The main question addressed in this book is whether the social composition of higher education has changed since the 1930s and 1940s. Since that time there has been a tremendous expansion in higher education and policies have been developed aimed at increasing participation by the poor.

Luelen Bernart, a member of a prominent Ponapean family, was highly regarded for his wealth of traditional knowledge. He wrote this version of his island's history for his relatives and children, but the style of the text reflects the education he received at the Protestant mission school at Ohwa (Oa). 'The Book of Luelen' is the fullest account of Ponape's history that has ever been written by a native of that island. Luelen Bernart gives a comprehensive account of Ponape from the time of its creation to the first European contact.

This lecture is an attempt to restate the law relating to consideration in contracts in the light of the actual decisions of the Courts. Study of a large number of English and Australian legal decisions convinced the author that there was a wide gulf between the conventional accounts of the doctrine of consideration and the law actually enforced in the Courts. The conventional accounts give an impression of rigidity and artificiality in the law which is not always borne out in practice.

Barnett's classic study, originally published as A Study in Behaviour, has had a major influence on teaching and research in the behavioral sciences. The author's purpose is to present some of the principles of ethology, the science of animal behavior, primarily from studies of a single species, the "Norway" rat. This edition includes a number of new topics, additional text figures and photographs, an enlarged bibliography, and a revised glossary.

North Queensland is the most successful example in the British Commonwealth of a tropical region settled by Europeans. Here the Australian way of life has been transplanted almost intact. But one hundred years ago, when North Queensland was settled, it was taken for granted that white men could not work in the tropics Sugar plantations were founded on imported Pacific Island labour. Meanwhile, inland North Queensland was developed by squatters and miners whose way of thinking differed widely from the planters. How could these two traditions exist together in one community?

This is the first study ever undertaken of the policies of Australian governments towards the acquisition of weapons for the armed forces. The growth of the Australian defence budget in recent years and the burgeoning cost and complexity of modern armaments have made this subject of considerable interest, not only to those who plan and carry out the policies, but to all concerned as to how a large slice of national income is being spent.

Australian foreign policy in the late 1930s has till now been a neglected topic in historical writing. In this book the author examines Australian reactions to the aggressions which led to World War II - Abyssinia, Spain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. He describes the early support in Britain and Australia for the League of Nations, and goes on to discuss the causes of the change to a policy of appeasement, culminating in the Munich crisis of 1938, and Australian reactions to that crisis.