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Using a healthy mix of plain language and light entertainment this book examines the facts and myths about the Earth and its climate, as well as the related challenges facing the country and planet in the 21st century and beyond. Presented as a satirical fictional debate, it blends together two streams: a methodical part - centred on the conflict of opinion between the beliefs that global warming is real and the opposite view questioning if such a phenomenon does indeed exist - and a satirical one - involving frequent hilarious exchanges and quips.

Realistic goal setting made easy.

Finally, a book about setting and achieving goals that eliminates the frustration and failure.

International author, engineer, IT project manager and property entrepreneur, Chris Christoff, shares achievement secrets from years of both successful projects and goal setting failures. Turning goal setting and achievement on its head, this book teaches you techniques to achieve with clarity, certainty, confidence and courage. Retune your brain to see opportunities to accelerate your progress, to follow a path to success that stops the fear and procrastination, allowing you to achieve your goals and dreams.

You'll learn:

- Breakthrough systems for setting and achieving your goals

- Quick techniques to overcoming fear and procrastination

- How to use the Nisi system to be your own personal mentor

- Systematic methods to reduce stress and frustration and excite your goal setting process

- Easy steps to condition your mind to achieve and keep the wealth and success you deserve

- Proven steps to navigating the path from where you are now to where you want to be

- Tools and techniques to develop goals with clarity

This book will help you develop the skills to achieve any goal you set.

Bumbling Mangoland academic, Professor Dr Grafton Everest, has been elected to the Australian Senate, without really knowing why, and due to the influx of weird Independents, finds himself holding the balance of power. Despite this, his personal life is a train wreck. A prostatectomy has left him impotent, his daughter is staging a theatrical event with an outlaw motorcycle gang and he suspects his wife is planning to have him put to sleep. On top of it all, Australia is facing natural disaster from Tectonic Change. Can Grafton save his family, his country and himself?

Shortlisted for 2017 Russell Prize for Humour.

'Grafton Everest is a wonderful creation whom I would place without question in the ranks of Philip Roth's Portnoy and Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim.' - Barry Humphries

'Grafton Everest [is] a slob making Les Patterson seem a class act. Broad comedy, very rude and, for anyone liking gleefully scabrous humour, very funny as well.' - The Daily Mail (London)

Albert Speer was one of the most brilliant and controversial men of the Twentieth Century. Although he was the Adolf Hitlers favourite for many years, Speer refused to share in his suicide and was condemned to twenty years in Spandau Prison for war crimes. His open confession of guilt at the Nuremberg Trials spared him the noose but, to this day, a question mark hangs over his head. What was the level of his involvement in the Holocaust? Was he a man of integrity caught up in a web of evil from which he couldnt escape - or was he just clever and convincing enough to have obscured the worst of his sins? No-one has ever argued convincingly one way or the other. Paula Astridges very personal - and exhaustively researched account - will both entertain and enable the reader to draw their own conclusions.

A rollicking good yarn that mixes detective fiction with Indiana Jones-style adventure.

When Professor Lloyd Marsden is found murdered in the Museum of Victoria, Special Detective Sam Diamond is assigned to catch the killer. Thrown into a world of obsessive collectors, strange poisons, funerary rites and ancient artefacts, Sam's photographic memory and cryptic crossword skills are invaluable tools in her investigation.

But when archaeologist Dr Maggie Tremaine whisks her halfway round the world in pursuit of the truth, Sam finds way more questions than answers. From Australia to Egypt to Peru Sam and Maggie hunt down the clues to a strange pact and a legendary relic.

This novel was originally written for ICOM '98, the International Council of Museums' triennial conference, hosted by the Museum of Victoria in 1998. The ICOM '98 committee had the novel idea of promoting the prestigious conference, and its host city Melbourne, by commissioning a crime novel set in the museum world.

Under its original title, Stolen Property, Golden Relic was serialised on the Internet - one chapter a month - from February to September 1998 on the ICOM '98 homepage.

Golden Relic was launched at the Melbourne Convention Centre on the opening night of the ICOM '98 conference by Magistrate Jennifer Coate and Senator John Button.

Gracious Living plunges into the excesses of the 1980s. Adrian Dadswell, an entrepreneur, is the owner of a holiday resort that boasts everything from an indoor golf range to a fake rain forest. Adrian has a former wife and a disabled daughter who, together with their friends, live very differently from Adrian and his white-shoe brigade. It is these women - young and old, married and single, lesbians and mothers - who come to dominate the novel. The book explores the value of diversity, while at the same time presenting a harshly witty examination of materialism.

Grand Deceptions is a historical novel centred predominantly around Melbourne and Ballarat in Victoria Australia. England, Scotland and San Marino also play a part of this captivating story.

The timeline begins in the 1850s and ends in the 1960s. Three well to do young men immigrate to Victoria; their reasons are all different but their ambitions are the same - make their fortune in the antipodes.

The circumstances that drove their futures were deception. Two of the three men became victims of fraud and lost their fortunes. They hatched a plan to recover their newly developed wealth by becoming bushrangers. They disguised themselves in women's clothing, calling themselves "The Banshees".

Grand Deceptions follows the lives of the three men all of whom experience exciting and sometimes dangerous lives.

I found this book a great read, I was impressed by the author's knowledge of early Victorian history and his introduction of characters from English settlers of the day. Given the ending, one would guess there might be a sequel in the wind! - Bill Simpson

I think this is Garry's best book so far. I would have no hesitation in recommending this read to anybody who loves history, thrilling storylines and a book you can't put down. - Ian Jones

I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into. What I got was a page turning great read. I won't spoil the ending for those of you yet to read Grand Deceptions, I will just say be sure to put aside a few hours as you won't want to put it down until you see how it ends. - Kim Krarup

Garry has outdone himself with this story. He has blended a great mix of fact and fiction and I found myself enthralled. I read Grand Deceptions in an afternoon which I very rarely manage to do with a book. I cannot recommend this book highly enough - do yourself a favour and get a copy, I guarantee you will not be disappointed - Tony Pittard

Grand Deceptions is a fine historical tapestry giving a picture of a hundred years of turbulent history as a backdrop for the stories of some remarkable people. - Sally Odgers, author/editor

The book that takes you on a gentler pathway from crisis to recovery and onwards...

 

Dee Scown, international author, multiple business owner and coach, has had to redirect her life on a number of occasions, but in 2012 her whole world was flipped... there seemed to be no future, no hope, and any possible dreams were dashed. Since then she has slowly and deliberately reinvented her shattered "Grand Plan" to journey in a number of very different directions.

 

The author shares her passion and vision to help others grow, survive and thrive when faced with adversity. Now you too can survive such a crisis, and surprisingly thrive in a redefined life. Don't allow one pause to become a complete stop, take the breather you need, and then slowly and carefully scan the horizon while you reassess and eventually set off on your new journey to success.

 

You'll learn:

- The exact steps to take while the pain is still raw

- The essential health review tips while you mourn and heal

- What a 'Life Resume' is, how to write and use it

- How to get the 'now' in order, before the next step

- How to tap into your intuition while resetting your compass

- How to rebuild confidence and self-esteem

- How to rediscover your true dreams

- How to maintain safe life practices while you relaunch your life

 

Life can be redefined for joy!

They say that every little bit helps, so just imagine what you can do with this collection of great tips on how to green clean everything. From the kitchen to the bathroom, as well as the odd spot or stain, learn how to do cleaning the green way and help the environment and your back pocket at the same time. There's no need for fancy cleaning products with key miracle ingredients like baking soda, lemon juice and vinegar. Including recipes for your own detergents and tips for every odd job, this book will help you clean more effectively and efficiently in an environmentally friendly way.

In Sydney, Australia, The Loving Hand church understands how children can be a commodity more precious than gold.

When Kate Maclaren flies in from Los Angeles, desperate to find her missing niece, she opens a door into this world, and uncovers a network of corruption and cruelty that stretches across the country.

Agent John Corey, torn by long-buried guilt and harbouring secrets he must not reveal, joins forces with Kate to expose the sinister cult before more children disappear. He will risk everything, even defying orders, to help Kate uncover the truth, and keep her safe.

But, when their journey into Australia's Outback reveals the psychopath at the centre of the network, it is Kate who discovers she will doing anything for the people she loves.

A powerful story of Australia's great sheep farms.

Gripped By Drought is a powerful story of a man's battle not only with the elements of nature which threatened the ruin of his huge Australian sheep-farm, but also with a loveless and unhappy marriage. For Frank Mayne, master of well-nigh a million-acre sheep station, life assumed its most dreary aspect. No rain for his farm, a wife who involved him in an orgy of spending and entertainment, and with disaster just round the corner, there seemed little prospect of happiness. Yet in the darkest hour of all, after the many unexpected and sometimes thrilling situations, the darkest hour of the drought gave way to rain and Mayne's tribulations became of the past.

Practical solutions for agricultural management, enabling the restoration of landscape, climate and community.

Reaching zero emissions alone won't stop the Earth heating up.

There's another factor at play, even bigger than rising greenhouse gas levels: agricultural land use, and it is turning the world's bread baskets into deserts. In south west Western Australia, the 'Bunny Fence Experiment', the world's largest study of two contrasting land uses in the same vast region, showed strong evidence that clearing and cropping was the reason why rainfall over the Wheat Belt has dropped 20 per cent in the lifetime of some of us. This book tells of how what farmers do exports heat waves, dust and fire, south and south-eastward in Eastern Australia and north and north-westward in Western America.

You'd be forgiven for thinking there ought to be a law against it, but our lawmakers don't even acknowledge that under the air and the plants, there is anything but bedrock. Soil, the depleted carbon sink that still manages to feed us today, might as well be a vacuum in law, but it could be a saviour for our civilisations.

Ground Breaking has solutions too: manage land use, sequester carbon in soil, reduce bare ground and increase bush corridors.

Ted Docker was an Australian of Irish descent who as a young man wanted to change the world, joining first the Industrial Workers of the World and then helping form the Communist Party of Australia. He was steadfastly loyal to the Soviet Union and by historical record a stern hard-liner.

 

This is not the whole story.

Ted Docker was an Australian of Irish descent who as a young man wanted to change the world, joining first the Industrial Workers of the World and then helping form the Communist Party of Australia. He was steadfastly loyal to the Soviet Union and by historical record a stern hard-liner.

 

This is not the whole story.

Elsie Levy was born in the Jewish East End of London, came to Sydney with her family when she was 14, and joined the Communist Party of Australia when she was a young woman. In this book, her son explores her disaporic Jewish identity, both English and Australian, and in the process journeys into Jewish cultural histories. We meet important cultural figures such as Leonard Woolf, Freud, Schnitzler, Veza Canetti and Ida Rubinstein. This journey leads also to English anti-Semitism, including, shockingly, Bloomsbury. In turning to Communism and marrying out, Elsie Levy became one of history's undutiful daughters.