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Resources for academics

Whether you are a University or TAFE teacher, a student or researcher, we provide a range of academic titles and textbooks to assist you in your teaching, learning and research.

Over the years we have had the privilege of publishing many discipline shaping books across the academic spectrum, and we’re committed to continuing in this vein.  We publish leading Australian and international academics in their respective fields. We also distribute a number of UK publishers, including Faber & Faber, Granta, A&C Black, Bloomsbury Academic, Icon, Profile and Atlantic Books from the US.

 

NEW EDITIONS

The following new editions are all available for second semester adoptions.

Doing Early Childhood Research - Second Edition

Teaching Middle Years - Second Edition

Producing Videos - Third Edition

Indonesian Reference Grammar - Second Edition 

Aboriginal Australians - Fourth Edition

Southeast Asia - Tenth Edition

The Media & Communications in Australia - Third Edition

 

Contact us for more information:

Tiffany Rae
Academic Marketing Co-ordinator
Allen & Unwin Professional & Reference
P: +61 2 8425 0149
F: +61 2 9906 2218
E: academic@allenandunwin.com


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Inspection copies

Are you on the teaching staff of a University of TAFE?  If so, then you are able to view inspection copies of selected academic titles when considering them for use as textbooks. More about requesting inspection copies.

 

Desk copies

If you adopt one of our books as a prescribed textbook for 12 or more students, you may be eligible for a complimentary desk copy. To request a complimentary desk copy please contact our Academic Co-ordinator: academic@allenandunwin.com

 

Submitting a manuscript

What do you need to consider in submitting a manuscript? Go to our submission guidelines page for advice on academic submissions

 

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New Titles

Academic & Professional

Teaching Middle Years

by Edited by Donna Pendergast and Nan Bahr

An updated edition of the comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing area of middle schooling, for teachers, teacher education students and sch... more

AUD $55.00

Doing Early Childhood Research

by Edited by Glenda Mac Naughton, Sharne A. Rolfe and Iram Siraj-Blatchford

A systematic introduction to research with young children, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods, and dealing with the specific challenge... more

AUD $49.99

Singing Saltwater Country

by John Bradley with Yanyuwa Families

John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the... more

AUD $39.99

A Merciless Place

by Emma Christopher

Tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their event... more

AUD $35.00

What Expert Teachers Do

by John Loughran

A distillation of the essence of professional practice in teaching, revealing what it is that the best teachers do to maximise learning for all the st... more

AUD $45.00

Producing Videos

by Martha Mollison

A fully updated and revised new edition of this essential handbook for aspiring video makers.

AUD $49.99

Writing Gender History 2nd Edition

by Laura Lee Downs

Explores the evolution of historical writing about women and gender from the 1930s to the early 21st century.

AUD $49.99

The Trouble and Strife Reader

by Deborah Cameron Joan Scanlon

A collection of the best and most enduring articles published in Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine between 1983 and 2002.

AUD $49.99

Older People, Ageing and Social Work

by Mark Hughes and Karen Heycox

A systematic and research-based introduction to social work practice with older people.

AUD $49.99

Aboriginal Australians

by Richard Broome

A powerful history of black-white encounters in Australia since colonisation, this fully updated edition remains the only concise survey of Aboriginal... more

AUD $35.00

A Dictionary of Australian Politics

by Jackie Dickenson and Robert Corcoran

A comprehensive guide to Australia's unique and colourful political language.

AUD $29.99

The Media and Communications in Australia

by Edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner

A fully revised edition of the leading Australian introductory text on media studies, incorporating extensive analysis of the impact of communications... more

AUD $55.00