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Step Up, Speak Out, Take Charge
A Woman's Guide to Getting Ahead in Your Career
Amanda Blesing
9781925282450
2017-03-15
A$9.99
Global Publishing Group

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Want a pay rise, a promotion, or a career that makes a difference? Here's how!
If you've ever felt that you're stuck in a job rut or pigeonholed in a role then this book is for you. International speaker, author and mentor, Amanda Blesing, has created an easy, definitive guide for women in the workplace. Drawing upon over three decades worth of career thrills, spills and excitement, most recently seeing her as CEO in the NFP sector, she's compiled the latest research into gender diversity, along with statistics, data and stories to not only help you create a career that makes a difference, but to Step Up, Speak Out and Take Charge of your life and your career.
You will learn:
- 5 powerful reasons why you should step up, speak out and take charge
- The research behind the gender diversity argument
- 8 common credibility killers that undermine women in meetings and job interviews
- The #1 emotion that will stop you in your career tracks every time
- The essentials of negotiating your next pay rise with bigger and better outcomes for you
- Trade secrets of successful career women who've climbed the career ladder before you
"Stop being busy and start being strategic." - Amanda Blesing


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Stepladder to Hindsight
An Almost Memoir
Richard Freadman
9781925280487
2016-05-01
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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Stepladder to Hindsight is about a fascinating man who has reached a turning point in his life and looks back. In this work, renowned academic and life-writer Richard Freadman turns the pen on himself, producing an immensely compelling narrative of his life.
Elegant and richly self-aware, Stepladder to Hindsight gives us unbridled access to a complex life and a unique mind. Within these pages you will find humour and tragedy, peppered with astute literary commentary and philosophical musings. This 'almost memoir' is fiercely intelligent and so addictively personal that it is hard to put down.
"...an eloquent book, a unique combination of compelling storytelling, searching reflection, with an extraordinary range of mood and style - an original take on the art of life writing." - Arnold Zable


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Still Caring
Supporting Older People in Residential Aged Care
Lyndis Flynn; Margaret Shelton
9780645586480
2023-03-01
A$9.99
Brolga Publishing

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Still Caring shows the many ways in which families or friends can provide continuing support to elderly people in residential aged care facilities, and how important this is. Such ongoing involvement in an elderly person's life in care can help to make it as comfortable, happy and fulfilling as possible.
Self-care is also discussed, along with practical ideas about how Carers can look after their own well-being as they continnue to provide support to others.
This book was completed while Australia's Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was investigating widespread concerns about the industry. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic also highlighted the vulnerability of elderly people in residential aged care.
Like many others, the authors had a strong desire to enhance the lives of aged care residents and were driven to record their thoughts and offer suggestions for possible improvements.
Written by two retired social workers with relevant personal and professional experience, Still Caring is an informative and insightful read for anyone, anywhere who is supporting an elderly person in residental aged care.


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Still Life with Allen Keys

Brien Cole
9781925706062
2018-04-01
A$7.99
ETT Imprint

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The best of Brien Cole's work is the story of Morning Parrot Trees. And it is superb. The concreteness and fantasy of Fisher's search for the parrot flower are perfectly poised. This is imaginative writing of a high order. The technique is to take the reader inside the action and never let go. His skill lies in knowing what matters. Perhaps his most impressive characteristic is that he does know what matters and resists wasting words on unnecessary explanations. The best of these stories are mulled over and mature, every detail if lovingly placed. - Rodney Hall, Sydney Morning Herald
 
Brien Cole has the rare ability in a prose writer of handling flamboyant metaphors with credible panache, and rhythm avoiding the ponderous... We experience the casual interchange between fantasy and reality that distinguishes the best of Peter Carey's work - the insinuating reasonableness of the fable rather than simply gawking at the bizarre. Brien Cole's characters are impossible to place socially - blue collar fringe dwellers, bourgeois drop-outs... They communicate only haphazardly with their fellows, yet feel betrayed by nature. A fascinating collection both of characters and of stories. The most original I have encountered for some time. - Bill Turner, Imprints


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Stories of Laughter and Lament

John Bryson
9781922219381
2014-07-01
A$3.99
John Bryson

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Stories of Laughter and Lament, set among the filthy rich and the dirt poor, seven stories first selected and published by Penguin Books.
Widows
Charles Rand fell off his yacht, somewhere in the middle of the bay, on one of the first pale blue evenings of autumn. Later, the Coroner would be unable to fix that time more precisely than between six and ten o'clock. Newspapers, reporting that he had sailed off without crew, used terms which pictured Charles as a hardy loner. Anyone who knew him smiled at this.
So begins Widows, with the loss of the wealthy husband whom Dorothy Laird had caught, by playing her cards faultlessly, for marriage to the beautiful Elizabeth, her one child. Elizabeth is Dorothy's straight flush. This is the world of the Lairds.
Children Aren't Supposed to be Here at All
Troilus and Cassandra spend their days at a private school, are then alone until their parents come home from the office.
The best view in Sydney, panorama wall to wall, ten thousand dollars a foot. All that view, Troilus said, locks us in.
This is the world of Troilus and Cassandra. Troilus begins to spend more time alone in his room. Troilus has secreted an illegal kitten.
The Routine
An airplane journey, in reverie the narrator reprises scenes from the recent breaking up with his lover. His defence is hard-bitten cynicism. His neighbour in the next seat is spectacularly disabled.
He had a strangely taut face, of indeterminate age. Either thirty-five or very old, pallid cleft chin and lumpy nose. Describe it with artistic integrity:
Bent as a 1930 Labour politician's
Shapeless as a football after a wet game
Hit by a Bondi taxi, the trams were on strike
He is the other guy.
There.
But his shapeless neighbour displays a quiet brilliance with jokes, and likes to play the comedian, as a gift to his companion. Each is uniquely disabled, so a strong current of love begins between them. This is the world of the tragic human comedy.
Pedigrees
This is a world of croquet on the lawn, the breeding of horses for dressage, of dogs for the shows, and very little sanity.
It does not seem to be fear of falling which has made her unable, by herself, to move, although she is clinging to the bole of a white gum which overhangs the cliff. She is intent only on a bundle lying on the rocks fifty feet below her. It is the sodden and dislocated body of her daughter's rag doll Cindy. It is to take psychiatrists three months of gentle prying to release from Elinor's mind the belief over which it has closed. This belief is that she has thrown her own child over a cliff.
Inventory
A son of English Old Money, whose talents so far have won him note as a failure, expects Christmas dinner in Kent to win him derision from his father in front of his entire family.
But Sir George did not wait for Henry Edward Charles to recount, over the remains of the goose, the imminent failure of his second marriage, six years old in January; or the collapse of his racing stable, a draining of the finest blood ever exported from Ireland and New Zealand; or the sale of the few remaining blue-chip investments to pay his slandering creditors so he could remain in his club.
Ticket for Charity
When Charity Lord fell pregnant she told each of the six boys who were that month's quick loving, in turn, as they stumbled from the hotel.
Slow Billy, the dry-country farmer, became the boy who would marry her. He would also become the boy whose life is transformed by her fierce gratitude. Together they worked his heartbreaking farmland until time for the birth.
Melodrama for a Plastic Heroine
A love story. He lives alone, penniless, in a city tenement. He scrapes together enough money to buy himself a wife. She is a life-size inflatable doll whom he pushes about in a wheelchair, shawled, as if she were merely lamed. On the busy sidewalk they do not draw a second's interest.
And here is a vendor selling wind-up toys and balloons and dizzy windmills. He pays for two balloons. They crowd about and make his choosing difficult. He takes time to choose a red and a blue. Their cheeks seem to him to be chubby and irrepressible, and they tug, now, at his hand with the campaigning impatience of small children. He wheels them all away and they set off for the far side of the hill.


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Straight Jacket

Adrian Deans
9781742983431
2013-08-01
A$5.99
Adrian Deans

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'If God is too indifferent, or too non-existent to take care of His creation, then clearly it's up to Me.'
Morgen Tanjenz is a lawyer with an overactive sense of justice. His mission in life is to reward the virtuous, punish the ignorant and avenge those who won't avenge themselves. His favourite pastime is 'life sculpture' - anonymously intervening in the lives of strangers to change their destiny in ways he thinks they deserve.
But Morgen isn't the only one changing lives in the city. A serial killer is on the prowl and taunting the police in letters to the local rag. But, as the body count rises, Detective Sergeant Blacksnake Fowler can hardly focus on the job with so many distractions: his boss hates him, his deputy is trying to undermine him and the woman he loves is having an affair.
In the cicada-throbbing heat of a Sydney summer, the threads of a strange story become entangled in a wild conclusion no one will see coming.
'a ripsnorter of a ride through the dark heart of the burbs... may just be Australia's answer to American Psycho.' Kirsten Krauth, just_a_girl
'Sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing, and always compelling... with a super-original premise and a one-of-a-kind protagonist'. Tony Wilson, Making News
'A disturbingly good read. Unnerving and darkly comic.' Stuart Quin, Ealing Studios Australia


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Strangest Day So Far

G. V. Pearce
9780648958659
2021-01-01
A$5.99
Improbable Press

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Life-changing injuries, a shared hospital room, a monster at the door - can you think of a better way to fall in love?
Ronan Cox sets aside his peculiar past to pursue his military career. Then he's shot down over an Iraq desert, meets an eldritch being, and wakes up in an American hospital.
Byron Slain, aka Benjamin Williams, aka the tattooed, pierced pretty boy in the bed beside Ronan's, has his own strange story, but no time to tell it when a clawed cryptid comes scratching at their hospital door.
And then things start getting really strange.


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Strategies for Success
Fast-Track Yourself to Win
George D Norris
9781922175205
2016-05-01
A$9.99
Brolga Publishing

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We all want to live a successful life and George Norris draws on his considerable experience as a successful business mentor, coach, radio presenter and author as he continues to inspire us with wisdom and integrity. Partly based on his successful weekly radio presentations, in Strategies for Success George presents a quote then reflects on what it means and how we can apply it to our daily life for inspiration, courage and wisdom to accelerate our success along the way.


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Stuck

Diane Harding
9781922358660
2021-02-01
A$4.99
Little Steps Publishing

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Elephant, Hippo, Bear, Zebra, Snake and Duck go for a walk.
Oops! Elephant falls in a hole.
What can they do to get Elephant out?
Then ... Disaster! They all fall in.
Who can get them out now?


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Subdivisions Victoria
The Ultimate Guide
Simon Libbis
9781925280401
2015-03-01
A$39.99
Hybrid Publishers

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Subdivisions Victoria has all the information you need to help you through the subdivision process and all that is related to it. It explains the nature of subdivisions and the initial steps involved. There is more detail of the town planning requirements and the process for having a plan registered.
Owners corporations and common property and the issues to which they give rise feature prominently.
Buying and selling 'off the plan' have become commonplace, but carry significant risks. This book will help you step through that particular minefield. There are even some helpful precedent conditions and letters.
'Not in common ownership' plans and the further subdivision of land affected by an owners corporation carry their own special challenges. You will be much better equipped to deal with them if you have Subdivisions Victoria.
It can serve as both an instruction manual for those new to the area and a valuable reference for those already practising in it.
This comprehensive guide to subdivisions is written in a way that is easy to understand. How it is set out makes it simple to follow.


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Success1010 for Living
Achieve Your Goals and Stay Successful
Raimond Volpe
9780994578129
2016-07-01
A$9.99
Dynamo Selling

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Once you learn the SUCCESS1010 (TM) formula to successful living it's nearly impossible to forget.
Everyone feels stuck at some point in their life. Whether the cause is psychological, social, or spiritual, these feelings can stop you from achieving success in business, family or relationships.
Success1010(TM) introduces the idea of Stuckburies(R) unconscious blockages that are buried deep in our minds and cause road blocks in our daily lives.
In this book you will:
- Identify what success means and build strategies to reach your goals
- Pinpoint Stuckburies(R) that stem from childhood and cause blockages in our lives stopping growth and happiness
- Learn the 10 blockages and how to overcome and master them
- Take control of stress, negative thoughts, guilt, depression and anxiety
- Find the steps and path to letting go and moving forward
- Learn the 10 principles to stay successful
- Be happy and charged for life, not afraid of life
- Transform your life for the better - for yourself and everyone around you

Raimond Volpe has been a successful sales professional and business owner for over 20 years. He is the winner of a number of highly-acclaimed business awards and has received accolades for his work in various industries.

It's never too late to change your life for greatness.

Fearing to fail and not trying = failure
Accepting failure and trying again = success
Success = a resilient mind
Raimond Volpe


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Successful Seniors
How to Look and Feel Ageless, Create Wealth, and Be Unforgettable
Mae-Rose O'Connell
9781925370355
2023-10-01
A$9.99
Global Publishing Group

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Reclaim your purpose and passion.
Congratulations on becoming a Senior!
You've made it over all those hurdles and you're reaching that wonderful time of life where you get to do whatever you want. No more morning commute, no more bosses, no more stressful deadlines! You have the world at your feet! While it may seem easy to just settle back and do nothing, why not mix it up a bit, break the mould and reclaim your purpose and passion. You still have lots of life to live and give. Instead of your senior years being a time of fear and stress, why not thrive in retirement where each day brings new joy and adventure? What have you got to lose?
International author, educator, therapist and successful senior, Mae-Rose O'Connell shares her 40+ years of knowledge and secrets to living a fulfilled life as a senior that's full of wealth, health and success.
By reading this practical book, you can look and feel ageless while reclaiming your purpose and passion.
You'll learn:
- How to hit the reset button on money and aging myths
- How to still contribute, belong and profit from your dreams and passions
- How to manage your dollars and avoid the traps
- Quick and simple ways to stay happy, healthy, fit and have loads of energy
- How to gain vital high-end financial guidance and advice from experts
- What other successful seniors did to enjoy life to the fullest
- How to be a benchmark in spectacular, and sizzle your way to success.
Thrive in retirement! Start your new adventure today!


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Suck'd

Susan Berran
9780994275479
2015-04-28
A$4.99
Susan Berran

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Up for another extremely funny, totally gross & weird adventure? Then read on...
 
Yep, just when Sam didn't think things could get any worse, his best mate, Jared, becomes sooo sick he has to stay home from school for the entire week, leaving Sam on his own to face the suckiest week of his whole sucktacular life.
 
With Toffee tugging at his nauseating nostril taffy, Abbey being crabby, Booga's gigantic butt bugle and the rest of the cow-cuddling, sheep-kissing kids.
 
It might be Jared that's sick ... but by the end of this week it's Sam who's going to need the barf bucket.


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Sunshine in the Dark
Memoir of an Exceptional Cat
Vivian Bi
9781922768209
2023-08-01
A$9.99
Hybrid Publishers

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‘All my knowledge, thoughts and memories are crystal clear, and I know that, in seven days, I’ll have left this sunlit, moonlit world, together with all my earthly senses, and be truly dead – whatever that should mean.’ (P.1)
So begins the fascinating history of a remarkable cat, Toby, and his family, both two-legged and four-legged, told during the transitional period between life and death.
He has had a such rich life, a blessed one full of love, that he decides use the time he has left to tell his story, from his first days in a pet shop to his dignified death.
It is a story of love, connection between the species, adventure and escapades, wisdom and insight, sorrow and triumphs. It brings its audience into a tightly knit community, offering quirky but perceptive insights on wisdom, trust and vulnerability, and posing questions about the concepts of humanity and brutishness.
Sunshine in the Dark will intrigue, delight and amuse, and bring tears to the eyes of readers. Like Toby’s life, it’s an exceptional read and a lasting memory of a special cat.
‘For anyone who has ever felt the profoundly painful loss of a beloved pet, Vivian Bi’s beautifully moving Sunshine in the Dark offers solace, shared grief and indeed, ‘sunshine’. – Kristina Vesk OAM, Chief Executive Officer, The Cat Protection Society of NSW Limited


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Survival
An American Family's Odyssey Through Two World Wars
G. S. Willmott
9781925280067
2015-01-01
A$4.99
Crabtree Pty Ltd

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'A compelling read, this is the story of one family's journey through wars, tragedies and triumphs. A story of love, family, unity and resilience. Another great story from Australian author G. S. Willmott. Very difficult to put this one down.' - Christine
 
'Historical thriller of how one family beat the odds to survive WWI and WWII... The ending leaves the reader astonished.' - David
 
'A masterful book written in the most powerful way, about two families and their struggle with business, two world wars and the loss of the family and friends held dearest to them.
 
From the very first page you are held in suspense, through the absorbingly vivid descriptions of the most horrific and colourful situations, that were the period during and between the two great wars.
 
The spellbinding finale leaves the reader wanting answers to the vexed questions of life, and its true meaning.' - Ian

 

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