Collection: Nonfiction

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.

In the face of two Soviet invasions within 5 years, the armies raised by Finland, a tiny nation of only 4 million people astonished the world with their effective resistance. This book explains and illustrates the army's organization, uniforms, equipment and tactics

Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

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Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany. It was the backdrop for the most lavish of Nazi ceremonies, the venue for Albert Speer's grandiose plans to forge a new 'world metropolis', and the scene of the final climactic battle to defeat Nazism.

To those who knew him, Mark Standen was a stand up guy, a top cop who was never one to mince his words. As an assistant director for the NSW Crime Commission, he led some of Australias most high-profile criminal investigations...