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NEWSLETTERAugust 2019NEW TITLES FROM AUSTRALIAN SCHOLARLY & ARCADIAMY LIFE WITHCHARLES CHAUVELElsa ChauvelTo take you down to the sea in ships, to go tramping overa thousand hills, to huddle against a man-made cyclone inthe jungle scrub of the Lamington Plateau, to go film-makingwith Charles and Elsa Chauvel – that’s the object of thisbook.In these pages you will share Elsa’s dramatic years besideher film-producer husband, helping to pioneer a strugglingmotion picture industry. You will sail with them to lonelyPitcairn Island where they face hazardous seas to bringback, for the first time, film footage of the hiding place ofthe Bounty mutineers. You will travel with the dedicated,adventure-loving pair to film in the rugged interior of theNorthern Territory. You will listen to the thunder of hoovesas they film the unforgettable, world-acclaimed charge ofForty Thousand Horsemen, and you will read of the starsdiscovered and created by Charles Chauvel: Errol Flynn,Mary Maguire, Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch, Michael Pate,Betty Bryant, Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth of Jedda fame.Format: Paperback Released: 8 AugustISBN: 978-1-925801-76-7 Price: 34.95AboveScript work during the filming of The Rats of TobrukRightElsa and CharlesAustralian Scholarly Publishingp.o. box 299 kew, vic 3101 www.scholarly.infoa s p i c @ o z e m a i l . c o m . a u 03 932 9 6 9 63

THE NEW ENLIGHTENMENTON STEVEN PINKER & BEYONDBrian EllisSteven Pinker’s book Enlightenment Now establishes thatgreat progress has been made on the aims of the EuropeanEnlightenment. However, the minds of many economists,moralists and political thinkers in the West are still set firmlyin the eighteenth century. The progress has been due mainlyto the physical scientific revolutions of the 19th and 20thcenturies, and the industrial revolutions they generated. But anew enlightenment is needed now to overcome this povertyof social theory, and bring our economists and politicaltheorists up to date in the socially connected, commerciallyintegrated, and existentially threatened world of the 21stcentury.Format: Paperback Released: 15 AugustISBN: 978-1-925801-91-0 Price: 44BEING LEFT-WING IN AUSTRALIAIDENTITY, CULTURE AND POLITICSAFTER SOCIALISMGeoff RobinsonIn the last three decades the Australian Left has shapednational life. The collapse of the socialist project in theeighties enabled the rebirth of the Australian Left as a forceof government. The Left of the Labor Party has moved fromthe fringes to a central position in the party while the Greenshave built an electoral basis outside Labor. Questions oflegal liberalism, Indigenous rights and sexual identity havebecome central to Left politics, but mostly not economics. Thisnew Left has grappled with the remnant past radicalisms, suchas Marxism and radical feminism, but also new challenges:religious fundamentalism, right-wing populism, the crisis inmany Indigenous communities, the global economic crisisand the rise of the Greens as a challenge to Labor. Thisnew Left has been underpinned by the rise of intellectualcelebrities and practices such as human rights law togetherwith a left-wing way of everyday life.Format: Paperback Released: 22 AugustISBN: 978-1-925801-79-8 Price: 44

FRIENDS, FASHION &FABULOUSNESSTHE MAKING OF AN AUSTRALIAN STYLESally GrayFamed shoe designer Manolo Blahnik once claimed thatAustralia in the 1970s was ‘the most creative place in theworld’. He was referring to the fashion and art worldscreated by the principal characters in this book, first inMelbourne and then in Sydney, in the 1970s–90s. Fourfriends in particular are at the heart of this book: fashiondesigners Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson and artists PeterTully and David McDiarmid.Format: Paperback AVAILABLE NOWISBN: 978-1-925588-34-7 Price: 39.95Peter Tully in his Sydney studio, c.1981Linda Jackson (left), Grace Kee and Jenny Kee, FlamingoFollies parade, Sydney Town Hall, 1980Models wear Jenny Kee’s cotton knits, bearing lines from Dorothea McKellar’s1908 poem ‘My Country’ and garments in Kee’s Australiana silk fabric designs,at the last Flamingo Follies parade, Jamison Street nightclub, Sydney 1981

A PASSION FOR JUSTICETHE LIFE AND TIMES OF FORENSICPATHOLOGIST, VERNON PLUECKHAHNKerry BreenVernon D. Plueckhahn was for many years Australia’s mostprominent forensic pathologist. His expertise was centralin correcting some of Australia’s worst miscarriages ofjustice, most notably the wrongful 1982 conviction of LindyChamberlain for murder. This book traces his life, of firstserving on a hospital ship for four years in World War II, thenbecoming a doctor, and then from a small base as the firstpathologist at Geelong Hospital becoming known nationallyand internationally. He led the way in forensic pathology –in research, for example, to validate autopsy measurementof blood alcohol and then linking alcohol misuse anddrowning. He was instrumental in transforming the smallregional hospital of Geelong into a leading academic centre.He steered the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasiathrough turbulent times in the 1970s. His achievements werequite remarkable, with the greatest being the formation ofthe Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, which is now aworld leading institution.Format: Hardback Released: 15 AugustISBN: 978-1-925801-88-0 Price: 44AboveSergeant Plueckhahn in the pathology laboratory, AHS Wanganella, 1941RightStaff Sergeant Plueckhahn, aboard AHS Wanganella, July 1941

VISUAL REALITYAN ANALYSIS OF THE VISUALIMAGE IN PAINTINGPercy Leason“Percy Leason possessed an extraordinarily inquisitive mind.He was constantly developing new ideas and ways ofthinking and eventually he developed a pioneering study inthe role of visual perception in art. He was an art philosopherand theorist before his time.In the early 20th century, modernism was challengingto all artists but Leason saw modernism as a threat to thevery survival of Art. To counteract the subjective validationof any practice being accepted as Art, he constructed anobjective approach. This is the core of his treatise the Theoryof Perceptual Art. By using objective criteria, Leason hoped tosafeguard the future of art. He was disturbed by the dismissalof the centuries-old accumulated art experience by modernistpractices and he sought to put in place a solid theory tomaintain art practices for the future.”from the Preface by Margot TascaFormat: Paperback Released: 8 AugustISBN: 978-1-925801-84-2 Price: 39.95Percy Leason, Artist of Modern Times, 1956, 40 x 30 inches

C.R. LONGVICTORIAN EDUCATIONIST 1860–1944Geoff W. PryorIn 1878 a District Inspector asserted that “Chas Long, owingto a weakness of sight which is inherent, will not make asuccessful teacher”. He later added that “it would be amistake to allow C. Long to become a teacher”. This was notan audacious beginning for a career in teaching.Charles Long was born with albinism and suffered frompoor eyesight. He went on to confound his critics with highacademic results in teacher-training certificates and a Masterof Arts degree. With persistence and creative determinationhis career ranged from head teacher, teachers’ collegelecturer, and school inspector to the new position of Editorof Victorian Education Department publications including thehighly successful School Paper, Education Gazette and thewell-known Victorian Readers.This largely ignored Victorian educationist was a closeconfidante and friend of the widely acclaimed Frank Tate,who was appointed as the Director of Education in 1902.Format: Paperback Released: 15 AugustISBN: 978-1-925801-94-1 Price: 39.95AboveC. R. Long’s License to Teach Certificate, June 1880LeftThe Education Department’s Record of War Service, 1914–1919, cover. Produced in 1921. Edited by Charles Long

SHAPING AUSTRALIA’S WESTTHE LIFE OF JOHN NICHOLSONRobert NicholsonScots are renowned for leaving their homes and successfullysettling elsewhere in the world. John Nicholson was noexception. As a young man in his twenties he interruptedhis studies to be a lawyer and followed his elder brother toBrisbane. After five years there working with a law firm hereturned to Edinburgh to become a lawyer and was admittedto practice. At the age of 29 he set out for Western Australia.There he started a law firm and became a commercialadviser in demand. The commercial community petitionedhim to contest the Perth Mayorality which he won for a term in1914–15. The following year he was put up by the Nationalsto fill a vacancy in the Legislative Council. From 1918 to 1941he spent his life as a member of the Council enunciatingthe pathway he saw for the future of Western Australia. Heworked to place the State on a sound commercial footingduring the Great Depression and the onset of World WarII. In addition, John and his wife established the Red Crossin the State as well as developing care for veterans andplaying a leadership role in many other organisations, thework of which continues today. At the end of his life he hadwell earned the name of ‘Honest John’.Format: Paperback Released: 22 AugustISBN: 978-1-925801-90-3 Price: 39.95AboveJohn, in his early 20s, after arrival in BrisbaneLeftJohn Nicholson, Mayor of Perth, 1914–15

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NEWSLETTER NEW TITLES FROM AUSTRALIAN SCHOLARLY & ARCADIA Australian Scholarly Publishingp.o. box 299 kew, vic 3101 www.scholarly.info aspic@ozemail.com.au 03 9329 6963 August 2019 Above Script work during the filming of The Rats of Tobruk To take you down to the sea in ships, to go tramping over