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A very beautiful and detailed book on the exhibition, history, discovery, translation and conservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, published in association with the Israel Antiquities Authority. With coloured photos of the Dead Sea and surrounding areas, reproductions of the Scroll fragments and possible translations that offer a fascinating insight to life in Old Testament times and interpretation of the Scripture. -
David Badcock: Plein-air Painter
$120.00The son of New Zealand artist Douglas Badcock, David came to Australia in 1977 with the dream of establishing himself as an Australian landscape painter. His journey began as a commercial artist, learning a skill to rely upon between his early exploration of the the Australian landscape and light. From one such adventure his Flinder's Ranges collection drew the attention to The Elder Fine Art Gallery in Adelaide who exhibited his location paintings for the first time in 1981. By the 1980s his dream of being an Australian landscape painter was completed and he was featured in a televised documentary series Artists of the Far North. This book of his paintings charts his remarkable journey. -
Dave Allen: Carolyn Soutar
$10.00The image of Dave Allen is seared into our minds: seated on a tall chair with a glass of J&B, smoking his Gauloises, a fingertip missing as he tells the most hilarious, irreverent stories. But who was the man behind the image? Having worked with him as his tour manager, Carolyn Soutar was able to see how he behaved both on and off screen. Here she discusses the Irish Catholic upbringing that brought him so much anger, which he was able to turn to humour, how he toured with the Beatles in the sixties and became a huge TV star in the following decades. This biography is the most revealing account of the famously private comedian, whose career began in the sixties but who remained influential to a whole new generation of comics in the 21st century. -
This is the book the late Clive James (1939 - 2019) always wanted to write: an almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what. It is his always-unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-century. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Tacitus to Thatcher, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record – and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now. Not to be read at one sitting! -
The twentieth century has seen a marked rise in the number of religious cuts and sects throughout the world. Until recently, such groups were viewed as harmless, misguided zealots. However, doubts are being raised about the nature of some cults with the massive media coverage of the mass suicides at Jonestown and David Koresh’s Branch Davidian Cult in Waco. Here are the prophecies and practices of these controversial sects. From the early rituals of Ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece to the headline grabbing activists of the Ninteies. There are leader profiles and the influences that shaped their individual philosophies.
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Cry Crucify: Verdun Walsh
$105.00This is the story of an ordinary soldier, his experiences and those of his mates during the Malayan campaign and subsequent life as a P.O.W. in Changi, Singapore and Japan. At the time of publication (1991) it was the first and only book to tell the story of G Force and their experiences in Changi, Osaka, Takefu and Akenobi. It was typed on the reverse side of Naval Message S1320B forms on an hour-to-hour basis from January 1, 1942 - February 16, 1942. A carbon copy, typed on the same paper, was buried in a cylinder with a detailed account of the murders of Cpl. Breavington, Pte Gale and two British soldiers which brought to an end the Selerang Barrack's Changi Incident - where all P.O.Ws were herded into a square until they signed a 'Non-Escape Form'. The cylinder and its contents were retrieved after the war. The fate of the original is unknown. The story of G Force, from Changi to Japan, back to Manila and repatriation via H.M.S. Formidable - a British aircraft carrier - is supported by diaries kept by two members of G Force. Cry Crucify has been written to maintain fact from fiction and to give a balanced account of the war in Malaya and Japan, interspersed with accounts of the lighter side of P.O.W. life, together with the compassion, faith, hope and comradeship in the life of the prisoners. -
This is the history of a man, the electric guitar and an era of music that will never be forgotten. Murray pulls up the rug where good rock 'n' roll hides and rips through the floorboards with prose as bold and explosive as Hendrix's guitar. Here is an insightful and poignant book about the music of Jimi Hendrix and how rock culture and its influence defined an era. With fabulous archival colour and black and white photos.
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Tuesday, 20 October: Everyone but the lift boy was playing the market and there was every reason for the party to go on forever. In the centre of the action were the freewheeling entrepreneurs whose spectacular deals encapsulated every virtue and vice of the 80s. Then Wall Street went down in a heap and that was the cue for anyone holding shares in Australia and New Zealand to freak out... This is the only book to explain what happened and to look at the forces that shape the age - the psychology of greed, the politics of money, the cult of the yuppie, the rise of the market hero and the mind-boggling phenomenon of all that easy money to be had. This is a story of damnation and redemption of those who dared to tap into all that tremendous power...a book that no self-interested economist or financier would dare to write, a marshalling of fact and opinion - clear and wickedly mischievous - that will fascinate both insider and outsider alike. -
Cop This Lot: Nino Culotta: Book II of They're A Weird Mob. Nino, now an Australian with the help of his mates and Kay, his missus, has a chance to get a few laughs at the expense of workmates Joe and Dennis as they accompany him on a trip to Italy to visit Nino's parents. Joe and Dennis have never left Sydney and the plan is to go by 'plane and cargo ship then buy a cheap car in Germany to drive to Italy. At the Culotta family villa, Nino's father, a crusty and misbehaving patriarch who loves to conduct local feuds, is only concerned that Nino and Kay have not been 'properly' married by an Italian priest. Nino's mother is worried that the children will be eaten by kangaroos. By the time they return to Sydney, Joe and Dennis have learnt a smattering of several European languages and despite their working-class 'Ocker' background, have acquired a veneer of European sophistication, preferring wine to beer and Italian suits to Jack Howe singlets - a veneer, of course, that doesn't last too long! Illustrated by 'Wep'. There Was A Kid: John O'Grady: Author John O'Grady's (Nino Culotta) father, with no practical experience and very little money, threw up city life and became a farmer - he bought his land, worked hard, applied the latest scientific methods - and went broke. Yet O'Grady has wonderful memories of growing up on the farm near Tamworth and recounts them all here with his usual wry humour. Illustrated by Collinridge Rivett.
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