100 Years, 100 Artworks - A History of Modern and Contemporary Art by Agnes Berecz
$72.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works--one per year--of the past 100 years. Starting with Marcel Duchamp's 1919 whimsical, brilliant L.H.O.O.Q., this compendium offers a year-by-year tour of iconic paintings, photogra ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Coming across the term "art monster" in Jenny Offill's 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation, Lauren Elkin was intrigued. What kinds of connections might there be between art and monstrosity, and how was it different when the artist in question was a woman? Art Monsters is a landmark feminist intervention i ...Show more
Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
THE NEW BOOK FROM AUSTRALIA'S BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME AUTHOR In a long-awaited return to his best-selling prison series, James Phelps will lift the lid on Australia's most infamous prison - HM Prison Pentridge, the former home of Mark 'Chopper' Reed and Ned Kelly.From Jika Jika to the execution of Ronald ...Show more
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war. On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear po ...Show more
China's Leaders From Mao to Now by David Shambaugh
$39.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an ...Show more
Cowpuppy: An unexpected friendship and a scientist's journey into the secret world of cows by Gregory Berns
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
From the author of the bestselling How Dogs Love Us, a fascinating glimpse into the cognitive and emotional lives of cows. When Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his wife decided to venture into sustainable farming in rural Georgia, they knew that cows were a key part of a successful op ...Show more
Creating Paradise: The art of making joy and love real by Akal Pritam
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Discover the art of personal transformation with Akal Pritam's beautiful and inspirational book. A call for the liberation and celebration of the human spirit! By the bestselling author and illustrator of Self Love, Akal Pritam's latest exquisite creation combines practical guidance with inspiring bluep ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
First Knowledges Country: Future Fire, Future Farming by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
First Knowledges Plants: Past, Present and Future by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
Gauguin and Polynesia by Nicholas Thomas
$79.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless travel and for his supposed immersion in Polynesian life. But he has long been regarded ambivalently, and in recent years both Gauguin's sexual be ...Show more