Animal law in Australasia: A new dialogue
P Sankoff and S White (Eds)

Animal law has only recently emerged as a recognised field of legal study in Australia, with a growing number of legal practitioners working in the area and a significant number of Australian law faculties now offering elective courses in the ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Celeste M Black

The house on the hill: The transformation of Australia's farming communities
Neil Barr

In this book, Neil Barr, Senior Social Researcher, Department of Primary Industries, Bendigo, critically examines Australian farming, with particular focus on the family farm. Having grown up in a family who tried to make a living in horticultural ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Ingrid Muenstermann

Rural ageing: A good place to grow old?
N Keating (ed)

A welcome addition to the somewhat sparse ranks of scholarly writing about ageing in a rural context, Rural Ageing brings together a remarkably coherent set of chapters by Canadian and British research scholars from diverse disciplines - chapters ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Robin Harvey

Women of the outback: Inspiring true stories of tragedy and triumph
Sue Williams

Henry Lawson's The Drover's Wife, an instant success when published in 1892, presents a story often told when Australians give an account of themselves - the plain but compelling narrative of the stoic Australian woman, who contends with rural ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Thérèse Taylor

Resolving Indigenous disputes: Land conflict and beyond
Larissa Behrendt and Loretta Kelly

This book is an important and helpful contribution to both the literature on Aboriginal law and policy, and that on alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Aimed at the intersection of these diverse areas of social regulation, and proposing a strategy ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Guy Cumes

Making sense of place: Exploring concepts and expressions of place through different senses and lenses
F Vanclay, M Higgins and A Blackshaw (Eds)

This book seems to be more about sentiment and place than about the senses and place. Anthropological studies record the way that an Indigenous sense of place is informed by a truly multi-sensory or kinaesthetic knowing. These studies may privilege ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Catherine Laudine

Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization
Jennifer Summer

Can we successfully challenge corporate globalisation and move toward a sustainable world society? In Sustainability and the Civil Commons Jennifer Sumner argues that we can do so - and do so now, because there is a world-wide ‘crisis of ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Elizabeth Beaton

Water Politics in the Murray-Darling Basin
Daniel Connell

This book is developed from a PhD undertaken during Connell’s ‘four good years’ at the Australian National University Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, and draws on his experience during eight years with the ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Kathleen Bowmer

Environmental Policy: Australian Practice in the Context of Theory
Ian Thomas

A stated aim of this book is to provide a starting point for gaining a background in environmental policy or for developing and/or implementing such policy (p.v). Although the book does provide a comprehensive coverage of this policy field - a ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Ingrid van Putten

Building Stronger Communities
Philip Hughes, Alan Black, Peter Kaldor, John Bellamy and Keith Castle

In many respects a timely book, Building Stronger Communities emerges in the wake of the major academic interventions of the joint Australian Research Council/Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia funded ‘capitals’ project ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Neil Argent

Losing ground: Grazing in the Snowy Mountains 1944-1969
John Merritt

A primary producers union, The Border Mail and a Coalition Senator all opposed to high country grazing? A Labor Parliamentarian wholeheartedly supporting it? Conservation-minded voters turning to the Coalition? Seems unimaginable today, but these ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Dick Williams

When species meet
Donna J Haraway

When Species Meet, a sequel to The Companion Species Manifesto (2003), is the latest installment in Donna Haraway's examination of humans and dogs as companion species in relations of significant otherness. Inviting us to think about ways to ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Ian Coldwell