Collection: Nonfiction

Navigating life with an anxiety disorder can seem impossible. From uncontrollable panic attacks to fear of normal bodily functions, obsessive thinking, chronic avoidance and 'what-if's'. When you have tried everything to feel normal again, only to feel worse than ever before, it's hard not to los...

Celebrating Australia's Magnificent Wildlife is a celebration of Daryl Dickson's beautiful work. From black-winged stilts to brushtail possums, see the variety and color of Australian wildlife contained in one wonderful book. Dickson's passion for the conservation of wildlife and wild places has ...

It is difficult to take myself back to the beginning, and even more difficult to share such a private time in my life. But I will. It's how I will find meaning from the loss, from the universe robbing the kids and me of an extraordinary father and husband, by paying it forward to you. In this dee...

At the age of 31 Jamila Rizvi was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. When she shared her diagnosis with loved ones, good friend Rosie Waterland proposed the tumour eventually be named "Jam's Jerky" and kept on display in a jar. While this sensitive proposal was politely declined, there was a rea...

What if the key to raising confident, happy, grounded children was tapping into their innate wisdom? Welcome to a new era of 'past life parenting.' Today's young people are not like any generations before them. They are sensitive, intuitive and shockingly eloquent. According to research, many can...

Eileen Kramer is quite possibly the longest working dancer and choreographer in Australia, if not the world. At 103 years young, she continues to take to the stage and dance and create every day and is showing no signs of stopping any time soon. Eileen has now written a book about her life before...

The Law Handbook is the plain English guide to the law in New South Wales, providing access to law that affects people in their every day lives. This fully revised 15th edition contains 40 chapters with the most up-to-date information possible about the law in New South Wales. Clear and well-stru...

The incredible story of a woman who took the path less travelled to work for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in outback Australia, and what the experience taught her about life, death and human connection.It was 1988. I had no time for makeup and wore a crushed heart on my sleeve. My life was up ...

Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, which provided a template for the methods used by the...

January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp with several hundred other children. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, Moshe has seen more...