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A Place to Read: Life and Books
$16.00 (GST-inc)Cohen’s subjects in A Place to Read can be as commonplace as golfing with close friends, amateur astronomy, birding, or learning to fly at the age of sixty.
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Advices & Queries
$4.00 (GST-inc)Advices and queries designed to challenge and inspire Australian Quakers in their personal lives and in their life as a religious community.
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And Other Essays
$16.00 (GST-inc)In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism.
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Black Books Publishing
$17.00 (GST-inc)PhD student Dylan Cashew abandons his thesis on D. H. Lawrence for the uncertain world of top secret aerospace editing, college teaching and then independent publishing.
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Celtic Catalyst
$25.00 (GST-inc)A skillful blend of Celtic harp, guitar, bass, mandolin, tenor harp, banjo and vocals by Alan S. Ferguson, who breathed Celtic air and music from his youth in Scotland, who now plays in bands in Western Australia, where the meeting of cultural traditions continues.
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Elvene: The Kiri Myth of Ocean Woman
$30.00 (GST-inc)Elvene, a solo Space Corps agent, is on a reconnaissance mission when she is ambushed by space marauders: militaristic robotic drones, designed to hunt and kill.
She escapes by taking refuge on an uncharted planet, where she discovers the Kiri, an unknown tribe living a subsistence life on an ocean archipelago. They have no knowledge of her world nor her of theirs; but they readily adopt her and give her the title of Ocean Woman.
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Faith, Hope & Doubt in Times of Uncertainty: Backhouse Lecture 2008
$8.00 (GST-inc)Given contemporary attacks on religious faith, this lecture asks what are the intellectual resources and sources of spirituality that can sustain us in these times of uncertainty?
It suggests that human moral life is a search to understand and implement that true nature of morality. It is centred in love, with the idea of kenosis playing a key role because of its transformational qualities.
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Finding Our Voice: Backhouse Lecture 2010
$8.00 (GST-inc)The Young Friends (Quakers) give their views on the key issues facing youth today in an effort to encourage spiritual discovery and deep bonding within and outside the Quaker community.
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From Ashes to Ashes
$15.00 (GST-inc)From Ashes to Ashes tells the story of Peter Morrison, son of a school teacher in rural New South Wales. When Peter’s beloved teacher is pushed to enlist in World War II by his father, his boyhood is fractured by trauma and doubt.
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From Cornwall to Moonta: migration and resettlement
$17.00 (GST-inc)In the wake of devastation and poverty left by the Agricultural Revolution, young newlyweds Emma and Benjamin Bowden emigrate to the free colony of South Australia and the promise of a hopeful future.
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From the Inside Out : Observations on Quaker work at the United Nations: Backhouse Lecture 2012
$8.00 (GST-inc)A systematic and inspiring examination of Quakers’ involvement in achieving non-violent international outcomes, e.g. working against landmines and the small arms problem.
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Harold The Owl Who Couldn’t Sleep
$7.00 (GST-inc)After hunting all night, Harold the Owl is ready for a snooze, but just as he starts to fall asleep, the birds start chirping. And then the gardener starts his leaf blower. What’s a sleepy owl to do?
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Ipso Facto
$30.00 (GST-inc)An antidote to The Da Vinci Code, unravels concealed messages in prophetic texts identifying Jesus as the Messiah, using a scholarly approach in tackling some of the most challenging questions surrounding the emergence of Christianity.
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Our Life is Love, and peace and tenderness: 2014 James Backhouse Lecture
$8.00 (GST-inc)(2014 James Backhouse Lecture) The Quakers’ Advices and Queries says to rejoice in the presence of children and recognise their gifts. But how do you share your deepest beliefs with children, while leaving them free to develop as the spirit of God may lead them? This lecture advocates methods such as time in natural outdoor settings and nurturing young leadership and social activism by our kids.
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Paul and Vincent
$6.00 (GST-inc)Based on Gauguin’s reflections of his stormy relationship with Vincent at Arles, France, this audio production brings the personalities of the two artists alive. Based on the extracts from the book Letters We Never Sent by David P. Reiter and the source for the ABC PoeticA production.
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Profiling Leadership Discipline
$15.00 (GST-inc)This book presents the 20 critical leadership disciplines contemporary leaders must consistently demonstrate to be outstanding and to influence the direction and success of those willing to follow.
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Sergio Spaghetti and friends
$8.00 (GST-inc)Sergio Spaghetti tells them he is the “tastiest food in the whole, wide world” and things get even stranger from there, with every food at the table taking on its own personality. The brother realise that eating will never again be boring, and their parents are delighted by their change in attitude. An especially helpful book to encourage reluctant eaters.
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Sexual Abuse Survivor’s Handbook
$30.00 (GST-inc)John Saunders tells, with an open heart, the story of a man confronting and coming to terms with the sexual and physical abuse he endured as a boy at school and at home. The book is an interwoven, moving and insightful memoir, a healing guide for abuse survivors and a practical handbook for those wishing to confront the perpetrators of their own abuse through the justice system and seek compensation.
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Shadow Patterns
$15.00 (GST-inc)Shadow Patterns spans two continents and a lifetime of hopes, fears, laughter, regrets, joys and agonies. Take a journey deep into humanity and lose yourself amongst the simple, life-affirming truths of the characters who will become your fellow travellers.
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Shadows in Paradise
$14.99 (GST-inc)An insightful account of a woman’s perseverance through adoption secrecy and red tape, Shadows in Paradise traces Carolann Dowding’s search for her biological family. Illuminated by compassion, tragedy and gratitude which span the generations, Shadows in Paradise reveals the breadth of our need for truth and connection.
