Product Description: How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less―and why we should.With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance―the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers...read more

Product Description: In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame’s first collection of short stories unexpectedly won the Hubert Church Memorial Award, one of the country’s most prestigious honors...read more

Product Description: Richly textured, combining memoir with literary criticism, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past 30 years which have shaped her writing, her reading, and the way she has lived. From a childhood in England, growing up with a father she admired deeply but felt she never really knew, to her time as a young newlywed, living with her husband in Papua New Guinea; arriving as a single woman in Sydney in the 1970s and building close friendships with writers such as Helen Garner, with whom she lived in the bookish "house on the corner," and the lovers who would—sometimes briefly—derail her, this new book by Drusilla Modjeska is an intensely personal and moving account of a truly examined life...read more

Product Description: A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local Butchulla people after she was shipwrecked on their island in 1836...read more

Product Description: Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as well their own mounting boredom and squalor...read more

Product Description: Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society...read more

Product Description: Verge is Monash University's annual anthology of creative writing, and this eleventh edition features the best of Monash University's creative writers, as well as a selection of other emerging Australian and international wordsmiths...read more

Product Description: When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris -- but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as one of the leading figures of the artistic avant-garde...read more

Product Description: Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun recovering earlier published and unpublished Indigenous works...read more

Product Description: In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that’s how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love.Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool’s Day...read more

Product Description: Part of the "A&R Modern Poets" series, this title contains selections from the work of A.D. Hope, chosen by David Brooks. Hope has also written "Collected Poems" and "Orpheus".

Product Description: This selection of A.D. Hope's poetry was published in 1992, the first in Australia since 1973. It includes pieces from all his major collections, including The Wandering Islands, first published in 1955, his subsequent collections A Late Picking, Antechinus, The Age of Reason, and Orpheus (1991)...read more

Product Description: Republished for a new generation of readers, this extraordinary autobiography of one of Australia's most celebrated female writers, Dorothy Hewett, traces the personal and political metamorphoses of her first 35 years. After university life, several failed love affairs, an attempted suicide, and a major poetry prize, Dorothy Hewett joined the Australian Communist party in 1945...read more

Product Description: In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that’s how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love.Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool’s Day...read more

Product Description: In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that’s how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love.Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool’s Day...read more

Product Description: This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia...read more

Product Description: Shirley Hazzard, Tim Winton, Peter Carey, Kate Grenville, Thomas Keneally, David Malouf, Christina Stead, and 43 other remarkable writers represent some of the best literature of a continent What are the classic works of Australian literature, and what can they tell us about Australia as a place and a culture? An accessible companion to Australian literature and a story of writing in Australia from the 19th century to the present, this work celebrates many of the country's beloved novels, poems, short stories, children's books, and seminal works of non-fiction...read more

Product Description: PART OF THE NEW JONES & BARTLETT LEARNING INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY & ASSURANCE SERIES!The study of information system security concepts and domains is an essential part of the education of computer science students and professionals alike...read more

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Product Description: Born in the Australian bush, Stella Miles Franklin became an international publishing sensation in 1901, at the age of 21, with My Brilliant Career, whose portrayal of an ambitious and independent woman defying social expectations still captivates readers...read more

Two young Australian women bring their pet monkey when they are invited to a house party, but the weekend is marred by missing jewels and a mysterious murder

Product Description: Engaging and spirited, this essay collection examines Australian national humor—from the high and low to the classic and the cutting-edge—in literature, performances, and daily life. Leading scholars in Australian literature and culture additionally explore how this humor affects Australian national identity and worldview and what overall role it plays in the social and cultural landscape...read more

Product Description: Uniquely examining the link between Australian writers and social change, this study investigates the motives behind literary figures who strive to become activists and social intellectuals. Exploring this intimate connection, this resource asks what such a bond reveals about Australian literature and the power of the written word...read more

Product Description: The fourth and final volume of this major collaborative national project details all separately published works of creative literature by Australian writers whose last names begin with P through Z, from European arrival in Australia to the end of the 20th century...read more