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The Australian Constitution
$350.00 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
This easily accessible collection of primary source material includes drafts of the Constitution, memoranda, personal letters relating to the drafting, and comments by the drafters themselves. More »
Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica
$39.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
In Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica, explorer Tim Jarvis relives Sir Douglas Mawson's extraordinary polar survival journey of 1912–13. Battling against ferocious blizzards and headwinds, Jarvis struggles to overcome ... More »
The Book Of Dead Philosophers
$29.95$13.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Diogenes died by holding his breath. Plato allegedly died of a lice infestation. Diderot choked to death on an apricot. Nietzsche made a long, soft-brained and dribbling descent into oblivion after kissing a horse in Tur... More »
Babylon's Burning: From Punk To Grunge
$35.00$12.95 (Trade paperback / Penguin Books )
In this enthralling history of punk and grunge, Clinton Heylin describes how the word 'punk' was coined by revered rock journalist Lester Bangs, and charts the rise and fall of the movement, from the explosion of the Sex... More »
Alistair Cooke's America
$39.95$16.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
As the United States adjusts to its role as sole superpower in a world of shifting allegiances, it has never been more important to understand what makes the country work. It is 30 years now since Alistair Cooke's award-... More »
Pioneers Of The Pacific Voyages Of Exploration 1787 1810
$38.95$14.95 (Hardcover book / Univ West Aust Pr )
The figure of Captain Cook understandably dominates the story of Pacific exploration, but one of the effects of his fame has been that the many voyages of science and exploration following him to the Pacific have not rec... More »
In Pursuit Of Plants
$54.95 (Hardcover book / Univ West Aust Pr )
In Surinam, plant hunter F.W. Hostmann allowed vampire bats to suck his toes; in west Africa, William Grant Milne was forced to sell his clothes and travel naked for 200 miles; George Forrest narrowly escaped rampaging l... More »
Fidel Castro My Life
$79.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Scribner )
Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he has become a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an indepen... More »
Handel: The Man and His Music
$24.95 (Hardcover book / Random House )
Though unquestionably one of the greatest and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) had received little attention from biographers before Jonathan Keates’s masterful Handel: The Man and His ... More »
Gormenghast
$24.95 (Paperback book / Overlook Press )
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A Remarkable Friendship
$59.95$16.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
A huddle of wooden sheds in a courtyard off the Boulevard Montmartre known as Cormon's atelier was where the handsome art student from Sydney, John Peter Russell, first met the haunted, intense newcomer from Holland, Vin... More »
Albertina: Old Master Drawings from Vienna
$45.00$15.95 (Paperback book / )
The Albertina in Vienna forms part of the city’s historic Hofburg complex, the heart of which is the former Imperial Palace - seat of the Habsburg dynasty in Central Europe. Albert, Duke of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822), afte... More »
Lina Bryans: Rare Modern 1909-2000
$75.00$14.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Lina Bryans--unconventional, generous and beautiful--was an influential artist of the modernist movement in Australia, and a key player in the cultural life of Melbourne. Often overlooked in her own time, Bryans is now b... More »
Modernism And Australia
$49.95$14.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
This first anthology of modernist art, design and architecture in Australia reveals the raw nerves that modernism exposed and highlights the role of migrants, expatriates, travel and mass reproduction in the reception of... More »
The Men Of The Line
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
The extraordinary engineering feat of the Thai-Burma Railway, or the Line as it is often called, was built with a slave labour force. The men of the Line died of starvation, torture and disease at the hands of the Japane... More »
Grand Experiment
$25.00$9.95 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
Two boys travel three continents to follow one monk's dream, in this untold story from Australia's colonial history. In 1848, the Spanish missionary Rosendo Salvado, founder of New Norcia Monastery in Western Australia, ... More »
New Mccullochs Encyclopedia Of Australian Art
$295.00 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
First published in 1968 and in continuous publication ever since, the Encyclopedia of Australian Art is widely regarded as the authoritative reference on Australian art with its extensive colour plates and 4500 entries. ... More »
Surf-O-Rama: Treasures Of Australian Surfing
$45.00 (Paperback book / Miegunyah Press )
From the dawn of Australian surfing at Boomerang Camp, Freshwater Beach in Sydney in the summer of 1915, when the great Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku gave the first demonstration of surfboard riding on his solid timber board,... More »
Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide To Being Free
$26.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
We all know what it is to be distracted-a feeling that our attention is not quite where it should be. Though it is not a new complaint, at work and at home, in our social lives and in the bedroom, our attention is often ... More »
Pioneers Of Modernism
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Miegunyah Press )
The Arts and Crafts architects created some of the most thoughtful, beautifully crafted and inspired architecture in Australia's history.
The Arts and Crafts movement--emerging in the 1880s and 1890s--brought a breath of... More »