A Collector's Guide to Modern Australian Ceramics by Janet Mansfield
$30.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
A History of the AMP 1848 1998 by Geoffrey Blainey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$14.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
True Stories - Boyer Lectures 1999 by Inga Cledinnen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good
Mapped but not Known - The Australian Landscape of the Imagination - Essay & Poems presented to Brian Elliott LXXV 11 April 1985 by P R Eaden (ed.); F. H. Mares (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Gina Rinehart - The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World by Adele Ferguson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good
Gina Rinehart is not just the richest person in Australian history, she is fast becoming one of the richest people in the world. The daughter of Lang Hancock - legendary arch-conservative, secessionist, mining millionaire and discoverer of the world's largest iron deposit in the Pilbara - Gina has grown ...Show more
Prince of the Church - Patrick Francis Moran 1830-1911 by Philip Ayres
$25.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
A biography of Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), cardinal archbishop of Sydney, based on research in Australia, Italy and Ireland. It places Moran within the historical contexts of his life's work: Rome of the 1848 revolution, Italy of the risorgimento, Ireland in the age of rebellion, and Australia in ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$14.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more
Battle Lines - Australian Artists at War by Scott Bevan
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
From World War II to Vietnam and two Gulf Wars artists have shaped how we see war, immortalising soldiers and battles and influencing how we see ourselves as Australians. The war artist has opened our eyes and perceptions to historic events that would otherwise have been censored, distorted of forgotten ...Show more
Gazetteer of Sydney Shipping 1788-1840 by Ian Hawkins Nicholson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Shipping | Series: Roebuck Series | Reading Level: very good
Rats and Revolutionaries - The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940 by James Bennett
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Otago History Series | Reading Level: very good
Looks at the emerging labour movement in the two countries 1890 to 1940 when it formed almost a 'trans-Tasman world of labour', with individuals entering each other's realm through strikes, compulsorary arbitration, industrial organisation, conscription and the Depression.
John Darling - An Australian Filmmaker in Bali by Graeme MacRae (Editor); Anton Lucas (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Film | Reading Level: very good
Acclaimed filmmaker John Darling lived in Bali through the 1970s and 1980s. During that time, he created the films that established him as the leading foreign filmmaker of Indonesia. This included Lempad of Bali, which celebrated the life and times of the astonishing Balinese artist Gusti Nyoman Lempad. ...Show more