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by Petrea King
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
'Petrea King is one of those rare Australians who have changed the country for the better.' Richard Glover
As a child Petrea King was dogged by health issues, spending months in hospital over many years. After leaving school, her desire to help others impelled her to become a nurse, then later...
The Intimacy of Death and Dying
Simple guidance to help you through
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
When someone we love dies suddenly, or after a serious illness, we're often left wondering if we could have done more. How prepared are we to care for loved ones, talk to children about death, deal with the death of young and old, and honour someone's life?
In this uplifting book, filled with...
Drug Repair That Works
How to reclaim your health, happiness and highs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Drawing on his long-term expertise, Jost Sauer presents readers with a powerful, practical, step-by-step recovery regime and a wealth of case studies, which deal with a whole range of drug issues including:
* why drug experiences aren't wasted
* what's really going on in psychotic episodes
*...
Perfect Day Plan
Unlock the secrets of your body clock
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
What if you were able to unlock the secret to a perfect day? What if you knew the best time to eat and sleep, to exercise, to relax, when to do your most demanding work, let go the past, come up with good ideas, and everything else that would make life perfect?
Based on the principles of ancient...
Island Nurses
Stories of birth, life and death on remote Great Barrier Island
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson live and work on remote Great Barrier Island-so called because it faces the full brunt of the wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 kilometres away. With a population of about 1000, no reticulated electricity, no ATM machine, no street...
Gittins
A life among budgets, bulldust and bastardry
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
For forty years Ross Gittins has had a ringside seat as the Australian economy has gone through radical change. He's covered forty budgets and sixteen elections, he's watched thirteen treasurers and eight prime ministers wrestle with boom and recession, debts and deficits. Few economic journalists...
How to Kill a Country
Australia's devastating trade deal with the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
It's hard to believe an Australian government could sign a deal which so betrays Australia's interests. How to Kill a Country demonstrates how the FTA as negotiated will seriously damage Australia's institutions, interests and identity.
Three of Australia's leading policy analysts have investigated...
by Billy Brownless
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
A man walks into a bar . Ouch!
Everyone has their own favourite man-walks-into-a-bar joke. This is a collection of the best: the old favourites, the most stupid, the funniest, the brain benders, the politically incorrect, the great puns and the really, really bad puns.
Sell Up, Pack Up and Take Off
Want to have a more luxurious lifestyle and better house at a fraction of the cost?
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Whether you're 40-plus and feeling burnt out, or 50-plus and approaching retirement, this is the perfect book for you. Find out how to live an exciting and comfortable but cheaper life overseas - on a long term or trial basis.
Sell Up, Pack Up and Take Off tells you about people who are living...
Do-Able Diet:I Lost Half My Body Weight Without Giving Up The Foods I Love. Now You Can Too!
I lost half my body weight without giving up the foods I love. Now you can too!
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Tells how an ordinary young Australian woman single-handedly transformed herself from a 'fat chick' into a 'hot chick' by developing an astonishingly simple weight-loss plan. A couple of years ago I weighed 97 kilos and was a size 22. I have now lost 45kg and eight dress sizes while still eating at...
The Dirty Chef
From big city food critic to foodie farmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
How do you go from being an urban dag to a country boy without any experience of the bush?
In 2008 Matthew Evans, one of Australia's most powerful food critics, stepped off the Sydney treadmill to farm 20 acres in Australia's southernmost shire.
What is it really like to take the plunge,...
by Kylie Tennant
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
While Kylie Tennant was living in the little fishing town of Laurieton on the north coast of New South Wales, she made two memorable discoveries - Ernie Metcalfe and Diamond Head. The two belonged together. Called by some 'the mad hermit of Diamond Head', Ernie was splendidly sane, if unlike anybody...
The Craft of Governing
The contribution of Patrick Weller to Australian political science
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
'Bargaining and puzzling; power and thought; dealing and agonising; compromise and commitment. These are two sides of political practitioners whether politician, public servant or campaigner. Understand the interplay and we can, just sometimes, make sense of the real world we seek to interpret.'
Patrick...
Code Breakers
Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan....