Modern Australian

Australian Architecture: Living the Modern
$50.00
In Australia, many aspects of architectural Modernism have been transformed, interpreted, used, reformed and converted to that country's very particular geographic qualities, perhaps to a greater degree than in most other countries. Much Australian Modernist architecture is characterized by the pervasive presence of strong light, and by ranging structures that spread out across the terrain, avoiding any hierarchical organization of component parts in ways that would be impractical and inappropriate elsewhere. Living the Modern traces the unusually independent development of Australian architecture, through examples of constructions built in the last 15 years by 25 different architects. The culturally and environmentally specific development of Modern architecture (especially homes) in Australia demonstrates what a truly diverse "Progressive Modernism" might be. Essays by Philip Drew, Philip Goad and Gevorks Hartoonian elucidate its unique qualities.

The Australian Modern Oxford Dictionary
$29.95
Oxford's Australian dictionaries offer a unique combination of international English and Australian usage. This second edition of the Australian Modern Oxford Dictionary includes many new words and meanings, including many from the realms of sport, health, and the environment and electronic communication. New Australian words and meanings are labelled with an Aust marker. The Australian Modern Oxford Dictionary features a vinyl cover for durability and color headwords for east of usage. The definitions are straightforward with guidance provided where word usage is controversial. Ideal for home or office use, encyclopedic entries for the names of famous people, places, events, and institutions are provided.

Hyde Park Shuffle: Australian Light Music
$25.99
Australia's grand tradition of orchestral 'light classics' is showcased on this definitive collection. ABC Classics. 2004.

Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography
$39.99
Artful Histories is an original account of modern Australian autobiography that radically revises current theories of autobiography and discusses a remarkably broad range of popular and literary texts written over the last three decades. In his challenge to post-structuralist theories of autobiography, particularly in terms of autobiography's relationship with fiction and history, David McCooey analyses the nature of the self, the question of intent and the role of narrative. He discusses the ways in which the autobiographer makes sense of his or her life through a developing but continuous awareness of the narrative quality of experience. The book explores themes around the mythology of childhood, education, sexuality, the discovery of hidden histories, the trauma of displacement and death and, finally, the importance of place in the Australian imagination.