Between the lines

Bold Palates

What makes the Australian barbecue characteristically Australian? Why are pumpkin scones an Australian icon? How did eating lamb become a patriotic gesture? Bold Palates is lovingly researched and extensively illustrated. Barbara helps us to a deeper understanding of Australian identity by examining the way we eat.

The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective

Follows the story of the development of free-wheeling capitalism in the 20th Century, and the threats it faced from the competing systems of planned economic development unfolding within the communist and fascist nations.

Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850

Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book explores how ideas around the nature of emotional intimacy, love, and friendship within marriage adapted to a modernising economy and society.

Rainfed Framing Systems

The premise of the book is that for best results, a farm system must be understood as a whole and operated to improve productivity, profitably, efficiency and sustainability and it must achieve the goals of both farmers and communities.

For more information contact Ian Cooper ian.cooper@adelaide.edu.au

Celeste, Nick and the Magical Tea Party

Joelie first used her degree to start her own retail business but always knew her life's ambition was something totally different. Joelie aspires to enlighten the modern world with lost tales and practices from the past. This has come to fruition in her first book - an adventure story for children entitled Celeste, Nick and the Magical Tea Party.

Norfolk Island. History. People. Environment. Language

It traces the history of the Bounty mutineers from their initial south sea `paradise' through the rapid descent into a murderous hell on Pitcairn Island, followed by a deeply religious period and then relocation to the `near-paradise' of Norfolk Island. The book concentrates on the lives and culture of Norfolk's inhabitants today, but demonstrates how much their ancestors' extraordinary past still plays a dominant role in the daily life of their descendants.