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Agnès Varda: Director's Inspiration by Agnes Varda (Editor); Matt Severson (Editor); Jacqueline Stewart (Foreword by); Manouchka Kelly Labouba (Interviewer); Sasha Archibald (Text by); Jane Birkin (Text by); Sandrine Bonnaire (Text by); Manohla Dargis (Text by); Peter Debruge (Text by); Mathieu Demy (Text by); Julia Fabry (Text by); JR (Text by); Lynne Littman (Text by); Didier Rouget (Text by); Martin Scorsese (Text by); Rosalie Varda (Text by); Viva (Text by); Chloé Zhao (Text by)
Category: Film & Tv
A visual tribute to Agnès Varda’s three lives as a photographer, filmmaker and artist, with previously unseen archival materials, texts and personal reflections from Jane Birkin, Martin Scorsese, JR and more. French filmmaker Agnès Varda was a trailblazer who broke new artistic and cinematic ground f ...Show more
Avenging Janie by KELLY Lynne
Category: Fiction | Series: Lothian YA Fiction Ser.
Novel for young adults. Marie is determined to avenge the death of 15-year-old Janie, even if it costs her own life. Sheridan, a charismatic post-graduate student, deliberately misrepresents a new material of stunning optical properties as having psychic abilities. A cult begins, drawing Janie into a di ...Show more
Crocodile: Evolution's Greatest Survivor by Lynne Kelly
Category: Science & Natural History
The fascinating story of an animal that has been around since the dinosaurs and how it interacts with us. Addresses the question of what is the true nature of the crocodile, anecdotal and reader friendly it has a solid scientific basis.
Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies - Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture by Lynne Kelly
Category: History
In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts. In the first part, she examines knowledge systems within historically recorded oral cultures, showing how the link between power and the control of knowledge ...Show more
Memory Code by Lynne Kelly
Category: Personal Development
In the past, the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape, and the stars in the sky too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powe ...Show more
Memory Craft: Improve your memory using the most powerful methods from around the world by Lynne Kelly
Category: Personal Development | Series: Methods from around The World
In her bestselling book The Memory Code Lynne Kelly uncovers the memory methods of the ancients. She has now tested them thoroughly and in Memory Craft she shows how anyone of any age can use traditional memory methods to expand their memory capacity and to memorise whatever they want.
Song for A Whale by Lynne Kelly
Category: Junior Fiction
From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she's the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she's not very smart. If you've ever felt like no one was listening to you, then you know how hard that can be. When she learns abou ...Show more
Songlines (First Knowledges for younger readers) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
Category: CH Non-Fiction | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
How do you find your way around, get your food and drink, connect with your friends and family? How do you know the right and safe way to do things, or how to make things? Before the white people came to the continent, all Australian Aboriginal people knew how to do all these things - and much, much mor ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Spiders: Learning to love them by Lynne Kelly
Category: Animals and Nature
'Yet again I was screaming in the night' is the opening sentence in this book. The author decided to deliberately overcome her fear of spiders by observing and studying them, and learning as much as she could about them. As well as being an authoritative book on spiders, this book is a personal account ...Show more
The Knowledge Gene: The Incredible Story of the Supergene That Gives Us Human Creativity by Lynne Kelly
Category: Non-Fiction
Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher has uncovered the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene. Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the jour ...Show more
The Memory Code - The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments by Lynne Kelly
Category: Science
In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using tra ...Show more