Collection: Nonfiction

One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney is the second most expensive place to buy a house on Earth, after Hong Kong.The escalation in house pr...

A history of the dark times. "So this is how liberty dies-with thunderous applause." - Senator Padme Amidala. When Palpatine declared the birth of his new Empire, he expected it would stand for millennia. Instead, it lasted only 24 years. This is the story of how a tyrannical regime rose from the...

From redefining pop to pushing the boundaries of fashion, while always inspiring her audience to be their most authentic selves, Lady Gaga is a pop culture legend of her own. Delving into her record-breaking career, her status as an LGBTQ+ icon, her journey to the big screen and all the quirky Ga...

Why grow the same dull vegetables and herbs that fill every grocery store shelf? If you're putting in the effort and growing your own, make it something sensational! There's a thrilling diversity of rare and unusual heirloom plants out there—a riot of beauty, color, and flavor that can only be ex...

How can you fight something if you don't know it exists? We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit - the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it ...

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a former architect turned farmer she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, loving, truthful. They talk about the future. ...

Featuring 59 walks across New Zealand's North and South islands, this practical guide is for anyone keen to explore Aotearoa's wilderness on foot. Containing key info about essential gear; safety on the tracks; how to read topographical maps and trail markers; hut and track etiquette; advice for ...

Your Celestial Compass is your essential astrological guidebook to help you take on life's pitfalls and pressures, amplify your strengths, and decode the magnificent cosmic puzzle that is you.

This book reveals the new science of motivating young people. It explains the emerging science of adolescent and young adult brains to reveal how we can engage, teach and support the young people in our lives. Neuroscientists have discovered that around age ten, changes in the brain spur young pe...

Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan award-winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on Youtube, has a lifelong passion for the things we make, and how we make them. Now, for the first time, he reveals the invisible method behind every invention and takes us on a whirlwind tour of how h...