Collection: Nonfiction

We are what we eat, watch, buy, read, love, play. It's been a long step in a short time from meat pies, football, kangaroos and Holden cars to iPods, lattes, climate change and MasterChef.

Looks at some of the more unusual and unique libraries of the world, and explores the history and future of the 21st-century library revolution, accompanied by colourful illustrations and brief profiles.

Where do spiders live? What is inside a spider's body? How do spiders smell, taste, see, touch and hear? Spiders Up Close will give you the answers to these and many other questions

A true football legend, this is a hugely long awaited autobiography told with Leighs customary steel, wry humour and no-holds barred honesty. Life and lessons from the world of Australian Rules Football as told by an icon of the sport, Leigh Matthews.

This title for young readers provides information on various sharks & shares a shark divers experiences searching for & photographing them on Coco Island, Costa Rica. Full of details of close encounters, near misses & amazing shark discoveries.

For nearly a year Sharyn Munro travelled through rural Australia, visiting the communities in coalmining areas. She found a war zone. Here, towns and districts are dying - home-owners and farmers forced out by mining, broken in spirit and in health.

Covers the literature and folklore of gorillas, as well as giving scientific information such as their habitat, distribution and social organisation.

If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for bulls rather than traffic; if your pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. These stories capture the experience of life growing up in the outback.

Provides historical maps of Europe from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Well-known writers share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives.