Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

SELF-HELP & PRACTICAL INTERESTS. Do you know how to change a tyre? Give a speech? Or shave without leaving a nasty rash? How about ironing a shirt? Urinal etiquette? Stuck on the verge of a major motorway with a punctured tyre after swerving to avoid a low-flying pigeon, Gareth was confronted wit...

The year 2020 began with fire-fuelled orange skies over Australia and parts of New Zealand, before nations prepared for COVID-19 to hit their shores. What ensued was crisis: a pandemic, political upheaval, an international human rights movement, global recession and localised emergencies dwarfed ...

An imagining of what the world could look like in 2040, if we all decided to start doing things differently, right now. A meticulously researched plea for the adoption of community-building, energy-generating, connection-forging, forest-renewing, ocean-replenishing measures that science tells us ...

Discover how to use affirmations to soothe your soul and heal your body in just 21 days. Louise Hay's teachings on affirmations have provided techniques that have comforted and healed countless people. 21 Days to Unlock the Power of Affirmations makes this infinitely powerful skill easy and quick...

Crystals have long been known to have unique healing and energetic properties but how can we use them in our day-to-day lives? Discover a powerful distillation of Judy Hall's wisdom in this short, practical guide to using the remarkable powers of crystals. You'll look at a wide range specific cry...

From spiders to stinging nettles, bees to boy bands and twins to thermal undies, you'll wonder why these questions hadn't occurred to you before but you'll never forget the answers and will want to share them with all your friends. Which lottery numbers should I pick? Is it true that we are made ...

30-Second Religion decants and demystifies the key beliefs, deities, origins, and iconography of the worlds major religions, denominations, and less widespread sects and cults. Whether you wish to understand the key differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, to glimpse the many gods of Hi...

Did you know that: A giraffe can lick its own ears clean? You can weigh your head by putting it in a bucket of water? Astronauts urinate into a vacuum cleaner? What the encyclopaedia was to the 20th century, this book is to the 21st. Twelve elegantly designed chapters brim with 321 fascinating - ...

In this day and age we are bombarded on a daily, sometimes hourly basis with things and ways in which we could be doing better: better ways to save the planet, better ways to eat, better ways to give back. With this constant tirade of often conflicting messages, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, pow...

You may think that living sustainably is too hard and expensive, but that's not the case! In 365+ Ways to Save the Planet and Your Money at the Same Time, Banish founder Lottie Dalziel offers you all the best ideas to help you be kind to the earth and your bank account. Every part of life is cove...