Academy of the Arts

After the Rain documents the creative processes of 10 contemporary art projects commissioned for the National Gallery of Australia’s major recurren...

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

In 1970 Jeffrey MacDonald was accused of murdering his pregnant wife, and the journalist Joe McGinniss decided to write a book about it. Malcolm's ...

The brilliant new short story collection from the arthur c. Clarke award-winning author of the animals in that country.A family of cat farmers gets...

Kuracca - meaning white sulphur crested cockatoo - is a multi-lingual anthology featuring eleven Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women writin...

Winner of ABIA Literary Fiction of the Year Award 2015 Winner of the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction 2015 Winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpu...

Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors.For centuries past, and all across the world, t...

Funny, clever and keenly observed, Decadence is a profound musing on literature and language, that deftly skewers the would-be gatekeepers of verse...

Originally appearing in Science magazine, this gifty collection of haiku inspired by the periodic table of elements features all-new poems paired w...

Secrets behind the structure and meaning of all stories, from the founder of the BBC Writers' Academy We all love stories. But why do we tell them?...

A lush and vibrant exploration of environmentally sustainable tropical design—updated with the latest stunning homes and resorts. With its tropical...

 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 the ...

Fall in love with Singapore's most prominent feminist playwright. Ovidia Yu dissects all things female—from breasts to virginity, motherhood to les...

Acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the moder...

'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 ...