Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

Every one of us will encounter tough times. There's no escape. This is what it means to be human. But what if there was a way to navigate these more robustly? Enter Stoicism. This ancient Greek philosophy is as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago -- its guiding purpose was to help us to live ...

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions from who we date to how we vote. But this is just the latest front in an ag...

The world is full of books about how to be rich. This is not one of them. Today, many of us are feeling the pinch - and being bombarded with portrayals of social media 'perfection' is making that pinch feel more like a punch. We may know that social media - with all its billionaires and beauty qu...

Whether you want to wow your boss, meet your soulmate, develop self-confidence or keep calm in a crisis, "Crystal Clear" will show you how to do all this and more for a happier, healthier life. Golnaz Alibagi makes choosing the correct crystal easy by organising gems by benefit, with chapters on ...

Divination Rules lists 100 bite-size guidelines for getting the best out of divinatory readings. Covering an array of different techniques including cartomancy, tasseomancy, palmistry, grounding, and numerology, clairvoyant medium Catharine Allan also includes some "rules" for purifying spaces. F...

Empowering Women is the uplifting behind-the-scenes story of how the murder of a man catalysed one abortion-providing clinic's fight to protect women from religious extremists. An army of women responded and forced Parliament to enact a women-centred law that ultimately saw a 2019 landmark High C...

Knowing who, where, and how many of us there are, is a powerful force that helps us understand the way we live now and, as Liz Allen powerfully shows, allows us to create a better future. We know what the population of Australia is. We know where these people live and where they were born. We kno...

"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating." As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. She has seen what has be...

On a foggy November day in 1589, when one of the five daughters of Robert and Elizabeth Throckmorton suddenly fell sick, no one in the small English village of Warboys could have predicted the terrifying events that would follow, or envisaged that four years later, in April 1593, the Throckmorton...