Books published by Australian Scholarly Publishing

As an adventurous teenager, James Colnett had sailed with Cook in the Resolution. He later fought England's enemies in the American and French wars and devoted himself to 'enlarging the bounds of Navigation and Commerce'.

Elsa recounts the dramatic years beside her film-producer husband as pioneers of an Australian film industry.

It provides a first-hand account of Australian immigration detention during a period of dramatic change and controversy.

An extreme POW story, the Sandakan death marches. The tragedy had four stages: active resistance, stubborn endurance, the collapse of civilized existence in 1945 and, finally, the postwar decades of torment for the six damaged survivors. The author's father was one of the six.

Violence plagues our civilization in its many forms. Traumatology describes the consequences of violence, but a corresponding Violentology is needed. Valent unpicks the minds of perpetrators in each field of violence. He develops a means of understanding and presents his ideas clearly to both professionals and lay readers.

Steven Pinker's 'Enlightenment Now' establishes that great progress has been made on the aims of the European Enlightenment. However, the minds of many economists, moralists and political thinkers in the West are still set firmly in the eighteenth century. A new enlightenment is needed to overcome this poverty of social theory.

Australian police forces face a confused assertion of police independence based on bad history and poor legal analysis, with provisions encouraging police subordination by non-transparent, indirect government influence. Killey undertakes a complete assessment of the constitutional relationship.

The last three decades the Australian Left has shaped national life in Australia. Today's New Left has grappled with the remnant past radicalisms, such as Marxism and radical feminism, but also new challenges.

Experts in company law, trusts and financial crime explore the nature of companies and trusts, how they have been used legitimately and exploited illegally. Complex corporate structures, including the ownership structure of the Alibaba Group, are examined. The Panama Papers' revelations are also discussed.

An expert practitioner carefully explains dementia and harshly criticizes current practices and official policies.

A critique of rationalism, this book explains both its powerful contributions to mathematics and the physical sciences and its disastrous failures in cosmology and the moral sciences. In these supposed sciences, rationalism has all but destroyed the social conscience of the West by creating the disastrous political philosophy of neoliberalism.

The European settlement of Australia is a story of first contact between European and Indigenous peoples; of colonisation, disease, famine, cultural misunderstanding, tragedy and resilience.

Japanese War Crime Trials, Tokyo, 1946. General MacArthur is initiating his grand strategy for turning Japan into a democracy. The plot is compelling. Storylines at once personal and historical, militaristic and humane, cleverly interweave.

Matthew Flinders charted and named Australia. George Bass, naturalist and businessman, gave his name to the Strait that divides Tasmania from the mainland. Set against the powerful background of the Napoleonic War, historically rigorous, and as gripping as any novel.

Text in English; translated from Albanian.

This pioneering book explores these struggles as white Australia negotiated its place in a post-colonial world.