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The Complete Works of Primo Levi
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPrimo Levi; Ann Goldstein
New York and London: Liveright, 2015. -
Wild Australia: Meston’s Wild Australia Show, 1892-1893
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Aird; Mandana Mapar; Paul Memmott
Brisbane: University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, 2015.“The ‘Wild Australia Show’ was conceived by Archibald Meston and was a travelling troupe of 27 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people conscripted from the Queensland frontier who performed in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne during 1892 and 1893 in preparation for departure on an international tour in the era of World Exhibitions. However the plans were curtailed by contractual disputes, scandals of financial incompetence and accusations of the capture of certain troupe members against their will in chains. The exhibition came out of a meticulous process of collection and research by Queensland Museum senior curators Michael Aird and Mandana Mapar, and University of Queensland academic, Professor Paul Memmott who place the previously unknown images in a visual and historic context. This exhibition catalogue uses the same title of Meston’s show of more than 120 years ago, Wild Australia, and gives human dignity to the names and faces of the people in the photographs, whose strength of spirit and determination are evident in the gazes of the portrait subjects.”
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Bold: Stories from Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex people
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Hardy; Elizabeth Whiley
Panton Hill: The Rag and Bone Man Press, 2015. -
The Structural-Semantic Types of Lithuanian Folk Tales (2 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBronislava Kerbelyte
Helskinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2015.I: Genres and Tale Types. II: The Classification and Index of Elementary Plots and Their Types. The classification system of the types of folk tales published by Antti Aarne in 1910 was a much needed and courageous project. Bronislava Kerbelyte has classified more than 40,000 variants of Lithuanian folk tales according to the international catalogue by Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson (AT). She has concluded that it is necessary to improve the classification system. Kerbelyte has determined elementary plots (EP) as structural elements for narratives and created the structural-semantic method for analysis and description of texts on several levels. The classification of elementary plots and their types contains much information about folk tales and about people. FF Communications No. 308 & 309 published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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Landscape, 2007 – 2014
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPiyatat Hemmatat
[Chicago]: Serindia Contemporary, 2015.“LANDSCAPE 2007-2014 by Piyatat Hemmatat is a limited edition (of 500) artist’s book of his Landscape series in which for the last seven years he explored ‘his alternate reality’, the landscape. His exploration of nature has informed many of his published projects and has enabled him to get back in touch with his instincts and derive creative strength from them. LANDSCAPE is a collection of his most illuminating encounters that translated into a stunning selection of thirty landscape photographs in this beautifully-produced artist’s edition volume.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the Macabre & the Portrait
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoanna Gilmour
Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 2015.“Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship between death and portraiture via a focus on the various ways in which artists, photographers and entrepreneurs made use of portraits of Australian convicts and criminals: the canny or unscrupulous publishers trading in salacious prints and penny dreadfuls; the otherwise respectable people who put carte de visite of serial killers into their family albums; the photographic studios doing a brisk trade in portraits of heroes and villains; and the waxworks proprietors who, with their ‘Chambers of Horrors’, turned violence, misfortune and the macabre into a lucrative art form.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Building of the Queensland House, 1880-1920: A Carpenter’s Handbook and Owner’s Manual
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew L. Jenner
Brisbane: Andrew L. Jenner, 2015. -
Every Hill Got a Story: We Grew Up In Country
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarg Bowman; The Central Land Council
Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2015.Men and Women of Central Australia and the Central Land Council. Every Hill Got A Story is the first comprehensive history of Central Australia’s Aboriginal people, as told in their own words and many languages.
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Mystery School In Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGraham St John
Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2015.Foreword by Dennis McKenna.
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Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDiana Reed Slattery
Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2015.Foreword by Allyson Grey.
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From Dawn to Decadence (2 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJacques Barzun
London: The Folio Society, 2015.1500 to the present, 500 years of Western cultural life. Introduction by Peter Conrad. FORD-SMITH 1955.
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Sexuality in Role-Playing Games
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAshley M. L. Brown
New York and London: Routledge, 2015. -
11th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. T. Spathis; D. P. Gribble; A. C. Torrance; T. N. Little
Melbourne: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2015.Conference Proceedings: 24-26 August, 2015: Sydney, Australia.
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Tarosophy: Tarot to Engage Life, Not Escape It
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarcus Katz
Brisbane and Chiang Mai: Salamander and Sons, 2015.“Based upon 30 years of studying, reading and teaching tarot, more than 10,000 face-to-face readings and extensive research in the field, Marcus Katz successfully combines academic rigour with invaluable practical experience and breathtaking originality. Suitable for all tarot readers – from absolute beginners to experienced professionals – Tarosophy is written in three sections: basic tarot in a new light for the beginning Tarosophist, intermediate tarot in a magical light for the enquiring Tarosophist, and advanced tarot in a spiritual light for the progressive Tarosophist. From terminology and technique, to reading and spreads, inner work and trees, Tarosophy encapsulates the wisdom of tarot as a living, divine art and science; a dynamic interface between awareness and appearance, and a system to observe, tie and untie the ‘secret knots’ that bind the world. With 50 unique exercises, in excess of 50 illustrations, extensive footnotes, and detailed reading lists, there are more new tarot ideas on any given page of Tarosophy than in some entire texts on the subject.” (publisher’s blurb) This copy with a laid in presentation bookplate signed by the author.
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For the Love of the Game: Ten Legends of Queensland Rugby League
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMurray Barnett
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2015.“Queensland State of Origin legends are indelibly printed on the minds of rugby league supporters – Lewis, Meninga, Lockyer. They are lauded for their contributions to the greatest game of all and rightfully so. But what about all the great players who played for Queensland before Origin? They are not so easily remembered, but this does not mean their status should be in any way diminished. This book is a tribute to their courage, dedication and spirit – and to their love of the game.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Hijominoe Modejade (Guided by Ancestors)
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartOmie Artists
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2015.Exhibition catalogue.
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Old Fashioned Painting
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeonard Brown
Brisbane: Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 2015. -
The Reluctant Narrator: A Survey of Narrative Practices Across Media
AU$125.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAna Teixeira Pinto
Lisboa and Berlin: Museu Colecao Berardo / Sternberg Press, 2015.“Often referred to as the narrative turn, an explosion of interest in narrative practices at the end of the twentieth century was predicated on the notion that life itself is storied, oras Jacques Ranciére put itthat the real must be fictionalized in order to be thought. Postmodernism itself was described as a narrative turn in which a rekindled interest in the fictive, the chronicle, and the anecdotal upstaged the symbolic unity of high modernism. But as Susan Buck-Morss has noted, modernism and postmodernism are not historical moments, they are political positions: two poles of a recurring movement, expressing the contradictions inherent to the industrial mode of production in the identity and nonidentity between social function and aesthetic form. Rather than opposing a myriad of micro-narratives to the grand narrative of modernism, The Reluctant Narrator attempts to map the migration of narrative modes across several media, bringing together works that intertwine personal biography with historical events, or that deal with stories that fell through the crevices of history.” (publisher’s blurb) Edition of 400.
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Sex-Theater
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrew Gelpke
Zurich & Leipzig: cpress & Spector, 2015.“Andre Gelpke’s series Sex-Theater was produced in the 1970s and depicted performers from a number of different sex theatres in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district. “The fascination that captivated me as a photographer came from the personality of the individual, from the performer who was prepared to realize in public the secret sexual fantasies of an inhibited society, simply in exchange for a fee.” Sex-Theater was first published as a book in 1981 and quickly sold out. The edition produced by Spector Books together with cpress represents a new “staging” of the series: it includes an expanded selection of images and new texts, and is presented in a form that offers this collection of photos a contemporary framing. The era that is depicted here is over, and the decline of these clubs is documented in Sex-Theater.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Awis Artis Blong Vanuatu
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAwis Artis
Vanuatu: Awis Artis, 2015.Catalogue for an exhibition held at Andrew Baker of an artist group from Vanuatu.