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Adam Cullen by Ken McGregor; Janet Hawley; Jenny Zimmer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: MIni Art | Reading Level: very good
Adam Cullen, subject of the latest volume in the Macmillan Mini-Art Series, emerged in the 1990s as the enfant terrible of the Sydney art-scene and a foremost exponent of grunge. Despite descriptions of his work as crude, distasteful and grotesque, and his predilection for low-life subject matter, his ...Show more
Africa's Tarnished Name (Mini Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
$2.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.
Airline - Style at 30,000 Feet by Keith Lovegrove
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Mini
This fascinating book examines every aspect of airline style, from the company liveries and interior designs of planes to advertising, haute couture and airborne haute cuisine. Divided into four sections covering fashion, food, interior design and identity, Airline shows how airborne culture has changed ...Show more
Angelina and Henry (mini H/B) by Katharine Holabird
$12.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Mini Book S.
Angelina and her cousin Henry are camping in the Big Cat Mountains with Uncle Louie. They get lost deep in the forest and think that Big Cat himself is hiding in the trees. Luckily Uncle Louie appears with a shiny lantern to guide them back to the campfire.
Art by Simon Schama
$7.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
Art Forms In Nature by Haeckel Ernst
$14.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Prestel Minis S.
They're packed with color and small enough to fit into a pocket. They're as inviting to the eye as they are to the wallet. And there are titles to suit every occasion, taste, and interest. Like all of Prestel's products, these "Minis" feature amazing artwork of all kinds, elegantly designed and packaged ...Show more
Arthur and the Minimoys by Luc Besson
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: Minimoys S.
An adventure story set in a colourfully realised fantasy world, featuring unexpected heroism, love, and a small quest with huge consequences.Do the Minimoys really exist? Arthur has read all about the tribe in his grandfather's notebooks, but he can hardly believe they are less than an inch tall. Until ...Show more
Austerity (Vintage Minis) by Yanis Varoufakis
$7.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for ...Show more
Australian Marriage Act by Marcia Ferguson
$14.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Currency Mini Dramas S.
Inspired by real-life events, "Australian Marriage Act" tells the story of sixteen-year-old Victoria seeking permission to marry her 22-year-old fiance Rod. When she is refused permission from both her parents and the courts, she takes her case to the Supreme Court. In the course of the hearing, the cou ...Show more
Babies: Vintage Minis by Anne Enright
$7.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Babies- our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the l ...Show more
Birds - The art of ornithology by Jonathan Elphick
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Mini Titles
This beautiful gift book tells the story of the development of bird art through the ages. It ranges from the early decorative but often fanciful images of birds, through more accurate portrayals resulting from exploration and an increasing knowledge of the worlds avifauna, to modern attempts at capturin ...Show more
Calm by Tim Parks
$7.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage Minis | Reading Level: very good
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tac ...Show more