Collection: Non Fiction

The Causes of War is one of Geoffrey Blainey's most influential books, carried in corridors of power around the world. This edition has been updated for our times.

Emphasizes current technology in providing information on the invention, manufacturing, and future uses of thirty common high-interest products.

Museum Berggruen, part of Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, is one of the most exceptional modernist collections in the world. The collection, which was built across decades by collector and art dealer Heinz Berggruen, includes masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Braque, Paul Cezanne,...

An award-winning tennis writer tells the story of the end of one epic era in the sport, and the birth of another.For more than two decades, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer collectively dominated mens tennis.

Wry, off-beat and subversive - a Jewish family memoir like no other, from the author of the cult classic novel SubmarineJoe Dunthorne's great-grandfather was a family legend- the eccentric pre-war inventor of radioactive toothpaste and the Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany und...

Who are the greatest Australian race horses? And what qualifies them for this honour? Racing enthusiast and award winning writer Andrew Rule has the answers.

A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the NazisIn the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Winston Churchill found himself out of government and with little power.

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs ou...