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This tertiary level text takes a holistic, interdisciplinary, and analytical approach to the development, implementation and impact of environmental policies.

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Purchasing cards are being used in organizations for low value, high volume procurement transactions - with surprising effects. This volume explores the gains to be made as well as the issues involved, through a review of the experiences of a large firm trialling the use of purchasing cards.

Does the apparent triumph of capitalism around the world signal the rise of a "market totalitarianism"? Here, Craig M. Gay addresses this and other questions, encouraging readers to rediscover meanings and values that are able to transcend and to discipline the market system's "cash nexus".

Sylvia Lawson moves the essays and stories in this collection through settings in and out of Australia - across Paris, West Papua, Britain, Indonesia - listening to the distinctive local voices from our cultural margins and reclaiming concerns the metropolitan centre ignores.

The central theme of this text is that the introduction of agricultural and pastoral systems in Australia's temperate grazing lands has often created dynamic and sustaining ecosystems. The author argues that these ecosystems have made an immense contribution to the building of the country.

This text considers the roles played by the key political parties, lobby groups and ideologies in determining Australia's welfare-related outcomes. It looks at the influence of economic rationalism and social democracy, and the values and assumptions that underpin social welfare policies.

Primarily intended as a textbook for undergraduate engineering students, this book deals with the fundamentals of statistics and their application to a broad range of engineering problems.

This volume provides a complete listing of all 721 titles published by UNSW Press since its inception in 1962 to 2002.

Jock Given looks at how the events of 11 September 2001 have altered the debate over how countries like Australia can preserve and strengthen their film and television industries. The book offers a vivid account of how culture and trade are interacting in the real world of the early 21st century.

An original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is - and might be - written. It traces history's divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides, right up to the key figures of historical reflection, such as Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Hayden White. It also explores the challenges posed by postmodernism, and the literary conventions of historical writing.

Contains archival images and oral histories from many of the founders, staff and volunteers of the National Trust in Western Australia. This title covers heritage battles fought for the Barracks Arch, Mills Point, the Palace Hotel, the Swan River and the Swan Brewery. It also covers the integral role played by grass roots heritage groups.

Addressing the question of how public-policy formulation changed and affected the design and delivery of government programs and services in Australia, this analysis offers descriptive accounts of how public services programs are designed and implemented and how they might be better managed. Modern governments have undergone significant change during the past 30 years and such change has impacted the way governments structure their organizatio...

Arguing that money plays a controversial role in Australian politics, this volume dissects how political parties raise and spend money. Written by a leading expert in the field, this account examines a number of topics, including claims of secret contributions and corruption, criticism of public funding for political parties, and allegations that corporations and trade unions have undue influence over parties for which they provided funds. In ...

Addresses the flood of new DNA-related information that has flowed from the recent revolution in biotechnology: information that is transforming the food we eat, the way medicine is practised, and even changing the ways in which crimes are solved.

Traces the history of the Bank of New South Wales and Westpac in the second half of the twentieth century. It provides a case study for the impact of mechanisation and government regulation and deregulation on a major service industry.

Presents a comprehensive overview of Australia's telecommunications regulatory framework. Written by experienced insiders, this work describes the laws and policies affecting competitors and consumers, and the regulatory and self regulatory bodies that administer them.

The author takes a close look at the working lives and attitudes of domestic workers in modern Australia. She examines a great diversity of experiences in the domestic services industry, mainly through interviews with participants, employers and the employed.

This text provides an account of the key issues that affect climate change policy in Australia, detailing the policy failures, the murky politics, the corruption of the policy process, the influence of the fossil-fuel industries on policy makers, and the ethical issues that underpin the debate.

A comprehensive revised edition incorporating recent developments such as changes to species names, significant changes to classifications, as well as information on newly described plants.