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Joyful strains: making Australia home
By Alice Pung, Ali Lemerm, Catherine Rey, Diane Armstrong, Danny Katz, Arnold Zable, Chris Flynn, Meg Mundell, Mark Dapin, Kent MacCarter, Maria Tumarkin, Paola Totaro, Alison Lemer, Amy Espeseth. 2013
Joyful Strains collects twenty-seven memoirs from writers describing their expatriation to Australia. These are stories about what they found, who…
they became and what they now think of Australia - stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians. Contributors include: Alice Pung, Danny Katz, Mark Dapin and Diane Armstrong, with an introduction from Arnold Zable.Soul contracts: find harmony and unlock your brilliance
By Danielle MacKinnon. 2014
How many times have you wondered why, no matter how hard you try, you just can't keep a relationship? Can't…
stay healthy? Can't make enough money? Can't find happiness? Have you ever stopped to think-perhaps there is some other force at work? Intuitive coach and consultant Danielle MacKinnon shows readers that soul contracts-hidden promises and energetic barriers lodge deep in your soul-are blocking the way to true happiness. Born our of despair, fear, pain, or anger, a soul contract is an unconscious promise that you've made with yourself in the past that is now blocking your path and hindering your ability to move forward and live your brilliant life. Through a five-step process, Soul Contracts will teach readers to identify, master, and release these hidden blocks that are standing in the way of happiness, love, and success.Beautiful balts: from displaced persons to new Australians
By Jayne Persian. 2017
Over 170000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952-the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Under the slogan of 'populate…
or perish', Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for 'white' refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as 'Beautiful Balts' - yet as this book shows, many of the 'Beautiful Balts' were not Lithuanian, Latvian or Estonian. Amid the White Australia Policy, the tensions of the Cold War and the national need for labour, these people would transform not only Australia's immigration policy, but the country itself. Beautiful Balts tells the extraordinary story of these Displaced Persons. It traces their journey from the chaotic camps of Europe after the Second World War to a new life in a land of opportunity where prejudice, parochialism, and strident anti-communism were rife. Persian investigates who they really were, why Australia wanted them and what they experienced after migrating halfway across the world.The closed circle: an interpretation of the Arabs
By David Pryce-Jones. 2009
As the violence of the Middle East has come to America, many Westerners are stunned and confounded by this new…
form of mayhem that appears to be a feature of Arab societies. This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions.In search of the miraculous: fragments of an unknown teaching
By P. D Uspenskii. 2001
Lucky child: a daughter of Cambodia reunites with the sister she left behind
By Loung Ung. 2006
"After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten year old Loung…
Ung became the "lucky child", the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds."Inside-out healing: transforming your life through the power of presence
By Richard M Moss. 2011
This inspiring book presents powerful principles, tools, and practices for transforming self-limiting patterns of thought and behaviors and for staying…
in the present even in the midst of very difficult feelings. Drawing from individual counseling sessions and utilizing practical exercises, Dr. Moss demonstrates how awareness and presence can be applied to support change in yourself and others, thereby creating a solid bridge between knowing and doing.Ultimate journey
By Robert A Monroe. 2000
In 1958, a successful businessman named Robert Mornroe began to have experiences that drastically altered his life. Unpredictably, and without…
his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a "second body" to locales far removed from the physical and spiritual realities of his life. He was inhabiting a place unbounded by life or death. Monroe recorded these experiences in two bestselling, landmark books, Journeys Out of the Body and Far Journeys. Ultimate Journey, his final and career-defining work, takes us further than we thought possible--and reveals to us what it all means. Ultimate Journey charts that area which lies "over the edge," beyond the limits of the physical world. It presents us with a map of the "interstate"--the route that opens to us when we leave our physical lives, with their entry and exit ramps, their signposts and their hazards. It also tells us how Monroe found the route and travelled it, and uncovered the reason and the purpose of this pioneering expedition. It is a journey that reveals basic truths about the meaning and purpose of life--and of what lies beyond.The Bermuda Triangle: the great unsolved mystery of our time
By Charles Berlitz. 1975
The mystery of Atlantis
By Charles Berlitz. 1976
An investigation into the mystery surrounding the lost civilisation of Atlantis, in which the author reveals the results of his…
underwater explorations for the fabled site, and describes what he found at the location mentioned by ancient writers.Eve and the new Jerusalem: socialism and feminism in the nineteenth century
By Barbara Taylor. 1993
In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and…
struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association. Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary challenge recovers the crucial connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. In doing so, it opens the way to an important re-interpretation of the socialist tradition as a whole, and contributes to the reforging of some of those early links between feminism and socialism.Anita Cobby: the crime that shocked the nation
By Alan Whiticker. 2015
February 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of one of the shocking murders in Australia's criminal history. On a hot summer…
night in 1986, beautiful young Sydney nurse Anita Cobby alighted from a train at Blacktown station and set off to a horrific fate. Updated with more information, previously unpublished, about the crime, this book is a must-have for those with an interest in the more morose details of human nature and crime.Living dolls: the return of sexism
By Natasha Walter. 2011
Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women…
an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. While the opportunities available to women may have expanded, the ambitions of many young girls are in reality limited by a culture that sees women's sexual allure as their only passport to success. At the same time we are encouraged to believe that the inequality we observe all around us is born of innate biological differences rather than social factors. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, Natasha Walter, author of the groundbreaking THE NEW FEMINISM and one of Britain's most incisive cultural commentators, gives us a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity, today.Haunted: the book of Australia's ghosts
By John Pinkney. 2005
Enthralling true reports of modern Australians' personal encounters with ghosts. The Melbourne newsreader who died of a heart attack on-air,…
then returned to haunt his radio station’s corridors...Sydney’s ghost-plagued police station...The terrifyingly troubled room which authorities ripped from a church in a failed exorcism attempt...The spectre that shocked Brisbane... Scores of authentic accounts from the files of Australia's leading paranormal investigator.Great Australian mysteries 2: unsolved, unexplained, unknown
By John Pinkney. 2006
Australia is a continent of fathomless mysteries. In this compelling book John Pinkney presents a new selection of the most…
tantalising true cases he has investigated during a lifetime's research: unexplained disappearances, from the enigma of Victoria's vanishing heiress to the saga of the 'jinxed' ship which disappeared with 102 Australians aboard. Outback riddles: the desert Aboriginals whose astonishing 'song' saved the life of a dying woman 4,000 kilometres away, the eerie invasion of Lake Eyre, the monster that guarded an abandoned NSW potato farm, startling events in Queensland's Isla Gorge. Mysterious deaths, including the fate of John Friedrich, 'the man who never was' - and the horror in the Sydney's dunes. Mystifying events: the baffling case of the burning man, the uncanny images floating outside Melbourne suburban windows, and much more...Earth under fire: humanity's survival of the Apocalypse
By Paul A LaViolette. 1997
Ancient myth and esoteric lore from around the world tell frightening tales of humanity's suffering through destruction by fire and…
flood, legends of catastrophe so extreme and so pervasive that now we tend to discount them as imaginative exaggerations.All pets go to heaven: the spiritual lives of the pets we love
By Sylvia Browne. 2009
Sylvia Browne uses her special psychic gift to provide comfort for those grieving over the loss of a beloved animal…
by showing how pets continue to be with us even after their deaths. Sylvia uses four decades' worth of research and true stories from her extraordinary career to reveal the true being of cats, dogs, horses and other creatures that have shared our homes and our hearts. She describes the unique personalities, quirks, habits and emotions that provides them with a soul.The borough and its people: Port Melbourne 1839 - 1939
By Margaret Bride, Graham Bride. 2013
Port Melbourne, simply known as The Beach, then Sandridge, in 1884 became the Borough of Port Melbourne. This book focuses…
on how events such as the gold rushes, wars and the fears of war, the foundation of unions for maritime workers, depressions and strikes all affected and helped to shape the lives of people living in the Borough.Coming back alive: the case for reincarnation
By Joe Fisher, Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho. 2001
The age-old belief in reincarnation is enjoying a revival. More and more people are asking 'is this all there is?'…
and opening themselves up to the possibility of returning to life in new bodies to continue their spiritual growth. Reincarnation is not exclusive to the Hindu or Buddhist religions, it is part of the history of mankind. The Dalai Lama has written of this book that "it will contribute substantially to explain and interest the average westerner in the subject of rebirth." In 'Coming Back Alive' Joe Fisher explores the origins of belief in rebirth and examines the evidence for life after life while placing ideas of human reincarnation in the context of the life of the universe. Joe Fisher began to research past and future lives in 1982, the more deeply he delved the more he was swayed by the large body of evidence that supports the case for reincarnation. He first published his findings in 'The Case for Reincarnation' but has now revised and updated his work under the title 'Coming Back Alive'. Including new material on the discarnate realm between incarnations, new developments in past-life therapy and childhood reincarnation memory of earlier lives and describing the continued progress made in reincarnation research since the original publication this is the most comprehensive account available.Balcony over Jerusalem: a Middle East memoir
By John Lyons, Sylvie Clezio. 2017
A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John…
Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East. From the sheer excitement of arriving in Jerusalem with his wife and eight-year-old son, to the fall of dictators and his gripping account of what it feels like to be taken by Egyptian soldiers, blindfolded and interrogated, this is a memoir of the Middle East like no other. Drawing on a 20-year interest in the Middle East, Lyons has had extraordinary access - he's interviewed everyone from Israel's former Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert to key figures from Hezbollah and Hamas. He's witnessed the brutal Iranian Revolutionary Guard up close and was one of the last foreign journalists in Iran during the violent crackdown against the 'Green Revolution'. He's confronted Hamas officials about why they fire rockets into Israel and Israeli soldiers about why they fire tear gas at Palestinian school children. Lyons also looks at 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank - the mechanics of how this works and the effect it now has on both Israelis and Palestinians. Lyons explains the Middle East through every day life and experiences - his son's school, his wife's friends and his own dealings with a range of people over six years.