MUP academic monographs are available online as both e-books and print-on-demand titles, which are digitally printed.

Browse through our recent monographs below or visit the MUP e-store to view the full series and order your copy.

Recent Titles:

• Body and Mind Edited by Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland and Wilfrid Prest

  Body and Mind is a salute to the inestimable work, and the life and times of F. B. Smith

• Waiting Edited by Ghassan Hage

  This compelling collection of essays suggests that this experience is among the essential conditions that make us human and connect us to others.

• Word Bytes by Carolyne Lee

  Word Bytes will inspire and teach those who want to learn to recognise and produce word bytes--writing that gets itself noticed and read, in a world of information overload.

• Climate Change and Social Justice by Dr Jeremy Moss

  Jeremy Moss brings together today's key thinkers in climate research, including Peter Singer, Ross Garnaut and David Karoly.

• Opportunities Beyond Carbon Edited by John O'Brien

  Opportunities Beyond Carbon presents climate change as potentially the 'best crisis we ever had'.

• The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema by Richard Leonard

  A meticulous and accessible book that provides a fresh, innovative and provocative perspective on what happens when we behold a film.

• Death of Labour Law? by Martin Vranken

  Death of Labour Law? questions the on-going relevance of labour law in Western industrialised society and Australia in the twenty first century.

• Islamic Studies Series (ISS)
  • Islam and the Australian News Media by Halim Rane, Jacqui Ewart, Mohamad Abdalla

    A comprehensive insight into the how and why of covering Islam, media content and its impact on social relations.

  • Challenging Identities Muslim Women in Australia by Shahram Akbarzadeh

    Challenging Identities provides valuable first person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.

  • Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World by Benjamin MacQueen

    This book represents a critical advance in the study of conflict and its resolution in the Arab World.

  • Identity, Education and Belonging by Fethi Mansouri and Sally Percival Wood

    Identity, Education and Belonging examines the social and educational experiences of Arab and Muslim Australian youth against a wider political backdrop.

  • Islam and the Question of Reform by Ben MacQueen, Kylie Baxter, Rebecca Barlow

    Islam and the Question of Reform is an engaging book about the evolving and dynamic discourse that surrounds the question of Islamic reform

• Education, Science and Public Policy by Simon Marginson and Richard James (eds)

  When will the ‘education revolution’ really begin? Is the nation ready for the challenges of the global knowledge economy and the emerging centres of innovation around the world? What are the key problems and where are the policy solutions?

• Murdoch's Flagship by Denis Cryle

  Murdoch’s Flagship provides the first in-depth overview of the Australian, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across its first three decades. While the Fairfax and Packer media groups have received detailed historical coverage over the years, Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited and the Australian have not been given the same systematic attention by historians.

• The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collection by Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby (eds)

  The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collection consists of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections.

• Experiments in Love and Death by Paul Komesaroff

  Experiments in Love and Death is about the depth and complexity of the ethical issues that arise in illness and medicine.

• Measured Success: Innovation Management in Australia by Peter Cebon

  Measured Success is an important commentary on the state of innovation in Australia, and offers fresh direction for policy in this area.

• Intimate Ephemera by Anna Poletti

  Introduction to the personal zine as a site of autobiographical writing which offers unique insights into the lives and experiences of young people and an overview of the features of zines and zine culture in the Australian context.

• Intending the World by Ralph Pettman

  Intending the World shows how rationalism, which is our primary approach in thinking about world affairs, is in crisis. By studying the world rationalistically, we objectify it and we look at it as detached from ourselves. But in doing so, we cease to see that we are using a perspective that limits as well as enlightens.

• Political Tourists by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds)

  For Socialists and many liberals, the Soviet Union of the 1920s-1940s was the site of the great Socialist Experiment. Most Australians who travelled there wrote about their extraordinary experiences, and the recent opening of the Soviet archives gave access to the Soviets' reactions to their visitors.

• From Traveller to Traitor: The Life of Wilfred Burchett by Tom Heenan

  From Traveller to Traitor is the first critical biography of the radical Australian journalist, Wilfred Burchett. Tom Heenan explores the truth behind Burchett's reports from his travels on the other side of the ideological divide. He details for the first time the insubstantial nature of the allegations of treachery made against Burchett.

• Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the remaking of radical organisations in Britain and Australia by Jacqueline Dickenson

  From Billy Hughes and Joseph Lyons to Mal Colston and Mark Latham, the Australian Labor Party has produced many members later regarded as renegades. But betrayal of the working-class cause is not confined to Australia and, in the end, may not be as destructive as it first appears.

  Renegades and Rats traces betrayal in the labour movements of Britain and Australia through the careers of activists as diverse as H. H. Champion, W. A. Trenwith, John Burns and Adela Pankhurst Walsh. Jacqueline Dickenson offers a fresh approach to labour history that uncovers the true meaning and power of the labour rat.

• La Trobe: The Making of a Governor by Dianne Reilly Drury

  Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851-54). His administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the Victorian gold rushes, was highly controversial.

• Learning to Work: Students' experiences during work placements by Joanne M. Reidy

  This ground-breaking study of work placements and practicums looks at the experiences of 50 young short-term trainees in various Australian work settings.

• Sheep and the Australian Cinema by Deb Verhoeven

  This outstanding and highly readable study of Australian cinema explores the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history but linked by a representative trope - the repeated image of sheep.

• Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History by Anna Clark

  The 'History Wars' have come to dominate discussion of Australian history in recent years, playing out over various national sites of celebration and commemoration. Teaching the Nation examines the politics and pedagogy of Australian history education at a time when the nation's history, and how to teach it in schools, seems more hotly debated than ever.

• Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to War by Garry Woodard

  Asian Alternatives describes how and why Australia made foreign and security policy in tempestuous times, based on deep research into Australia's official documents, other contemporary sources and first-hand observation. The book compares the process of deciding to enter the 2003 war in Iraq with the lead up to Australia's commitment to Vietnam.