Best Selling Books by James May

There is something about cars that stirs up intense feelings in people - how it makes them look to the outside world, how it makes them feel about themselves, how it looks to their girlfriends or their mates, or their neighbours. These feelings are humorously described in this book.

Introductory text on fathers of children with special needs. Can be used for further study and research, as a resource for professionals and families and as the impetus for new, innovative programs designed to include fathers as integral to family-centered service delivery.

Presenting recent European history in terms helpful for understanding the present, this work deals with the history of Europe from the aftermath of World War I into the 1960s. It is divided into four parts: the background and course of World War II, the nations since 1945, postwar developments in international affairs, and the social and intellectual record of the entire period.

Report on a survey of households in eleven urban areas of Papua New Guinea, 1974 - discusses population characteristics partic. Employment, housing, income, population growth, unemployment, educational level, level of qualification, internal migration, human settlements, economic growth and contact with the rural areas. Graphs, map, references, statistical tables.

Most of the sixteen articles by Australian, Indonesian and Hong Kong scholars in this collection in honour of Professor Jamie Mackie concern aspects of Indonesian history and development. Other essays include biographical notes from Professors H Feith and J Legge, patterns of Chinese migration, and coups, democracy and human rights in the Asia-Pacific region. With bibliography and index.

This book comprises six informed contemporary narratives and historical commentary by a group of distinguished regionals scholars writing in the context of growing concern about an emerging "arc of instability" in the Southwest Pacific region.

On the eve of Papua New Guinea''s independence in 1975, there were many who predicted political anarchy, with the possibility of an army coup or authoritarian single-party dominance, and economic collapse. Such fears appeared to have been justified when in 1975 the North Solomons (Bougainville) and Papua unilaterally declared their independence. Fortunately, PNG underwent a smooth transition, and in its first decade as a new state enjoyed a high degree of political and economic progress. It remains one of the few postcolonial states that has maintained an unbroken record of democratic governance.