Collection: Nonfiction

This title introduces the idea that not all texts are the same. ESL & ESD students are encouraged to read and become familiar with the features of narratives, recounts, procedures and information reports via a range of language activties.

The author argues that the Japanese may use the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and consequent terrifying meltdown at the nuclear complex at Fukushima, to stimulate their economy and turn it into a mature economy, comfortable in itself...

Students will learn the research skills they need to find, evaluate, organise & use evidence, it also explains such issues as citation & plagiarism. This title provides an historical account of the Industrial revolution.

July 1799 near Rosetta, a French officer unearthed a granite block bearing text in three different scripts; Greek, demotic Egyptian, and hieroglyphics. For the first time there was real hope of decoding Egyptian writing.

Students will learn the research skills they need to find, evaluate, organise & use evidence, it also explains such issues as citation & plagiarism. This title provides an historical account of slavery & the slave trade in the 18th & 19th centuries.

During the war, Fremantle played host to over 170 Allied submarines. The Fremantle Port was closed, and barbed wire and sentries appeared, transforming it from a relatively quiet place to the largest submarine base in the Southern Hemisphere.

An interesting introduction to the topic

Under Siege shows us the job homicide investigators and hostage negotiators perform, and their endurance and courage. This memoir reveals how the daily trauma and stress affected Belinda's family life and how she fought against post-traumatic stress.

ESL & ESD students are encouraged to read & become familiar with the features of explanation, descriptions, expositions, discussions & poems via language activities, designed to help them plan, write & edit their own text types with confidence.

Australians have fought in overseas wars for more than a century and created a legend of land, sea and in the air. This new edition brings their remarkable story up to date and includes an account of recent operations in Timor, Afgahnistan and Iraq