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Brothers and Sisters: Coping with Loss and Grief
$16.00 (GST-inc)When a family member dies, often the response of children is overlooked or underestimated. This very important book makes tangible the range of emotions felt but not completely understood by children for the loss of a parent or sibling. It offers welcome channels of response that can help survivors to not only understand their feelings but also come to grips with the loss and get on positively with their lives.
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Creating hope: Working for justice in catastrophic times
$8.00 (GST-inc)In the 2022 Backhouse Lecture, Yarrow Goodley looks at the critical issue of climate justice—at how our responses to the climate emergency have the potential for great suffering, as well as great redemption. In a world where the rich pollute, and the poor suffer, we do not just need to address our rapidly-warming planet, but also the injustices which drive this environmental catastrophe.
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Dark Sky Dreamings: an Inland Skywriters Anthology
$16.01 (GST-inc)When you look up at a midnight sky, what do you see—mottled stars and a full Moon trying hard to compete with the street lamps for your attention? You might be situated in a city, or its sprawling suburbs, where the ever-present urban glow tends to keep your gaze horizontal, missing out on the beckoning mysteries of the Universe.
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Desert Anzacs: the Under-Told Story
$17.00 (GST-inc)For 100 years, the astounding story of Anzac horsemen, cameleers, aviators, rough riders, medics, vets, light and armoured cars hasn’t been told. Until now.
Championed by Australia’s Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel they overcame early feeble British political and military incompetence. Fast, open conflict, rather than septic trenches, suited their outback upbringing.
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Diamonds and Stones in an Era of Gold
$17.00 (GST-inc)The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and Bendigo in mid-Victoria.
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Everyday Prophets
$15.00 (GST-inc)In the 2016 Backhouse Lecture, Margery Post Abbott explores the interplay between faith and action, drawing on her wide range of experiences as a scholar, activist, sailor and Quaker.
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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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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 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 Cradle to Global Citizen
$17.00 (GST-inc)Psychotherapist Lorraine Rose addresses the pervasive anxiety about where the world is going. In the midst of uncertainty, we are forced back to basics to re-discover tools for living. She identifies anchors that can help us navigate our lives by understanding our needs from the early years and during our developmental path to maturity. She charts an emotional and psychological map from birth to death, focusing on the birth of the personality and pathways that include learning to love and gaining the capacity for intimacy.
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From Fear to Hope: Alternative Australian Narratives of War and Peacemaking
$16.00 (GST-inc)This book scrutinises ‘peace’ and ‘war’ through Australian lenses. It uncovers a deeper understanding of these terms and reflects a desire to bring to light alternative Australian ideas of war and peacemaking. Certain stories have eclipsed others that add importantly to Australia’s history.
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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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Harry Potter Power (or Free your inner power)
$17.00 (GST-inc)Harry Potter Power uses motifs and situations from the popular Harry Potter series and links them to theories and strategies designed to help young people overcome anxiety, anger, depression and grief. It combines a fun and innovative use of well-known Harry Potter icons with more serious advice, reflection material and activities to help young people apply this perspective.
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Hidden Lives: War, Internment and Australia’s Italians
$17.00 (GST-inc)A dark chapter in Australia’s wartime history has often been minimised or overlooked in mainstream history books. This collection of five scholarly essays, and 15 testimonials, offers new insights into the deeply personal experiences of Italian Australians whose families experienced World War II on the home front.
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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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Just Off Message: a 20th Anniversary Anthology
$16.00 (GST-inc)From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices sought an independent publishing house with a global vision and an innovative approach. They found IP.
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Masters and Slaves of Modern Religion
$27.00 (GST-inc)Masters and Slaves of Modern Religion is a bold, inspiring and a brilliant expose of religious cults that can create harm and seriously damage the lives of their adherents and the dangers associated with mind control and how these cults operate.
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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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Mermaids and Monsters
$13.00 (GST-inc)Mermaids and Monsters is a collection of spectacular images by marine photographer Meg Green coupled with inspirational thoughts from humanity’s greatest minds.
