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One of the most important community art projects in South Africa is the Mapula embroidery project in the Winterveld. In addition to generating an income for economically disadvantaged women, Mapula...

"New Art Two" continues the pattern established by its popular predecessor presenting profiles of important contemporary artists in Australia - whether newly arrived, emerging or increasingly recognized. This volume presents...

Miguel Flores-Vianna, one of the world's most fashionable photographers of interiors and lifestyle, reveals the original taste of 20 contemporary bohemians. Who, exactly, is a haute bohemian? Leave it to...

Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud...

A witch and an archdemon must work together to find a path through all Nine Circles of Hell in this steamy, dark fantasy romance from the viral TikTok author.? The...

Why did thousands of nineteenth-century artists leave the established urban centers of culture to live and work in the countryside? By 1900, there were over eighty rural artists' communities across...

For the home or professional bread-maker, this is the book of the season, with more than 50 recipes and over 200 step-by-step photographs, instructing how to make master baker Chad...

The art of setting, compiling, or combining disparate objects is a difficult art. Yet it has become the chic new decorating style in France, and is now spreading throughout the...

Whoever said "Everything old is new again" could have been talking about French Pompadour Style. The flamboyant, opulent, refined aesthetic-so characteristic of the eighteenth century-has enjoyed a spectacular revival in...

Having graduated at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the American textile designer and weaver Jack Lenor Larsen founded his own textile-design company in 1953. Today the Larsen name is synonymous...

In this comprehensive introduction, which in cludes a biography, the author discusses the place of pastel in Delacroix''s oeuvre, from his first school exercise book to his last, finely wrought...

In this classic study of the Late Roman Empire, one of this century's most eminent ancient historians surveys social, economic, and administrative developments from the end of the Principate and...

This book presents to an American audience the cuisine of Liguria-the Italian Riviera-full of dishes that are inventive, inherently seasonal, waste-conscious, plant-forward, and geared toward the home cook. Italian cuisine...

Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling...

As winter begins to bite at Sunset Hall, Agnes Sharp is grudgingly pleased to discover that one of her fellow OAP housemates has won a luxury holiday to a secluded...

A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of plants for Australian gardeners which contains information on over 20,000 plants from all around the world. The book is a single volume in a...

Published to coincide with the exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, which rungs to April 2011.

Joe Friedman and Marella Caracciolo have explored Rome to discover the greatest and most startling period interiors in the city. The book shows not only the interiors that are well...

John Fowler was an interior decorator who set fashions and changed tastes. The English country house style, which he developed with Sibyl Colefax and Nancy Lancaster, his partners in the...

A powerful, personal novel about women, children and justice, from one of this country's most loved and clear-eyed writers. It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb...

Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of...

A very Australian, very tasty guide to making your own comfort food, bush style - from social media sensations Outback Tom and Grandad Through their fun, relatable 'bush style' cooking...

Journey back to the world of Medora to follow Alexandra Jennings and her friends - and enemies - for one last adventure. She didn't hesitate to open the door and...

In this handsome, first comprehensive and critical analysis of how Canberra became the city it is today, Reid takes the reader behind the bureaucratic and political scenes.

Established in 1895, the Venice Biennale is one of the world's most important critical forums for contemporary visual art. Thousands of the world's leading curators, collectors, gallery directors and critics...

Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere was one of the great traveller-naturalists of the 18th century. He is most famous for his account of his voyage to the South Seas with Bruny...

With a contribution spanning half a century, John Perceval has earned a place in the front rank of Australia's leading painters. This book, the first major publication on Perceval's painting,...

Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this brilliantly original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of...

Bread and circuses were what the Romans demanded of their emperors, and for more than 500 years spectacular events in amphitheaters, circuses, and theaters were the most important leisure activities...

This beautifully produced book explores the charm of Orientalist decor, and introduces the princes and aristocrats, artists and poets who commissioned these opulent eighteenth and nineteenth century interiors. Architects and...

This volume collects over 200 of Rossi's most recent and largely unpublished drawings, executed between 1991 and his death in 1997. From his musings on "Casa Alessi" (1989-94) to his...

Among all the forms of national memory and commemoration, it falls to the artists to paint a war. When war is as traumatic as the Great War, the artists' burden...

From Renaissance palaces like Palazzo Farnese to the stunning buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Palazzo Doria Phamphili and Palazzo Chigi, this volume showcases 24 Roman palaces...

How did the Romans go from a small village on the banks of the Tiber to an imperial power that at its height encompassed some 64 million people across three...

How did the Romans go from a small tribe living on the banks of the Tiber to an imperial power that at its height encompassed some 64 million people across...

Looks at how textiles have changed during the past two hundred years and discusses taste and technical innovation.

In this comprehensive, accessible and beautifully illustrated book, Frank Sear traces the evolution of Roman architecture during the four centuries from the late Republic to AD 330, when Constantine moved...