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  • - A History of Shorthand in Australia
    af Carmel Taylor
    319,95 kr.

    Shorthand writers in Australia date to the early years of colonisation. They brought with them the method of their time and infectious curiosity prompted inventions and improvements through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Shorthand's popularity surged in the 1920s and beyond, coinciding with the new technology of the wireless. What was

  • - A Screenwriting History
    af Susan Lever
    343,95 kr.

  • af Paul Valent
    108,95 kr.

    Helps the reader understand the very wide mental health effects of this pandemic.

  • af Miles Hunt
    143,95 kr.

  • af Bazzani Rozzi Bazzani
    162,95 kr.

    The Piano Woman highlights the fragility of family, the price of love, and the importance of traditions that can sometimes save us from ourselves.

  • - A Novel
    af Desmond O'Grady
    343,95 kr.

  • - Donald Trump and the Verdict of History
    af Norman Abjorensen
    163,95 kr.

  • - Race, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World
    af Ross L Jones
    338,95 kr.

    With a new vision of bio-ecology that linked humans to their past and their evolutionary niche, the 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe constructing morphologies of the biological world.

  • - Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 to 1979
    af Anne E. McLaren
    368,95 kr.

    This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the twenty-first century.

  • - Letters Between Greek Writer Costas Taktsis and Australian Artist Carl Plate and Their Families in Cosmopolitan Post-War Sydney
    af Cassi Plate
    242,95 kr.

    Costas Taktsis, arguably the most important post-war Greek writer, called himself a 'Sacred Monster', and his life-long Australian friend Carl Plate - an important painter, Gallerist and influencer of modern art in Sydney - the Colossus of Woronora.

  • - Writers on Writing
    af Linda Weste
    288,95 kr.

    In these 22 interviews with notable verse novelists, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the verse novel genre. Her subjects include Bernardine Evaristo, joint winner of the Booker Prize in 2019; and what they have to say enriches our understanding of the many ways poetry and narratives can meld.

  • - Dora Meeson Coates and British Suffrage
    af Myra Scott
    138,95 kr.

  • - The Life and Times of Tommy Townshend
    af Andrew Tink
    283,95 kr.

    Eighteenth century British convicts were sent to Botany Bay on the recommendation of 'Tommy' Townshend, a John Bull figure, and politician largely in Opposition. He also played a key role in settling the peace between Americans and Britons and determining the boundary between Canada and the United States. And was made a peer, Lord Sydney, in 1883.

  • - When It All Went Wrong
    af Nicholas Whitlam
    368,95 kr.

  • - The Landing, the Legend, the Law
    af Catherine Bond
    283,95 kr.

    The word 'Anzac' has been the subject of a century of legal regulation in Australia and internationally. Catherine Bond interrogates the legal history of one of Australia and New Zealand's most revered words and the restrictions on the acronym that still exist today.

  • - The Aif in France 1918
    af Pat Beale
    334,95 kr.

    1918 was a triumphal year for the Australian Corps in France yet perceptions of this have been clouded by legends. This concise and knowledgeable account will not sit comfortably with everyone.

  • af Jill Giese
    283,95 kr.

  • af Andrew May
    283,95 kr.

    Artist Ugo Catani's 'A Summer Shower in Collins Street, 1889' sets the scene for walking the streets of Melbourne, imagining the everyday past and seeing the urban landscape with new eyes. This award-winning book is a rich commentary on the growth and transformation of a great Australian city.

  • - An Analysis of the Visual Image in Painting
    af Percy Leason
    283,95 kr.

  • - The Making of an Australian Style
    af Sally Gray
    368,95 kr.

    Manolo Blahnik once claimed that Australia was 'the most creative place in the world'. He was referring to the fashion and art worlds created by the principal characters in this book in Melbourne and then in Sydney, in the 1970s-90s.

  • - A Short History of Central Australia
    af Alan Powell
    283,95 kr.

    Central Australia has been the last frontier of Australia, and politically the forgotten country. This is the story of European settlement and its culture clash with the original people.

  • - The Politics of Northern Development in Australia
    af Lyndon Megarrity
    368,95 kr.

    The book brings to life the passionate arguments about Northern Australia's national significance and analyses the political debates that have periodically drawn the public's attention northwards.

  • af Nicholas Hasluck
    185,95 kr.

  • af Nicholas Hasluck
    199,95 kr.

    New to Broome in Western Australia, Colin Everett is drawn into a fierce legal dispute over land ownership. A key witness disappears. To win for the Aboriginal claimants, Colin must find the witness, overcome opposition and probe the origin of ancient rock art.

  • af T. H. Rigby
    224,95 kr.

    T. H. Rigby was a leading pioneer in Soviet Studies during the Cold War. In this memoir he recounts his career as researcher, teacher, public intellectual and sometime adviser to MI6.

  • - Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall: a Documentary
    af Michael Wilding
    185,95 kr.

    Meticulously using contemporary newspaper reports, court records, published memoirs, private letters and diaries, Michael Wilding tells the story of three troubled geniuses of 19th century Australian writing and their world of poetry and poverty, alcohol and opiates, horse-racing and theatre, journalism and publishing.

  • af Ann Game
    224,95 kr.

  • - What Happened to the Men and Women of the 'Lady Shore' Mutiny
    af Elsbeth Hardie
    224,95 kr.

    In 1797, Britain rashly pressed French prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps and armed them as guards on a ship carrying 66 female and 2 male convicts to New South Wales. The true story of those on board is told in detail for the first time.

  • - A Brief Guide
    af Ian Hansen
    118,95 kr.

    This book gives the young and middle-aged insights into the world of the elderly. It deals with frailty, loss, loneliness and death, but it is far from being gloomy.

  • af Chandani Lokuge
    368,95 kr.

    Set against the fascinating exotics of Australia and France, 'A haunting mystical reading experience, suffused with history, art, and recovery from trauma. An inspired travelogue... the damaged genius of Van Gogh brooding over the narrative, with hints of both joy and anguish.'