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Shen’s Textbook on the Management of Autoimmune Diseases with Chinese Medicine
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartShen Pi’an
Harnet: Donica Publishing, 2012. -

Wings Over Thurleigh: An Aeronautical Research Heritage, 1954 to 1994
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael D. Dobson
Ravensden: Bedford Aeronautical Heritage Group, 2012. -


Green With Envy
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLayla Rudneva-Mackay
Auckland: Clouds and Starkwhite, 2012.Photobook by New Zealand artist Layla Rudneva-Mackay.
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Among Wild Animals and People in Australia
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric Mjoberg
Perth: Hesperian Press, 2012.Originally published in Swedish in 1915 as ‘Bland vilda djur och folk i Australien’. Here translated into English for the first time by Margareta Luotsinen and Kim Akerman. “From October 1910 to August 1911 biologist Erik Mjoberg and his seven man Swedish team travelled by bullock wagon through the West Kimberley collecting invertebrates, birds, mammals, and ethnographic research material. Their ten month journey took them from Derby, along the Fitzroy River upstream to Mount Anderson Station. Some members then went on to Noonkanbah, the St George Ranges and Fitzroy Crossing, while others went south to Mowla Bluff. After the return to Derby two members went to Sunday Island and then followed the stock route across the Leopold Ranges to Mount Barnett. Extensive collections were also made around Derby and Meda Station. Finally the expedition re-convened in Broome where side trips included a coastal trip by pearling lugger collecting marine specimens and another trip to Beagle Bay, collecting birds. Eric Mjöbergs idiosyncratic text remained in the Swedish language until this long-awaited English translation. Now, for the first time, this unique perspective on biota and people is brought to a new generation of readers with an interest in Kimberley history and geography.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Dead Traffic
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKim Thue
: dienacht Publishing, 2012.Photobook from the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone, by Danish photographer Kim Thue.
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Vanilla Partner
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTorbjorn Rodland
[London]: MACK, 2012.Photobook by Norwegian photographer Torbjorn Rodland from works made in Oslo, Tokyo, Beijing, and Los Angeles, “combining images of fetishized isolation in a layout that rejects the linear structure of thematic photography books. .. Reconstructed scenes of ultrasoft BDSM read like twisted metaphors for photography’s ability to freeze or capture. The book title, dripping in innuendo, also poses a question about the ambiguity of the relationship between the artist and his medium.” (from publisher’s blurb)
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Catalogue of Greek Magic Folktales
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartG. A. Megas; Anna Angelopoulos; Aigli Brouskou; Marianthi Kaplanoglou; Emmanouela Katrinaki
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2012.The collected texts cover a period of more than a century of recordings (from the second half of the nineteenth century up to the mid-1970s) and geographically cover not only the entire Greek territory and Cyprus but also other areas where Greek populations live(d) and Greek cultures thrive(d) (Asia Minor, Pontus, Cappadocia, Southern Italy). Georgios A. Megas drafted the first catalogue, gathering and indexing all published and unpublished Greek folktale versions, so that the number of texts finally exceeded 23 000. A group of specialists continued for nearly 30 years carrying this project, consulting, classifying, and commenting G. Megas’ handwritten card indexes, and finally editing this rich material, scattered in public and private archives. FF Communications No. 303 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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From Shaman to Saint: Interpretive Strategies in the Study of Buile Shuibhne
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlexandra Bergholm
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2012.This study charts the ways in which Buile Shuibhne has been interpreted in twentieth-century scholarship, by paying particular attention to the religious allegorical readings of the text. This examination of four prevalent interpretative frameworks ‒ historical, pre-Christian, and anthropological ‒ relates theoretical conceptions of literary theory, comparative religion and historiography to the study of medieval narrative material, by considering the nature of different methodological presuppositions that have guided the scholars’ understanding of the tale’s meaning. The integration of issues relating to text, context, and interpretation raises the issue of communally shared reading strategies in the explication of interpretive variety, thereby highlighting the importance of asking not only what a text means, but also how it means. FF Communications No. 302 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Making the Grade: A History of WACA Club Cricket
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWP (Bill) Reynolds
Perth: Western Australian Cricket Association, 2012. -


At Water’s Edge
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Blackmore
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2012.“At Water’s Edge, the long-awaited publication from photographer Paul Blackmore, explores the relationship between humanity and its most vital natural resource. This extraordinary body of work – spanning 11 years and 14 countries – provides a global look at how water flows through the spiritual and physical daily lives of people around the world. The photographs poignantly illustrate the unfolding drama of the global water crisis and how it is affecting those caught up in it: a billion people without access to clean water, another four billion without an adequate supply. Against this dire backdrop, the work also celebrates the quiet, yet essential connection with nature that water offers us.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Narcolepsy
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMax Pam; Bob Charles
Sydney: T&G Publishing, 2012.“Narcolepsy radically delivers a process that shakes-up the form of the book to produce the art as book and the book as art. The book is a fully realised graphic vehicle. The ways in which the book operates as a series of closures and openings, also parallels the content of the book and amplifies it as an evocative, mysterious object. Narcolepsy is loaded with the poetics of sex and death realised through an exciting fusion of drawing, painting, text and photography. Narcolepsy is a disturbingly ambiguous novella in pictures and words by Max Pam (photographer) and Bob Charles (writer).” (publisher’s blurb)
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Truffeln: Mythos und Wirklichkeit
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartChristian Volbracht
Wiesbaden: Tre Torri Verlag, 2012.Truffles: Myth and Reality. The deluxe edition of 100 signed and numbered copies bound in papered boards with a truffle design of inlayed leather each with a sheet of handmade paper made from mushrooms with truffle slices.
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Everything I want to be when I grow up
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPolly Borland
Brisbane: University of Queensland Art Museum, 2012.Celebrated Australian photographer, Polly Borland is famous for her experimental, stylised, and occasionally unsettling portrait images. This exhibition catalogue is from her survey show at UQ Art Museum (University of Queensland), the first to bring together the various diverse threads of her practice. Curated by Alison Kubler, it includes portraits of famous faces such as Cate Blanchett, Nick Cave and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and the series Australians, The Babies, Bunny and Smudge, and the most recent series, Pupa. “Borland, who draws inspiration from Diane Arbus, carefully directs the costumes, makeup, and poses of her models, creating scenes that are intimate and dystrophic.” This copy signed by Borland.
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Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
AU$450.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
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Dark Spirits: The Magical Art of Rosaleen Norton and Austin Osman Spare
AU$250.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNevill Drury
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons, 2012.Extensively illustrated and exploring the intersections of Norton and Spare’s practice of Western esoteric traditions including magic, theosophy, kabbalah, Eastern mysticism, and modern psychoanalysis. Dark Spirits profiles the artist-magicians, who never met, and draws distinct parallels between the influence of self-hypnosis and trance states in their work.
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Gonzo Republic: Hunter S. Thompson’s America
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Stephenson
London and New York: Continuum, 2012. -

Jack Goldstein x 10,000
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJack Goldstein; Philipp Kaiser
Newport Beach and Munich, London and New York: Orange County Museum of Art and Del Monico Books, 2012.Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art, California 24 June – 9 September 2012. Jack Goldstein (1945 – 2003) was a Canadian performance and conceptual artist. Based in California in the 1970s and 1980s he began painting and was among the first contemporary painters to pay others to produce works from his ideas.
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The Transnational Beat Generation
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNancy M. Grace; Jennie Skerl
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. -

APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology (3 Volumes)
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHarris Cooper
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2012.Volume 1: Foundations, Planning, Measures, and Psychometrics. Volume 2: Research Designs: Quantitative, Qualitative, Neuropsychological, and Biological. Volume 3: Data Analysis and Research Publication.
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Terribly Awesome Photo Books
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Kooiker; Erik Kessels
[Gent]: Art Paper Editions, 2012.“For several years, Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have organized evenings for friends in which they share the strangest photo books in their collections. The books shown are rarely available in regular shops, but are picked up in thrift stores and from antiquaries. The groups fascination for these pictorial non-fiction books comes from the need to find images that exist on the fringe of regular commercial photo books. Its only in this area that its possible to find images with an uncontrived quality. Whats noticeable from these publications is that theres a thin line between being terrible and being awesome. This constant tension makes the books interesting. Its also worth noting that these tomes all fall within certain categories: the medical, instructional, scientific, sex, humour or propaganda. Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have made a selection of their finest books from within this questionable new genre.” (publisher’s blurb)