Australasian History

The definitive career biography of one of our greatest performing artists, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth in early 2009. Ballet dancer; mime artist; make-up artist; musicals...

Australian English is unique; having absorbed elements of British and American English it has developed its own distinctive style. As a living language, Australian English is constantly changing, so that...

This book is intended for general readers of military defence history titles, especially works in this series. Also military defence historians and students.

Tim Reeves and Alan Roberts have carefully selected a diverse array of private and public dwellings from the first 100 years of Canberra. They reveal the social history and context...

Into the Future is an examination of Australia's current approach to long-term issues and its ability to develop informed public opinion about Australia's future. The book explains why long-term strategic...

Consistently ranking in the top five educational faculties in the world, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education has achieved a status few would have predicted. This history of the first...

This volume is comprised of two previously unpublished glossaries of prison and underworld slang compiled in the 1940s and 1950s. Gary Simes contributes a long essay on criminal literature since...

For the past 20 years, Edmond and Corrigan's work has drawn an intense reaction and interest that only has an Australian counterpart in the reception of Walter Burley Griffin in...

The book titled Memoirs from a Young Republic. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Melbourne's Grand Boulevard - the Story of St. Kilda Road. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Third printing of first US edition of Chatwin's classic.

From Rhodes Scholar to union leader to political powerhouse: how Bobbie became Bob, the iconic PM. The new biography from award-winning historian David Day sheds fresh light on the formative...

This work is a celebration of the potential of those who will be the heroes of tomorrow's generation of designers. The book is about today's young talent. rest in the...

On the first day of Christmas, the Island gave to me, an owl in a Lilly Pilly tree. Australia's Christmas Island is home to hundreds of species of birds, native...

An exciting addition to the narrative non-fiction series Nature Storybooks, about an Eastern Quoll. The blue-black sky is painted with glistening stars. Quoll has woken. It's playtime here in the...

Aurora Place and Macquarie Apartments exhibit refinements of many of the themes for which Renzo Piano is famous. This is a detailed study of a single development. It features many...

Now in an updated volume, with new chapters, new photographs and new tales of the city. This comprehensive history of Melbourne includes a rich retelling of the past 173 years,...

A book written by a financial journalist giving an insider view into the reasons for the financial collapse of companies, offering the reader the opportunity to learn from history's mistakes....

The painter and stained-glass designer William "Jock" Frater (1890-1974) was one of Australia's most prominent early Modernists. Today his work will be found in most public galleries and many private...

The book titled Cox Architects: Selected and Current Works by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The prime ministership remains the main prize in Australian politics, but it is a precarious one. Leadership turnover in recent years has seen more prime ministers rise and fall than...

How Australia Compares is a handy reference that compares Australia with 17 other developed democracies on a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. Whenever possible, it gives not...

"Crisis and Commitments" is the first volume of the "Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts from 1948-1975". This book covers the domestic and international politics of Australia's...

Frank Welsh's new history of Australia is the first to be written by a non-Australian, and the first to be based on archival research not only in Australia, but in...

'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend Australian Having lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space...

Australian Toys is an illustrated history of Australian manufactured toys from 1900-1965, drawing on the author's authoritative collection. The book documents the production of each toy with beautiful colour photographs...

A revealing portrait of a brilliant and troubled figure - a daredevil of the skies. Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In...

The Roo: A Nations Icon, fluently captures the essence of the roo and what the macropod species means to Australians. It is essentially a tribute to this iconic animal that...

The book titled Australian Journey by the author Debra Doenges. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Australian Sport Through Time: 2004 by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This work aims to fill a significant gap in the Australian army's history. It focuses on the development of the army's organization and its evolution from the colonial armies of...

In this first volume of a brilliant new history of Australian art, John McDonald, the highly regarded art critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, takes us from the times of...

Covers Australia's operatic fare during the 60 years from the death of impressario Lyster to the beginning of World War II.

Lance Franklin : My Football Journey is a stunning celebration and companion to the career of one of Australia's most revered AFL players, Lance 'Buddy' Franklin. Lance Franklin has held...

This lavishly illustrated work takes the reader on a journey around one of Australia's most beautiful states. Areas covered include Adelaide, with its Mediterranean climate, the Fleurieu Peninsula, with its...

p>A beautiful pictorial book featuring some of the most amazing places on this continent/p>p>Whether it be outback, coastal or rural - each chapter starts with a brief introduction and is...

The "Baggy Green" is the official Australian cricket test team cap. Viv Jenkins, who has been the official photographer for cricket in Australia for the best part of 20 years,...

The book titled Glorious NZ Gardens by the author Telford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Wharves to the World: The Development of Melbourne's World Trade Centre is a photographic chronicle of the history of the World Trade Centre and its surrounds. The book traces the...

When Europeans first reached Australian shores, an expedient and long-held belief developed that Australian Aboriginal people did not have houses or towns. Instead it was believed that they occupied temporary...

The late Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) was a senior member of the Utopia Community north-east of Alice Springs and is widely regarded as one of the most notable Aboriginal artists of...

This is the 50,000-year story of the Australian Aboriginal rock art of Arnhem Land. Aboriginal rock art, as practised in Arnhem Land, is the world's longest continuing art tradition. It...

This book offers a new perspective on the pioneer settlement experience of colonial Victoria by examining the ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs...

Shane Warne, who died in 2022, is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all time - and the greatest spin bowler ever. Warne in Wisden records the...