The Hundred Dresses: The Most Iconic Styles of Our Time
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art
From the Sack to the Sari, each dress makes a powerful statement about the woman who wears it. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean's classic-to-be by the same title, with chic illustrations by Donna Mehalko, is a definitive and witty look at what one hundr ...Show more
Myanmar Map: Featuring the Ayeyawady River (Irrawaddy) by TAYLOR, LOUISE
$14.99 AUD
Category: Art
This is a double sided, illustrated, folded map of Myanmar, featuring the River Ayeyawady (Irrawaddy) and year round tourism attractions. On one side there is a 1:2,150,000 scale map of Myanmar (Burma) with 26 essays describing key attractions and features of the country, with 20 colour photographs. On ...Show more
Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art
An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller. Leonardo da Vinci artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about the natural and man ...Show more
The Design Book by PHAIDON EDITORS
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art
Discover 500 of the most innovative, influential, and enduring products from the last five centuries in one compact and highly collectable volume. The Design Book presents iconic pieces by Le Corbusier, Philippe Starck, the Eames, and the Apple design team, alongside classic objects such as the paper cl ...Show more
Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision-making by Allan Savory
$54.95 AUD
Category: Art
This work shows that on the most fundamental level, environmental problems are cuased by human management decisions rather than the commonly blamed culprits of environmental degradation, overpopulation, poor farming practices and lack of financial support. In considering humans, their economies and the ...Show more
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art
Swearing is a fascinating thing. Almost everyone does it, or worries about not doing it, from the two year old who has just discovered the power of the potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. But more than its cultural ubiquity, swearing is also interesting for ...Show more
Australian Modern Oxford Dictionary by Bruce Moore
$42.95 AUD
Category: Art | Series: OXFORD
The fourth edition of the Australian Modern Oxford Dictionary includes many new words and meanings, including many from the realms of sport, health, society, the environment and electronic communication. All Australian words and meanings are labelled with an Aust marker. The definitions are straightforw ...Show more
Bedazzled - 5000 Years of Jewelry - The Walters Art Museum by Sabine Albersmeier
$14.99 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
This brand new and exquisitely illustrated book introduces one of the great collections of jewellery, with examples of 50 key items of jewellery dating from the 1st century BC to the turn of the twentieth century. Specific terminology, when used, is always explained; each text clearly states why a parti ...Show more
Alphabetical - How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth ...Show more
The Illustrated Dictionary of Snark: A Snide, Sarcastic Guide to Verbal Sparring, Comebacks, Irony, Insults, and Much More by Lawrence Dorfman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art
What do Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, H. L. Mencken, Oscar Wilde, Robert Benchley, George Bernard Shaw, Jules Feiffer, Bill Hicks, Bill Maher, Phyllis Diller, Edith Piaf, W. C. Fields, Mark Twain, Voltaire, Charles Bukowski, and countless others have in common? Not a thing, other than each had brilliant ...Show more
Finnish Dictionary and Phrasebook by Ville Kataja
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art
This compact dictionary and phrasebook features a concise, easy-to-use grammar guide, a pronunciation table, and a handy reference section that provides the reader with the basics of the Finnish language. Also included is an introduction to the country
Masters: Leonardo Da Vinci by Peter Hohenstatt
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art
The volumes in this series provide unique portraits of European art history. Authoritative texts illuminate the decisive stages in the artists' lives and the development of their styles, explaining their impact against the background of their social context as well as their significance for following ge ...Show more