Melbourne University Press (MUP)

Arts & Culture

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Myths of nations

A new book provides a timely look at the foundation myth of Gallipoli as a sacred bearer of Australian national identity, disentangling it from history, memory and forgetting

Environment

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When Australia’s first Environment Ambassador helped save Antarctica from mining

Australia has had a special Ambassador for the Environment since 1989, and without that first appointment, Antarctica might’ve been open to commercial mining

Health & Medicine

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How epigenetics is transforming our understanding of evolution

A new book reveals how a population’s non-genetic responses to environmental change are central to the process of evolution

Politics & Society

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The China divide

What would Australia do if the United States went to war against China? It’s a question that’s been discussed candidly behind closed doors

Politics & Society

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The making and unmaking of the East-West Link

A new book explores how Melbourne’s multi-billion dollar East-West Link that promised to knit the city together was stymied from the start