Download or read book Billycarts Wheelchairs 75 years of St Giles written by Anne Green and published by St Giles Society. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of 75 Years of St Giles, re-lives the drama of closed streets, limited travel and the polio deaths of the 1937 epidemic as well as delivering you to St Giles today. This book holds stories and pictures of many people who have crossed paths with St Giles. This community’s generous financial response to the powerful Examiner Newspaper headline of 1937: ``It Might Have Been Your Child’’ is as true today as then.

Download or read book The Billycart The Boxing Tent The Battle written by Anne Kearney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an incomplete account of the life of my brother, Philip James Nilon, who was born with a clotting factor disease known as Haemophilia. The disease has famously afflicted some of the royal families of Europe, particularly the Russian and one of Queen Victoria`s sons. The time is set from the nineteen forties, through to the eighties, that is to say from Philip`s childhood through to adulthood. It describes a boy of immense determination and stubbornness who makes daily allies of deception and denial. He is swept repeatedly into situations of near death, but the anxiety accompanying these times falls on those closest to him. He is cavalier about life, risk and annihiliation, while amazingly courageous about pain and loss. Swinging between humour and apparent naivety, the story outlines a trajectory of fear, crisis and human inadequacy, but is subtly underscored by something more than loss.

Download or read book The Fearless Five written by David J. McMullen and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordie, Jess, Marty, Robbie and Josh - The Fearless Five. Sure they come from the wrong side of the tracks, but money isn't everything. Using their imaginations and whatever resources they can scrounge up, The Fearless Five roll from one adventure to the next. Some of the stunts they pull-off are life defining. Some are just outright dangerous Together, or individually, The Fearless Five get themselves into and out of many sticky situations, from being marooned on the pylon of a bridge, stuck halfway up a cliff face or seemingly left for dead in an underground cave when somebody cuts their ropes. Ah, life in the mid-sixties, when a kid could be a kid. The Fearless Five - One Up is a no-holds barred adventure. About the Author: David J. McMullen grew up in Montagu Bay, Tasmania, the setting for The Fearless Five trilogy. David has completed the second book in the series, The Fearless Five - A Journey of Discovery, and is currently putting the finishing touches to the last book in the series, The Fearless Five - Searching for a Niche. http: //SBPRA.com/DavidMcMulle

Download or read book From Woe to Go written by Clifford J. Powell PhD and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does Christian counselling mean? How does it differ from Christian psychology, Christian psychiatry, or even pastoral care? From Woe to Go! focuses on the vocation of counseling conducted within an evangelical Christian worldview, with Christian principles as its driving force. This guide seeks to integrate a comprehensive counselling model for Christian counsellors, a detailed skills-training program, and an extensive incorporation of spiritual resources. An inclusive training tool, it outlines a three-stage model for Christian counsellors and professionals who want to integrate their faith with their professional work. For those who seek to enhance their skills, it also introduces and explains Incarnational Counselling, an approach that emphasizes the priority of exhibiting the presence of Christ in the counselling process. Authors Graham Barker, PsyD, and Clifford Powell, PhD, bring more than fifty years of clinical experience and graduate counsellor training to their groundbreaking guide, incorporating sound theory, practical skills, and unique spiritual resources available to followers of Jesus seeking to minister in the counselling arena.

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Download or read book Ducks Crossing and the Secret Shadow written by Helen Menzies and published by Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CROSSED MY MIND written by Fred Hewison and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are Fred Hewison's random memories of his boyhood years while growing up in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville. Born in 1933 in the same house that he subsequently occupied for the next fifty five years, he has produced an amusing and sometimes nostalgic selection of reminiscences of those things that he and his best mates did when they were boys Any person of similar vintage would remember the marbles, street cricket, and bonfire nights, but only the select few might recall the exciting times and the mischievous behaviour that sometimes occurred in the old Civic Picture Theatre when the lights were out during Saturday matinees. This book contains much more, including a few additional historical facts surrounding the district in which the author grew up. Those who were not a product of the locations described in this book but were of a similar generation should still relate to the memories of the author's childhood. There was no television or computer-only the radio and its serials to thrill you, but that didn't matter, since a kid had little time to spare after school, with all the footie and cricket in the paddocks and then there was the homework to attend to before bedtime. Not everything was pleasant, since insubordination was generally rewarded with some form of punishment-whether it was the cane at school or the stick at the hands of your parents. In most cases, however, it was both expected and deserved, and it served to enhance a lad's respect for the deliverer. Whether it provides amusement, a walk down memory lane, or a revelation for the younger generation, this book might be worth reading.

Download or read book The Good Times of Pelican Rise written by Samone Amba and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions Raised By Quolls is an eloquent examination of extinction and conservation set against the backdrop of global climate change. From his own family lineage, Harry reveals how the prosperity of the human race runs parallel with the decline of the natural world. Evocative and challenging, this eulogy to lost species will force you to question your place in the vast interconnected web of life.

Download or read book Dick Johnson written by Dick Johnson and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of Dick Johnson – the Aussie battler who became an all-time V8 great. Ford legend Johnson did not get his break in motorsport until he was famously smashed out by a rock in the 1980 Bathurst 1000. But true to his never-say-die attitude, he went on to establish one of Australia’s most successful V8 Supercar teams, amidst a dramatic career that, on many occasions, almost saw him lose his home, his team and even his life. Through intimate revelations and blistering accounts of the motor racing industry, Johnson reveals the incredible strength and commitment it took to win three Bathurst titles and a record five Australian Touring Car Championships in a remarkable career spanning almost 50 years.

Download or read book A Boy and his Bear written by Gregory Ladner and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this raw and hilarious memoir, a boy of humble beginnings in working-class Melbourne goes from dressing up his teddy to designing for Melbourne’s high society. Gregory Ladner lifts the lid on a world of gorgeous women, glamourous gowns and salacious secrets. It’s a rags-to-riches story – without the rags! A Boy and His Beartracks Ladner’s career as an Australian couturier, an international designer working in Hong Kong, and a creator of a hugely successful fashion accessory company. Beneath the glitz, it is also a highly entertaining mosaic of intimate and shocking confessions, both sensitive and brutal – a story of love, loss and social taboos in a society laced with contradictions. Revealing in more ways than one, and illustrated by the author’s own exquisite pen drawings, the colourful retrospective is a vivid, no-holds-barred reflection of a bygone era.

Download or read book Remembering Ben Chifley memories and stories from his family and friends written by Sue Martin and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the turbulent years of both, World Wars, The Great Depression and the Cold War, this book traces Ben Chifley’s life from his early years on his grandfather’s farm to his ascent as Prime Minister. Written by those who knew and loved him, previously unpublished material is used to give a unique insight into the character of one of Australia’s best loved Prime Ministers. The book was started at the request of John Chifley, Ben’s nephew. It has been written and put together over a number of years by his family.

Download or read book By the Scruff of the Neck written by Henri Licht and published by Inge Meldgaard, Australia. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the eyes of a young boy, ‘By the Scruff of the Neck’ begins its tale in post-WWII Holland of the 1940s and gives a candid and often humorous account of a Catholic childhood and the dynamics of family life. In contrast, the impact of the German occupation of Holland provides an insight into the privations of the time, as well as the subsequent decision to migrate to Australia in 1952.

Download or read book TIME FOR TRUTH Antonio Bellino tells it as it is Don Cameron and Antonio Bellino written by Don Cameron and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time For Truth is the story of Brisbane's so-called infamous Mafia Don, Antonio Bellino, named by the Fitzgerald Inquiry as one of five people of interest who were allegedly involved in corrupting the Queensland Police Force. On 12 May 1987, Antonio was accused of involvement in: drugs, prostitution, illegal gambling, corrupting police, sly grog, kidnapping children, Mafia connections and smuggling birds overseas. Antonio was flabbergasted, Are you serious? Even Capone didn't do all these things!?The Fitzgerald Inquiry took two and a half years to complete. Antonio was never charged and is still waiting for his name to be cleared. Antonio Bellino's story is powerful as it is starkly relevant to this day. It is sometimes amusing, often violent, it highlights some of this country's double standards of race priority and tall poppy successes as well as the age-old injustice of 'guilt by association'.

Download or read book Once Upon a Hume Volume II written by Stephen Gard and published by BlueDawe Books. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once Upon A Hume Volume 2 continues our journey down the ‘Great South Road’, as the Hume Highway was once known. We follow the original route, moving from personality to personality, catching up with some of the intriguing folk who lived near, or preyed upon, or prospered there, from the earliest days. Few of these folk or features are well-known. All have a story to share. The town clocks of Mittagong, Bowral, and Camden, and the fierce Battles of the Chimes ... The concentration camp at Berrima ... Grace Perry, black swan ... The fabulous 'Sally' of Sally's Corner ... Heroic 'Black Bob' of Black Bob's Creek ... The 'Tank Bank', taking Old Hume towns with a bang ... 'Old Bruce' Lewin, wandering yarn-spinner ... The hapless alpacas of Arthursleigh ... The Richter murder mystery ... The Marulan Tiger ... Goulburn's billycart ballyhoo ... … and many other persons and prominences. Once Upon a Hume is a travellers’ companion. Anecdotal, informative, and chatty, it peoples the Hume Highway landscape with vivid characters and occurrences, profiles prominences, explains place-names, and makes an absorbing panorama of the passing show. This is the second of several volumes about the colourful humanity who dwelt Once Upon A Hume.

Download or read book The Winter Road written by Kate Holden and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller. July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental officer Glen Turner in the back. On one side, a farmer hoping to secure his family’s wealth on the richest agricultural soil in the country. On the other, his obsession: the government man trying to apply environmental laws. The brutal killing of Glen Turner splits open the story of our place on this land. Is our time on this soil a tale of tragedy or triumph – are we reaping what we’ve sown? Do we owe protection to the land, or does it owe us a living? And what happens when, in pursuit of an inheritance for his family, a man creates terrible consequences? Kate Holden brings her discerning eye to a gripping tale of law, land and entitlement. It is the story of Australia. ‘An incredible writer.’ —Books+Publishing ‘Kate Holden finds the epic thread in this crime and weaves a quintessential Australian story.’ —Chloe Hooper ‘Beautifully written, meticulously researched, carefully plotted and seamlessly stitched together. This book is a major contribution to the canon of Australian land and social history: a bedfellow with Francis Ratcliffe, W.E.H. Stanner, Tim Flannery, Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe ... Its power is in exposing a hidden, suppurating sore in the psyche of our nation.’ —Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler ‘A gripping account of our land, and our selves.’ —Tara June Winch ‘I felt utterly in the grip of this agonising and powerful parable. Kate Holden brilliantly telescopes centuries of history and law into fatal conversations at a farm gate. As one man stalks another on a winter road, the whole psyche of modern Australian settlement comes under trial. An enthralling and disturbing tale told with deep insight and compassion.’ —Tom Griffiths ‘Beautifully and compellingly told, shattering in its reverberations, The Winter Road is a story for our times – a battle that is being fought the world over as we try to find a better way of managing the land and respecting the forces of nature that sustain us.’ —Isabella Tree ‘This is a special book, and I cannot thank Holden enough for writing it. By telling the human story of a man and his land, Holden reveals the timelessness of brigalow country, and threads a narrative that is ecological, humane and grounding.’ —Anna Krien

Download or read book Education Arts and Sustainability written by Mary Ann Hunter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses this challenge by proposing an integration of sustainability and arts education in both principle and practice. In a global context of intensifying social, economic and environmental crises, education is key to raising awareness and motivating individuals and communities to act in sustaining life in our more-than-human world. But how is this done when the complexity and need for change becomes overwhelming, and schooling systems become complicit in supporting the status quo? Drawing on critical education theory and precepts of creativity, curiosity and change, it documents a series of case examples that demonstrate how five principles of Education for Sustainability - critical thinking, systems thinking, community partnership, participation, and envisioning better futures - are found at the heart of much arts practice in schools. Featuring the creative work and voices of teachers working in arts-based enquiry and diverse community-engaged contexts, the book investigates how sustainability principles are embedded in contemporary arts education thinking and pedagogy. The authors are unapologetically optimistic in forming an alliance of arts and sustainability education as a creative response to the challenge of our times, arguing that while they may have operated on the margins of conventional pedagogy and curriculum, they have more than marginal impact.

Download or read book In a Small Quiet Village Where Nothing Much Ever Happens written by Ian Anthony Hollis and published by Ian Anthony Hollis. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small unaffected village outside of the city, the townsfolk of a close-knit community rarely leave and they even more rarely have any visitors. So when a young man named Adam arrives, the village is feverish in welcoming the newcomer. It’s not long before the tranquility of the halcyon settlement is disturbed with off-kilter ordeals, setting into motion a series of events affecting each dweller. With In a Small, Quiet Village, author Ian A. Hollis brings a slice of life story with intriguing magical realism elements, the first volume in the Cities & Villages saga.