Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

In this exciting volume, the stormy mythologies of the Nordic world are brought to life. With 160 colour images and superb fine-art paintings of the classic stories, this detailed encyclopedia of the myths and legends of the Nordic peoples provides the perfect introduction for students, school li...

During the early colonial era, Australias Aborigines often warned British settlers to beware of huge, ape-like creatures that lurked in the rugged mountains and deep forests of the island continent. Their people, they said, had been encountering the hairy horrors since time immemorial. They knew ...

This book not only looks at the people behind some of the most life-changing ideas of the past 2500, but at those ideas as well.

West Australian. Depicts life in a remote Aboriginal community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Aspects of the Indigenous culture, including family relationships and bush tucker are briefly described.

This book shows how a family changed their world, from their own backyard.

Looking across three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, this work introduces a cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Scott and Helen Nearing, Jimmy Carter and Jane Addams. It finds that nothing is simple about our mercurial devotion to...

With this edition of the TAO TE CHING, an unlikely team of a Japanese art expert and a Greek translator pull off a uniquely powerful version of the text. If one thing marks the language of the original TAO TE CHING, it is linguistic spareness. Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo are the first to ...

This book traces the shifting relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States from 1948 to the present, uncovering for the first time the details of secret alliances, treacherous acts, and unsavoury political manoeuverings that have undermined Middle Eastern stability and disrupted U.S. forei...

In The Twelve Houses, acclaimed astrologer Howard Sasportas explores in detail the experiences and situations associated with each of the houses, describing not only their tangible associations but also the more subtle meanings of each of the different spheres of life. A pioneering volume and a f...