Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs

What will the world look like in 2050? How will complex forces of change - demography, the environment, finance, technology and ideas about governance - affect our global society? And how, with so many unknowns, should we think about the future? One of Europe's foremost voices on global trends in...

The World Is Not Big Enough is the story of one woman's journey to understand the human cost of a broken system. At once an investigation into the murder of a refugee and an exploration of Australians' collective guilt, The World Is Not Big Enough explores the ways we are all hurt by migration po...

An essential guide to religion that explores and explains the history and key teachings of the world's main religions - Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism - alongside ancient and little-known beliefs Learn everything you need to know about the central practices, important figure...

Many would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in "empty lands" somewhere else has often been proposed as a solution to growing contradictions. The lands were never empty. Sometimes the settlement communities failed miserably and sometimes they prospered and ...

World War Bloody Timor gives a revealing insight into the extraordinary life of the everyday digger and service in a conflict that was far from ordinary. My name is Peter O'Hanlon, but everyone in the military, from the lowest digger to the highest officer, has always called me 'Irish'. You won't...

New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows why this time really is different. Advances in artificial i...

"Whether sudden or years in the making, divorce can leave families with a lot of pain and uncertainty -- and with the children in the mix, the stakes are even higher. Enter author Paul Mandelstein, the divorced father of four children and founder of the Father Resource Network (FRN). In [this boo...

Write Your Own Horoscope is DIY astrology. Become an expert astrologer and master of your own life with this no-nonsense, destiny-defining guide. Become the master of your own life and destiny with Write Your Own Horoscope. Your horoscope is both an astrological blueprint and a guide to your futu...