Collection: Nonfiction

Perhaps the most well known innovation of the ancient Egyptians is mummification but they knew far more about the human body than just how to preserve it. Learn about ancient Egypt's earliest technology, including medicine, building, farming and arts.

Sissy Spaceks memoir is poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, plainspoken and utterly honest. It spans her childhood in Texas, her arrival in New York City, her distinguished acting career, and her loyalty to her rural roots

Describes the sport of jumping rope, including how-to information on jumps and tricks

Keep fit, tone-up and lose weight. Walking is the perfect way to achieve optimum health, hassle free. Power-walking expert Nina Barough reveals there is a world of difference between a casual stroll and an energising, body-sculpting power walk.

Encourages ESL & ESD students to become familiar with everyday grammar. Provides clear and uncomplicated definitions of each grammatical term and how each one is used in basic written texts via a range of activties.

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 medieval Europe.

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.