Collection: Nonfiction

ESL & ESD students are encouraged to read & become familiar with the features of explanation, descriptions, expositions, discussions & poems via language activities, designed to help them plan, write & edit their own text types with confidence.

Australians have fought in overseas wars for more than a century and created a legend of land, sea and in the air. This new edition brings their remarkable story up to date and includes an account of recent operations in Timor, Afgahnistan and Iraq

This well-illustrated book describes the fundamental principles and various aspects of Classical architecture, including a detailed, illustrated glossary that is almost a dictionary of Classical architecture in itself.

Learn all about these amazing animals - where they live, how they grow and learn, and what they eat and the dangers they have to face.

This title examines Henry's key battles and sieges, how he systematically extended English control throughout northern France and how he was perceived by his contemporaries as a military leader.

A unique collection of more than 300 photographs of classic Australian advertising signs, posters and marketing ephemera

Historian, David Potts has discovered that the myth of the Great Depression, as a time of great suffering, is often untrue or exaggerated. This book could dramatically overturn how we recollect the Great Depression in Australia

Frontiers are areas that have not been fully explored. there are very few frontiers left on Earth. However, beyond Earth there is a frontier bigger than we can possibly imagine - space.

Governor-General Sir John Kerr's dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Australian political history