Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? And, what can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advant...

A collection of 101 stories for people going through a divorce, covering every phase from starting the separation to negotiating terms, to telling family and friends, to moving on with life, dating and remarriage. Includes stories from ex-wives, ex-husbands, and children.

China is a vast country and consequently different customs and ways of looking at the world have gradually developed over the long course of Chinese history. Today these customs have become permanent traditions, ingrained in society as an integral part of Chinese culture. This illustrated book in...

When was Aotearoa discovered? - How was Maori society organised in pre-European times? - What is traditional Maori art? - How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today? History and culture, from the great Polynesian migration to present-day sport and politics, are explored in this introduction ...

"Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is best-known today for her Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction. But as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. For her, headline events were also the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim wo...

Looking at the customs and culture of India and what makes it special.

Discover the fascinating world of these bloodthirsty creatures. No other supernatural creature is as shocking or as frightening as the vampire. Neither living nor dead, it creeps out of its grave to suck the blood of the living while they sleep. About 300 years ago, vampires came out of the shado...

With their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, Guy Claxton shows why today's schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, Claxton proves that education's key responsibility should be to create con...

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...