Collection: Nonfiction

A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century. From 1999 to 2010, Jan Brokken explored life stories in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The result was his ma...

Readers will learn how to stay fit, healthy, active, and mobile in their fifties and beyond with over-fifties specialist physiotherapist Will Harlow. Unlock the secrets to remaining fit, active and mobile as you age, and look forward to a healthier and more vibrant future. This updated and expand...

Conventional trauma treatments (talk therapy and medication) simply don't work for many trauma survivors, and now we know why. Researchers have identified the core symptom that drives most other symptoms--neurological dysregulation. It's an injury to your nervous system triggered by abuse and neg...

Gardening guru Sabrina Hahn is here to help Australian gardeners of every level create and maintain their own patch of botanical bounty. With endless knowledge and a healthy splash of cheeky humour, Sabrina has the solution to every plant problem. Channelling over three decades of knowledge as a ...

For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wrights epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle-...

The 2014 Stella Prize Winner. The Eureka Stockade. The story is one of Australia's foundation legends, but until now it has been told as though only half the participants were there. What if the hot-tempered, free-wheeling gold miners we learnt about in school were actually husbands and fathers, ...

In this engaging narrative, Wright follows the story of petitions on bark created by the Yirrkala community in Arnhem Land in 1963, protesting bauxite mining on traditional lands.

Australia's partners are turning away from the values that underpin the partnership. What should Canberra do? The next issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the consequences for Australia as some of its most important friends and partners - including India, Indonesia and the United States ...

One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney is the second most expensive place to buy a house on Earth, after Hong Kong.The escalation in house pr...

A history of the dark times. "So this is how liberty dies-with thunderous applause." - Senator Padme Amidala. When Palpatine declared the birth of his new Empire, he expected it would stand for millennia. Instead, it lasted only 24 years. This is the story of how a tyrannical regime rose from the...