Collection: Adult Non Fiction

This is an all-you-need-to-know book about hearing loss and deafness, including facts, experiences and words of wisdom from experts at the RNID, audiologists, deaf activists and people who use and teach sign language. Having been on her own deaf journey, Samantha Baines has met wonderful, interes...

Plan your trip to west coast Australia with this collection of unforgettable experiences. Discover under-the-radar places and fresh perspectives, then string together the unique experiences that suit you. Also includes tips from in-the-know locals and information on travelling responsibly.

Grace is both mysterious and hard to define. It can be found when we create ways to find meaning and dignity in connection with each other, building on our shared humanity, being kinder, bigger, better with each other. If, in its crudest interpretation, karma is getting what you deserve, then gra...

We now know just how much we should treasure the times when we feel happy, content and at peace. When we feel this way we seek out life's experiences with a sense of optimism and hope. But how do we move forward with life now that everything has changed? Now that we appreciate just how fragile an...

COOKERY BY INGREDIENT. "The Coconut Kitchen" explores the rising star of the world's superfood movement and one of nature's most versatile foods. Author Meredith Baird, one of the key authorities in the raw food movement for the last decade, touches upon the endless array of health benefits that ...

In The Wisdom of Women, Candida celebrates all the wisdom and nurturing supportive female friends, family, mentors, and even strangers, can bring to our lives. With great deftness she weaves the tapestry of her life around the experiences of other women, who freely share their stories of kindness...

How did sex begin? How did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence does our genetic ancestry have on our love life today? And what might sex look like in the future? Sex traces where all the facets of human sexuality came from, starting at the creation of sex approximately...

When calculating income necessary for retirement, experts provide a dollar figure excluding rent and mortgage repayments. That's right! They assume that most Australians will have paid off their family home by the time they stop working. This is no longer the case. Home-ownership rates are declin...

Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm? This is the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their male colleagues and filed stories from the ...

Newspaper editor Jill Baker arrived home to find her husband George dead on the bedroom floor. Then - while still in shock - she was diagnosed with breast cancer and given odds on being alive in five years' time. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation followed during Jill's extraordinary year from h...