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Art from Adversity: A Life with Bipolar
$17.00 (GST-inc)Art from Adversity shines the spotlight on mental illness, in particular, bipolar disorder. It provides an insight into what it is like to become mentally ill, to ascend into mania, free fall into depression, andfinally emerge profoundly changed by the experience.
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Black McIntosh to Gold
$16.00 (GST-inc)An exquisitely detailed portrayal of settlement Australia in the 1800s, Black McIntosh to Gold spans a century as it traces a family’s migration from a fishing village in the far north of Scotland to the goldfields of New South Wales.
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Blood and Guts
$30.00 (GST-inc)Gloria Burley’s book is a compelling view of our hospital system. A nurse with experience in urban and Outback hospitals, Gloria tells it as she saw it: the dedication of medical professionals doing their best for their patients but also the limitations of people who are after all only human.
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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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Frenchmans Cap: Story of a Mountain
$14.99 (GST-inc)Frenchmans Cap tells the story of Australia’s most majestic mountain and ‘one of the world’s great wilderness walks’ – a must for any modern day adventurer in Tasmania.
Named by convicts in Macquarie Harbour’s infamous prison in the 1820s, Frenchmans Cap has captured the public imagination as an icon of freedom, adventure, and terrifying danger.
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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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Memories of Dr Shinichi Suzuki: Son of His Environment
$16.00 (GST-inc)Suzuki may be a name renowned for automobiles, but this book introduces us to a very different Suzuki – the Suzuki who was a world leader in the teaching of music.
Dr Shinichi Suzuki, creator of “The Suzuki Method”, is well remembered for his extraordinary warmth, care, and sense of humour.
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My Planets: a fictive memoir
$15.00 (GST-inc)Winner, 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Digital Narrative.
Imagine this. You’re 50 years old. An only child, from a Jewish family. The people you thought of as your mother and father are dead.
Then, in the middle of the night you get a phone call from the other side of the planet telling you they’ve found your mother. Alive. Your real mother. Suddenly, you become the oldest of seven across two families. All your assumptions about yourself are swept away.
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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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Paradise Rediscovered
$45.00 (GST-inc)In a long-forgotten era — an age of slavery, of glorious new scientific innovations, revolutionary wonders, warrior heroes, Titans, Druids and bards, magicians, dragons and serpents, of angels and gods
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Paradise Rediscovered Vol. 1
$40.00 (GST-inc)In a long-forgotten era — an age of slavery, of glorious new scientific innovations, revolutionary wonders, warrior heroes, Titans, Druids and bards, magicians, dragons and serpents, of angels and gods
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Paradise Rediscovered Vol. 2
$40.00 (GST-inc)In a long-forgotten era — an age of slavery, of glorious new scientific innovations, revolutionary wonders, warrior heroes, Titans, Druids and bards, magicians, dragons and serpents, of angels and gods
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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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Put the Billy On
$30.00 (GST-inc)Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-Fiction Award.
This memoir is a nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s. Mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence. Audio version performed by Anne Stevenson.
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Sawdust
$15.00 (GST-inc)Deborah Kay teams up with award-winning social issues journalist Barry Levy to provide a courageous and compassionate account of what happened to her, and how she avoided being warped by her experiences, allowing, as she puts it, pockets of sunlight to shine through her.
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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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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.
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Terania Creek: Rainforest Wars
$28.00 (GST-inc)This is the story of a seminal conflict between the forest industry and the conservation movement over rainforests in northern New South Wales. Nigel Turvey deftly presents the perspectives of both camps to draw lessons that have implications wherever environmental and industry interests collide.
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The Australian Dream & $1 Properties
$18.00 (GST-inc)Could you turn $100 into 2,000 properties and land-bank lots? Ridiculous? This book shows you how.
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The Biggest-Ever Mining Swindle in the Colonies
$59.99 (GST-inc)A history of intrigue and corruption in the 1880s at the highest levels in the celebrated Taranganba Gold Mine and the Sydney Company. An essential text for students of the history of resource development in Australia, exhaustively researched.
