Collection: Reference

Life and work of every important designer from 1840 to the present day, including not only couturiers but also shoe, hat and knitwear specialists, costume designers, jewelers and hairdressers. The fashion media, photographers and illustrators.....

This is a bestselling and comprehensive introductory textbook that uses a four-part structure to cover all aspects of the visual arts, including: how art is designed the visual language of art; how art is made the media and processes, covering everything from painting and sculpture to graphic des...

This is a concise but comprehensive guide to help the family historian embark on the search for Australian military ancestors, as well as providing simple overviews of Australia's military history

The Territory Remembers is a program of activities commemorating the the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin and World War II wartime events with a connection to the Northern Territory. This commemorative book provides a contribution to this wartime history of the Northern Territory through...

Examines the work of Australian puppeteers over the last 50 years, with particular emphasis on developments in the 1970s and '80s. Puppet theatre enjoyed a worldwide resurgence in this time but was not well documented.

Between 1788 and 1850, more than 1500 Jewish men and women were either transported to Australia as convicts or arrived as free settlers. This biographical dictionary presents the details of these earliest generation of Jews to settle in Australia