Sun & Moon by Mark Holborn (Editor)
$120.00 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
A spectacular pictorial history of astronomical exploration, for anyone who has gazed at the sky and wondered what lies beyondFrom the beginning of time, human beings have looked up at the stars and speculated on other worlds. Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Sun and ...Show more
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art .. by Marina Warner
$49.95 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity, and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues author Marina Warner in this new anthology. Here, some of Warner's most compelling writing captures the visual experience of the work of a diverse group of artists--with a notable focus ...Show more
Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar and His Institute in the '70s by Julie Pedersen; Georg Pedersen
$44.95 AUD
Category: Hatha Yoga
Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar was one of the foremost teachers of yoga and is widely credited with popularising yoga in the world today. He was an inspiring teacher, practitioner, author and philosopher of yoga. In the 1970s he opened his yoga institute RIMYI, where his unique approach inspired many who have ...Show more
Book of Extraordinary Deaths by Cecilia Ruiz
$27.95 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
A welcome dose of dark humor for these dark times, from acclaimed illustrator Cecilia Ruiz The Book of Extraordinary Deaths introduces readers to the bizarre demises of thinkers, writers, monarchs, artists, and notable nobodies throughout history. Beginning in the seventh century BC with the unusual dea ...Show more
Shoji Hamada: A Potters Way by Susan Peterson
$66.95 AUD
Category: Creativity & Art Therapies
Shoji Hamada, along with Bernard Leach, was one of the key figures in the development of studio pottery in the 20th century. His influence both in England and the US as well as in his native Japan cannot be underestimated. The Japanese government designated him a Living National Treasure" in 1955 and aw ...Show more
The Goddess and the City: Kali and Kolkata by Tess Rice
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
The Goddess and the City: Kali and Kolkata brings in to focus one of the world’s most vibrant living Victorian cities. It was the capital of British India from 1722 until the Raj relocated to Delhi in 1911. The architectural wealth bedazzles but no more so than the people who live within its torn and mu ...Show more
Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs : A Guide to Nahuatl Writing by Whittaker, Gordon
$49.95 AUD
Category: Aztec, Mayan & Toltec
A portal to the ancient hieroglyphic script of the Aztec Empire. For more than three millennia the cultures of Mesoamerica flourished, yielding the first cities of the Western Hemisphere and developing writing systems that could rival those of the East in their creativity and efficiency. The Nahuatl-sp ...Show more
Traditional Healers of the Central Desert: Ngangkari by NPY Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation
$49.95 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Studies
Traditional Healers of the Central Desert contains unique stories and imagery and primary source material: the ngangkari speak directly to the reader. Ngangkari are senior Aboriginal people authorised to speak publicly about Anangu (Western Desert language speaking Aboriginal people) culture and practic ...Show more
Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy ... by Christopher Scheer (Editor)
$110.00 AUD
Category: Theosophy
When the occult came to the American West: individualism and magic in the art of California, from Agnes Pelton to Jess "It is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced." With these words, written in The Secret Doctrine in 1888, occultist philosopher Helena Bl ...Show more
Black Mirror 2: Elsewhere by Judith Noble (Editor)
$82.50 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
Black Mirror is a peer-reviewed series that seeks to examine ways in which the occult and the esoteric have been at the heart of art practice, both today and throughout the modernist period.Black Mirror 2: Elsewhere looks at questions concerning other planes and other realities. It includes essays on th ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci: the Anatomical Dra... by Michael Farthing; Stephen Farthing (Text by); Leonardo da Vinci (Artist)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Body Therapies
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) created many of the most beautiful and important drawings in the history of Western art. Many of these were anatomical and became the yardstick for the early study of the human body. From their unique perspectives as artist and scientist, brothers Stephen and Michael Farthi ...Show more
Connected Discourses of the Buddha by BODHI, BHIKKU
$140.95 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions | Series: Teachings of the Buddha Ser.
This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's ...Show more