Browsing No 244 - September 2002 by Title
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Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors.
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The Big Stick. "Social Action: A Teleological Account", by Seumas Miller. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Explanation in social theory or social science must come down to the choices, decisions and actions of individual human beings and their reasons for acting. Obviously, this does not rule out earthquakes, floods and meteor ... -
Changing Bosses. "It's Not the Money, It's the Land: Aboriginal Stockmen and the Equal Wages Case", by Bill Bunbury and "Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People", by Scott Cane and "Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers", by Mary Anne Jebb. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)The pastoral frontier continues to be a site for stories of nation-building. In Mary Anne Jebb’s and Bill Bunbury’s books, the stories are not so much ‘how we got the country started, boots and all and not halfhearted’, ... -
Diary.
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)In this item, Meredith Curnow reflects upon the five years she spent working on the Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF). -
Exit Left. "See How It Runs: Nimrod and the New Wave", by Julian Meyrick. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)It is snatching some kind of victory out of defeat to write a PhD thesis about the rise and fall of a theatre company, and Julian Meyrick has successfully transformed thesis into book. This has been achieved mainly through ... -
Fear of Drowning. "In Sunshine or in Shadow", by Martin Flanagan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)In this ‘memoir about going home’, home is where the heart is. The book’s principal locale is the Tasmania of Martin Flanagan’s Irish Catholic small-town childhood. But ‘home’, in this narrative, isn’t just a place: it’s ... -
Hard Labour. "Franca: My Story", by Franca Arena and "Speaking for Myself Again: Four Years with Labor and Beyond", by Cheryl Kernot. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)If Cheryl Kernot writes another book — and if "Speaking for Myself Again" is anything to go by, you had better hope she doesn’t — her publishers should at the very least make sure the punctuation police do their job. It ... -
Hijacking Jesus. "The Cambridge Companion to Jesus", by Markus Bockmuehl (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)In this volume, seventeen scholars contribute to a companion that is intended to ‘provide an accessible and stimulating introduction to the subject for new readers and non-specialists’. Conscious that perspective and ... -
Ideological Moments. [poem]
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Islamic Variations. "Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society", by Riaz Hassan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)This book is a study of Muslims’ perceptions of religion and society. Among the related aspects it explores are self-image and gender relations in Islam. The study is a survey-type questionnaire, carried out in four Muslim ... -
The Last Place to Love. "The Bread with Seven Crusts", by Susan Temby. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)"The Bread with Seven Crusts" is primarily the story of the relationship between Giuseppe Lazaro, an Italian POW, and Eddy Nash, an Australian nurse. It is an earnest book that tackles some rich and interesting themes. You ... -
Let's Not Forget Albion. "The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia", by John Gascoigne. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Australian historiography, in the 1970s and 1980s, was dominated by a nativist reaction against Anglocentricity and the dreaded ‘cultural cringe’. Its more extreme manifestations rejected any comparative perspective that ... -
Lonely War. "SAS: Phantoms of War: A History of the Australian Special Air Service", by David Horner and "Chased by the Sun: Courageous Australians in Bomber Command in World War II", by Hank Nelson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Hank Nelson’s study of Australian aircrew in RAF Bomber Command during World War II is an excellent addition to the school of military history. Bomber Command has been the subject of some very good and very poor history ... -
Long Night's Journey. "Journey to the Inner Mountain: In the Desert with St Anthony", by James Cowan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)James Cowan has a gift for writing about shadowy figures. His previous book, "Francis: A Saint’s Way", probed the many myths that have gathered over the centuries around the figure of Francis of Assisi. In many ways, Cowan’s ... -
Lost Wings in Angel Rock. "Angel Rock", by Darren Williams. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)"Angel Rock" revolves around the story of lost children. First, the two Ferry boys go missing, then a sixteen-year-old girl from the town. The anti-hero detective, Gibson, is also a lost child seeking answers to a crime ... -
No Rabbi, No Standards. "Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers, 1788-1860", by John S. Levi and G.F.J. Bergman. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Jews formed a continuous presence in the Australian colonies from the outset of European settlement. Of the 759 convicts on the First Fleet, thirteen, possibly fourteen, were Jews. Levi asserts that Australia became ‘the ... -
Not Angels but Anglicans. "Anglicanism in Australia: A History", by Bruce Kaye (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)For most of Australia’s European history, the Church of England has been the largest denomination. In 1841 its adherents represented sixty per cent of the population; in 1901 the numbers were still close to forty per cent. ... -
October Highlights.
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Oiling the Mechanics of Racism. "Understanding Prejudice, Racism, and Social Conflict", by Martha Augoustinos and Katherine J. Reynolds (eds) and "The Social Psychology of Adolescence", by Patrick C.L. Heaven. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)Martha Augoustinos and Katherine J. Reynolds have edited an intellectually substantial collection of essays on a timely topic. The ease with which the perception of group difference can be cultivated and transformed into ... -
Paper Trail. "Timepieces", by Drusilla Modjeska. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-09)According to the back cover of "Timepieces", Drusilla Modjeska’s latest collection of essays represents an attempt to follow the ‘paper trail’ of her own life, after ‘nearly thirty years of nosing in other people’s ...