Collection: Nonfiction

This illustrated book offers an enlightening introduction to the rich and complex Islamic faith.

Over 30 cross-stitch projects from designer's Claire Crompton, Joan Elliott, Jane Henderson, Ursula Michael, Joanne Sanderson and Lesley Teare. The versatile designs can be adapted to make beautiful framed pictures, greeting cards, bags and cushions.

How can we possibly equip our children with all that they need to grow up confident, resilient and brave? Raising Confident, Happy Children offers helpful approaches, explaining common fears and setbacks and how to combat them.

Building on the work of botanical illustrators of the past, from Elizabeth Blackwell, through to the exceptional scientific drawings of Beatrix Potter, this book deals with both the practical art & the related botany of the subject.

Focusing on the Baroque period, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style.

Drawing on oral history, captures the experiences of stockmen and skiers, scientists and surveyors, dam builders and brumby runners to paint a vivid picture of how people were shaped by the mountain environment and endeavoured to shape it.

This account of the explosion of the Challenger spacecraft is written in a graphic comic book format for young school children. Exciting illustrations follow the events of the famous Challenger disaster using brightly colored panels & leveled text.

This title for young readers takes an engaging look at the work of ground-breaking conservationist, Sylvia Earle, and her work to protect oceans and ocean life. It covers Earle's inspiration, her methods, findings, and the impact of her work.

16 essays, by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including Sermons and occasional letters). Providing studies of his text as well as setting them in the history

This distinctively Australian thesaurus is derived from the Macquarie Thesaurus database. It encourages students to consider many colloquialisms and a wide range of phrases within its entries.