Book reviewed in this article:JOHN MONASH. A Biography.By Geoffrey Serle.DOCUMENTS ON AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY 1937–49. Volume V: July 1941 ‐ June 1942.Edited by W.J. Hudson and H.J.W. Stokes.JOBS OR DOGMA? The Industries Assistance Commission and Australian Politics.By John Warhurst.STRIKES IN AUSTRALIA: A sociological analysis of industrial conflict.By Malcolm Waters.THE CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE: Essays on the Australian Constitution, constitutionalism and parliamentary practice.Edited by Michael James.AN AUSTRALIAN LEGAL HISTORY.By Alex C. Castles.THE PRISON STRUGGLE: Changing Australia's Penal System.By George Zdenkowski and David Brown.MR SANTAMARIA AND THE BISHOPS.By Gerard Henderson.AUSTRALIAN CAPITALISM IN BOOM AND DEPRESSION: Options for the 1980s.By Robert Catley and Bruce McFarlane.COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION. Report on State Tax Sharing and Health Grants 1982.AN INTRODUCTION TO AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.By Dean Jaensch.GOVERNING THE CITIES: The Australian Experience in Perspective.By Andrew Parkin.AUSTRALIA AND THE NEW RIGHT.Edited by Marian Sawer.WORTH HER SALT: Women at work in Australia.Edited by Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute.BLACK AUSTRALIANS: The Prospects for Change.Edited by Eric Olbrei.INTRUDERS IN THE BUSH: The Australian Quest for Identity.Edited by John Carroll.INVASION AND RESISTANCE: Aboriginal‐European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier 1861–1897.By Noel Loos.EARLY MAN IN NORTH QUEENSLAND: art and archaeology In the Laura area.By Andree Rosenfeld, David Morton and John Winter.A NEW PROVINCE? The closer settlement of Monto.By W. Ross Johnston.FAR COUNTRY: A Short History of the Northern Territory.By Alan Powell.THE NAC ELECTION IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY 1981.By P. Loveday and D. Jaensch.SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: Parliament in the Northern Territory.Edited by Richard Herr and Peter LovedayYUGUL: An Arnhem Land Cattle Station.By Steven Thiele.NORTH AUSTRALIA RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 8.Edited by Alistair J. Heatley and P. Loveday.STATE, CAPITAL AND RESOURCES IN THE NORTH AND WEST OF AUSTRALIA.Edited by Elizabeth J. Harman and Brian W. Head.VALUES AND VOTES: The 1980 Western Australian Election.By D.W. Black and A. Peachment.VICTORIAN HISTORY AND POLITICS: European Settlement to 1939. A Survey of the Literature.By Joanna Monie.INDONESIA: Australian Perspectives.Edited by James J. FoxA CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS FOR NEW ZEALAND: An Idea whose Time has Come?By Stephen Levine.THE CROSS OF LORRAINE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: Australia and the Free French Movement 1940–1942.By John Lawrey.LAND AND POLITICS IN NEW CALEDONIA.By Alan W. Ward.THE DYNAMICS OF CHINESE POLITICS.By Lucian Pye.CULTURE AND SCIENCE IN CHINA.Edited by John Merson.WHY HAS JAPAN ‘SUCCEEDED’? Western technology and the Japanese ethos?By Michio Morishima.THE TRANSFER OF POWER 1942–47. Volume X, The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Formulation of a Plan 22 March‐30 May 1947.Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon.PAKISTAN: The Enigma of Political Development.By Lawrence Ziring.GODS AND POLITICIANS.By Bruce Grant.TOM MBOYA: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget.By David Goldsworthy.BRITISH ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC PLANNING 1905–1915.By David French.FABIANISM AND CULTURE. A study in British socialism and the arts c. 1884–1918.By Ian Britain.POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS: The General Election Campaign of 1979.Edited by Robert M. Worcester and Martin Harrop.THE POLITICS OF THE LABOUR PARTY.Edited by Dennis Kavanagh.PROPERTY AND POLITICS 1870–1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England.By Avner Offer.CUSTOM, WORK AND MARKET CAPITALISM: The Forest of Dean Colliers, 1788–1888.By Chris Fisher.THE POLITICS OF SECRECY.By James Michael.THE PROTEST MAKERS: The British Nuclear Disarmament Movement of 1958–1965 Twenty Years On.By Richard Taylor and Colin Pritchard.THE LEO AMERY DIARIES. Volume I: 1896–1929.Edited by John Barnes and David Nicholson.JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: Friends, Allies, Bishops, Catholics.By Edmund Campion.FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: Reputation and Power.By F.B. Smith.JOHN AUSTIN.By W.L. MorisonGOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF NORTHERN IRELAND.By Paul Arthur.THE PRESIDENTIAL QUEST: Candidates and images in American political culture, 1787–1852.By M.J. Heale.CRISIS IN THE MAKING: The political economy of New York State since 1945.By Peter D. McClelland and Alan L. Magdovitz.THE TRANSFORMATION OF VIRGINIA 1740–1790.By Rhys Isaac.MISSING.By Thomas Hauser.MODERN FRANCE: Mind, Politics, Society.By Barnett Singer.THE RADICAL BOURGEOISIE: the Ligue de L'enseignement and the origins of the Third Republic 1866–1886.By Katharine Auspitz.FRANCOIS MITTERAND: A Political Odyssey.By Denis MacShane.THE POLISH AUGUST: The Self‐Limiting Revolution.By Neal Ascherson.CANDLE FOR POLAND: 469 Days of Solidarity.By Leszek Szymahski.KAISER WILHELM II: New Interpretations. The Corfu Papers.Edited by John C.G. Röhl and Nicolaus Sombart.MUSSOLINI.By Denis Mack Smith.THE CONTEMPORARY SPANISH ECONOMY: An Historical Perspective.By Sima Lieberman.LENIN: Revolution and Power. A History of the Soviety Union 1917–1953. Volume One.By Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.STALIN: Order Through Terror. A History of the Soviet union 1917–1953. Volume Two.By Hélène Carrère d'car;Encausse.RUSSIA AT THE CROSSROADS: The 26th Congress of the CPSU.Edited by Seweryn Bialer and Thane Gustafson.SOVIET MILITARY THINKING.Edited by Derek Leebaert.SOVIET RISK‐TAKING AND CRISIS BEHAVIOR: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.By Hannes Adomeit.AGRARIAN POLICIES IN COMMUNIST EUROPE: A Critical Introduction. Vol. 1.By Karl‐Eugen Wädekin.BLUE‐COLLAR WORKERS IN EASTERN EUROPE.Edited by Jan F. Triska and Charles Gati.MAKING THE DIFFERENCE: Schools, Families and Social Division.By R. W. Connell, D.J. Ashcnden, S. Kesslcr and G.W. Dowsett.EDUCATION, POLITICS AND THE STATE: The Theory and Practice of Educational Change.By Brian Salter and Ted Topper.SCHOOLS IN CONFLICT.By Frederick M. Wirt and Michael W. Kirst.A MODERN INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL LAW. Fourth edition.By Michael Akehurst.THE IMPACT OF PARTIES: Politics and Policies in Democratic Capitalist States.Edited by Francis G. Castles.UNIONS OF STATES: The Theory and Practice of Confederation.By Murray Forsyth.THE PATTERN OF IMPERIALISM: The United States, Great Britain, and the late‐industrializing world since 1815.By Tony SmithMEDIEVAL KINGSHIP.By Henry A. MyersROOM FOR MANOEUVRE: Writings on History, Politics, Ideas and Play.Selected and edited by Leonie Sandercock and Stephen Murray‐Smith.CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Radical Studies.Edited by Keith Graham.PHILOSOPY AND IDEOLOGY IN HUME'S POLITICAL THOUGHT.By David Miller.SOCIAL JUSTICE.Edited by Randolph L. Braharn.THE STRATEGY OF EQUALITY: Redistribution and the Social Services.By Julian Le Grand.ESTRANGEMENT: Marx's Conception of Human Nature and the Division of Labor.By Isidor Wallimann.A HIGHER FORM OF KILLING: The Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare.By Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman.ESTIMATING FOREIGN MILITARY POWER.Edited by Philip Towle.WIT AND WISDOM: A Public Affairs Miscellany.Compiled and edited by Colin Bingham.TRADE UNIONISM IN