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20th-Century Fashion in Detail by Claire Wilcox; Valerie D. Mendes; Oriole Cullen; Jenny Lister; Sonnet Stanfill; Anon
$49.99 AUD
Category: Fashion
20th-Century Fashion in Detail reveals the elaborate embroidery, intricate pleats, and daring cuts that make up some of the most beautiful garments in the twentieth- century fashion collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, one of the world's top fashion and design museums. Authors Claire Wilcox and ...Show more
A Curious Traveler's Guide to Paris by Eleanor Aldridge; Anon
$37.95 AUD
Category: Travel
In the last few years, Paris has undergone a huge transformation. It's fostered one of the coolest creative scenes in Europe, some of the continent's best nightlife, and a "bistronomy" movement that has influenced dining around the globe. Yet while millennial travelers pour into the city, travel guides ...Show more
Australian Slang: A fun dictionary and funny gift idea for Aussies and visitors by Anon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as ...Show more
Bruegel by Elke Oberthaler; Sabine Pènot; Manfred Sellink; Ron Spronk; Sabine Penot; Anon
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art
Nearly 450 years after his death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder is widely regarded as the 16th century's greatest Netherlandish painter. This book is the tie-in catalog for a once-in-a-generation exhibition of Bruegel's work at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.Bruegel's work is renowned for its stunnin ...Show more
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Anon, Jeffrey Gantz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Classics Ser.
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle f ...Show more
Four Russian Short Stories (Mini Modern Classics) by Anon
$2.50 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Another hour gone. But I'm not afraid. There's only one thing I regret- that I've lived for so many years without knowing where human happiness is to be found.'In these stories, four writers - all exiles from revolutionary Russia - explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have dissolved f ...Show more
Government of No-One by Anon; Ruth Kinna
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosop ...Show more
Hockney / Van Gogh by Hans Den Hartog Jager; Anon
$59.99 AUD
Category: Art
Hockney/Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature presents unique insights into the influences of two world-renowned artists. Nature has been a substantial theme for both David Hockney and Vincent van Gogh, one that draws their work together--Hockney's Yorkshire landscapes are especially reminiscent of Vincent van G ...Show more
How Turner Painted by Joyce Townsend; Tony Smibert (Contribution by); Anon (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art
This authoritative visual guide to the artistic materials and painting techniques of J. M. W. Turner brings to life the skills of one of the world's greatest artists. Details of his watercolours and oil paintings, usually only available to small numbers of museum professionals, and an experienced artist ...Show more
Islamic World: A History in Objects by Venetia Porter; Ladan Akbarnia; Fahmida Suleman; Zeina Klink-Hoppe; Amandine Merat; William Greenwood; Anon
$55.00 AUD
Category: Ancient History
This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it provides an illuminating insight into the material culture ...Show more
Joseph Banks' Florilegium - Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage by David Mabberley; Mel Gooding; Joe Studholme; Anon
$120.00 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Botanical Treasures from Cook's 1st Voyage
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never ...Show more