Academy of the Arts

A new, comprehensive, one volume history of Southeast Asia that spans prehistory to the present. Ricklefs brings together colleagues at the Nationa...

 'I am so thrilled this book exists' Elizabeth Day 'Brilliantly readable ... outraged and celebratory, it's chock-full of female trail-blazers' Je...

MASTER YOUR THEORY is a series of books, each of which is an instruction book and workbook combined. It follows a comprehensive course which is pla...

MASTER YOUR THEORY is a series of books, each of which is an instruction book and workbook combined. It follows a comprehensive course which is pla...

At the epicenter of the world's most dynamic economic continent, Southeast Asia provides a window into some of the most important contemporary glob...

 Image and Representation 2e is a clear and straight-talking introduction to two of the most important concepts in film and media studies. Explorin...

Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media The Visual Story teaches you how to manipulate components such as space, line and shap...

  Learning the art of mixing has never been easier. For more than two decades, The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook has been the best selling and most re...

  65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia's brutal colonial history and offers new insights into th...

EIGHT PLAYS

Welcome to the surreal world of Boom, where civil servants wake the dead, corpses are terrified of cremation, old women are besieged in their homes...

'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting' …..so wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journe...

Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith’s manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not really wasted but i...

  John Heskett wants to transform the way we think about design by showing how integral it is to our daily lives, from the spoon we use to eat our ...

A clear, engaging and practical 'how-to' guide to writing a memoir, by Australia's foremost teacher and practitioner of memoir and life writing, Pa...

The artworks of Aboriginal Australian peoples are a profoundly important repository of knowledge and reflect a deep connection to Country. This vis...

  As the Cold War came to a close in 1991, US President George H. W. Bush famously saw its shocking demise as the dawn of a 'new world order' that ...

Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology fr...

A cutting-edge appraisal of revolution and its future. On Revolutions, co-authored by six prominent scholars of revolutions, reinvigorates revoluti...

  A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to S...

A handbook for communicators in a digital 6th Edition We are all journalists and publishers now: at the touch of a button, we can send our words, ...

A tribute to portraiture; as well as the artists and sitters; Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize marks 100 years of Australia's oldest an...