Collection: Nonfiction

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.

Why our love affair with processed meat is killing us. The chilling expos the food industry doesn't want YOU to know. They're totally delicious. We love crispy bacon with our eggs for breakfast, ham sandwiches for lunch and snags on election day. Lucie Morris-Marr's family was no different, order...

Would you start another diet if you knew it would probably fail? Would you love your body if our culture didn't tell you it was wrong? Lotta Dann's journey with extreme dieting and drastic weight loss led to endless praise for her skinny body. But no one knew what she had to do to maintain it. Wh...

Before Harry Fisher was Australia's favourite bush cook, he was an accountant who loved nothing more than camping with his mates on the weekend. When it was his turn to cook at camp, though, his mates always dug out their biggest plates. Eventually they just get him do all the cooking. After prov...

Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conqu...

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.

The modern world presents a challenge: distractions, a loss of focus, and an increasing tendency to engage with things that may not be serving our best interests. We encounter people absorbed in their phones, sometimes even noticing it in ourselves. In social settings, it's common to see individu...