Australia's Own National Security State: An excerpt of 'Secret' by Brian Toohey
Posted on 16 Jan 2020
The power of Australia’s national security establishment has grown enormously in recent years, as has its protective wall of secrecy.
Welcome to the Anthropocene: An Excerpt of 'Sunburnt Country' by Joëlle Gergis
Posted on 10 Jan 2020
As we nudge ever closer to the 1.5°C guardrail thought to keep the Earth’s climate stable, the past tells us that even very small changes really do make a difference.
MUP appoints new Senior Director of Marketing and Sales
Posted on 8 Jan 2020
Melbourne University Publishing has appointed Brian MacDonald as its new Senior Director of Marketing and Sales.
Hachette Australia and MUP announce that Hachette Australia has acquired the rights to the 'On Series'
Posted on 3 Oct 2019
Fiona Hazard, Group Publishing Director of Hachette Australia is delighted to announce that, effective 2nd January 2020, Hachette Australia has acquired the rights to Melbourne University Press’ popular ON SERIES.
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design
Posted on 20 Jun 2019
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. It is a migrant and refugee story: from 1930, the arrival of so many emigre, internee and refugee educators helped to transform art, architecture and design in Australia and New Zealand. Fift een thematic essays and twenty individual case studies bring to light a tremendous amount of new archival material in order to show how these innovative educators, exiled from Nazism, introduced Bauhaus ideas and models to a new world. As their Bauhaus model spanned art, architecture and design, the book provides a unique cross-disciplinary, emigre history of art education in Australia and New Zealand. It off ers a remarkable and little known chapter in the wider Bauhaus venture, which has multiple legacies and continues to inform our conceptions of progressive education, creativity and the role of art and design in the wider community.
MUP announces new CEO Dr Nathan Hollier
Posted on 13 Jun 2019
Melbourne University Publishing has appointed seasoned university publisher Doctor Nathan Hollier as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Bill Shorten on #mymum Ann Shorten
Posted on 9 May 2019 under Politics and Current Affairs
In this extract from Bill Shorten’s For the Common Good: Reflections on Australia’s Future (MUP, 2016), he looks back on the emphasis on education and social justice in his childhood, inspired by his mother, Ann Shorten.
Revisiting Henderson launched by Dennis Glover
Posted on 8 Apr 2019
On Thursday 4 April, Dennis Glover launched this collection of essays that brings together leading social security researchers and policy analysts to reflect on past trends, the key changes that the system must adapt to and what this will involve.
A stack of new releases from MUP
Posted on 2 Apr 2019
Covering the banking royal commission, Cardinal George Pell’s conviction, the issues that matter in the upcoming Federal election, the digital revolution and more, these titles are, in true MUP fashion, setting the agenda in political, historical and current affairs. Along with landmark illustrated titles, the very best in Australian academic writing and a cheeky dictionary with a twist—these books are ready to leave their mark.
Announcing the MUP Academic Monograph Catalogue 2019
Posted on 25 Mar 2019
This year, we are proud to present a dynamic catalogue of the very best Australian academic research on history, film, religion, the military and more.
Audio Stories from Adelaide
Posted on 21 Mar 2019
The sessions from Adelaide Writers’ Week 2019 are now available in podcast form, so whether you couldn’t make it or would like to hear it all again, settle in for a suite of erudite and contemplative conversations.
The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambitions
Posted on 20 Mar 2019
When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secretary to Vida Goldstein, neither had marriage in their imagined futures. But they fell in love-with each other as much as with their individual aspirations to change the world for the better.
MUP welcomes new directors and launches Editorial Advisory Board
Posted on 14 Mar 2019
Two new directors with extensive publishing experience were appointed to the board of Melbourne University Publishing Ltd (MUP) by the University of Melbourne Council today. The MUP Board also announced the first eight members of the new MUP Editorial Advisory Board.
Kate Legge shares the remarkable story of Kindred
Posted on 7 Mar 2019
To celebrate the publication of ‘Kindred’, Kate Legge will be sharing the story of the lovers who preserved Cradle Mountain in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
March new releases
Posted on 5 Mar 2019
This month sees the release of five new ‘books with spine’ by Melbourne University Publishing, with two luxe hardbacks and three new little books on big ideas.
BREAKING: updated edition of Louise Milligan’s ‘Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell’ to be published with new foreword by Tom Keneally
Posted on 1 Mar 2019
Further details of Pell’s crimes against his victims named by Louise Milligan in the book as The Kid and the Choirboy will be detailed. The edition will feature a new foreword by Tom Keneally who describes Cardinal as “a heartbreaking tribute to the children abused within Pell’s circle.”
‘Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell’ by Louise Milligan Book Suppression Lifts
Posted on 26 Feb 2019
Acclaimed book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell (MUP, RRP $34.99/ebook $16.99) by Louise Milligan is now available across Australia and worldwide after court suppression orders required the book to be withheld from sale until the judicial processes were complete.
Announcing sizzling election titles from MUP
Posted on 12 Feb 2019
The perfect accompaniments to your democracy sausage in 2019
Melbourne University Publishing titles to reach worldwide academic audience via Ebook Central® Platform
Posted on 7 Feb 2019
For the first time the entire catalogue of ebook titles from Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is available to academic libraries. An agreement between ProQuest and MUP gives libraries access to 630 titles via the Ebook Centralplatform, where they can acquire them by demand-driven acquisition or single-title purchase.
MUP delivers the first book to market on the banking royal commission
Posted on 5 Feb 2019
‘The People vs The Banks’ reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law.
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On Mutiny—the first book on the Libs Spill, in store Monday 22 October
Posted on 10 Oct 2018
A recap of the most brutal and bizarre week in Australian politics since The Dismissal.
Byron Writers Festival 2018, with Louise Milligan, Gillian Triggs, Jenny Hocking and so many more!
Posted on 13 Jun 2018
Louise Milligan, Gillian Triggs, Jenny Hocking, Joëlle Gergis on climate change ... a great selection of MUP authors will be speaking at Byron Writers Festival this year, 3 – 5 August.
MUP at Brisbane Writers Festival 2018
Posted on 6 Sep 2018
Join MUP authors Joëlle Gergis, Louise Milligan, Lisa Harvey-Smith, Nikki Gemmell, Gareth Evans, and more at the Brisbane Writers Festival this weekend.
