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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.

John Docker grew up in Bondi, the son of Communist parents, his mother Jewish from the East End of London and his father of Irish descent. His Bondi is not the site of sunny mindlessness but rather a place of intense immigrant and political life. This book traces his often comic experiences at Bondi Wellington Primary School and Randwick Boys High School. At the University of Sydney from 1963, he became a teenage Leavisite and participated in the anarchistic New Left. With Ann Curthoys he travelled on the Hippie Trail through Asia to London, which became for both the scene of what Gorky referred to as the University of Life.

John Docker grew up in Bondi, the son of Communist parents, his mother Jewish from the East End of London and his father of Irish descent. His Bondi is not the site of sunny mindlessness but rather a place of intense immigrant and political life. This book traces his often comic experiences at Bondi Wellington Primary School and Randwick Boys High School. At the University of Sydney from 1963, he became a teenage Leavisite and participated in the anarchistic New Left. With Ann Curthoys he travelled on the Hippie Trail through Asia to London, which became for both the scene of what Gorky referred to as the University of Life.

From life in small New South Wales country towns to the glitter of Sydney, this memoir explores life in a changing Australia, from age 7 to 17. Especially written and recorded for ABC radio, this book evokes an innocent Australia through a quietly comic delivery, where we witness again holidays in quiet seaside villages, the days when newspapers were king, Decimal Currency Day was a big thing and Beatles haircuts were all the rage. When teenagers were inspired by pop music to a fresh idealism, protest and groovy gear. When man walked on the moon. A journey through the drama and excitement of an Australia now known only by memory. This is the first publication of Growing Up in the 60s as broadcast on ABC's Nightlife several times, and on many ABC regional stations including Broken Hill, Wagga Wagga, Camberra, Upper Hunter, Tamworth and Darwin.

 

- Jane Cadzow, The Australian

Idriess was a trooper with the Light Horse at Gallipoli, all the way to Beersheba, and his diary was published as The Desert Column. Drawing on his military experience, this is one of six manuals written for soldiers and civilians in 1942, when invasion by the Japanese seemed imminent.

 

Ronnie Collins is happily married with a gorgeous son.

She loves her job in fashion.

She's also naked, hungover and in a strange bed - and her problems have only just begun...

A catalogue of Hall Thorpe coloured woodcuts, including a Foreword by Richard King, Introduction (Hall Thorpe: A Consideration of His Work) by Robert and Ingrid Holden, and 'On Colour in the Cottage' by Hall Thorpe, R.B.A., reproduced from The Studio Year-Book of Decorative Art 1919.

Discover the Secrets of High Energy, Passion and Enthusiasm for Life.

 

You will be: Happier, Healthier, More confident, Highly energised.

 

Kawena (80 years young) is inspiring and motivating in sharing her lifetime secrets. Kawena credits this to being a great believer in the Power of the Breath and the Power of the Mind. "My happiness and enthusiasm have never been stronger. I am healthier and have much more energy than at middle age."

 

You will learn:

- Power Breathing for high energy and vitality

- Power Affirmations to motivate you each day

- Power of the Mind to keep you 'out of the rut'

- Self Healing to support your health

- Manifesting to create the life you want

- Confidence & Self Esteem with self respect

- Intuitive Awareness to guide your life direction

- Spiritually Uplifting Meditations to sooth the soul

- Loving & Gifting to empower your life and others

 

Kawena's greatest joy in life is helping people understand what wonderful potential lies in each and every one of us.

 

This book will increase your Happiness and Vitality

The ultimate man's tool-kit to making a relationship great!

In this breakthrough relationship book directed at men in the construction industry, you are presented with a simple, easy to read blueprint to better understand yourself and your partner, while also giving you more tools to access when life's challenges arise.

This book contains so many treasures that when applied will grow your relationship tenfold.

International author, human resources, safety and relationship expert Caylene Vincent has written this ultimate manual for men that is a must read for those in the often overlooked, high pressure construction industry.

You'll learn:

- The 'glue' that holds your relationships together

- To understand the different roles men and women play in a relationship

- What to do when the honeymoon is over

- How to approach and solve 'difficult' conversations around sex and money

- The different types of sex and how to make these happen

- Why ignorance is far from bliss

- How to make money and your relationship work together

This book is a man's secret weapon!

This is the graphic, authentic and often humorous autobiography of a young man's journey into Melbourne's underworld and nightclub scene in the recent past.

'The Hammer' was a feared enforcer capable of inflicting indescribable pain on anyone that stood in has way. Supreme violence and a manipulative calculating streak were tools of the trade.

This story gives the reader a rare insight into addiction, the dark art of violence and ego involved in the world of a drug dealer, debt collector and stand over man in Melbourne's underworld scene.

An embracing family background and unwavering ability to believe he was destined for redemption allowed 'The Hammer' to claw his way back from the darkness and use his hard-earned experience to assist men to break the cycle of addiction and crime and re-discover their own power and spirit.

Nice work mate! Proud of you and glad to call you my friend. - Trevor Hendy AM

Fresh out of school and emerging as one of Australia's future distance running stars, Emma Carney discovered the sport of triathlon. The sport was never the same again. With an unmatched record, she devastated the international circuit. Defined by a relentless pursuit of sporting excellence, Emma was known to detest losing more than she loved to win.

At home in the cutthroat world of professional sport, Emma didn't expect a welcoming party waiting for her when she reached the pinnacle of triathlon. A fiercely independent athlete, fitting in and conforming was never her style. Rules annoyed her. Authority irritated her. And that complicated things…

Emma's is a life publicly defined by winning. But like sport, nothing is predictable. Success is fickle, life is fragile.

Emma's story reveals that international sporting success is about much more than winning. Courage is a constant. Hard work and dedication are vital, as are unwavering passion, belief, and desire. But there is more. Emma's story also raises questions: who is truly there when things go wrong, when the system fails? Who cares when you find yourself dying on the roadside, saving yourself only to then lose your sister, identity, self-belief and hope in everything you once believed in...?

Cutting through change and uncertainty.
What distinguishes businesses in any economy, any market or any industry is the level of their resilience. In the current era of uncertainty those with high resilience will thrive and those with low or no resilience risk becoming obsolete and extinct.
In Hardcore Resilience, Carolyn Cranwell, international author, speaker and resilience expert reveals the secrets to finding and developing lasting success in your business and in your life through the 7-Step Cranwell Resilience Ladder(TM).
Carolyn's highly unique and authentic approach to resilience originates from juggling multiple family responsibilities while getting a law degree, working in government in a counter-terrorism advisory role and later steering her family through a period of prolonged adversity, uncertainty and grief. With over twenty-five years lived experience she has been able to clearly identify the key components of the resilience conundrum and construct an easy to remember framework with clear achievable steps.
Carolyn Cranwell is the author of Navigating Alzheimer's - Survival Secrets of a Long Term Carer, founder and Executive Director of the Global Psychometric Institute and creator and developer of the Cranwell-Cambridge Resilience Test(TM) in collaboration with The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge, UK.

 

You'll Learn:
For Life:
- Proven steps to unlock your optimal mental health and wellbeing
- Step by step guide to navigating constant change and uncertainty
- How to get back on your feet after life's setbacks and move forward with renewed confidence, purpose and self-belief
- How to use the Cranwell Resilience Ladder(TM) to succeed in all areas of your life to get what you really want
- How to stop self-sabotage, choose your preferred future, and enjoy an extraordinary life
- How to discover and maximise your hidden potential
For Business:
- How the 7 steps on the Cranwell Resilience Ladder(TM) can transform your business and your life
- How to build a mentally healthy motivated and results-driven team
- How to create resilient leaders and recruit resilient employees to ensure your lasting success
- How to save time and money by creating stability in the workforce and minimising employee loss
- How you can fast-track your external and internal recruitment and professional development needs by using the world-first Cranwell-Cambridge Resilience Test™

Take immediate control of your emotional and financial destiny!

Offices are not our natural habitat. Leadership is easier when we understand the nine instincts that still drive human behaviour.

With the Industrial Revolution only 250 years ago, we left our hunting, gathering and village societies to work in offices and factories. The behaviour that ensured our ancestors' survival on the savannah plains of Africa over the millennia is alive and well in today's workplaces. The nine instincts explain the reasons, and the solutions, to the challenges that leaders commonly face.

Based on the author's wide experience in large organisations combined with witty true stories of chimps from Gombe, Tanzania and Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Hardwired Humans explains the psychology behind the human instincts of social behaviour.

As you read this entertaining book, you will learn how the instincts of clan connections, hierarchy, gossip, politics, snap judgments, status displays and sexual competition continue to drive modern office interactions just as they have driven human interaction for millennia.

The book shares a practical framework that helps makes sense of human behaviour and allows leaders to manage more effectively.

In a note introducing the book, Dr Jane Goodall calls it a 'compelling book'.

The Australian Financial Review Boss magazine highly recommends the book as one 'that will captivate anyone who finds the "people stuff" confounding.'

Has a Book Got a Spine?

Has a Bottle got a Neck?

Has a comb Got Teeth?

Young readers (up to the very old) will laugh out loud at this highly interactive book full of brain-teasers.

It's a great book to get your brain thinking outside the box.

Readers will pick up heaps of new vocabulary on the way, and learn to love just how quirky words can be.

(Spanish edition)

A novel written true to the histories, and true to the memories of Enric Torres i Barbo, whose life and philosophies this novel takes for its guide.

Twin boys Enric and Josep, at ten years of age, served as spies and couriers in the Resistance by the Republican Spanish against the invasion of Fascist forces in Spain, then from Italy and Germany during the Civil War.

In Catalonia the war begins in Barcelona.

THE MAZE of alleys and passageways of the old city as we passed through were not at all quiet. The closer we came to the Ronda Universitat the more gunfire we could hear. Not only from the direction of the Placa de Catalunya, it bounced from a building behind us, which made us crouch and whirl, and then from laneways where there was no one, as if the sound of war could stalk the town of its own accord.

The twins will go on, for the Resistance, to gather intelligence, to running propaganda leaflets and contraband across the French border, to guiding fugitives over the Pyrenees.

Of this time in his childhood Enric has said, 'It was so cold up there, I tell you, I pee icicles.'