Alumni in print

October 2005

Jill Singer (BSc 1978) examines the world of non-traditional baby-making and the ethical dilemmas it creates in her book Immaculate Conceptions: Thoughts on Babies, Breeding and Boundaries (Lothian 2005).

Peter Corris (MA 1967) describes the events surrounding the mutiny on the Bounty and the fateful beginnings of Pitcairn Island in his historical novel The Journal of Fletcher Christian (Random House 2005).

Jane Clifton (BA 1972) has written her second comic thriller, A Hand in the Bush (Text Publishing 2005).

Dick Gross (BA 1980, LLB 1980) offers a modern, sceptical and at times scatological perspective on the events surrounding the first Easter in Jerusalem in his novel Jesus, Judas and Mordy Ben Ruben: Three Good Jewish Boys in Jerusalem (Australian Book Group 2005).

John McLaren (MA 1972) has published Free Radicals: On the Left in Postwar Melbourne (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2003), detailing Ian Turner's work as an historian at Monash, his introduction of cultural studies and his responses to the student activists of the seventies.

Hazel Edwards' (BA 1971, BEd 1974, MEd 1980) classic children's picture book There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake (Penguin 2005), has been reissued and was Auslan-signed for deaf children.

Frank Cain (PhD 1980) describes the tumultuous days of the Great Depression in New South Wales in his book Jack Lang and the Great Depression (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2005).

Sue Taylor (née Schurmann) (BA 1972) has published her second book, Why Watch Birds? A Beginners Guide to Birdwatching (Hyland House 2005).

Simon Guttmann (BEc(Hons) 1999, PhD 2003) charts the evolution of monetary policy from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s in his book The Rise and Fall of Monetary Targeting in Australia (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2005).

Shalini Akhil (BA 2002) has published her first novel, The Bollywood Beauty (Penguin Australia 2005).

Stella Barber (MA(Arch&Rec) 1999) tells the story of the man behind the Myer Emporium in her book Sidney Myer: A Life, A Legacy (Hardie Grant 2005).

Chris Lang (BEc 1970) has co-written How Investing in Commercial Property Really Works, 2nd Edition (John Wiley & Sons Australia 2005).

Ray Beebe (DipEng 1965) has been awarded the 2004 George Julius Medal by Engineers Australia for his book Predictive Maintenance of Pumps Using Condition Monitoring (Elsevier Advanced Technology 2004).

Janine Paterson (MEdSt 1993) has edited a second book of traditional Aboriginal stories called How the Kangaroo Found His Tail (Wontulp-Bi-Buya College 2005).

Geoff Arnott (BEc 1970, DipEd 1971, BEd 1974) has published his ninth book, titled Working in Aged Care and Disability Services (Tertiary Press 2005).

Derek Drinkwater (MA 1984) focuses on historian Sir Harold Nicolson's contribution to international thought in his book Sir Harold Nicolson and International Relations: The Practitioner as Theorist (Oxford University Press 2005).

Garry Fabian (MA 1993) explains the work of Jewish community service group B'nai B'rith in his book The History of B'nai B'rith in Australia & New Zealand 1944--2004 (B'nai B'rith Australia & New Zealand 2004).