Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

Every year as Collingwood prepares to play Essendon at the AFL's annual Anzac Day match, Collingwood's president, Eddie McGuire carries an old horseshoe into the team's changing rooms and passes it around.

Taking you from the earliest feature films to today, Colours of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that colour played in their success. The use of colour is an essential part of film. It has the power to evoke powerful emotions, provide subtle psychological symbolism a...

"The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture-from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire. The music that we would later kn...

Geoff Lemon takes on The Comeback Summer of cricket, in this gripping follow-up to the multi-award-winning Steve Smith's Men. At the height of the 2019 season, the biggest names in Australian and English cricket faced off for sporting glory -- and public forgiveness. It was always going to be a s...

A celebration of and behind-the-scenes look at Jerry Seinfeld's groundbreaking streaming series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Over eleven seasons and eighty-four episodes, Jerry Seinfeld drove around in classic cars, grabbing coffee and chatting with the funniest people alive. He reminisced w...

A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to dance; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music. 'Comparing Notes' explains why we are all musical, how music makes sense and why abstract patterns of sound that don't actually mean anything have come to play such a cent...

This is a treasure trove of random knowledge. Covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream, inside you will find a discussion of how one might determine the most average-sized country in the world; details of humanity's most ridiculous wars; and, a...

"Master the techniques of aikido with this illustrated martial arts guide. Complete Aikido is the authoritative text on this enlightening martial art and self-defense system. This definitive aikido guide is packed with history and philosophy and offers precise descriptions with over 400 photograp...