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Timelord Dreaming: tweetems from ward 8b
$13.00 (GST-inc)Winner: 2016 Western Australia Premier’s Award
Timelord Dreaming uses “tweetems”, microtexts with Internet call-outs, to recreate one man’s journey through the parallel universes of patient and personal identity. If you’ve ever been hospitalised, you’ll find much that is familiar — and not always comfortable — here.
Dr David P Reiter won the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Award for My Planets Reunion Memoir. Timelord Dreaming continues his innovative work in the frontier between text and digital media.
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To Hang Out The Washing
$17.00 (GST-inc)To Hang Out the Washing is a remarkable account about World War II by a man whose memories are as vivid today as they were authentically lived more than seventy-five years ago.
The young soldier’s journey begins in Birmingham UK in 1940 during the Battle of Britain and concludes in Germany in 1945.
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Tools for Hard Conversations in the Helping Professions
$16.01 (GST-inc)Tools For Hard Conversations will help professionals who routinely have hard conversations in the course of their work. It is a guide for how to have these types of conversations, while avoiding the compassion-fatigue and burnout that often comes with these roles. It goes into depth about the philosophies, approaches and practical tools that enable workers to help people more effectively without sacrificing their own well-being.
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Tripping with Nathan: A Different Love Story
$16.00 (GST-inc)Born with cerebral palsy, Nathan spent his life in a wheelchair, requiring 24/7 care. He and his parents were up against government inertia and entrenched community attitudes that stigmatise the disabled rather than seeing their potential to live life to its fullest. Nevertheless, Nathan and his parents saw the Rolling Stones, visited orangutans in Borneo, travelled to Costa Rica, the USA and Fiji, and went skiing in Falls Creek. He was even given a starring role in the Commonwealth Games as one of the opening ceremony dancers.
This is a story of resilience and determination, with lessons that will help us all understand that people with disabilities have an inalienable right to contribute in the community in which they live.
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Washing Up in Malta
$18.00 (GST-inc)Washing up in Malta is an intimate story of two women and their relationship with the tiny island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea.
Grace leaves Malta prior to WW2 and marries her Scottish sailor. Her daughter, Jessica, returns after a lifetime of travel. Two different lives reflect a century of turmoil and social change yet mother and daughter share resilience and love in finding their own paths.
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Winning Short Story Competitions
$25.00 (GST-inc)A short story writing guide authored by editors and competition judges L. E. Daniels & C. Sawyer. Short fiction is in demand. Submission calls are global and a few publications will light up your portfolio. Collectively, L. E. Daniels and C.
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Wobbles: An Olympic Story
$15.00 (GST-inc)Wobbles spans the physical, psychological and spiritual growth of an athlete from childhood into her stature as a fierce, Olympic competitor.
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Workplace Mentoring
$15.00 (GST-inc)Provides a process by which mentoring plans can be developed, monitored and evaluated in the workplace. Geared to supervisors or colleagues responsible for mentoring.
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Yoga Happiness: A Path for Transformation
$15.00 (GST-inc)Yoga Happiness: A Path for Transformation provides an insightful companion resource that propels you towards happiness transformation. Syntheses of ancient yoga principles and Eastern philosophies are easily defined to challenge our unwanted negative patterns.
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You Only Want Me for My Mind and other bedtime stories
$16.00 (GST-inc)You Only Want Me for My Mind reveals a quirky boy born not only with cerebral palsy but with an uncanny ability to overcome obstacles and mobilise people. In a world reminiscent of My Left Foot and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, we watch him laugh off the verdicts of the experts as he grows towards a life of his choosing – as an independent artist, writer and mentor for young people.
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Your eBook Survival Kit (4th ed.)
$13.00 (GST-inc)A practical, no-nonsense guide into the essentials of composing and publishing eBooks. The Kit provides advice and step-by-step instructions on how to set up a file for conversion into the dominant formats of ePub, mobi (Kindle), optimized pdf as well as the new Fixed Layout formats suitable for spread-oriented books.
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Zero Hour: A Countdown to the Collapse Of South Africa’s Apartheid System
$30.00 (GST-inc)This enlightening book focuses on the history of how the ethnic groups of Africa, eventually joined by white colonizers from Europe, created the seedbed for the hateful apartheid system in Southern Africa. The reader learns how apartheid began, the dehumanizing effects it had on the black population, and how it was finally abolished in its ‘zero hour’ in 1994.
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从摇篮到世界公民 . 在动荡的时代中寻找出路
$17.00 (GST-inc)罗琳·罗斯阐明了我们对世界走向的普遍焦虑。我们身处于不确定性中，被迫回归本源，去重新发现我们赖以生存的手段。通过了解人类在早年时期以及走向成熟的成长过程中产生的各种需求，她确定出了那些可以帮助我们驾驭人生的精神支柱。并且她绘制了一张从出生到死亡的情感和心理地图，重点关注人格的诞生和成长路径的形成，其中包括学会爱和获得建立亲密关系的能力。
随着心理学实践方面不断取得进步，我们现在更有可能将前语言自我带入意识中，这样可以更好地理解我们的本性和需求。作为成年人，那些错过情感发展里程碑的人可以重新审视他们的早年经历，从而解决那些影响他们走向成熟、人际关系质量和情绪调节能力的问题。
