Collection: Nonfiction

Alba used to live a hectic life, working as a book publicist in Florence - a life that made her happy but also left her feeling like a woman constantly on the run. So one day she decides go back to the small village in the Tuscan hills where she was born and open a tiny bookshop. Alba's enterpris...

From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsConfused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone.

Machine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us- approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of genomes, extra-solar planets, even the in...

What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for 40 years? From deserts to rainforests and even the polar Arctic, scientists venture into the field to collect, observe and study the world's organ...

Australian documentary photography was at its height from the 1950s to 1970s. A time of great flux - social, political and cultural - was reflected in the photographs of Max Dupain, Carol Jerrems, William Yang, Rennie Ellis, David Moore, Mervyn Bishop, Sue Ford and others. A time when the gritty ...

The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. Featuring Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Johannes Leak, Sean Leahy, Alan Moir, David Pope, D...

An exhilarating scientific journey, Why Are We Like This? takes us behind the scenes of the evolutionary paradoxes that make up life on this planet.

Before Harry Fisher was Australia's favourite bush cook, he was an accountant who loved nothing more than camping with his mates on the weekend. When it was his turn to cook at camp, though, his mates always dug out their biggest plates. Eventually they just get him do all the cooking. After prov...

Some Answered Questions is a collection of transcriptions of table talks given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in ‘Akká between 1904 and 1906 in response to questions posed by Laura Dreyfus-Barney. The talks address questions in such areas of enquiry as the influence exerted by the Founders of world religions; t...

Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era answers some of the most common questions asked upon first encountering the Bahá'í Faith, as well as offering a glimpse of its exciting potential. Explains how Bahá'u'lláh's teachings lay the foundations of a new era in human affairs, in which world peace will be estab...