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Paula Abood, Barry Gamba and Michelle Kotevski (eds), Waiting in Space: An Anthology of Australian Writing, Sydney, Pluto Press, 1999, pp 133, pb $20.00. Susan Pfisterer and Carolyn Pickett, Playing With Ideas: Australian Women Playwrights from the Suffragettes to the Sixties, Sydney, Currency Press, 1999, pb $27.45; Susan Pfisterer (ed.), Tremendous Worlds: Australian Women's Drama 1890‐1960, Sydney, Currency Press, 1999, pb $27.45. Patricia Clarke, Rosa! Rosa! A life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist, Melbourne University Press, 1999, pp 274, hb $43.95. Kay Dreyfus, Sweethearts of Rhythm: The story of Australia's all‐girl bands and orchestras to the end of the second world war, Sydney, Currency Press, 1999, pp 128, pb $32.84; Bruce Johnson, The Inaudible Music, Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity, Sydney, Currency Press, 2000, pp 244, pb $43.81. Ross Laird, Sound Beginnings: The Early Record Industry in Australia, Sydney, Currency Press, 1999, pp 368, pb $54.77. Dimitris Tsaloumas, The Harbour, University of Queensland Press, pb $27.45. Mark St Leon (ed.), Circus in Australia: A Special Issue of Australasian Drama Studies, 1999, St Lucia, University of Queensland English Department, pp 216, pb $20.00. Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone (eds), The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History, St Leonards, Allen and Unwin, 2000, pp ix and 229 indexed, illustrated, pb 38.43. Lynette Finch and Chris McConville (eds), Gritty Cities: Images of the Urban, Sydney, Pluto Press, 1999, pp 286. pb $27.45. Douglas Booth and Golin Tatz, One‐Eyed: A View of Australian Sport, St Leonards, Allen and Unwin, 2000, pp 262, pb $27.40. Richard Waterhouse, Private Pleasures, Public Leisure: A History of Australian Popular Culture Since 1788, Sydney, Longman, 1995, pp xiv + 266, pb $38.39. Raymond Evans, Fighting Words: Writing About Race, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1999, pb $32.79. Tim Rowse, Obliged to be Difficult: Nugget Coombs’ Legacy in Indigenous Affairs, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp 254 + viii, pb $32.95. Adi Wimmer (ed.), Australian Nationalism Reconsidered: Maintaining a Monocultural Tradition in a Multicultural Society, Tübingen, Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999, pp244. Mark Johnston, Fighting the Enemy, Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp 206, hb $43.95. Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss (eds), The Oxford Literary History of Australia, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, 488 pp. hb $54.95. Thomas R Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp 350, pb $38.32. A W Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life, Volume 2: 1944‐1978, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1999, pp xx + 596, hb $54.95. Frances De Groen, Xavier Herbert, University of Queensland Press, 1998, pp 328 + bibliography and index, pb $21.95. Veronica Kelly, The Theatre of Louis Nowra, Sydney, Currency Press, 1998, pp xiv +224, pb $27.45.