The physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social scientist and casual observer alike. In Australia the possibility of mapping the social ecology of large cities has been limited by the absence of sufficiently detailed census information, a gap remedied in 1961 by the provision of a new range of small area data. Here the author exploits the existence of the new information to present the first intensive social anatomy of any Australian metropolis.

Sexual anxiety, bordering on panic, in the Australian colonial town of Port Moresby - 'Port' - during the 1920s is the theme of this book. Port Moresby was more white, more Protestant, more homogeneous than comparable towns like Darwin or Rabaul. Its Papuan inhabitants were considered low on the ladder of civilisation and were despised for trying to climb up it. At the same time they were feared. Liaison with a black, demeaning to a white man, was regarded as defilement to a white woman, and the Papuans were believed to be primitives, unable to control their sexual appetites.

This is a book about a murder. A book about prison, about the clash of cultures and about wild men. Karo was a wild man and a clever one and this book is an attempt to trace his life. It is the history of a Papuan man born in the early part of the twentieth century and follows the path that led him to the most horrible murders and finally to the gallows. An attempt also to understand why he had another, legendary life beyond the gallows. The author became interested in Karo Araua when she heard for the first time the 'Song about Karo', the poem in traditional form in which he was the hero.

Ethnic schools are emerging as a major issue in Australian society, despite many people's ignorance about them. This book is concerned with migrants' perceptions of the role of these schools and their relation to the wider issues of migrant education and the arguments about assimilation versus multi-culturalism. The authors have studied the attitudes of Greek, Italian, Ukrainian and Slovenian communities and their findings present a picture of attitudes of interest to all Australians.

This study is the first specific treatment in Australia of the grasses of a natural region. It gives a taxonomic and ecological account of all known grass species in the arid part of the Northern Territory, an area of about 240,000 square miles. There is a description in technical and general terms of each of the 132 species, with taxonomic keys to genera and species, and with additional data on geographic and land- type distribution, ecological relationships, and economic value. Photographs, with enlargements of spikelet and floret, illustrate 123 of the species.

Capitalism has changed the face of the world. It has proved itself to be the mightiest and in some ways the most complex social formation of all time. Yet it is a historical formation too, arising at a particular period of history in one particular continent, doomed, in turn, as many would argue, to change itself beyond recognition or to be swept away before the rising tide of social revolution and social change.