Collection: Reference

Australia's first telephone exchange was opened in Melbourne in August 1880 and was operated by the Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company, owned by W.H. Masters and T.T. Draper. This booklet relates the introduction of the service and its early history.

This book offers detailed analysis of the impact of photography's birth on the classical art form of painting. The title explores not only photography's fight for recognition, but its impact on painters by challenging new ways of capturing the human form

Information about all the islands and island countries of the Pacific. Maps, graphs and 100s of photographs as well as more than 200 brief biographies of important political, historical and cultural figures.

Brings together many stunning Polynesian objects collected by voyagers and missionaries during the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes items from the expeditions of Captain Cook, Captain Vancouver and members of the London Missionary Society.

Includes all the words most commonly used by fluent Maori speakers.

More than 360,000 words and phrases, and 550,000 translations. Correspondence guide with sample letters, emails, and CVs.

Eighteen leading scholars explore the political, social, religious, and cultural history of the period when monarchs based in south east England strove to extend their authority over the whole of the British Isles.