Collection: Nonfiction

Cambridge Legal Studies Stage 6 Sixth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of the syllabus, including all seven options in the Year 12 course. The most widely covered HSC options are included in the student print text, while the extended digital version includes additional topics and chapters....

This comprehensive guide to Australian Coins Banknote Values contains over 1800 photographs, and thousand of valuations. This book is a must for all collectors, whether you are an advanced collector or a beginner. Latest information compiled on computer databases ensures up to date accuracy of pr...

Actor, comedian, raconteur, writer, poet, painter, songwriter, music lover and one of the most gifted artists of the last century, Barry Humphries was an Australian global superstar. In this affectionate tribute, Rowan Dean, one of the last people to spend time alone with his friend Barry, remini...

Beautiful, bewitching and an exceptionally good photographer, Lee Miller was one of life's adventurers. She became a Vogue cover girl in 1920s New York before embracing Paris, photography and Surrealism, and then dramatically changed her life yet again, reinventing herself as a war correspondent...

Jen Chillingsworth shows you how to get the most out of the season and make considered choices in how you prepare, decorate and gift this Christmas. Featuring 30 projects, this practical, illustrated book showcases simple changes you can make for a greener Christmas. Jen offers achievable advice ...

Ollie has a house in his tummy where his feelings live. One day, a new feelings comes to stay in Ollie's house - and it doesn't act like any of Ollie's other feelings. Can ollie and this new feeling find a way to come together? This is a tender and refreshingly hoenst book about pregnancy and ba...

The modernist RSL club, the Art Deco cinema, the stilted Queenslander or the elaborate Edwardian. The iconography of Australia's regional towns is familiar to many of us, whether we live, work and play in these places, or just journey through. A distinctive Australian architecture has developed, ...

Drawing on recipes, food editorials and readers' memories, A Matter of Taste is a celebration of the Australian Women's Weekly's vital role in the development of Australian food culture, debunking the myth that Australian food was 'bland' and 'boring' prior to postwar migration, and illuminating ...

This anthology, now in its fourteenth year, selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating science stories from Australian writers, poets and scientists. "The Best Australian Science Writing 2024" anthologises another major year in science. From AI to the climate crisis, the lo...

Indigenous artists from across the planet provide truth-telling about the past and inspiration to imagine better futures.marramarra (a Wiradjuri word meaning to create, make or do) explores how contemporary Indigenous artists and their communities are revealing hidden histories and finding pathwa...