Collection: Reference

An atlas of over 2000 patterns, shapes and backstamps. The ultimate survey of Clarice Cliff's work and those of her largely uncredited colleagues from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Paul Griffiths shows how music has evolved through the centuries and suggests how its evolution has mirrored developments in the human notion of time, from the eternity of heaven to the computer's microsecond.

Includes more than 150,000 words and phrases, and 250,000 translations. Includes a correspondence guide with sample letters, emails, CVs, and a section on text messaging

Congregationalists were never numerically strong in Australia, but they were extremely influential at key times within Australia's history, and were in the forefront of the push for Federation.

This definitive work provides up-to-date descriptions of all the true conifers of the world. Eckenwalder discusses the relationships, practical usages, champion trees, fossil occurrences, and biology

More than one hundred paintings, drawings and mezzotints range from early watercolours of the Lake District to late paintings of The Glebe Farm in Suffolk. Places particular focus of Constable's remarkable oil sketches from nature.

This book outlines the constitutional systems of the six Australian states and ten Commonwealth territories. It begins with their history, basic features, role and future within the Australian federation. Its primary focus is on the binding constitutional restrictions which impact on their parlia...