Collection: Nonfiction

At the age of 31 Jamila Rizvi was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. When she shared her diagnosis with loved ones, good friend Rosie Waterland proposed the tumour eventually be named "Jam's Jerky" and kept on display in a jar. While this sensitive proposal was politely declined, there was a rea...

What if the key to raising confident, happy, grounded children was tapping into their innate wisdom? Welcome to a new era of 'past life parenting.' Today's young people are not like any generations before them. They are sensitive, intuitive and shockingly eloquent. According to research, many can...

The Law Handbook is the plain English guide to the law in New South Wales, providing access to law that affects people in their every day lives. This fully revised 15th edition contains 40 chapters with the most up-to-date information possible about the law in New South Wales. Clear and well-stru...

The incredible story of a woman who took the path less travelled to work for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in outback Australia, and what the experience taught her about life, death and human connection.It was 1988. I had no time for makeup and wore a crushed heart on my sleeve. My life was up ...

Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, which provided a template for the methods used by the...

January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp with several hundred other children. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, Moshe has seen more...

This book examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading Americans into authoritarianism and creating a disaffected population. This text wrangles America's meandering and confusing news fee...

Create cute animal granny squares with this collection of over 30 animal granny square crochet patterns, including a rabbit, a cow, a sheep, a llama, a flamingo, a ladybird and more. Each motif features a 3D element and each pattern features full written instructions and chart, plus full guidance...

The humble granny square gets a fresh new look in this collection of over 20 3D granny square crochet patterns all on the theme of food and drink. Please note that these patterns were previously published in 3D Granny Squares. Each motif features a 3D element that is integral to the food and drin...

The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, perhaps the single most important figure in Western culture, is hidden in plain view. If his claim that 'the unexamined life is not worth living' has ceased to shock us, that is not because we know how to live examined ones; we speak of 'the Socratic method...