This volume appears at a time when there is tremendous interest in direct investment of one country in the industry of another. It brings together papers by leading economists from North America, Australia and Asia, and provides an excellent introduction to this currently important economic issue. The contributions include original and comprehensive surveys of experience with, and policies towards, direct foreign investment in the Asian-Pacific region.

Though taxation is a subject of interest to everyone, and many books have been written on reform of the Australian Government's taxation system, State and local taxation is a relatively neglected field. This book attempts to fill the gap by extending the range of theoretical and empirical studies on State and local taxation and by presenting an analysis of major policy issues. The first part deals mainly with theoretical and conceptual questions. Part Two compares State and local taxation in Canada, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Geology is Earth history. The twenty essays in this book are concerned primarily with illustrating this history by reference to four aspects of stratigraphy and palaeontology: the biological interpretation of fossils, biostratigraphy and biogeography, descriptive palaeontology, and marine sedimentation and geomorphology. The dictum that 'palaeontology is the handmaid of stratigraphy' - without stratigraphy palaeontology would lack a time reference - is a truism. Each, of course, elucidates the other.

This book commences with a brief examination of tax apportionment arrangments in West Germany, Swit zerland and the USA, followed by a review of theoretical and conceptual issues relating to the assignment of taxing powers in a federation. The second part of the book consists of seven papers by State and Northern Territory Under Treasurers describing recent developments in taxation in the six States and the Territory, followed by a commentary which relates Australian developments to recent Canadian experience.

Early observers of Southeast Asian societies frequently commented upon the varied and disparate nature of women's work, and upon the authority and power which resulted from women's active participation in the economy. Undoubtedly women in some situations enjoyed far fewer restriction than did their comerpart in the homelands of their colonial rulers. The authors of this monograph have examined the roles of women, past and present, in a variety of societies, in Indonesia Malaysia and Singapore.

Canberra is recognised as one of the world's most successful examples of planned city development. In sixty years it has grown from a collection of surveyors' tents to Australia's largest inland city. Because it has developed so rapidly most of Canberra's 200,000 citizens were born elsewhere. This book attempts to capture some aspects of life in Canberra - the buildings, the seasons, people at work and play, the countryside - so that residents of the national capital can give an impression of its moods and lifestyle to relatives and friends far away.

The widespread effect in Europe of James Cook's voyages of discovery can be seen in the language of Coleridge and Wordsworth, the planning of ambitious Spanish missionaries and far-sighted Russian traders, and the letters exchanged by thinkers and scientists of many countries and two centuries. The round of commemorations that began in 1969 to mark the bicentennial of the three great voyages has stimulated research into Cook, and when an international symposium of Cook scholars was held in 1978 at Simon Fraser University, it brought a strong focus to the most articulate of this thought.

Singapore has faced extremely difficult economic conditions in the 1960s, and these will be exacerbated by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom military establishment during the next few years. Foreign investment can play an important role in Singapore's economy and at the same time make profits for the foreign investors. This book explores the problems involved.

The chief aspect of relations between Japan and Australia since the second world war has been economic. Much attention has been directed to the study of this aspect, yet that study has seldom been informed by investigation of the cultural, social, political and institutional bases that provide the framework of the relationship between the two nations and the constraints on its future development. This book aims to redress the balance a little, by building up a fuller picture than has previously been available to people in either country of the two societies and their interaction.

This book is a comprehensive account of the Australian grasslands and of their capacities for providing adequate nutrition for grazing animals, the products of which, whether as wool, meat, or dairy products, are important in the national economy. The wool and beef industries were established on indigenous grasslands and in many areas, particularly in the drier parts, are still dependent on native plants. Problems of sustaining the productivity of arid and semi-arid lands and of increasing the output of higher rainfall areas are discussed.