Connor Court: 37 books

Art & Life contains extracts from diaries, letters, essays, travelogues and poetry written by Elizabeth Durack (19152000) over the course of seven decades. With wit and candour, the writing reveals some of the most important influences and episodes and the paradox of her life. Durack read and travelled...

Why are Australian Intellectuals and academics so hostile to contemporary Australian life? Why do they so often hold disparaging views of their fellow Australians? This was not always the case. In the nineteenth century Australians of an intellectual disposition sought to work with their fellow Australians...

Assembled for the first time in one collection are some of the major writings of Jerome W Berryman, fourth generation interpreter of the Montessori tradition, and founder of Godly Play an approach to religious education and the pastoral care of children which is today being drawn upon all over the world....

Policy in Bioethics develops when people can reach agreement. We make progress when we listen to each other. About Bioethics, as the first of a series, explains the different secular and theological approaches to Bioethics, seeking to identify strengths as well as weaknesses because it is the strengths...

Foreword by Robyn Young - School of Psychology, Flinders University and Jon Martin, Chief Executive Officer, The Autism Association of Sth Australia. With a Preface by Jason Leffers, Clinical Psychologist. This book is an autobiographical account of one familys journey through the puzzling maze of autism,...

Australians are being asked to accept a breathtakingly subversive redefinition of marriage, parenting, family and gender, with consequences for core liberties and our children’s education; yet when we raise concerns we are called ‘bigots’. We are branded as ‘haters’ for defending a child’s...

This new book “Organics in the global food chain” is a long overdue scholarly treatment of organic food in its many derivations. It provides a multifaceted view of the obscure but growing concept of organic food in our food chain. Todays society has a greater appreciation of quality in what we eat...

"We need to support those who tell the truth" - Bess Nungarrayi Price. There is a reluctance to scrutinise and address the fundamental cultural generators of Aboriginal violence. Where violence is seen as part of culture, too often it is defended as the cultures right to practice it. Above all, the separatist...

The plot for ‘The Digital Apocalypse’ was conceived after reading ‘Heaven and Earth’ written by Ian Plimer. Winston Frobisher, a social historian, experiences triumphs and tragedies as he navigates through an increasingly digital world of unprecedented social and technological change that challenges...