Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

This is a significant resource, detailing most aspects of traditional Aboriginal culture. It is an easy to read well illustrated book.

Australia is home to many distinctive species of birds, and Aboriginal peoples have developed close alliances with them over the millennia of their occupation of this country. Aboriginal Peoples and Birds in Australia: Historical and Cultural Relationships provides a review of the broad physical,...

Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story.

The Accounting and Finance Creelman Exam Questions provides a structured resource, using the actual Accounting and Finance WACE exam questions from previous years to help you prepare for your ATAR exams. This format ensures you become familiar with all the Accounting and Finance ATAR syllabus and...

This study guide covers the Accounting and Finance ATAR Units 1 and 2. The content of the revised edition has been updated to meet the latest Australian Accounting Standards. The guide has deliberately been kept short so that students use it and view it as a manageable revision tool and not just ...

This study guide covers the Accounting and Finance ATAR Units 3 and 4. The purpose of this guide is to assist students in their preparation for tests and examinations in the ATAR Accounting & Finance course for year 12 students. The guide has deliberately been kept short so that students use it a...

Join the 'Mystery School' for your first week of learning and explore the most fascinating story and mystery of all: you! Bring your curiosity and enthusiasm, and prepare to open your mind. Learn, over five days, how to observe your life from an artist's point of view, and meet the real face behi...

Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says about us. From the chronological numbers of Tokyo to the naming of Bobby Sands Street in Iran, she explores how our address...

When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won't get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the worl...

An estimated 40 million people are modern-day slaves, more than ever before in human history. Long after slavery was officially abolished, the practice not only continues but thrives. Whether they are women in electronics or apparel sweatshops, children in brick kilns or on cocoa farms, or men tr...