by Rachel Franks | Mar 15, 2021 | Book Reviews
Robert Clancy, The Long Enlightenment: Australian Science from its Beginning to the mid-20th Century Halstead Press and the Royal Societies of Australia, 184 pp., ISBN: 9781925043532, h/bk, AUS$49.99 Robert Clancy – who would be familiar to many through his work as a...
by Rachel Franks | Feb 22, 2021 | Book Reviews
Kathy Bowrey, Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author Routledge, 218 pp., ISBN: 9780429201035, h/bk, AUS$252.00, e/bk, AUS$62.00 According to the Copyright Agency, copyright is ‘a form of intellectual property that protects the...
by Guest reviewer | Feb 1, 2021 | Book Reviews
Kathy Mexted, Australian Women Pilots: Amazing true stories of women in the air NewSouth Books, November 2020, p/bk, 272pp, ISBN: 9781742236971, RRP: AUD$34.99 Thanks to the determination, grit, and spunk of the ten women Kathy Mexted chronicles in her first book...
by Rachel Franks | Dec 4, 2020 | Book Reviews
Amanda Laugesen, Rooted: An Australian History of Bad Language NewSouth Publishers, 2020, 314 pp. ISBN: 9781742236636, p/bk, AUD$32.99 ‘Oh, that book is for Rachel.’ It was a statement. A bit like ‘it’s started to rain’ or ‘it’s time to...
by Rachel Franks | Nov 20, 2020 | Book Reviews
Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A cultural history, updated edition NewSouth Books, 2020, 518 pp. ISBN: 9781742237213, p/bk, AUS$32.99 Meredith Lake’s The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History is now available in a second edition. When I first reviewed Lake’s...
by Rachel Franks | Sep 21, 2020 | Book Reviews
Janet Lee, Fallen Among Reformers: Miles Franklin, Modernity, and the New Woman Sydney University Press, June 2020, 168 pp. (plus works cited and index), ISBN: 9781743326886, p/bk, AUS$45.00 In a new full-length work on Miles Franklin (1879–1954), Janet Lee, Professor...
