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4 Pillars: Creating a Life on YOUR Terms
$16.00 (GST-inc)The 4 Pillars offers a template on how to shape your life towards fulfilment in these areas; where you learn to master your health, take control of your relationships, grow your finances and develop a clear and positive mindset.
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A Compulsion to Kill
$17.00 (GST-inc)A Compulsion to Kill is a dramatic chronological account of 19th-century Tasmanian serial murderers. Never before revealed in such depth, the story is the culmination of extensive research and adept craftsmanship as it probes the essence of both the crimes and the killers themselves.
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A Demanding and Uncertain Adventure: Backhouse Lecture 2011
$8.00 (GST-inc)The 2011 James Backhouse lecture is concerned with developing a theological response to the need to adopt more sustainable practices such as permaculture to ensure that all people have a reliable supply of food.
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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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Animating freedom: Accompanying Indigenous struggles for self-determination
$8.00 (GST-inc)In the 2019 Backhouse Lecture, Jason shares what he has learnt about accompanying West Papuans – and to a lesser extent Aboriginal people, Bougainvilleans and East Timorese – in their struggle for self-determination.
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Bali, 50 Years of changes – A Conversation with Jean Couteau
$16.00 (GST-inc)The conversation in this book deals with the impact of modern life on Balinese society over the past 50 years. Eric Buvelot, journalist and 13 years’ editor of La Gazette de Bali, interviews Jean Couteau, an observer of Bali for over 40 years, author of many books, and national columnist for Kompas.
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Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran
$16.00 (GST-inc)Dr Dolan’s book details the intimate lives of four Iranian women, their struggle with drugs and the daily grind they faced in their personal lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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No One’s Child
$30.11 (GST-inc)Following the success of her intriguing memoir set in Singapore and Malaya, The Girl with the Cardboard Port, Judith McNeil returns to her homeland Australia in No One’s Child.
This is the remarkable story of her childhood as a ‘railway brat’, growing up along the rail tracks in small towns while her father worked on the lines.
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Port Development & Commodity Potential, Vol. 2
$16.00 (GST-inc)Volume 2 of this series on port and commodity development in East Java Provincial, Indonesia, reports on the current state of infrastucture in terms of transport connectivity between port facilities and what needs to be done to improve the movement of goods and accessibility to tourist attractions in this area of Indonesia.
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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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Saint Peter V Nero 666
$13.00 (GST-inc)pagan priests proclaimed that Nero was a living god, whilst
hundreds of years after his death the Christian Church branded him as the
Antichrist who would one day return to wreak havoc and destruction upon
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The Australia-First Movement
$17.00 (GST-inc)Australia First is a good slogan that has been adopted by several quite different political ideologies. This book deals with the movement that began in a small way before 1914, developed slowly from about 1936, and came to an abrupt and inglorious end in March 1942. It grew out of the Victorian Socialist Party and the Rationalist Association
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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 Controversial Bernborough: Was He Australia’s Greatest Racehorse?
$16.00 (GST-inc)The story of Bernborough is an uplifting one, decked with highs and lows, focused around the life of a phenomenal Australian racehorse. Played out from the beginning of World War II, the story includes several colourful characters along the way.
