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The baby started to come out. Head first, everything OK. But then I saw that there were no arms. And then no legs. The little girl had only a torso and a head. Lyn Rowe was born in Melbourne in 1962, seven months after her mother Wendy was given a new wonder drug for morning sickness called...

Beset by spin and the battle to win each news cycle, contemporary politics is mired in short-term thinking. Too little time is given to considering creative ways in which we could tackle key issues—a lagging education system, the destruction of our coastlines, Asia’s economic ascendancy—in the...

"There is a secret in life .... we all have a great hand in the forming of our own destiny." ~Dolley Madison    You've sung or heard the lyrics to the National Anthem hundreds of times, but how well do you know the story behind the Nation's song? In America's Star Spangled...

The Book of Resolutions provides models for applying an active faith to daily life in ways that can impact the world around us. It contains all current social policies adopted by the General Conference of The United Methodist Church. Find positions on more than 200 subjects, organized into...

The Book of Resolutions provides models for applying an active faith to daily life in ways that can impact the world around us. The new Book of Resolutions contains all current social policies adopted by the General Conference of The United Methodist Church. Includes positions on more than...

I have knocked on flyscreens and said to mothers of kidnapped toddlers, ‘Don’t you feel guilty for leaving your child in the front yard alone?’ I have shamed them to tears for the photographer. I have gatecrashed funerals, linked innocent corpses to local crime syndicates. Or feigned empathy...

Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and press the right button, the route is illuminated before us in electric clarity. Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast...

I want to die. I do not want to be mad...It is like my body is a house, and some visitor has come, and attacked the person who lived there. After an Australian patrol officer commits suicide on a remote New Guinea island in 1959, five witnesses are called to a government inquiry. Each has a...

It’s 1838 and London is gripped by orchid fever. Charles Darwin’s diary turns up Higgins’s bookshop, closely followed by two ex-bodysnatchers and a peculiar fellow with small teeth. Why do they want the diary? Could it have something to do with the terrifying painting of an orchid it...

An evil queen and her salivating hounds are on the hunt. A fugitive young girl and her owl companion flee across the Wilderness of Zin. Will they elude the queen’s grasp and reach the refuge of distant Mt. Horeb before they are captured? How will they find their way through the strange enchanted...

“What Do You See In The Mirror?" Is a timely book designed to mature your walk with God and develop your senses to quickly identify good from evil. It's content will encourage you to do what is good to overcome evil. This book is thought provoking and designed to empower you to know who you...

It was the end of an era; a year of 'outlandish happenings'; a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small town on the Mornington Peninsula. His teacher and dad are giving him a hard time, his neighbour Squid keeps getting him into trouble,...

"End of the Trail" is an autobiographical account of Route 66 enthusiast Rice's eight-year struggle with Traumatic Brain Injury. His Hollywood life and high-paced track to a Ph.D. in Psychology was abruptly derailed in 2002 when he suffered severe brain injuries in a near-fatal car accident,...

In a book that was written in the everyday language of parents but acclaimed by academics, ‘The Illusion of Education’ goes deep into the education psyche to discover what is really wrong with school systems throughout the world. It examines the difficulties faced by teachers trying to bring order...