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Books: A Living History by Martyn Lyons
$39.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
This lavishly illustrated volume explores one of the most versatile, useful and enduring technologies ever invented: the book. "Books: A Living History" charts the evolution and influence of books around the world, from the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer through the development of movable type and t ...Show more
Dear Prime Minister Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949–1966 by Martyn Lyons
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
‘I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his 1949-1966 record-breaking second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political lea ...Show more
Typewriter Century - A Cultural History of Writing Practices by Martyn Lyons
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century focus ...Show more
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