Collection: Nonfiction

Edited by David Mikics, The MAD Files celebrates MAD magazines impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. Twenty-six essays and comics present a varied, perceptive, and often very funny account of MAD's significance...

Thinking deeply about your death – whether it’s imminent or not – will breathe wild new potential into your life.Warm, generous and funny, Alua Arthur is a death doula supporting people at the end of the world. What emerges in these tender moments is the unfi nished business of life, when endurin...

We know we should eat fewer ultra-processed foods; this book shows you how to do it. From expert dietitian, Nichola Ludlam-Raine, comes this simple, easy-to-follow 30-day plan for reducing the ultra-processed foods in your diet. Taking you through 4 weeks, each focused on a different meal (snacks...

When we think about changing jobs, we turn to traditional career advice that focuses on skills, qualifications, and interviewing techniques. We tend to ask ourselves, "Do I want to move from a full-time to a part-time job? Do I want to leave my company and start my own business?" But this line of...

The only Australian book that brings together expert advice, lived experience, interviews and up-to-date resources to help neurodivergent children thrive. An increasing number of Australian children are being diagnosed with variations in their brain development. These can include attention defici...

One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world's greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is the story of an Australian man's hunt for those fragments and his family's debt to an act of lit...

A fresh appreciation of the magic of birds and how watching them fulfils a human need to connect with nature. Enchantment by birds is commonplace. Birdwatchers merely go a step further than others and actively seek to be enchanted. This book tells why they take that extra step. It takes the reade...

A new path for Australia, as laid out by eminent economist and author of the bestselling Superpower. Could Australia become a full-employment, renewable-energy superpower? Ross Garnaut says yes, and it starts with taxing carbon. A levy on the big polluters will help fund Australia to become a car...

Jackie Henderson, known to most as 'Jackie O', has graced Australia's airwaves since 1993. Through hard work and openness with her listeners, she rose from minor on-air roles to form one half the country's biggest radio programs alongside controversial co-hosts Kyle Sandilands and 'Ugly Phil' O'N...