Collection: Nonfiction

On March 17, 2005, Spamalot debuted on Broadway to rapturous reviews for its star-studded creative team, including creator Eric Idle, director Mike Nichols, and stars Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, Sara Ramirez, John Cleese, and more. But long before show was the toast of Broadway and the winner...

Smil presents the long history and modern infatuation with invention and innovation. Meticulous as always, these vast realms of human ingenuity are organized into sensible categories: inventions that went from welcome to undesirable, inventions that dominate and missed the mark, inventions we sti...

Edited by David Mikics, The MAD Files celebrates MAD magazines impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. Twenty-six essays and comics present a varied, perceptive, and often very funny account of MAD's significance...

Thinking deeply about your death – whether it’s imminent or not – will breathe wild new potential into your life.Warm, generous and funny, Alua Arthur is a death doula supporting people at the end of the world. What emerges in these tender moments is the unfi nished business of life, when endurin...

We know we should eat fewer ultra-processed foods; this book shows you how to do it. From expert dietitian, Nichola Ludlam-Raine, comes this simple, easy-to-follow 30-day plan for reducing the ultra-processed foods in your diet. Taking you through 4 weeks, each focused on a different meal (snacks...

When we think about changing jobs, we turn to traditional career advice that focuses on skills, qualifications, and interviewing techniques. We tend to ask ourselves, "Do I want to move from a full-time to a part-time job? Do I want to leave my company and start my own business?" But this line of...

The only Australian book that brings together expert advice, lived experience, interviews and up-to-date resources to help neurodivergent children thrive. An increasing number of Australian children are being diagnosed with variations in their brain development. These can include attention defici...

One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world's greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is the story of an Australian man's hunt for those fragments and his family's debt to an act of lit...

A fresh appreciation of the magic of birds and how watching them fulfils a human need to connect with nature. Enchantment by birds is commonplace. Birdwatchers merely go a step further than others and actively seek to be enchanted. This book tells why they take that extra step. It takes the reade...