Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors...

Written over 350 years ago, 'The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence' is a collection of 300 witty and thought-provoking aphorisms. From the art of being lucky to the healthy use of caution, these elegant maxims were created as a guide to life, with further suggestions given on cultivating good...

Teaching, a profession with one of the highest attrition rates in the nation, is often stressful and relentlessly demanding, but it doesn't have to be. In "See Me After Class, " veteran teacher Roxanna Elden inspires with no-nonsense advice, hang-in-there encouragement, and a healthy dose of humo...

From the unexpected origins of mobile phones, microwave ovens and plastic packaging to the links between Barbie and US missile systems and why Niue, Polynesia is the phone-sex capital of the world, this is a fascinating examination of how much of modern life can be directly traced to one of three...

This is a fascinating narrative that reveals the cosmic forces that have been in play over the past 66 years. Help has come from the outside to preserve the human race. In 1945 when the atomic bombs, our protectors and watchers in outer space saw that Earth was on a collision course with disaster...

"From every corner of the world and all walks of life, readers of 'Conversations with God' have written to Neale Donald Walsch about their own experiences of God's presence in their lives. Their stories of incredible synchronicities, extraordinary coincidental circumstances, and everyday miracles...

Ultimate compendium for trivia buffs.

Have you ever wondered why you do the things you do? In the same way that stars form patterns called constellations, family members and how they interact with each other create behavioural patterns, by tracing these patterns with Family constellation and historical mediumship we can begin to the ...

The first book to cover Krishna's entire life, from his childhood pranks to his final powerful acts in the Mahabharata war - Draws from the Bhagavad Purana, the Bhagavad Gita, the Mahabharata, and India's sacred oral tradition - Shows how the stories of Krishna's life are expressed with such simp...

CHRISTIANITY. Suppose you could ask God any question and get an answer. What would it be? Young people all over the world have been asking those questions. So Neale Donald Walsch, author of the internationally bestselling Conversations with God series had another conversation. "Conversations with...