GENERAL NON FICTION

It isn't called the TOP END for nothing! With witty editing, masterful puns, searing social insight and - when all that fails - the use of the word...

Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world'...

Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emoti...

This is a comic book for grey nomads, fishos and Territorians - and those kids who can't sit still on the back seat during a road trip. A book full...

The main purpose of this book is to give Australian and other readers an unflinching sense of the geo-strategic significance of Darwin and what it ...

In 1870 a colonial government, on the brink of collapse, made an audacious move. South Australia's squabbling politicians briefly put aside their d...

  Crack codes, decipher ciphers and unravel mysteries with this brain-boosting collection of cryptic puzzles, inspired by the brilliant mind of fa...

This publication is part of a broader research project that continues to throw light principally on the migration, settlement and adaptation of Gre...

'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?'  Listening to the whispering in his own heart, He...

First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mi...

A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and updated. The tim...

PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS TO ARRIVE Universities, like other industries, are challenged by disruptive market forces. Today there are nearly forty p...

The author of Fucking Apostrophes takes on another of life's biggest irritations. This is not a book about how to be posh. We have some slightly bi...

Mythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events. Bringing together fifty legends from antiquity to the present, t...

Rivers are the great natural arteries that run through our lives. We have navigated them, dammed them and worshipped at them. From the ancient ecos...

The boundaries between sickness and health are being redrawn. Mental health categories are shifting and expanding all the time, radically altering ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been exa...

Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science – ...

Have you ever wondered whether the assortment of books you have at home is a 'collection'? Do you want to reorganise it? Expand it? Or repair some ...

Australians are known for their informality and laid- back nature and this is reflected in the liberal use of colourful and amusing slang. The True...

The Outback Wrangler takes you on a wild ride, where that special outback flavour of danger, adrenaline and adventure comes together in the persona...

Rescuing endangered species, piloting choppers and coming nose-to-snout with some of Australia's deadliest creatures is all in a day's work for Mat...

Packed with classic lines of vernacular humour and incisive observations, The Dinkum Aussie Dictionary will open your eyes to the strangeness and t...

Looking for a comprehensive guide to the exciting world of deep learning? Look no further than this must-have book! Written by a team of experts, t...