A Centenary History of Thirroul Labor (Est. 1913)
"Blood drawn in feud – fight in billiard saloon
Men and women came to blows last night at Thirroul over a political feud between supporters
of the Labor Party. They met on equal terms about 50-a-side in a billiard saloon and, although
the fight was stopped without outside interference, it was not until blood had been drawn."
- Cairns Post, 1 August 1933

The Story of the 25,000 kilometre Great Australian Expedition

"Take a large measure of guts, strength, will and heart; add a bike and a young woman and spend 25000 kilometres across Australia. Truth can be so much better than fiction. A brilliant story." Bryce Courtenay

Behind the scenes of two of Australia's most outrageous television shows
Two shows changed the face of Australian television forever, and rocked the nation to its foundations. And now, the creator of Number 96 and the Executive Producer of The Mavis Bramston Show takes you behind the scenes of these two controversial, outrageously ground-breaking series for a jaunt through the industry’s Golden Years.

TOP 100 - 2013
The premium guide to the top 100 coffee venues in Australia created for the lovers of serious coffee.
Aimed at the adventurist, the local and the pure die hard coffee connoisseur, this coffee bible is the perfect companion helping you limit your time and taking you straight to the best source of coffee where ever you may be in Australia.

A Vision for a New Australian Constitution
The contents of the federal Constitution are a mystery to most people, yet it is in the Constitution that are found the rules of how our institutions function, and what powers they may exercise over us. In a time of increasing voter dissatisfaction with how government is conducted in Australia, this book explains how our Constitution works, and why it is in need of reform. Foreword by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG

Faith, betrayal, pain, courage, justice.

A police investigation, a very public criminal trial and the silence of the general Catholic community, unwilling to believe evil about a popular priest, make this particular journey very painful indeed but a very good insight for the reader into the power of a strong and loving family.

Once called “the island of serendipity”, Sri Lanka is a place where a rich culture and chequered history combine. Where cricket tragics, surfers, and adventurers meet Buddhist monks, fishermen, and orphaned elephants. Where the scent of cinnamon floats on the air and there’s a feeling that anything is possible. This collection of travellers’ tales has been put together to benefit the “Samadhi Grove” early childhood development centre in the village of Smagipura in southern Sri Lanka.

Artificial Intelligence, in the sense of a machine that is aware and capable of making intelligent decisions on indefinite criteria, does not yet exist. What needs to change to make intelligent machines a reality? Why has this not happened already? This book may be the first step in the direction that leads to a truly intelligent, evolving and learning machine.

Everybody deserves a place at the table
Shanaka Fernando is often hailed as a modern-day revolutionary best known for his ‘pay-what-you-can-afford’ community restaurants in Melbourne. He was named Australia’s Local Hero in the Australian of the Year Awards and was a guest judge on MasterChef alongside the Dalai Lama. Lentil as Anything strips back the labels that have been slapped onto Shanaka’s media-built poster boy persona and gives us an insight into some of the experiences that have shaped the man he has become.

“This book has been many years in the making, and I have longed for it, because I knew Eric McNally and his remarkable story - and I saw first-hand how knowing Eric changed Robyn. Berkeley profoundly.”

Wisdom of Eating is designed to bring more insight to understanding our physical body and its incredible intelligence. With a little guidance on this magnificent being combined with some basic information about food, this book will assist in alleviating confusion when it comes to your body’s nutritional needs.

An Explanation of His Literary and Philosophical Activity
Along with Freud and Marx Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is undoubtedly one of the most influential thinkers and among the few brilliant writers who left an indelible mark on subsequent generations of writers, poets, and thinkers all over the world. Reading him can be a sobering as well as a maddening experience.

Common Sense information about your baby
It is not possible for you as a parent to know what your doctor knows about illnesses, you would need to go to medical school for this, but it is totally possible for you to know just about everything that your doctor knows about a normal baby. You are entitled to this knowledge, and it is only when you have this basic knowledge that you can begin to trust Mother Nature and to trust your intuition.

This is an immigrant’s story, told from the “inside”. An Italian family migrates to Australia in the 1950’s from a peasant village in the mountains of southern Italy and settles in Melbourne.

Love, trust, passion and patience: a new knowledge of understanding
Rocco was unaware of the trauma a person could go through until he met Nakita. At first sight she was just any happy go lucky mature girl whom he had the fortunate opportunity of meeting. Through her, he realised that life is not so simple as we all tend to think. Through her he grew and become the person he is today. Rocco's life turned around by a choice he made, to stay with her, to look after her, to be by her side.

Why is it that so often children are full of potential as infants, and less
so as they grow older?

This book is designed for young parents who are embarking on the great adventure of bringing new people into the world. If you are a parent with a normal little boy or girl, you have a remarkable new member of the family. Your child is bright!

The ultimate method to find Chinese characters fast
Chinese by Numbers presents the ultimate method to find Chinese characters fast. It does some things that no other Chinese reference book has ever tried. With more characters and its unique features it is the salvation of any person reading Chinese and frequently looking up new characters.

A common-sense approach to your dog’s skin allergies, infestations and fears
This book is dedicated to all those unfortunate itchy, scratchy, flea-plagued dogs out there and was written for the benefit of all their carers who have been blessed with a very special friend but the ‘caring’ is now costing more than the household can afford in both time and money.
This easy to read guide will change your dog’s life forever. Scratching and itching will become a thing of the past and not a chemical in sight!

A collection of experiences from a long golfing life

"June was to me attraction personified. She was a friendly handsome woman who made me feel most comfortable when we were in close proximity or in friendly conversation. In fact she exuded a sensual aura, which undoubtedly affected my game. What a lovely way to have a poor score (poor choice of words)."

The truth about CSIRO's best selling "scientifically proven" diet, and its cancer causing central ingredient

"Read this book: it may save your life. And if enough people read it, it just might save the planet." Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University

"You may not agree with everything in this book, but it's an important book. Everyone who cares about their own health and the sustainability of the earth should read it."
Dr Rosemary Stanton, OAM Nutritionist

If you are between 11 and 15 years of age, and you are about to start, or have already started your boarding adventure, this book is ideal for you. Read it by yourself, or share it with your parents. This book covers things that may happen to you, or around you, tips and hints on how to overcome difficulties, and ways to enrich your boarding experience.

A reply to people like Waleed Aly
Religious believers think that their own belief is the one true religion. Why else would they believe it? Believers may be kindly and well-meaning, but belief gives them an underlying sense of righteousness, of being chosen, of cultural superiority. Yet there is no objective justification. Is this arrogance?

Women and Men tell their stories
These are the life stories of ten Aboriginal people talking about where they grew up and their experiences before coming to Mt. Druitt.

A Practical Guide for Aged Care Workers
Aged Care with Altruism is a practical guide on how best to provide care, what personal qualities are useful, and some difficulties one might encounter. It describes both the practical component of providing care, with altruism, which is the regard for others as a principle of action. ‘Aged Care with Altruism’ seeks to fill a gap in the knowledge base, for educators, aged care workers, and prospective aged care workers.

A collection of stories recounting the bush experiences of Rowan Murphy, a fourth generation landowner. “I have written them truthfully, irreverently and hopefully amusingly. They cover the good times and the bad, the uncomfortable and the delightful. I sincerely hope you will enjoy and be entertained.”

In her book, SAGE:101 Faces of Age, Robyn Lambert documents year by year the process, response and attitudes about age, from the very young to the very old. It is a fascinating insight into the most natural of all processes and helps to highlight what is positive about ageing; in a society which reveres ‘youth’ and staying young.

As a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed between the Soviets and Nazi Germany on the 23rd August, 1939, the Germans invaded Poland from the west and the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. The Soviets quickly annexed its newly held territory and hundreds of thousands of Polish people were rounded up from the area and sent to Siberia and other remote parts of the USSR.

Barging In Europe— The Perfect Baby Boomer Adventure
What should you do when you’ve never even been in a rowboat, but discover one boring Saturday morning, as you were reading two inches in a travel column, an instant but hitherto totally unknown passion to live and cruise on a barge in Europe? Should you give your Australian life the flick, pack your midlife crisis in two suitcases, kiss family and friends goodbye and grab a plane to the other side of the world to buy a boat?
Absolutely! But where do you start?

A handy guide for easier communication
This book has been designed for hospital like settings but can be used in any setting that the reader sees fit. It is to enable easier communication between professionals and their clients/patients who may struggle to communicate verbally due to various operations, intellectual disability or are non English speaking.

BOYS and the ‘f’ word comes jam-packed with ideas and strategies to help you increase both your awareness and your effectiveness in being with boys. It is an experience-based, hard-hitting, action-oriented work designed to assist parents be more gutsy, firm and connected in their parenting. It helps teachers think about boys in ways that propels re-energised and re-organised teaching and it ensures better grades.

This ‘must have guide for parents’ is what you need to know about primary education with advice on ways to prepare your child for primary school. Also discover what schools and teachers aren’t telling you. There is no other resource on the market that will honestly inform you about what is occurring in primary schools across Australia, warts and all!

Taking the Drop is the life-affirming story of four women who took up surfing in their forties, broke away from their existing daily routines and steered their lives into new directions. Their love of the ocean broadens their horizons, teaches them lessons of skill and survival, allows them time for reflection and shows them that change and loss make way for growth, renewal and peace.

The Complete Phono-Graphic Reading Program
Is there anything more important for a child than learning to read? Well can you imagine what it would be like if they couldn't read? You can appreciate that their entire future depends on being able to do that very thing and do it well!

Six Steps to Embracing Your Inner Travel Bug
WARNING! Reading this book may cause you to quit your job, leave your partner and blow your savings on the adventure of a lifetime. If a trip overseas for you usually entails any of the following, then this just may be the book you’ve been waiting for.

It's not everyday a 50-something corporate executive throws in his job, picks up a backpack and becomes a global wanderer. It is even rarer that he heads for Bangladesh (where his tiny wooden canoe collides with a thousand tonne steel barge), Yemen (finding himself in an Arab brothel while searching for a cold beer with lunch) and Peru (having his shoelaces chewed by guinea pigs while he eats the rodents’ brothers and sisters).

A delicious collection of essays, interviews and articles by cool vegans from around the planet.
Vegans Are Cool is a collection of writings by the global vegan community. This collaborative project showcases the knowledge, creativity and heart of individuals from a diversity of races, cultures and backgrounds who share one thing in common: they are all living the healthy, environmentally friendly vegan lifestyle.

If you were told that you could use your mind to influence a slot machine or dice fall....would you find this beyond belief? If you were told that you could use your mind in a telepathic manner to influence the thinking pattern of another individual or group of people...would you believe it?

A Simple Explanation of an Eastern wisdom

Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) is based on the principle that we are part of nature - it exists both around us and within our body. We reach optimal health when we live in harmony with the environment and when we achieve that balance within ourselves. TCM treats everybody as an individual. Everyone is unique. Two people may come in for the same issue but treatment will depend on the underlying cause.

A new approach to self understanding, lasting happiness, and self-truth.

A balanced life is something we all yearn for, but it can only be honestly achieved through a balance of self. This important book gently and sensitively guides us towards our inner self and shows us step by step how we can rescue, resuscitate and nurture our real identity back to health.

Tales and teachings from the extraordinary life of martial artist and healer Raoul Kent

“It’s only a matter of realising there are certain basic principles to follow when fighting. When you’re driving a car and you want the car to turn the corner you don’t get out of the car, lift it and carry it around the corner. When you want to control a person you don’t have to fight the whole body. You attack one portion of the body and take control by exerting pain. Everybody responds to pain.” - Raoul Kent

A beginners guide to growing, storing and using herbs

Herbs for Healing has been written for busy people who just want to know the facts, therefore the layout and alphabetical index are designed to help you locate ailments quickly.

The magical method of making the move from mediocre to mesmerising
“It is your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude...”
With this piece of home-spun wisdom Elizabeth Macnish begins her guidebook on how to pick yourself off the floor after life has dealt you a stunning blow. Elizabeth writes with the victim’s experience. This gives her advice the aura of present-day reality and good sense and that makes her book worth reading.

Achieving career success and personal fulfilment as a professional in practice

Too busy looking after clients to consider yourself? Feel like you're in a washing machine, wrung out at the end of the spin cycle? If so, parking your soul at the door of the office each day and going through the motions is not the answer.

The spin doctor's guide to effective and authentic communication

Stay on Message reveals the simple yet powerful tools that will allow you to communicate effectively and authentically in a world with unlimited media possibilities.

Your handbook to becoming a working actor in L.A.

The Hollywood Survival Guide is not only tailored for Aussie actors coming to or in Hollywood, but for actors anywhere who want to become "smart actors" and understand how each facet of the entertainment industry works, and how it affects you as the actor.

Accountants are routinely awarded the accolade of ‘trusted advisor’. Yet many accountants, bogged down with compliance work, spend most of their time writing history instead of helping their clients make history. There has been much talk about how accountants should embrace value based, business improvement services so that they can step up and truly embrace their trusted advisor status. Yet little has been written on how to go about doing that in a way that sits firmly within the accountant’s heartland – the numbers.

Why they don’t and what to do about it

The traditional Accounting ‘Practice’ model is outdated. Your clients do not want an accountant who is just an order taker. What they do want is an accounting firm that looks to the future and provides them with timely advice on what they should be doing now to improve their businesses and ultimately to help them achieve their financial and lifestyle goals. If you want to be that firm, you need to read ‘Accounting Practices Don’t Add Up’ to learn how.

This instructive short book is born from the day-to-day experiences of a successful academic surgeon.

Divided into forty-two concise essays, this small book contains straight forward pragmatic advice about the development of a surgical career. It complements the usual surgical texts and details the hurdles that need to be overcome to be become an expert surgeon. It is full of wisdom borne of experience.

Achieving career success and personal fulfilment as a professional in practice

Being an entrepreneur involves taking risks and Elizabeth Jane Wilks has taken more than most. Riding the initial wave of the dot.com boom in the UK was a brave and foolhardy venture, but for one woman the dream of taking a company to the stock market was a driving passion.

This small book presents the lives of early pioneers and special incidents as a remote colonial outpost. In a concise summary form. Written and illustrated by the author it is a handy sized reference to their endeavours.

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The KISS Method of Cooking has selections for entrée, main meal, desserts and treats to spoil you. The soups are quick, delicious and simple to make. Side dishes include mango with two-minute noodles, sweet potato mash, cheats fried rice and so much more. There is a simple way to make white sauce without lumps in the microwave.

Boost your bookings with easy and effective marketing methods

Celebrants know how to create and deliver beautiful, personalised ceremonies. But with the ever-growing number of Celebrants in Australia today, getting noticed (and hired!) is the key to making a living from the work you love. As competition increases, only marketing-savvy Celebrants will build a thriving business. Don’t be left behind!