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Professional & Reference

Professional & Reference

Allen & Unwin offers a wide range of academic books and serious works of general interest from the humanities and social sciences to economics and management.

Whatever your subject, our text books, references and student guides provide high quality materials to meet your curriculum, academic and professional needs. Look no further for the most up-to-date and relevant resources for both teaching and learning. 

 

NEW EDITION INFORMATION

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

Doing Early Childhood Research - Second Edition

Teaching Middle Years - Second Edition

Indonesian Reference Grammar - Second Edition

Producing Videos - Third Edition

Aboriginal Australians - Fourth Edition

Southeast Asia - Tenth Edition

The Media & Communications in Australia - Third Edition

 

INSPECTION COPIES

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

Request an inspection copy of one of our academic titles.

For for more information please contact:

Tiffany Rae
P: +61 2 8425 0149
E: academic@allenandunwin.com

  

ACADEMIC NEWS

Allen & Unwin authors awarded the Henry Mayer Trust Prize  

We are delighted to congratulate the joint winners of the inaugural Henry Mayer Trust Prize hosted by the Australian Political Studies Association: Sarah Maddison, author of Black Politics and David McKnight, for his book Beyond Right and Left. Congratulations to both authors from all at Allen & Unwin.

 

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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