The New South Pacific introduces the reader to the scattered islands and territories of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. While some are still under foreign rule most of the islands are now emerging as independent nations. After a century and a half of European control they must now work out their own destiny. The author describes the indigenous traditions of the past and the impact of the alien's way of life. Future trends and developments are also covered. But the main focus is strongly on the present and the search for an authentic identity here and now.

David Campbell has served a long, serious apprenticeship in the craft and art of poetry. Now, in each new collection, structure is totally harmonised with content and each poem seems to spring effortlessly from the page, as astonishing and inevitable as the natural world where the poet moves with such ease; the senses transmitting colour, movement, shape and sound to the mind, and the mind transmuting these into the word.

Canberra is Australia's national capital and one of the few cities in the world planned from its inception. In many ways it is a model of what planning can accomplish: it has no urban blight, no slums, no chronic traffic congestion, and no air pollution. The population increase of about 8 per cent each year is being accommodated adequately; health, education, and welfare facilities are being provided to match population growth; and an attractive urban environment is being created economically. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative book written to date about Canberra.

In the two centuries since the French Revolution, political nationalism has become a force of tremendous importance in the modern world. It is also an extremely complex one. It helps hold together the historical events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing them to be part of a continuing crisis. It has brought the histories of modern Asia, Africa and the Pacific into relation with European history, and made them part of universal history and politics. It can be, and has been, democratic or authoritarian, forward-looking or backward-looking, socialist or reactionary.

This book reviews the basis of hospital funding in Australia.

This book, about biological matters determining the quality and usefulness of Australian fresh waters, was written for several reasons. It was written because Australian fresh waters have many distinctive biological and other features, and therefore overseas work and management of water resources is often not relevant and must be used with caution in Australia. A main aim of the book, therefore, has been to aid Australian water management authorities by presenting useful ecological and other biological knowledge on Australian fresh waters.

The authors have selected nearly one hundred extracts from contem porary Western diplomatic and missionary reports, from books, news papers, private journals, travel accounts, diaries etc., in short a wide range of Western reportage on this major revolt in nineteenth century China. All the extracts are contemporary, and nearly all are from eyewitnesses, since the emphasis is on the reportage, not on Western opinion or policy. Some are printed for the first time, from various manuscript collections; most are here re-printed for the first time.

Papers from the sixth symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982.

This volume is a guide to sources for the study of Chinese history. While making no claim to comprehensiveness, it ranges widely over various types and periods - oracle bones, standard histories, wooden documents, genealogical registers, and other sources from pre-Han to modern times and from peoples as diverse as the Tibetans and the French. The later chapters indicate sources for modern China and are invaluable for historians seeking information on such subjects as the early Communist Party and the Kuomintang.