This book describes highlights and the occasional lowlight of Michael Newman's life. It will make you laugh shudder and reflect. Newman takes you to far-flung places - Jamaica America South Africa France and England - with a witty mind and a cross-cultural vision of the world. This is a personal memoir delighting in the inconsistencies of ......
‘Hildegard of Bingen was a woman of extraordinary creative expression and this book approaches her wisdom through the gift of poetry which allows us to move into a more intuitive space. It is a book to slow us down that invites us to ponder and calls us to follow Hildegard towards a growing greenness in our lives.’ – ......
In language at once robust and delicate, surgical and knockabout, Isle Full of Noises pries open the cracks of life in search of its guts: the blandishments of sex, art, alcohol; excitement, disappointment; the noises of wisdom as its drags itself up to the surface. From squib to disquisition, ekphrasis to historical recreation, the collection ......
In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something about you - to express in some abstract way how you felt about the world life hopes dreams and love. This book is like a mixtape because it is a ......
Composed during Covid-19 these poems reveal the fragility of life and the strength of love in dark times. The poet finds solace in the little things of life: a cup of coffee with a friend a walk by the seashore with her family in the quiet loveliness of the natural environment in the dailiness of living even as death seems around the ......
William 'Bill' Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land. Hard work family and the sense of community were pitted against the harsh reality of this ancient land and its climate of drought and flooding rain. Overseas wars had taken many of their own but they had to believe it was ......
Mental Health Social Work provides students and practitioners in social work human services and welfare studies with a thorough understanding of contemporary mental health theory and practice required for beginning practice as a mental health social worker. Testimonials from readers of previous editions are appreciative of the ......
Born with an acquired brain injury, Davey Kanatopsky grew up in a loving Melbourne family before being placed at 16 with the Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God. There, he suffered severe abuse. Exposed by the Royal Commission, the Order’s failures revealed systemic injustice.
When a body is found in the mangroves of Queens Bay, Councillor Maggie Ashburn must act fast to stop her partner Mark being charged with murder. Battling threats at home and Sydney’s criminal underbelly, Maggie teams up—uneasily—with rival detective Keith Corvallis to uncover smugglers, corruption, and the truth that could save Mark.
