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Australia - A Beautiful Continent: A beautiful continent by New Holland Publishers
19.99 AUD
Category: Photography
This book features Australia at it’s best; a land of great diversity and contrast. This book covers our fascinating outback to our beautiful coastlines, glorious beaches and rugged landscapes along with our majestic islands that makes Australia a country so unique. Covering all states, this chunky littl ...Show more
Australian Nature: From the Heart: The Paintings of Sally Elmer Peter Slater by Slater Peter Elmer Sally
49.99 AUD
Category: General
As one of Australia’s finest wildlife artists, the late great Peter Slater needs no introduction to natural history enthusiasts. He has been publishing books celebrating the country’s wildlife for many decades, not least the renowned Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds. For Australian Nature from the ...Show more
Mindful Eye, Playful Eye - 101 Amazing Museum Activities for Discovery, Connection, and Insight by Michael Garbutt; Nico Roenpagel; Frank Feltens
29.99 AUD
Category: Activities
101 imaginative practices will engage your senses, open your mind, and transform your museum experience Switch off your phone, take a deep breath, and prepare for adventure. Mindful Eye, Playful Eye invites readers on a thoughtful journey through museums, with 101 practices designed to nurture the d ...Show more
The Art of Drawing by Willy Pogany
46.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
One of the most popular drawing guides ever published, The Art of Drawing has been an informative and thorough guide to several generations of aspiring artists. For fifty years, Willy Pogány has given the main principles of drawing in a simple, constructive way. By following the sequences laid out in th ...Show more
12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow, Sam Wallman
29.99 AUD
Category: History
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic ...Show more
Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia by Paul Memmott
120.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
Here is the definitive guide to Australian Indigenous architecture, comprehensively updated to showcase the flourishing Indigenous design practices reshaping Australia's architectural landscape. The award-winning Gunyah Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia is the only continental ...Show more
A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press by Michael Richards
39.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Alec Bolton and His Brindabella Press is an account of a passion: that of a publisher and the books he made for himself and his friends, keeping alive craft traditions that were threatened by unrelenting change.‘Printing is like religion’, Alec Bolton once said. ‘We live in sin, but with the hope of per ...Show more
Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History by Penny Olsen
17.50 AUD
Category: History
The Budgerigar is arguably Australia’s best-known bird. At the same time, it is so ubiquitous that not everyone knows that it is Australian. Nor do many realise that the multicoloured bird that comes to mind — not to mention today’s super-sized, extravagantly coiffed show budgie — is as different from t ...Show more
Library of Dreams : Treasures from the National Library of Australia by The National Library of Australia
4.99 AUD
Category: Art
Library of Dreams interprets and celebrates a diverse selection of treasures from the rich and varied collections of the National Library of Australia. The book examines over 50 of the most popular items, page by page, in the Library's collections, including: James Cook's 'Endeavour' journal; William Bl ...Show more
On Stage: Spotlight on Our Performing Arts by National Library of Australia
19.99 AUD
Category: Art
Imagine a crowded theatre. The lights have just gone down. An expectant silence blankets the audience as the chatter abruptly stops. The show is about to begin.Live performance is storytelling, expression, activism and hope. It is by nature ephemeral, yet its impact can be long-lasting, on audiences and ...Show more
Illustrating the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845 by Philip Jones
34.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
George French Angas (1822–1886) was one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding colonial artists. As a young man in the 1840s he journeyed to Australia and New Zealand, where he excelled at capturing the minute detail of plants and people, objects and landscapes. The bush was his studio — he captured th ...Show more
Journeys Into the Wild: The Photography of Peter Dombrovskis by Bob Brown (Introduction by)
39.99 AUD
Category: History
Journeys into the Wild is a poetic escape to a fragile and breathtaking wilderness, with celebrated photographer Peter Dombrovskis as our guide. A silhouette of a damaged twisted Pencil Pine, wearing a fine dusting of fresh snow and precariously positioned above the Pool of Siloam in the Walls of Jerusa ...Show more