Collection: Reference

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

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.

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.

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

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.

From ancient Achaemenid sites to the dazzling mirrored shrines of Shiraz, and from the lush geometric gardens of Kashan to the ornate domes of Isfahan, offers a privileged glimpse of these oases that are hidden away behind high brick walls...