Item category 1: Music & Performing Arts

Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves, poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply-moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hal...

A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter 'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some peo...

Addressing the phenomenal cinematic success of Bohemian Rhapsody, music journalist Mark Blake builds on the legend of Queen and their enduring audience appeal. Providing a fresh take on Queen's music, story and legacy, Blake's complete portrait covers not only the major hits and bestselling album...

Making a TikTok video that goes viral is all about having a quirky idea that can grab attention in as little as 15 seconds. Whether you're a TikTok beginner or a practiced creator, the hardest part is often getting started. This book provides a year's worth of ideas in the form of creative prompt...

Making Animals Public: Inside the ABC's Natural History Archive traces the cultural and political evolution of the natural history animal on the ABC. It explores different modes of capture from cages to cameras, what has come to count as a natural history animal over time and the various sites th...

Star Wars: The Mandalorian: Season one, volume one celebrates the first season of The Mandalorian. This collector's edition includes stunning artwork from chapters 1-4, featuring the creatures, bounty hunters, and soldiers of the Empire.

This deluxe edition collects the stunning artwork from the final four chapters of the Disney smash hit, highlighting the characters, creatures, allies, enemies and environments of this all-new Star Wars story. Includes art as seen in the hit Disney TV series directed by Dave Filoni and John Favre...

Journey to amazing worlds as Star Wars: The Mandalorian, the critically acclaimed series that expands the Star Wars universe, continues to tell the story of the Mandalorian warrior Din Djarin and the Child. This deluxe edition collects stunning artwork from chapters 9-12, featuring the battles, c...

A collection of over 100 traditional and favorite holiday songs and instrumentals is presented in an easily readable spiral-bound format, complete with accompaniment score, lyrics, and a companion CD that contains such popular Christmas staples as Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls, O Holy Night, and m...

Millers Point Songbook is a play, performed in the Garrison Church during May, and it tracks the lives and stories of the people of Millers Point, Sydney and the history of Sydney itself. Millers Point Songbook features 24 songs which track the history of Sydney's colonial settlement in Millers P...

Jock Serong, Mark Smith and Neil A. White posed the question: what would happen if a group of Australia's finest writers were invited to let their minds go walking through the Paul Kelly songbook?The writers responded with tales of forbidden love, with the ghosts that inhabit St Kilda and the 'sp...

In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. Hailed by John Banville as the greatest living wr...

More Rules for Life is the latest collection from comedian and rule-maker Kitty Flanagan. Following the success of her bestseller, 488 Rules for Life, Kitty realised there was still a lot of work to be done. What if there were people who didn't know that you're supposed to take the lettuce off ...

From epic Hollywood blockbusters to dystopian sci-fi fantasies: the movies of the 1980s saw the invention of a new movie-world so convincingly real that none dared resist it. This compendium presents the most influential and successful films of an era when mullets and shoulder pads were all the r...

This superb 2 CD collection of 40 masterpieces by 10 great composers features performances by the world's leading soloists and orchestras, including The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. The audio CDs are accompanied by a specially produced book containing the ...

Emphasising the creative aspect of music technology, this introduction sets out an overview of the field for music students in a non-scientific and straightforward way. Engaging and user-friendly, the book covers studio concepts: basic audio and the studio workflow, including audio and MIDI recor...

This concise and clear guide to simplified music theory teaches readers who play music by ear how to read musical notation by guiding them through the basics of reading and composing music to share with other.

Mathematics can be as effortless as humming a tune, if you know the tune, writes Gareth Loy. In Musimathics, Loy teaches us the tune, providing a friendly and spirited tour of the mathematics of music--a commonsense, self-contained introduction for the nonspecialist reader. It is designed for mus...

The first official book from Noel Gallagher, this is the behind-the-scenes story of his biggest every solo tour and the making of the critically-acclaimed album Who Built The Moon? Join Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds as they embark on the Stranded On The Earth world tour - a phenomenal year-l...

An indelible and irresistible portrait of the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS and the music scene they changed forever -- culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive! and the smash single "Rock and Roll All Nite" Including original intervi...

"The untold stories behind The Office, one of the most iconic television shows of the twenty-first century, told by its creators, writers, and actors"--

DICTIONARIES OF QUOTATIONS. Writer, broadcaster, and wit Gyles Brandreth has completely revised Ned Sherrin's classic collection of wisecracks, one-liners, and anecdotes. With over 1,000 new quotations from all media, it's easy to find hilarious quotes on subjects ranging from Argument to Diets, ...

The newest addition to the best-selling All the Songs series details the unique recording history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's most commercially successful and influential rock bands. Since 1965, Pink Floyd haven been recording sonically experimental and philosophical music, selling more tha...

With a music career spanning nearly half a century, Pink Floyd is one of the most successful rock bands in history. With more than 250 million album sales to their credit, the band remains hugely popular worldwide. Both Rolling Stone and VH1 have named Floyd one of "The 100 Greatest Artists of Al...

Planet Drag explores the drag of 15 countries across the globe, from Germany to the Philippines, and Italy to the US and UK.

Now developing pianists can play their favorite contemporary hits with this collection in easy piano format.

Play your favorite contemporary hits with this collection in piano/vocal/guitar format. Includes 30 songs: Bad Liar * Good As Hell * Havana * If I Can't Have You * Lover * The Middle * New Rules * Shallow * Shape of You * Sucker * Without Me * You Are the Reason * and more.

Eveything you need to know to teach youself your choice of instrument in one book. From beginner to professional level in a variety of styles. Uses both standard music notation and easy to read chords and note diagrams. This complete guide comes with 2 cds with recordings of all examples and exer...

Eveything you need to know to teach youself your choice of instrument in one book. From beginner to professional level in a variety of styles. Uses both standard music notation and easy to read chords and note diagrams. This complete guide comes with 2 cds with recordings of all examples and exer...

Beginning with early trailblazers like "Different from the Others", Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema's greatest queer films to guide you through the eras. From Hitchcock's "Rope" and cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" through the New Queer Cinema movement of the 90s to the present...