Inglis: 117 books

When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Émile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola’s French candour about sex – it was that Vizetelly’s books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them. Censored exposes the role that power plays in censorship. In...

Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long...

Five apocalypse tales: The Magpie Plague, Central Depot, Panacea, The Hoard, Democracy Otherwise.

In his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, inspirational adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. After his death, he has remained a symbolic figure and his classic works, Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, The Country and the...

Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for a fortnight, fed on imagination for eleven months of the year. What we want from our holidays tells a lot about who we are and what we wish we were. In this charming account, Fred Inglis traces the rise of the holiday from its...

Baggywrinkle is PORG. PORG have been living among us for a long, long time. They are small (P.O.R.G. is an acronym for People of Restricted Growth), but can be seen with the naked eye ... if they stay still long enough. PORG keep out of the way of us humans – or Dawds as they call us – and manage...

A town at the center of a broken universe, Newt Run was never meant to exist; it is a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. There are holes here, gaps in the fabric of things, and some of them are wide enough for people to slip through. Rumours have been spreading about disappearances in...

Former MasterChef Australia contestant Fiona Inglis is passionate about food, whether she's growing, cooking or eating it. As a primary school teacher working within the framework of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program, Fiona is also passionate about sharing her enthusiasm, knowledge and...

A town at the center of a broken universe, Newt Run was never meant to exist; it is a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. There are holes here, gaps in the fabric of things, and some of them are wide enough for people to slip through. Rumours have been spreading about disappearances in...

This second edition of Mike Inglis's classic guide to observing the Milky Way in the Southern Hemisphere updates all of the science about the target objects with new findings from the astrophysics field. In addition, the book boasts a larger format with entirely re-drawn maps. Newly laid out for ease...

In just 3 hours, with the methods in this book, you can create a masterful painting. This book will guide you through the process of painting one of Australia's most famous landmarks, the Three Sisters, in the Blue Mountains on the western fringe of Sydney. This may seem like a radical way...

This book will guide you through the process of painting one of Sydney's most iconic scenes - Barrenjoey Head at Palm Beach. You will learn about abstraction, tonal sketching, brush technique and colour mixing while you increase your painting repertoire.This is not a prescriptive method, but rather a series of processes which enable your self expression. Go for it! Have fun!

An intelligent and authoritative history of opium—a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization. Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the “Milk of Paradise” for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep,...

When an economic and societal breakdown starts to happen, Quarry House – remote and literally bullet-proof – is the perfect place to escape to. But remoteness also makes it impossible to follow the chain of events that results in the final breakdown and to identify the catalyst that made this...