Collection: Nonfiction

The Big Idea series is a fascinating look at the greatest advances in our scientific history, and at the men and women who made these fundamental breakthroughs. This title looks at the life and work of Galileo Galilei.

For much of the country's history wool has been the paramount export. Expertise in breeding, tending, and shearing sheep and handling the wool-clip has been dearly bought. The most obvious and unmistakable legacy of the sheep is the wool shed.

A story of courage, valour and dogged determination, The Kamikaze Hunters is a gripping account of how a few brave young men helped to ensure lasting peace.

A thematic collection of 250 illustrations taken from the Archives of the Illustrated London News. A valuable source for historians with many published for the first time in 90 years. Together they are a unique, bittersweet portrayal of the Great War

An innovative collection that strips Catholic co-ed in a series of poems in the form of monologues, letters, exam papers and newspaper articles. Bawdy, witty and poignant.

Australians encountered a new world when they entered Asia and the Pacific during WWII. Different peoples, cultures, languages, and religions under colonial rule. The book describes how individual lives are transformed and shifting national perceptions.

Examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in 6th century B.C. to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the 2nd century A.D. Analyzes their formal qualities, the public spaces and the authority of precedent in their designs.

Packed with information, the most important facts and background stories are presented at a glance.