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By Maggie MacKellar. 2004
When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd…
landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past. In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience. Core of My Heart, My Country weaves together experience and insight from women who lived and wrote in different landscapes, in different climates and in different eras. It is a provocative and remarkable encounter with buried stories and persistent myths.By Sean O'Faolain. 1969
Many racial, religious, social and intellectual strands have, over the centuries, been woven into the cloth of Irish genius. All…
these are critically and creatively recorded by this famous Irish writer.By Colin W Nettelbeck. 2004
When live jazz arrived in France towards the end of World War I, it was seen from the start as…
a fertile symbol of other things. It was an embodiment of artistic freedom, it was modernism, it was America, it was African primitivism, sexual liberation, social decadence and moral decay. Its energy and innovation helped produce an unprecedented explosion of activity in modern French art and thought. From the United States flowed a stream of black jazz artists keen to taste the freedom and sophistication of the City of Light. In their audiences were other significant Americans who called Paris home - Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Sylvia Beach, and Man Ray. French artists and intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle and Jacques Derrida also responded, transforming their culture into jazz's second home. This authoritative cultural history not only recalls influential performances and recordings. It also teases out the threads of artistic collaborations and rivalries, revisits influential meetings, love affairs and friendships, and explores tensions in US-French relations, to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture.By Irma Kurtz. 1983
The slightly offside counsels of an expatriate American "agony aunt" (or British ""Dear Abbie""). Kurtz's situation is actually more unusual…
than what she has to say: part homilies about the new proliferation of ... more choice for women..., the responsibilities entailed and the courage called for, she includes advice on the standard topics of sex, love, relationships, and marriage.With a career spanning over 50 years, Glenn Shorrock is one of the elder statesmen of Australian contemporary show business.…
Born in Kent England in 1944 before emigrating with his family to Adelaide as a 'ten pound Pom' in the 1950s, his is a success story that took him around the world to international stardom. From his days with Sixties pop band The Twilights, to his work with Brian Cadd and Axiom in the early 1970s to his fronting of chart-topping Little River Band, Glenn tells his story in an intelligent, witty style that recalls the heady days of the 1960s and international fame in the 1970s and 80s.By Raimond Gaita. 2002
The Philosopher's Dog is Raimond Gaita's most personal work to date. It's a mixture of story-telling, and philosophical reflections on…
the stories he tells, combining a love for animals with a love for fellow humans, and a thirst for knowledge. Many of the stories are about animals Gaita himself has known and loved: Jack the cockatoo, Gypsy the dog and Tosca the cat. These stories are interwoven with reflections on how animals think, hope, trust and feel. What does Gypsy think about when she sits on her mat gazing out to sea? Is it mistaken to attribute the concepts of love, devotion, loyalty, grief, bravery or friendship to animals? Why do we care so much for some creatures and so little for others?By Ainslie Meares. 1984
By Maria M Tumarkin. 2007
"People care desperately about courage. For once, I am one of the people. Do you want to know what it…
means to care desperately? It means that I am prepared to give up dignity, talent and generosity for the attribute of courage. When I fantasise about what people will say after my death, I know what I want them to recall - whatever her flaws (too numerous to mention), she certainly had guts. Yet the courage I conjure up in my fantasies exists outside of the extremes of violence, endurance and fear. It is not primarily a virtuous ideal or an idea, but rather an expression of the human spirit-messy, explosive and morally ambivalent." Maria Tumarkin's view of courage contains no dead military heroes. Young, female, an immigrant from the crumbling Soviet states, she mines her own remarkable life story to produce a meditation on the courage we need to live our everyday lives, a hybrid of memoir and philosophy, of experience and ideas.By Deborah Fullwood. 1990
Persons labelled "disabled" are beginning to be recognized as a valued part of the community, and an untapped resource that…
society can no longer afford to exclude or neglect. However, much still needs to be done to achieve total integration.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.By Robert Hillman. 2015
On a November afternoon in 2010, Gurrumul sat in a studio in Sydney to be photographed for the cover of…
Rolling Stone. The studio was 3000 kilometres from where he was born on Echo Island off the coast of East Arnhem Land. A bare three years had passed since the release of Gurrumul, his critically acclaimed debut solo album. Those years of critical acclaim, all the years before them, and the illness that threatened to end it all, combine in one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation. From concert halls to recording studios and into the Yolngu heartland, this is the story of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. It's the story of an astonishing musical gift that has left audiences all over the world spellbound. Part road trip, part biography, Robert Hillman's account of Gurrumul's life and artistry takes you behind the scenes and offers rare insights into the sources of his inspiration. In interviews with family and friends, Gurrumul emerges as a man of his people, shaped by the beliefs, rites and ceremonies of a richly engaging culture.By Hugh Mackay. 2010
The book that explains us to ourselves - from one of Australia's most admired authors. Why do we talk as…
if we're rational, but act as if we're not? Why do some people always want to take control? What is the true role of religion? Why do we seek change, yet resist it? Why do we want more of the things that have failed to satisfy us? Why are we so passionate about sport? Why do we fall out of love? As Australia's leading social researcher, Hugh Mackay has spent a lifetime of listening to people talk about their dreams, their fears, their hopes, their disappointments and their passions. In a series of bestselling books, he has documented the impact of the changes that have been radically reshaping our society. Now, he reflects on some of the things that don't change and identifies ten desires that drive us all. Insightful and engaging, What Makes Us Tick? reveals Mackay's formidable skills as a chronicler and interpreter of our motivations. In his exploration of why we do the things we do, he goes to the heart of some of life's big questions.By Bernadette Cruise. 2003
By Bernadette Cruise. 2003
By Gene Simmons. 2002
KISS gave people great rock 'n' roll music with an awe-inspiring theatrical show. Each member had their own look and…
Simmons's was "The Demon". His life is extraordinary and his personality contradictory; honest, outrageous, uncensored and hilarious, this is the story of the man behind the make-up.By Washington Irving. 1985
By Vision Australia. 2021
By Jean Shepard. 2014
By Colleen Ashby. 2021
By Rupert Isaacson. 2009
When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism Rupert Isaacson was devastated, fearing he would never be able to communicate…
with his child. Then two things happened. Rowan made an unlikely connection with a group of visiting traditional healers; and Rupert, a lifelong horseman, went riding with his son. The improvement each time was so striking that Rupert Isaacson came up with a crazy idea. There is one place, one culture, in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersect. Why not take Rowan there - to Mongolia? The Horse Boy is the dramatic story of that impossible adventure. In Mongolia, the family found undreamed of landscapes and people, unbearable setbacks, and advances beyond their wildest dreams.