Collection: Nonfiction

Looking at a huge range of jobs over six different industries in Australia Working In Australia contains up-to-date information about specific job roles in Australia and the types of qualifications and experience required. Includes personal accounts from real people and tips on how to get experie...

Looking at a huge range of jobs over six different industries in Australia, Working In Australia contains up-to-date information about specific job roles in Australia and the types of qualifications and experience required. Includes personal accounts from real people and tips on how to get experi...

This updated visual guide reveals 134 main job entries in detail, plus hundreds of related professions including trending careers. From creating life-saving vaccines to developing the most incredible computer games, this job guide features hundreds of careers, including trending opportunities. Do...

As the world suffers the consequences of climate change, there is still hope. Scientists, engineers, inventors and companies are working hard to make real change. We no longer have to rely on the conventional power sources of oil, coal and gas. Instead we can look to the future for energy that is...

Every living thing on our planet experiences a life cycle. From fertilisation, to birth, through life and death, plants and animals undergo key stages of development.

An illustrated non-fiction book that explores the natural world above us, the efforts humans have made to venture high above the Earth, and the mythology about the stars. Linking seemingly diverse subject matter, it invites the reader to explore the wonder of the universe. What wonders are soarin...

All children have the right to life, survival and development; to protection from violence and abuse; to education; to express their opinions and be listened to... These are just some of the children's rights highlighted in this important and much-needed collection of stories and poems by a galax...

Floods periodically create devastation across parts of Australia where they destroy towns take lives and ruin farming land. The increasing urbanisation of Australia has contributed to flooding that creates misery and hardship. Floods have always been a part of the Australian landscape and despite...

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, get...