinction between dictionaries and the mental lexicon. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/95491/cover/9780521895491.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091224 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 165.00 0521617413 02 03 9780521617413 15 9780521617413 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521617413 1 A01 Riemer, Nick 1 488 CFB 02 Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook is the most up-to-date introduction to the subject available for undergraduate students. It not only equips students with the concepts they need in order to understand the main aspects of semantics, it also introduces the styles of reasoning and argument which characterise the field. It contains more than 200 exercises and discussion questions designed to test and deepen readers' understanding. More inclusive than other textbooks, it clearly explains and contrasts different theoretical approaches, summarises current debates, and provides helpful suggestions for further reading. Examples are drawn both from major world languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish and English, and from minority ones. The book also highlights the connections between semantics and the wider study of human language in psychology, anthropology, and linguistics itself. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/17413/cover/9780521617413.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 72.95 0521851920 02 03 9780521851923 15 9780521851923 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521851923 1 A01 Riemer, Nick 1 488 CFB 02 Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook is the most up-to-date introduction to the subject available for undergraduate students. It not only equips students with the concepts they need in order to understand the main aspects of semantics, it also introduces the styles of reasoning and argument which characterise the field. It contains more than 200 exercises and discussion questions designed to test and deepen readers' understanding. More inclusive than other textbooks, it clearly explains and contrasts different theoretical approaches, summarises current debates, and provides helpful suggestions for further reading. Examples are drawn both from major world languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish and English, and from minority ones. The book also highlights the connections between semantics and the wider study of human language in psychology, anthropology, and linguistics itself. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/51923/cover/9780521851923.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 225.00 0521516455 03 03 9780521516457 15 9780521516457 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521516457 1 B01 Larson, Richard K. 2 B01 Déprez, Viviane 3 B01 Yamakido, Hiroko 1 280 CF 02 The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary antecedents. The book includes Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch's seminal and provocative essay on the subject, 'The Faculty of Language,' and charts the progress of research in this active and highly controversial field since its publication in 2002. This timely volume will be welcomed by researchers and students in a number of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology, psychology, and cognitive science. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/16457/cover/9780521516457.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100107 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 225.00 0521736250 03 03 9780521736251 15 9780521736251 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521736251 1 B01 Larson, Richard K. 2 B01 Déprez, Viviane 3 B01 Yamakido, Hiroko 1 280 CF 02 The way language as a human faculty has evolved is a question that preoccupies researchers from a wide spread of disciplines. In this book, a team of writers has been brought together to examine the evolution of language from a variety of such standpoints, including language's genetic basis, the anthropological context of its appearance, its formal structure, its relation to systems of cognition and thought, as well as its possible evolutionary antecedents. The book includes Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch's seminal and provocative essay on the subject, 'The Faculty of Language,' and charts the progress of research in this active and highly controversial field since its publication in 2002. This timely volume will be welcomed by researchers and students in a number of disciplines, including linguistics, evolutionary biology, psychology, and cognitive science. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/36251/cover/9780521736251.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100107 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 85.00 052167736X 02 03 9780521677363 15 9780521677363 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521677363 1 A01 Fitch, W. Tecumseh 1 636 CF 02 Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/77363/cover/9780521677363.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 110.00 052185993X 02 03 9780521859936 15 9780521859936 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521859936 1 A01 Fitch, W. Tecumseh 1 636 CF 02 Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and not in others? Since Darwin's theory of evolution, questions about the origin of language have generated a rapidly-growing scientific literature, stretched across a number of disciplines, much of it directed at specialist audiences. The diversity of perspectives - from linguistics, anthropology, speech science, genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology - can be bewildering. Tecumseh Fitch cuts through this vast literature, bringing together its most important insights to explore one of the biggest unsolved puzzles of human history. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/59936/cover/9780521859936.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 250.00 0521718244 03 03 9780521718240 15 9780521718240 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521718240 1 A01 Asp, Elissa D. 2 A01 de Villiers, Jessica 1 270 CFF 02 Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers often know what people with Alzheimer's disease or Asperger's 'sound like' - that is they recognise patterns in people's discourse, from sounds and silences, to words, sentences and story structures. Such discourse patterns may inform their clinical judgements and affect the decisions they make. However, this knowledge is often tacit, like recognising a regional accent without knowing how to describe its features. This is the first book to present models for comprehensively describing discourse specifically in clinical contexts and to illustrate models with detailed analyses of discourse patterns associated with degenerative (Alzheimer's) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders. The book is aimed not only at advanced students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, speech pathology and clinical psychology but also at researchers, clinicians and caregivers for whom explicit knowledge of discourse patterns might be helpful. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/18240/cover/9780521718240.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100204 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 91.95 0521889782 03 03 9780521889780 15 9780521889780 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521889780 1 A01 Asp, Elissa D. 2 A01 de Villiers, Jessica 1 270 CFF 02 Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers often know what people with Alzheimer's disease or Asperger's 'sound like' - that is they recognise patterns in people's discourse, from sounds and silences, to words, sentences and story structures. Such discourse patterns may inform their clinical judgements and affect the decisions they make. However, this knowledge is often tacit, like recognising a regional accent without knowing how to describe its features. This is the first book to present models for comprehensively describing discourse specifically in clinical contexts and to illustrate models with detailed analyses of discourse patterns associated with degenerative (Alzheimer's) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders. The book is aimed not only at advanced students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, speech pathology and clinical psychology but also at researchers, clinicians and caregivers for whom explicit knowledge of discourse patterns might be helpful. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/89780/cover/9780521889780.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100204 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 245.00 052151343X 03 03 9780521513432 15 9780521513432 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521513432 1 A01 Steers, Richard M. 2 A01 Sanchez-Runde, Carlos J. 3 A01 Nardon, Luciara 1 458 KJK 02 Management practices and processes frequently differ across national and regional boundaries. What may be acceptable managerial behaviour in one culture may be counterproductive or even unacceptable in another. As managers increasingly find themselves working across cultures, the need to understand these differences has become increasingly important. This book examines why these differences exist and how global managers can develop strategies and tactics to deal with them. Key features: • Draws on recent research in anthropology, psychology, and management, to explain the cultural and psychological underpinnings that shape managerial attitudes and behaviours • Introduces a learning model to guide in the intellectual and practical development of managers seeking enhanced global expertise • Offers user-friendly conceptual models to guide understanding and exploration of topics • Summarizes and integrates the lessons learned in each chapter in applications-oriented 'Manager's Notebooks' • A companion website featuring comprehensive chapter-by-chapter PPT slides is available at www.cambridge.org/management_across_cultures. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/13432/cover/9780521513432.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100204 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 260.00 0521734975 03 03 9780521734974 15 9780521734974 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521734974 1 A01 Steers, Richard M. 2 A01 Sanchez-Runde, Carlos J. 3 A01 Nardon, Luciara 1 458 KJK 02 Management practices and processes frequently differ across national and regional boundaries. What may be acceptable managerial behaviour in one culture may be counterproductive or even unacceptable in another. As managers increasingly find themselves working across cultures, the need to understand these differences has become increasingly important. This book examines why these differences exist and how global managers can develop strategies and tactics to deal with them. Key features: • Draws on recent research in anthropology, psychology, and management, to explain the cultural and psychological underpinnings that shape managerial attitudes and behaviours • Introduces a learning model to guide in the intellectual and practical development of managers seeking enhanced global expertise • Offers user-friendly conceptual models to guide understanding and exploration of topics • Summarizes and integrates the lessons learned in each chapter in applications-oriented 'Manager's Notebooks' • A companion website featuring comprehensive chapter-by-chapter PPT slides is available at www.cambridge.org/management_across_cultures. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/34974/cover/9780521734974.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100204 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 105.00 0521137934 02 03 9780521137935 15 9780521137935 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521137935 1 A01 Freeman, R. Edward 2 A01 Harrison, Jeffrey S. 3 A01 Wicks, Andrew C. 4 A01 Parmar, Bidhan L. 5 A01 de Colle, Simone 1 300 KJC 02 In 1984, R. Edward Freeman published his landmark book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, a work that set the agenda for what we now call stakeholder theory. In the intervening years, the literature on stakeholder theory has become vast and diverse. This book examines this body of research and assesses its relevance for our understanding of modern business. Beginning with a discussion of the origins and development of stakeholder theory, it shows how this corpus of theory has influenced a variety of different fields, including strategic management, finance, accounting, management, marketing, law, health care, public policy, and environment. It also features in-depth discussions of two important areas that stakeholder theory has helped to shape and define: business ethics and corporate social responsibility. The book concludes by arguing that we should re-frame capitalism in the terms of stakeholder theory so that we come to see business as creating value for stakeholders. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/37935/cover/9780521137935.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 85.00 0521190819 02 03 9780521190817 15 9780521190817 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521190817 1 A01 Freeman, R. Edward 2 A01 Harrison, Jeffrey S. 3 A01 Wicks, Andrew C. 4 A01 Parmar, Bidhan L. 5 A01 de Colle, Simone 1 300 KJC 02 In 1984, R. Edward Freeman published his landmark book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, a work that set the agenda for what we now call stakeholder theory. In the intervening years, the literature on stakeholder theory has become vast and diverse. This book examines this body of research and assesses its relevance for our understanding of modern business. Beginning with a discussion of the origins and development of stakeholder theory, it shows how this corpus of theory has influenced a variety of different fields, including strategic management, finance, accounting, management, marketing, law, health care, public policy, and environment. It also features in-depth discussions of two important areas that stakeholder theory has helped to shape and define: business ethics and corporate social responsibility. The book concludes by arguing that we should re-frame capitalism in the terms of stakeholder theory so that we come to see business as creating value for stakeholders. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/90817/cover/9780521190817.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100629 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 225.00 0521126479 03 03 9780521126472 15 9780521126472 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521126472 1 B01 Irving, Helen 1 504 HBJM 02 Published to mark the centenary of Federation, this important book explores Australia's national origins in a comprehensive and accessible way. A high-calibre team of writers has been gathered to write the first ever comprehensive, general history of Federation. Starting from the perspective of the individual colonies as they made their way towards membership of the Australian Commonwealth in 1901, the book also provides cross-referenced short alphabetical entries covering key events, people and concepts. It approaches Federation not simply as a formal political story, but as a social and cultural process, maintaining the relevance of nation-making by highlighting ongoing debates about democracy, sovereignty and progressive citizenry. A major contribution to the Centenary of Federation, this book should become a standard reference for scholars, students and general readers in the continuing discussions of Australia's future as a nation. Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press AU 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 78.95 0521768012 03 03 9780521768016 15 9780521768016 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521768016 1 A01 Goody, Jack 1 332 HBG 02 One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and China, and emphasises what Europe owed to non-European influences. Renaissances continues that strand of historical analysis critical of Eurocentrism that Goody has developed in recent works like The East and the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2006). This book is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere. Not since Toynbee in The Study of History has anybody attempted quite what Jack Goody is undertaking in Renaissances, and the result is as accessible as it is ambitious. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/68016/cover/9780521768016.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20091224 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 135.00 0521514975 03 03 9780521514972 15 9780521514972 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521514972 1 A01 Narlikar, Jayant V. 1 372 PHVB 02 General relativity is now an essential part of undergraduate and graduate courses in physics, astrophysics and applied mathematics. This simple, user-friendly introduction to relativity is ideal for a first course in the subject. Beginning with a comprehensive but simple review of special relativity, the book creates a framework from which to launch the ideas of general relativity. After describing the basic theory, it moves on to describe important applications to astrophysics, black hole physics, and cosmology. Several worked examples, and numerous figures and images, help students appreciate the underlying concepts. There are also 180 exercises which test and develop students' understanding of the subject. The textbook presents all the necessary information and discussion for an elementary approach to relativity. Password-protected solutions to the exercises are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521735612. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/14972/cover/9780521514972.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 250.00 0521735610 03 03 9780521735612 15 9780521735612 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521735612 1 A01 Narlikar, Jayant V. 1 372 PHVB 02 General relativity is now an essential part of undergraduate and graduate courses in physics, astrophysics and applied mathematics. This simple, user-friendly introduction to relativity is ideal for a first course in the subject. Beginning with a comprehensive but simple review of special relativity, the book creates a framework from which to launch the ideas of general relativity. After describing the basic theory, it moves on to describe important applications to astrophysics, black hole physics, and cosmology. Several worked examples, and numerous figures and images, help students appreciate the underlying concepts. There are also 180 exercises which test and develop students' understanding of the subject. The textbook presents all the necessary information and discussion for an elementary approach to relativity. Password-protected solutions to the exercises are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521735612. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/35612/cover/9780521735612.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 04 20100128 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 110.00 0521705622 02 03 9780521705622 15 9780521705622 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521705622 1 A01 Kessler, Edward 1 264 HRJ 02 Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has been emerging, beginning with an awakening among Christians of the Jewish origins of Christianity, and encouraging scholars of both traditions to work together. An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations sheds fresh light on this ongoing interfaith encounter, exploring key writings and themes in Jewish-Christian history, from the Jewish context of the New Testament to major events of modern times, including the rise of ecumenism, the horrors of the Holocaust, and the creation of the state of Israel. This accessible theological and historical study also touches on numerous related areas such as Jewish and interfaith studies, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, international relations and the political sciences. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/05622/cover/9780521705622.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 65.00 0521879760 02 03 9780521879767 15 9780521879767 BB http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521879767 1 A01 Kessler, Edward 1 264 HRJ 02 Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has been emerging, beginning with an awakening among Christians of the Jewish origins of Christianity, and encouraging scholars of both traditions to work together. An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations sheds fresh light on this ongoing interfaith encounter, exploring key writings and themes in Jewish-Christian history, from the Jewish context of the New Testament to major events of modern times, including the rise of ecumenism, the horrors of the Holocaust, and the creation of the state of Israel. This accessible theological and historical study also touches on numerous related areas such as Jewish and interfaith studies, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, international relations and the political sciences. 04 01 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/79767/cover/9780521879767.jpg Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press 02 20100529 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 190.00 052112574X 03 03 9780521125741 15 9780521125741 BC http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521125741 1 A01 Bottomley, Gillian 1 192 BGH 02 Never before have so many people ended up in a place different from where they began, something which made the twentieth century a century of migration. Culture is central to the process of migration, yet it is rarely examined in studies of the political economy of labour migration. Originally published in 1992, From Another Place explores definitions and understandings of the relations between migration and cultural processes, calling into question the interrelation between circumstance and cultural practice. It is an insightful attempt to move away from the limitations of dichotomous explanations of migration, using the findings of sociology, political economy and literature in the discussion of cultural beliefs and practices. The book is a fascinating, empirically grounded study, useful in its discussion of the dynamics of gender and class as well as those of ethnicity and culture. Cambridge University Press 01 Cambridge University Press AU 04 20100114 Cambridge University Press Australia 02 55.00