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Utopia : The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye by Margot Neale ed.
$59.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of the most important abstract painters of the 20th century and one of the most significant artists that Australia has ever produced. Emily's strikingly modern and beautifully innovative works, created in an environment far away from the influence of the Western Art traditio ...Show more
VENICE STORIES by KEATES JONATHAN (ED)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers. The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne ...Show more
Vitamin C - Clay + Ceramic in Contemporary Art by Louisa Elderton (ed.); Rebecca Morrill (ed.);Clare Lilley (essay)
$79.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Reading Level: near fine
A global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, chosen by leading art world professionals.Vitamin C celebrates the revival of clay as a material for contemporary visual artists, featuring a wide range of global talent as selected by the world's leading curators, critics, and a ...Show more
Voices of War by MICHAEL CAULFIELD (ed)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Drawn from engagements ranging from World War I through to operations in East Timor and Iraq, the stories are taken from the Australians at War Film Archive, a collection of the memories of over two thousand Australians who have served, both on the front line and at home. Some are unbelievably, unbearab ...Show more
Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. The Impossible Task. The Incredible Journey by Ed Stafford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A riveting account of one man's history-making journey along the entire length of the Amazon--and through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth In April 2008, Ed Stafford set off to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon. He started on the Pacific coast of Peru, crossed the An ...Show more
War Behind the Wire : Australian Prisoners of War by Michael Caulfield (ed)
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
More than 34,000 Australian men and women have so far ended up in captivity - over 100 in the Boer War, more than 4,000 in WWI, just 30 during the Korean War, none in Vietnam, and most of all, WWII, 30,560. Of the total number of Australian deaths during WWII, nearly thirty per cent, one in every three, ...Show more
Water Culture by Jean Michel Cousteau & Francesca Sorrenti (ed.) & Marisha Shibuya (ed.)
$115.00 AUD
Category: Photography
H2O. The Dead Sea. Rain. Acid rain. Heavy water. The Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the source of the Nile. A tap, and on and on? More than 1 billion people have insufficient water to sustain life. The World Health Organisation has the figures. The River Jordan, the Biblical epitome of wate ...Show more
West End Chronicles: 300 Years Of Glamour And Excess In The Heart Of London by Glinert Ed
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
West End Chronicles : Three hundred years of glamour and excess in the heart of london by Ed Glinert
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel
The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned artists and revolutionary anarchists. They have been a playground of gangsters and gamblers, secret agents and religious visionaries. The exploits of these and m ...Show more
What Algorithms Want - Imagination in the Age of Computing by Ed Finn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.We depend on--we believe in--algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we ...Show more
What Should I Do?: Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling by Alexander George (ed)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Is it ever OK to be dishonest? Is it wrong to enjoy violent video games, or to cheat on one's tax returns? Should we be vegetarians? When is war justified? Are there any moral facts, or is morality relative? Life throws ethical questions at us every day. Some are momentous and difficult, while others ar ...Show more