Collection: Reference

Mainland South-East Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural sites which are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travellers. Outstanding in Cambodia is the vast complex of Angkor which the recent political settlement has again put within the reach of many.

The first general introduction to the rugged continent, written by an Australian novelist with particular insight. Clancy focuses on the Anglo-Irish and more recent immigrants, but the Aboriginal context is also presented.

A guide for the professional and home gardener. The plants that dominate the landscape from Camden to Windsor and from Parramatta to Penrith.

Curiocity is the most beautiful and unusual guidebook ever written about London. The authors reimagine the city in twenty-six distinct ways, one for each letter of the alphabet, considering how London might look from a child's perspective or mapping the airspace above the city. At the heart of ea...

Comprehensive companion on the performing arts in Australia. Recognises cultural diversity and community from 1788 to the present and covers locations as diverse as the Cocos Islands and Norfolk Island

Biographical detail on famous Australians whose faces have been used on Australian banknotes - Caroline Chisolm - Sir Henry Parkes - William Farrer - Dame Mary Gilmore - John Flynn - Douglas Mawson - Howard Florey- Sir Joseph Banks - Mary Reiby - Francis Greenway - Nellie Melba - Banjo Paterson -...

This book, the first devoted exclusively to The Museum of Modern Art's unrivalled Dada collection, features some seventy works-books, collages, drawings, films, paintings, photographs, photomontages, prints, ready-mades, and reliefs-in large reproductions