Non Fiction Books

Sidebar Sidebar Sidebar
  • Muslim Women and Sport Muslim Women and Sport
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Muslim Women and Sport

    Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and...
    $401.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Making of the Arab Intellectual The Making of the Arab Intellectual
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Making of the Arab Intellectual

    In the wake of the Ottoman Empire's nineteenth-century reforms, as guilds waned and new professions emerged, the scholarly 'estate' underwent social differentiation. Some found employment in the state's new institutions as translators, teachers and...
    $408.87

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • International Secured Transactions Law International Secured Transactions Law
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    International Secured Transactions Law

    This book focuses on international harmonisation and the law of secured transactions by distilling and analysing the unifying principles of various significant international conventions and instruments such as the UN Convention on the Assignment of...
    $413.95

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Archaeology of the Military Orders Archaeology of the Military Orders
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Archaeology of the Military Orders

    Including previously unpublished and little known material, this cutting-edge book presents a detailed discussion of the archaeological evidence of the five military orders in the Latin East:the Hospitallersthe Templarsthe Teutonic Knightsthe Leper...
    $121.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Managing Military Organizations Managing Military Organizations
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Managing Military Organizations

    This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.Examining the challenges faced by policymakers and military commanders in conducting military operations, this book...
    $401.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Googlization of Libraries Googlization of Libraries
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Googlization of Libraries

    This book includes a variety of articles which look critically and judiciously at Google and its products, with a focus on Google Scholar and Google Book Search. It also examines their usefulness in a public service context. Its ultimate aim is to assess...
    $375.76

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Climate Change and Foreign Policy Climate Change and Foreign Policy
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Climate Change and Foreign Policy

    Climate Change and Foreign Policy: Case Studies from East to West and its companion volume, Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, examine and explain the role of foreign policy politics, processes and institutions in efforts to...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Performance in Bali Performance in Bali
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Performance in Bali

    Leon Rubin and I Nyoman Sedana, both international theatre professionals as well as scholars, collaborate to give an understanding of performance culture in Bali from inside and out.The book describes four specific forms of contemporary performance that...
    $121.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Controversies in Local Economic Development Controversies in Local Economic Development
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Controversies in Local Economic Development

    Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a...
    $401.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Screening Gender on Children's Television Screening Gender on Children's Television
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Screening Gender on Children's Television

    Screening Gender on Children's Television offers readers insights into the transformations taking place in the presentation of gender portrayals in television productions aimed at younger audiences. It goes far beyond a critical analysis of the existing...
    $375.76

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Rights, Gender and Family Law Rights, Gender and Family Law
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Rights, Gender and Family Law

    There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights

    This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of developing countries rich in biological and genetic...
    $413.95

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration

    This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Housing and Health in Europe Housing and Health in Europe
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Housing and Health in Europe

    In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important...
    $375.76

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Theory After 'Theory' Theory After 'Theory'
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Theory After 'Theory'

    This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory's new directions, this groundbreaking collection...
    $375.76

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Improving Learning in a Professional Context Improving Learning in a Professional Context
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Improving Learning in a Professional Context

    Improving Learning in a Professional Context provides vital new evidence on exactly how teachers learn to be teachers; evidence that is likely to affect and influence the profession for many years to come. Demonstrating that learning in schools is more...
    $119.12

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

    Despite society's current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children's health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Reclaiming Chinese Society Reclaiming Chinese Society
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Reclaiming Chinese Society

    Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese...
    $126.65

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Decroux Sourcebook The Decroux Sourcebook
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Decroux Sourcebook

    The Decroux Sourcebook is the first point of reference for any student of the 'hidden master' of twentieth century theatre. This book collates a wealth of key material on Etienne Decroux, including:an English translation of Patrice Pezin's 'Imaginary...
    $100.31

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Leadership Mindsets Leadership Mindsets
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Leadership Mindsets

    The evidence is clear - school leaders make a difference to the learning of the pupils they serve. And yet, not all leaders have the same degree of impact. What are the factors that make the difference to student learning? Why are some leaders able to...
    $104.82

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Muslims in Singapore Muslims in Singapore
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Muslims in Singapore

    This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are...
    $413.95

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Intangible Heritage Intangible Heritage
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Intangible Heritage

    This volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of 'intangible heritage' to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It...
    $375.76

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

    Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality

    This book explores the discursive constructions of gender equality and the implications of these understandings in a broad range of policy fields.Using gender equality as a prime example, a number of internationally renowned scholars offer a new...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design

    Developments in Earthquake Engineering have focussed on the capacity and response of structures. They often overlook the importance of seismological knowledge to earthquake-proofing of design. It is not enough only to understand the anatomy of the...
    $530.99

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • On Death and Dying On Death and Dying
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    On Death and Dying

    Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of bereavement. The five stages were first identified by Elisabeth...
    $87.77

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire

    This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Sufis in Western Society Sufis in Western Society
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Sufis in Western Society

    In recent years Sufism has undergone something of a revival as a spiritual alternative to other manifestations of Islam. This book investigates the development of Sufism in Western societies, with a regional focus on North America and Europe. Exploring a...
    $401.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Arguing about Disability Arguing about Disability
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Arguing about Disability

    Disability is a thorny and muddled concept - especially in the field of disability studies - and social accounts contest with more traditional biologically based approaches in highly politicized debates. Sustained theoretical scrutiny has sometimes been...
    $401.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Chinese Male Homosexualities Chinese Male Homosexualities
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Chinese Male Homosexualities

    This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the...
    $401.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Gothic Romanced Gothic Romanced
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Gothic Romanced

    The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study, Fred Botting re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in...
    $105.32

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Child That Haunts Us The Child That Haunts Us
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Child That Haunts Us

    The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children's literature. Jung argued that the child archetype should never be mistaken for the 'real' child. In...
    $90.29

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Participation in Environmental Organizations Participation in Environmental Organizations
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Participation in Environmental Organizations

    For decades, social scientists have searched for factors that shape pro-environmentalbehaviour. However, only a few studies have investigated the causes andconsequences of participation in environmental organizations. This book fills the gap by analysing...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Veena Dhanammal Veena Dhanammal
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Veena Dhanammal

    This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866-1938), considered the embodiment of 'classicism' in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural, social and intellectual milieu she inhabited, allowing readers to track the...
    $97.80

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Survival 49.4 Survival 49.4
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Survival 49.4

    Survival, the Institute of Strategic Studies' quarterly journal, is a leading forum for analysis and debate of international and strategic affairs. With a diverse range of authors, eight to ten articles per issue, plus thoughtful reviews and review...
    $85.26

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses

    Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2010 BMA Medical Book Awards!Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Schizophrenic Psychoses brings together professionals from around the world to provide an extensive overview of the treatment of schizophrenia...
    $124.13

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Human Resource Development in Small Organisations Human Resource Development in Small Organisations
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Human Resource Development in Small Organisations

    In its description and analysis of the current context of research and practice of HRD in small organizations, this collection of essays provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation of current approaches. This evaluation leads to an exploration of a...
    $121.63

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Globalization, Knowledge and Labour Globalization, Knowledge and Labour
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Globalization, Knowledge and Labour

    This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the cartography upon which social struggle takes place...
    $413.95

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Irigaray for Architects Irigaray for Architects
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Irigaray for Architects

    Specifically for architects, the third title in the Thinkers for Architects series examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray's work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore the bodily, spatio-temporal, political and cultural value of her ideas for...
    $75.86

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Lawscape Lawscape
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Lawscape

    Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies. Addressing law's relationship to land and natural resources through its property regime, Lawscape engages the...
    $413.95

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Analysis of Linear Economic Systems The Analysis of Linear Economic Systems
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Analysis of Linear Economic Systems

    Maurice Potron (1872-1942), a French Jesuit mathematician, constructed and analyzed a highly original, but virtually unknown economic model. This book presents translated versions of all his economic writings, preceded by a long introduction which...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Contemporary Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics Contemporary Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Contemporary Sport, Leisure and Ergonomics

    Understanding the 'human operator' is a central concern of both ergonomists and sport and exercise scientists. This cutting-edge collection of international research papers explores the interface between physical, cognitive and occupational ergonomics...
    $491.57

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Religion in Contemporary China Religion in Contemporary China
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Religion in Contemporary China

    Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other...
    $388.08

    Add to Cart The item has been added

Explore the Best Non-Fiction Books

Discover a world of knowledge and inspiration with BookLoop’s expansive range of non-fiction books. Whether you're looking to improve your health, expand your understanding of the world, or find expert guides on hobbies, careers, or science, our curated categories cater to all interests and stages of life.

Arts, Antiques and Design Books

From the timeless elegance of antiques and vintage collectables to cutting-edge architecture and design books, explore how creativity shapes our everyday surroundings.

Mind, Body, and Personal Growth Books

Support your wellbeing with books on mind, body and spirit, or delve into biographies and true stories of remarkable people. Our health, relationships and personal development section offers everything from mindfulness to practical self-help guides.

Transport, Technology and Computing Books

Explore titles for fans of cars, boats and roads, or dive into the fast-paced world of computing and information technology.

Cooking, Business and Home Life Books

Find the best cookbooks and food guides, or master your finances and leadership with finance, business and management books. For practical know-how, explore home maintenance and lifestyle and fashion titles.

Gardening, History and Science Books

Unearth wisdom with gardening books or uncover our past with history and archaeology titles. Curious minds will enjoy mathematics and science books that make complex ideas accessible.

Medicine, Law and Education Books

Our range of medical and nursing books includes reference materials and textbooks. Understand the legal world with titles from Australian law, international law, and study guides.

Nature, Philosophy and Travel Books

Explore the natural world with our nature and environment collection. Engage with deep ideas in philosophy and religion, or plan your next escape with insightful travel books.

Entertainment, Games and Society Books

Discover joy in humour, quizzes, hobbies and games, and sports. Stay informed with accessible reads on social sciences, economics and more.

BookLoop makes it easy to find the best non-fiction books in Australia, offering fast shipping and a huge selection across all topics. Browse today and find books that inform, inspire and empower.