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Baby Benjamin's impressions
By Susan Oxenham. 2015
Far journeys
By Robert A Monroe. 2001
The sequel to Monroe's Journey Out Of The Body is an amazing parapsychological odyssey that reflects a decade of research…
into the psychic realm beyond the known dimensions of physical reality.Teen stages: how to guide their journey to adulthood
By Ken Mellor, Elizabeth Mellor. 2004
Shock, horror - teenagers actually want to be controlled and have "involved" parents! What parents need to know about the…
six different stages of development - and why each stage requires different responses.Sennacherib's palace without rival at Nineveh
By John Malcolm Russell. 1991
Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia: an illustrated dictionary
By Anthony Green, Jeremy A Black, Tessa Rickards. 1992
Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development…
of sophisticated urban society. This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and customs of the ancient Mesopotamians, as revealed in their art and their writings between about 3000 B.C. and the advent of the Christian era. Gods, goddesses, demons, monsters, magic, myths, religious symbolism, ritual, and the spiritual world are all discussed in alphabetical entries ranging from short accounts to extended essays.Babylonian life and history
By Budge, E. A. Wallis. 2005
A history of Mesopotamia including Khammurabis' Code of Laws, and the mythology of Gilgamesh, the Story of the Flood, and…
the Legend of Etana. Includes the history of their writing, astrology, divination, the wearing of spells, reading omens, and other magic.A fortunate life
By A. B Facey. 1985
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals a winner against impossible odds, who lived…
with simple honesty, compassion and courage. Bert's childhood ended at the age of eight years of age, when the parentless boy was sent to work on the rough West Australian frontier. As an adult, he struggled as an itinerant rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss of his farm during the Depression, the death of his son in world War II and that of his beloved wife after sixty devoted years - yet felt that his life was fortunate.Walk a crooked mile: a father's journey in the footsteps of his son
By Greg Jones. 2000
Gold Medallist, world champion and world record holder : Lachlan Jones, OAM, is an exceptional athlete. What makes his success…
even more remarkable is that he has limited vision and cerebral palsy. 'Walk a crooked mile' is the story of Lachlan's rise to the top of international wheelchair racing, told from his father's perspective. It is a journey that begins with the annual Rip to River fun run on Victoria's south coast - when a determined Lachlan walked his first crooked mile in the company of his father. The journey continues through bouts of illness, financial obstacles, and physical and social barriers until its culmination in Gold at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics.Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages…
to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories of endurance and misadventure, survival and loss. Master storyteller Graham Seal has gathered together a gripping collection of famous and lesser-known journeys by land, sea and air in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As Warren Fahey writes in his foreword, 'Some journeys, like those of Burke and Wills, Lasseter's First Find, and the razing of the riverboat Rodney, are relatively well known. Others, mostly unknown, are tales of bravado, determination and, sometimes, sheer madness.' From the comfort and safety of your armchair you can join some of Australia's bravest and also some of its most foolhardy men and women in their adventures.Voyage of the Southern Sun: an amazing solo journey around the world
By Michael Smith, Aaron Patrick. 2017
Michael Smith spent 20 years restoring Melbourne’s beloved Sun Theatre and becoming one of Australia’s last independent cinema operators. He…
then set off on a rather different journey: to become the first person to fly solo around the world in an amphibious plane. With limited flying experience, no support team and only basic instruments in his tiny flying boat, the Southern Sun, Smith risked his life to make modern aviation history. His adventures include an unexpected greeting by Special Branch on his arrival in the UK, a near-death experience while leaving Greenland, and a wondrous journey up the Mississippi. In just seven months he made eighty stops around the globe, exploring twenty-five cities and communities, and visiting some seventy cinemas. All along the way Smith updated his online journal, cheered on by 50,000 followers. In 2016 he was named Australian Geographic's Adventurer of the Year.The butterfly and the stone: a son, a father, God's love on a prodigal journey
By Dan N Mayhew. 2011
Hope is a butterfly. Fear is a stone. As the father waits for his son to come home. For anyone…
who has been or has loved a prodigal child, here is a voice in the night that says you are not alone. 'The Butterfly and the Stone' is a story of fear and hope on a journey that leads from the safety of home to Iraq, and home again to face a fiercer enemy: post-traumatic stress and addiction. Woven throughout is God's love...found in a most unexpected place...What, no baby?: why women are losing the freedom to mother, and how they can get it back
By Leslie Cannold. 2005
What, No Baby? takes us on a journey into the lives of contemporary women whose plans to have it all…
- marriage, motherhood and work - have been derailed by reluctant men, insatiably demanding jobs and ever-climbing expectations of what it takes to be a "good" mother. Leslie Cannold argues that this is the twenty-first century's 'problem without a name' and that the unprecedented obstacles modern women face in achieving the life most of them want are tragically real. Women want to mother as much as they ever did. What has changed is their willingness to sacrifice everything they've built - everything they are - to do so.The end of equality: work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia
By Anne Summers. 2003
Among the most contentious issues Australia faces at the beginning of the 21st century is one that many thought had…
been dealt with in the '70s: the condition of Australian women. Debate still rages over their position in the workplace, their alleged failure to 'breed' sufficiently, their lack of true economic equality, and their inability to penetrate in any real numbers the proverbial glass ceilings in corporate and public life. What happened to the so-called feminist revolution? Why do most women feel exhausted and trapped? Is there real choice in women's lives today?How to get there: a memoir
By Maggie MacKellar. 2014
After Maggie Mackellar’s acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to…
Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there. In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family’s farm in Central West New South Wales to the east coast of Tasmania with her children and assorted menagerie to live with a farmer. ’In the book she explores learning to love again after living through grief, and the complexities of doing this in a community with which she is unfamiliar, with two young children. She reflects on love after grief, juggling being a mother and negotiating a burgeoning relationship, the rhythms of country life, displacement and the writing life. This is a book for anyone who has imagined taking a risk, for anyone who has moved to a new place and struggled with feelings of homesickness and displacement. It is a story about making a life in a remarkable setting - the east coast of Tasmania, on a sheep farm in a stone house built by convicts in 1828.Anna's story
By Bronwyn Donaghy. 2006
On 21 October 1995, Anna Wood went to a party and took an ecstasy tablet. Three days later she was…
dead. A life destroyed. A family devastated. She was just fifteen. She was leaving school to start the job of her dreams. She was beautiful, she had a loving family and countless friends. Bronwyn Donaghy interviewed friends, family members and numerous professionals in order to write the story of the circumstances surrounding Anna's death and of her family's decision to try and turn tragedy into a positive force for good.It is a story of our times, a story with powerful resonances for Anna's generation and their parents, for counsellors, doctors and teachers, for anyone who values the sanctity of life.Bloodhound: searching for my father
By Ramona Koval. 2015
"I looked up the name in the phone book and rang the number. I tried to imagine the conversation that…
might ensue. ‘Hello? I was wondering if you’re the man who was recently at an auction and asked a woman named Mary if I was married and had children and was happy-and if you are, are you my real father?" Ramona Koval’s parents were Holocaust survivors who fled their homeland and settled in Melbourne. As a child, Koval learned little about their lives - only snippets from traumatic tales of destruction and escape. But she always suspected that the man who raised her was not her biological father. One day in the 1990s, long after her mother’s death, she decides she must know the truth. A phone call leads to a photograph in the mail, then tea with strangers. Before long Koval is interrogating a nursing-home patient, meeting a horse whisperer in tropical Queensland, journeying to rural Poland, learning other languages and dealing with Kafkaesque bureaucracy, all in the hope of finding an answer.Growing old outrageously: a memoir of travel, food and friendship
By Hilary Linstead. 2012
Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after thirty-five years and discover that they both love travelling - and the more…
exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whether they will get along, the eccentric pair embark on a trial journey to Morocco. That tentative beginning has turned into a series of wonderfully unusual holidays, and Hil and Liz have been circumnavigating the globe ever since. Among many other destinations, they have taken in Marrakech, Fez and the Atlas Mountains; Patagonia and the Galapagos Islands; Istanbul and Cappadocia. They've been on safari in Namibia, Botswana and the Serengeti, attended music festivals in Naples and Prague and made a pilgrimage to the western isles of Mull and Iona. Along the way they have encouraged, enraged and entertained each other, while living through countless adventures.Mr. Ding's chicken feet: on a slow boat from Shanghai to Texas
By Gillian Kendall. 2006
Gillian Kendall's adventure begins with a flier and a help-wanted ad: "English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher Needed." Intrigued,…
she answers the ad and soon finds herself accompanying a cruise from Shanghai to Galveston, Texas, teaching ESL en route to Chinese seamen, ship's officers, and mechanical engineers. And that's just the beginning! English lessons, of course, are only part of the story. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.The obsessive traveller: or, why I don't steal towels from great hotels any more
By David Dale. 1991
This is a collection of traveller's tales told with the author's unique curiosity, humour and insight. It covers why men…
read maps and women ask the way, how to stop a taxi driver from talking to you, how to souvenir from great hotels and much more.