<p>Remember when a week at the Surfers Paradise El Dorado Hotel was the ultimate holiday for sun-worshippers? Or when taking a road trip with the new caravan was the only way to see Australia? Items of ephemera have a special capacity to jog those memories of time past: the menu from a sumptuous anniversary dinner, your ticket to an AFL football final or the program form the opening night of Cats. Richard Stone has drawn on his extensive knowledge of the National Library of Australia's treasure trove of ephemera to compile this fascinating visual journey. Whether designed to inform, persuade or shock, these remarkable 'reminders', beautifully reproduced, are a fascinating record of Australian life over the last 150 years.</p>

Fragments of the Everyday: A Book of Australian Ephemera

National Library Of Australia

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NLA: National Library of Australia

Australia in Maps is an essential read for all bibliophiles, cartographers and those who simply love beautiful books. Aimed at introducing readers to the breadth and diversity of the National Library of Australia's collection of more than 600 000 maps of Australia, the countries of the world, the oceans, and the skies, this richly illustrated book showcases some of the finest items from the Maps Collection. These range from exquisite manuscript maps and editions from celebrated European cartographic publishers of the seventeenth century to the familiar contemporary products such as tourist maps which aid our daily lives. Readers will discover the stories behind these maps: the dangers of traversing uncharted territories; the intrigue associated with competition for economic and strategic ascendancy; technological changes in map making and dissemination; and, above all, changes in human knowledge and representation of the world around us.

Australia in Maps: Great Maps in Australia's History from the National Library's Collection

Reference

Antipodes Books and Beyond, Ltd.

Drawn from the National Library of Australia's collection, A Brush with Birds showcases bird art from 1788 to the present day. In her introduction, Penny Olsen reveals how Australian bird art has evolved from descriptive and scientific illustrations to more artistic portraits of birds in their natural habitats going about their daily lives. This book begins with First Fleet artists John Hunter and George Raper, who documented the strange new birds they encountered: the lyrebird named after its lyre-shaped tail, laughing kookaburras, brightly coloured parrots and the black swan. It covers artists such as John Lewin, John and Elizabeth Gould, the Cayleys, Ebenezer Gostelow, Lilian Medland, Betty Temple Watts and contemporary artist William Cooper. Short studies of the artists lives are followed by full-page colour reproductions of their best works. This lavishly illustrated gift book is a wonderful display of some of the extraordinary birds that live in Australia.

A Brush with Birds: Australian Bird Art from the National Library of Australia

Arts & Photography

Painting

Reading Pleasures

Nurses of Australia

Burrows, Deborah

Australian College Of Nursing

Congress Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Nurses

National Library of Australia

Guide to the collections

Encyclopedia of the Animal World

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

HarperCollins, Publishers

Encyclopedia Of The Animal World Volume 7

Bay Books Sydney

Encyclopedia Of The Animal World Volume 10

Grit and Gold

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

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