Collection: Nonfiction

Focusing on the Baroque period, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this style.

Drawing on oral history, captures the experiences of stockmen and skiers, scientists and surveyors, dam builders and brumby runners to paint a vivid picture of how people were shaped by the mountain environment and endeavoured to shape it.

This account of the explosion of the Challenger spacecraft is written in a graphic comic book format for young school children. Exciting illustrations follow the events of the famous Challenger disaster using brightly colored panels & leveled text.

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.