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Intimacy in alcoholic relationships: a collection of Al-Anon personal stories
By Inc. Staff Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters. 2018
Over 1,300 Al-Anon members willingly shared their stories. They tell how their views and practices of intimacy, including sexual intimacy,…
were affected by alcoholism, and how Al-Anon's tools and spiritual principles helped them change these views and practices. Courageous members share their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. "Intimacy in Alcoholic Relationships", is the hope that many other members can find hope and inspiration in expanding their recovery.The happiness trap: stop struggling, start living
By Russell Harris. 2007
This book shows you how to apply (ACT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in your life to increase self-awareness, develop emotional…
intelligence, enhance relationships, create a sense of meaning and purpose, and transform painful thoughts and feelings so they have less impact in your life.The quickest way round is on the bitumen: the history of the Oran Park Circuit
By Neville Beyer. 2019
Written to tell the story of the development of the Oran Park Motor Racing Circuit from 1962 to 2010 and…
the stories from the background, focusing on the people behind the scenes rather than the well documented racing results. It was written as a tribute to the thousands of volunteers who made the action possible and as a reminder of just how Motor Racing in Australia had changed and evolved.Play like a pro: what the 50 greatest players can teach you
By Edward Craig. 2007
Golf participation is at an all-time high, with 37.9 million active players in the U.S. alone. Here's an ingenious way…
for weekend players to improve their game by learning from the pros. For example, though you may never drive the ball as far as Tiger Woods, you're sure to increase your distance if you learn to think like he does at the tee. Each section is devoted to one aspect of the game and built around a player famous for his or her mastery of that area: Tiger for driving, Greg Norman for hitting a draw, Phil Mickelson for making the perfect flop shot, and so on. More than 50 great players provide inspiring examples to help any golfer play better.Stronger and bolder: inside the 2019 finals series with Richmond
By Konrad Marshall. 2019
Tells the intimate story of the Richmond Football Club through the highs and lows of its 2019 finals campaign, explaining…
how the club recovered from its disappointment of 2018. With unprecedented access to club officials, players and coaches, author Konrad Marshall takes the reader inside the rooms at the key moments of the campaign, chronicling the Tigers' journey to AFL football's Holy Grail. This is not just a book of wins and losses, it's the story of a professional football club and how it operates at every level: from the fitness staff, to the coaching panel, the players, and the Board. The Richmond Football Club has continued to change enormously following the 2017 triumph, its first Premiership since 1980, and Marshall explains in detail the enormous amount of work and thought that has gone into every decision made--on and off the field.Game for anything: writings on cricket
By Gideon Haigh. 2004
Cricket is serious fun. And no one writes about cricket with deeper knowledge or greater flair than Gideon Haigh. Game…
for Anything collects his best work of the last decade: from probing the Bradman myth and evaluating C.L.R. James to celebrating Len Pascoe and suffering being hit for six. To cricket's recent torments - match-fixing, throwing, sledging, politics - he brings fresh insights and an irreverent wit.White limbo: the first Australian climb of Mt Everest
By Lincoln Hall. 1985
The author chronicles the mountaineering hazards and joys experienced by the first four Australians on Everest. Menaced constantly by avalanches…
and treacherous ice, they also suffered altitude intoxication, which made the author foolishly jump a bottomless crevasse.Girl stuff: your full-on guide to the teen years
By Kaz Cooke. 2007
With over 600 pages and heaps of cartoons, Girl Stuff has everything girls need to know about: friends, body changes,…
shopping, clothes, make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, earning money, guys, embarrassment, what to eat, moods, smoking, why diets suck, handling love and heartbreak, exercise, school stress, sex, beating bullies and mean girls, drugs, drinking, how to find new friends, cheering up, how to get on with your family, and confidence. Each chapter includes facts, hints, inspiring lists, hundreds of quotes from real girls, and details for over 350 websites, books and other information. Written in extensive consultation with more than 70 medical, and practical experts, Girl Stuff provides the most up-to-date and useful information possible.No job for a girl
By Susan Swaney. 1993
When the author set up a veterinary practice in Western Victoria, there was resistance because she was a woman and…
there was the rugged climate to get used to. This is a diary of twelve months in the author's life as a vet, farmer and mother.Shearers' motel
By Roger McDonald. 1992
Set in the hard-living world of travelling shearers in the Australian outback, Roger McDonald cooks for a team of New…
Zealand shearers travelling through N.S.W., S.A. and Victoria and searches for a sense of belonging.Great Australian mysteries
By John Pinkney. 2003
The Australian continent has challenged us with its mysteries since the earliest days of settlement. This book chronicles Australia’s most…
tantalising true mystery stories - from the New Year’s Eve deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler to the disappearance of the Beaumont children and the vanishing over Bass Strait of pilot Frederick Valentich, just after he reported being orbited by an unidentified aircraft.Atlantis and the coming ice age: the lost civilization, a mirror of our world
By Frank Joseph. 2015
Be still and know
By Millie Stamm. 1978
These daily devotional readings will encourage you in your Christian life throughout the year. Mrs. Stamm says, "Each day offers…
new opportunities. There will be new choices to make, new decisions, new avenues of service for the Lord. It may even be a day filled with heartache and pain, a day filled with unsolved problems. How different our day will be if we begin with a rejoicing spirit, knowing it has been entrusted to us by the Lord!" Begin each day with a verse of Scripture and a meditation amplifying that Bible verse in light of your innermost needs. Millie Stamm has drawn upon a lifetime of personal experience and devotional reading to build these inspirational messages. You will feel as if a good friend has come to chat and share insights that God has given her. If you feel the need for daily encouragement in the Lord, this book is for you. You will find reassurance and support as Millie Stamm brings messages such as: "Today burdens weigh heavily upon us. Often we are so pressed in on every side that it seems all strength is gone. What a relief to know that when OUR strength is exhausted, we have HIS strength available. He is an unfailing source of supply."In the hands of the universe: the balancing of life and spirit
By Betty McGill. 2017
Capable of achieving a much higher energy frequency to work with, Betty has helped thousands of clients make major transformations…
in their lives. With more power comes more responsibility, and the ‘Universe’ has selected Betty to help create the movement of change that is required for the opening of minds. This encourages people to manifest the positive aspects of themselves, showing them how to create a new way of living.Killer Koala: Humorous Aussie Short Stories
By Kenneth Cook. 1986
In "The Killer Koala" the author has gathered a selection of hilarious stories culled from his various experiences while travelling…
all over Australia, from the red deserts, to the jungles, to remote parts of the Great Barrier Reef.No finish line
By Johnny Ruffo. 2022
A rags-to-riches memoir of a cheeky tradie who stole Australia's hearts on The X Factor and Home and Away, then…
faced the biggest battle of his life: brain cancer. Johnny Ruffo came to Australia's attention when he entered The X Factor in 2011. A concreter with a cheeky smile and long-held passion for music, he won millions of hearts and eventually placed third. Sony Music rushed to sign him up and he was offered a guest spot on Australia's favourite soap, Home and Away, which turned into a three-year role. But the sudden rise to fame took its toll. Johnny found it hard to resist the weekend-long parties, drugs, alcohol and fair-weather friends that came with the territory. He had started suffering from severe headaches when his girlfriend, Tahnee, noticed something was also wrong with his speech. Johnny was rushed to hospital, where doctors prepped him for immediate surgery to deal with a 7-centimetre-long tumour. Johnny was ultimately diagnosed with a rare brain cancer, with which - despite a period of remission, he still battles today. But in a strange way Johnny thinks the cancer actually saved his life ...Kath Koschel has faced almost unimaginable hurdles. In her mid-twenties, she broke her back and was told she may never…
walk again. Shortly afterwards, she lost her beloved partner to suicide. Then, just as she was piecing her life back together, she was hit by a car while cycling and forced to relearn to walk a second time. In the midst of these harrowing experiences, Kath created the Kindness Factory on social media to share her small acts of kindness, hoping to inspire a groundswell of people to join her. Her idea went viral: millions of acts have since been logged, giving birth to the 'Kindness Curriculum'—a blueprint for happiness, resilience and connection that has now launched in schools across three countries. In 2016 Kath put her beliefs to the ultimate test, leaving home with nothing but a change of clothes, her phone and a toothbrush—no food, money or water. Her goal? To see how long she could survive on the kindness of strangers. Her journey took her to every state in Australia, where she met with people from all walks of life to share her kindness manifesto. Part stirring memoir and part empowering call to action, Kindness is a timely reminder that there is always light to be found, if only we look hard enough.Empire, war, tennis and me
By Peter Charles Doherty. 2022
For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology,…
recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine, and an active and respected commentator on public health, reflects in this book on empire, war and tennis. Doherty identifies the origins of modern tennis within its imperial context, relating seemingly unlikely connections between the sport, its players and national militaries. He traces the fate of tennis-and its players-as a nascent force for internationalism and cultural tolerance within the context of World War II. And he personalises this account through an unsentimental but revealing depiction of his tennis-loving Queenslander uncles, at war and in captivity in the Pacific. As Doherty shows, tennis and war have threaded their way through the lives of many people since the nineteenth century, in a way intriguingly unique to this sport. This is part of Peter's story. And, as we come to realise, it is also part of the story of our world.Outback teacher: the inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia
By Sally Gare, Freda Marnie Nicholls. 2022
The year is 1956. Sally Gare is twenty. She's just out of teachers' college, and has been sent to work…
at a two-teacher school more than 3000 kilometres from Perth. With the head teacher away, she starts out alone with a class of forty-five Aboriginal children, ranging in age from five years to thirteen. Thus begins the career of a remarkable teacher and a life-changing adventure in remote Australia. Outback Teacher is the story of the challenges and delights of teaching in outback schools in the 1950s and 1960s. Sally's interaction with her students and the local Aboriginal communities is affectionate and heart-warming, although it isn't without its misunderstandings. But the tensions aren't just confined to the school and the local community. Some of the characters with whom Sally shares her less than comfortable housing are as eccentric and as curiously interesting as any escapee to the outback. Full of warmth, humour and kindness, this generous book reminds us how bush people have always found their own solutions to the problems isolation throws at them. But most importantly, and in the most personal way, it confirms how inspiring and passionate teachers can change lives