Collection: Nonfiction

Machine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us- approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of genomes, extra-solar planets, even the in...

What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for 40 years? From deserts to rainforests and even the polar Arctic, scientists venture into the field to collect, observe and study the world's organ...

Australian documentary photography was at its height from the 1950s to 1970s. A time of great flux - social, political and cultural - was reflected in the photographs of Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, William Yang, Rennie Ellis, David Moore, Mervyn Bishop, Sue Ford and others. A time when the gritty ...

The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. Featuring Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Johannes Leak, Sean Leahy, Alan Moir, David Pope, D...

An exhilarating scientific journey, Why Are We Like This? takes us behind the scenes of the evolutionary paradoxes that make up life on this planet.

Some Answered Questions is a collection of transcriptions of table talks given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in ‘Akká between 1904 and 1906 in response to questions posed by Laura Dreyfus-Barney. The talks address questions in such areas of enquiry as the influence exerted by the Founders of world religions; t...

Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era answers some of the most common questions asked upon first encountering the Bahá'í Faith, as well as offering a glimpse of its exciting potential. Explains how Bahá'u'lláh's teachings lay the foundations of a new era in human affairs, in which world peace will be estab...

Kathy shows readers how using templates can help get fantastic seams every time. Included inside are 350 seams perfect for crazy quilting and detailed instructions on how to create each of the embroidery stitches used in the book.

Drawing on the energies of 18th century English convict women, including Rhook's own ancestors, these poem open raw questions of belonging, narrating 'mother' as a long process of becoming. Through stories of childhood, fertility, and of nurturing new life during a pandemic, Rhook casts off the p...

Anne Aly, Liz Byrski, Sarah Drummond, Mehreen Faruqi, Goldie Goldbloom, Krissy Kneen, Jeanine Leane, Brigid Lowry and Pat Mamanyjun Torres are among fifteen voices recounting what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40. These are stories of identity and survival, and a celebration of ge...