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2018 Catalogue 1 About ANU Press 3 ANU Press statistics 5 Featured titles 15 2017 titles 22 Backlist 47 ANU eView 2017 titles and backlist 50 ANU eText backlist ABOUT ANU PRESS ANU Press is a globally recognised leader in open‑access In keeping with the strategic goals of The Australian academic publishing. We produce fully peer‑reviewed National University, our focus is on contributing to global monographs and journals across a wide range of subject research, teaching and learning. To that end, all ANU areas, with a special focus on Australian and international Press publications are made freely available through our policy, Indigenous studies and the Asia Pacific region. website in a variety of electronic formats to encourage Our open‑access publishing practices ensure our greater dissemination and uptake. Students and publications are available to a worldwide audience, which researchers can either download or read online any includes those who are otherwise unable to access of ANU Press’ texts immediately, from anywhere quality academia due to a lack of resources. In 2017, in the world. we achieved the significant milestone of over 2 million Electronic publishing has other advantages for readers. downloads, comprising readers from almost every Ebooks: country in the world. > make searching text easy, a huge benefit for Originally known as ANU E Press, the Press was researchers and students mining diverse tomes established in 2003 to explore the options offered by for specific information emerging epublishing technology for The Australian > are environmentally advantageous: lowered need National University’s academic output. At the beginning for printing means lowered demand for paper, and of 2014, ANU E Press became ANU Press and, at electronic formats don’t incur the carbon impact of present, our small, committed team has published over shipping and distribution as do traditional, hard copy 750 titles as ebooks and Print‑on‑Demand (PoD) books. formats. Electronic publishing has many advantages over ANU Press is recognised by the Department of Education traditional publishing methods: it’s inexpensive and rapid, and Training as a commercial publisher, so authors who which is particularly valuable in the dissemination of new publish through ANU Press gain full recognition under the research and academic exploration. Lowered production Higher Education Research Data Collection scheme. costs reduce the pressure to recoup expenses through profits, which allows ANU Press to: > give voice to researchers whose work is excellent but may lack a significant commercial audience > demolish barriers to entry for developing fields of research that might struggle against traditional, risk‑averse publication models > publish texts that deal with contemporary issues and breaking research at the height of relevance and public interest > maximise the clarity and impact of research data by using meaningful photos, images and graphs without increasing the cost of production. 2018 Catalogue 1 ABOUT ANU PRESS How to find ANU Press titles Information for authors Through our website A comprehensive explanation of ANU Press publishing processes is available on our website (press.anu.edu.au/ It couldn’t be easier to get a copy of any of ANU Press’ author‑resources), but here’s a brief overview. books. 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Complete sets of MARC records for ANU Press titles are also available from library‑admin.anu.edu.au/epubs/epress/marc/ 2 ANU Press ANU PRESS STATISTICS Most popular ebooks for 2017 Total downloads 1 The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific 27,710 2 Regulatory Theory 25,294 3 Information Systems Foundations: Constructing and Criticising 23,556 4 The Joy of Sanskrit 23,141 5 Protected Area Governance and Management 21,418 6 Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar 18,692 7 ANU Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. Five, 2013 16,918 8 The Personality Cult of Stalin in Soviet Posters, 1929–1953 16,569 9 Degei’s Descendants (Terra Australis 41) 16,271 10 China’s New Sources of Economic Growth: Vol. 1 16,185 Where in the world are ANU Press readers? ANU Press readers are everywhere: a majority of our readers come from Australia (41%), with the second highest percentage of visitors coming from the United States (14%). ANU Press readers come from all over the world, with significant numbers visiting the ANU Press website from Asia and Europe. In 2017, ANU Press books were downloaded over 2 million times. This chart shows the top 10 countries visiting the ANU Press website that year: Rest of the world 21% Papua New Guinea 1% Australia New Zealand 2% 41% Indonesia 2% India 2% Germany 2% United Kingdom 3% United China 5% States 14% France 7% 2018 Catalogue 3 FEATURED TITLES Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications Edited by Peter Drahos ISBN 9781760461010 (Print) $80.00 ISBN 9781760461027 (Online) Published February 2017 The Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at The Australian National University has been a leader in the development of new ideas and approaches to the study of regulation for 15 years. Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications brings together more than 40 scholars who have been associated with RegNet during this time. Each author deals with a core concept and/or field of regulation describing its evolution, analysing its assumptions and problems, and identifying ways in which regulatory theory might be advanced. The book’s coverage includes the social psychological foundations of regulation, theories of regulation such as responsive regulation, smart regulation and nodal governance, compliance, legal pluralism, risk, accountability, globalisation and regulatory capitalism, as well as analyses of various fields of regulation including environment, crime, human rights, investment, migration and tax. Regulatory Theory is the first ANU Press title that features an interactive contents page. It divides chapters into key theories, concepts, methods and psychological foundations, which enables readers to navigate to chapters in their area of interest or to find key readings in regulatory theory. This volume introduces readers to regulatory theory. Aimed at practitioners, postgraduate students and those interested in regulation as a cross-cutting theme in the social sciences, Regulatory Theory includes chapters on the social- psychological foundations of regulation as well as theories of regulation such as responsive regulation, smart regulation and nodal governance. The contributors, who either are or have been connected to the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at The Australian National University include John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, Peter Grabosky, Neil Gunningham, Fiona Haines, Terry Halliday, David Levi-Faur, Christine Parker, Colin Scott and Clifford Shearing. 2018 Catalogue 5 FEATURED TITLES Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea Edited by Jack Golson, Tim Denham, Philip Hughes, Pamela Swadling and John Muke Terra Australis 46 ISBN 9781760461157 (Print) $75.00 ISBN 9781760461164 (Online) Published July 2017 Part of the acclaimed Terra Australis series, Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea offers a comprehensive account of the history, aims, methods and results of the work undertaken at the Kuk Research Station. The establishment of Kuk Research Station and the intensive work done there in the decades since have provided major contributions towards understanding the emergence and early development of agriculture.