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'Howard's Agenda' edited by Marian Simms and John Warhurst and 'The Rise and Fall of One Nation' edited by Michael Leach, Geoffrey Stokes and Ian Ward are reviewed.

AbstractBy means of a testing laboratory a city is enabled to buy not coal at so much a ton, but heat at so much per unit. A testing labmatory also yields social as well as economic returns.

Scholars at War is the first scholarly publication to examine the effect World War II had on the careers of Australasian social scientists. It links a group of scholars through geography, transnational, national and personal scholarly networks, and shared intellectual traditions, explores their use, and contextualizes their experiences and contributions within wider examinations of the role of intellectuals in war. Scholars at War is structured around historical portraits of individual Australasian social scientists. They are not a tight group; rather a cohort of scholars serendipitously involved in and affected by war who share a point of origin. Analyzing practitioners of the social sciences during war brings to the fore specific networks, beliefs and institutions that transcend politically defined spaces. Individual lives help us to make sense of the historical process, helping us illuminate particular events and the larger cultural, social and even political processes of a moment in time.

Contributors include Peter Hempenstall, JD Legge, Jock Phillips, John Pomeroy, Cassandra Pybus, David Wetherell, Janet Wilson.

Introduction /Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter --Part I:The Australians /Geoffrey Gray and Christine Winter --A.P. Elkin: public morale and propaganda /John Pomeroy --Conlon's remarkable circus /Cassandra Pybus --H. Ian Hogbin: 'official adviser on native affairs' /Geoffrey Gray --W.E.H. Stanner: wasted war years /Geoffrey Gray --Camilla Wedgwood: 'what are you educating natives for' /David Wetherell --Ronald Murray Berndt: 'work of national importance' /Geoffrey Gray --The road to Conlon's circus-and beyond: a personal retrospective /J.D. Legge --Part II:The New Zealanders /Doug Munro --Derek Freeman at war /Peter Hempenstall --J.W. Davidson on the home front /Doug Munro --Neville Phillips and the mother country /Jock Phillips --Dan Davin: the literary legacy of war /Janet Wilson.