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Serial killers in the caring professions.<br /> <br />Doctors, nurses and health workers have a duty of care to their patients to ensure they act in the best interests of an individual; and not act or fail to act in a way that results in harm.<br /> <br />But those featured within these pages are serial killers who roamed their places of work, preying on people at their most vulnerable.<br /> <br /><b><i>Angels of Death</i></b> is an...
| Автор | Emily Webb |
Martin Flanagan, journalist at the Age, has often written of the great Wonders of Australian Sport, his love of the AFL, of the importance of Aboriginal players in the highest echelons of Australian sport. A few years ago he threw himself at the mysterious and distressed figure of Tom Wills – our early Colonial cricket celebrity, who put together the Aboriginal Cricket Team set for Great Britain in 1868 – and helped write the original Code for Australian Rules. A hero for several original clubs...
| Автор | Martin Flanagan |
Twenty-five years ago, serial killer Paul Denyer terrorised the bayside suburb of Frankston.<br />Twenty-five years later, the trauma of his seven-week killing spree still haunts the community.<br /> <br />The spate of murders in 1993 touched many more lives than just the three victims.<br /> <br />All of Melbourne was gripped with fear, as Frankston and surrounding suburbs were flooded with police hunting the serial killer of three young women.<br /> <br...
| Автор | Vikki Petraitis |
Alister Kershaw was a member of the lively crew of poets, painters, musicians and marginal madcaps who made up Melbourne's artistic avant-garde in the Thirties and Forties. In this book he recalls some of the people he knew in those distant heydays.<br /> <br />Here are Albert Tucker and James Gleeson, who were savaged by Kershaw in a notorious satirical poem but who later became good friends of his. The youthful Max Harris is depicted with affectionate irony although his fellow...
| Автор | Alister Kershaw |
The Dingoes reached the climax of their Australian success in 1974 with their self-titled LP and singles Way Out West and Boy on the Run. They were inducted in the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2009.<br /> <br />This is the story of the Dingoes' one chance to make it big on the international stage. It is a rollicking road trip of five Aussie musicians travelling across the USA in preparation for their big break – supporting their stable-mates Lynyrd Skynyrd on a national tour. It is a...
| Автор | John Bois |
French by birth, British by education, Australian by choice, Babette Hayes was uniquely placed to bring that fusion of French tradition and informal style that characterises her cuisine and interior design. In <b><i>Food for Friends</i></b> she traces her journey from the war-torn Middle East, to the strangeness of life in an English boarding school, to glittering mornings on Sydney's Mosman Bay. These recipes and the stories that accompany them, recall dear friends...
| Автор | Babette Hayes |
Margot Edwards, Writer, editor and community artist Ginn tells us a giant story in which her own beliefs and experiences, as inheritor of white colonial narratives, stand parallel with her Nation and Africa's proud, defiant and resilient indigenous warriors; impacting each other in the complex struggle for liberation and meaning. Ginn navigates massive internal and external landscapes in times of war, trauma, fractured peace, conciliation and forgiveness in South Africa and Zimbabwe, with...
| Автор | JA Ginn Fourie |
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is one of the best-loved Scottish writers. Beginning with a series of poetry collections and nonfiction works, Scott quickly became known as a rising force in British letters. But it was with the publication of Waverley (1814), the first of a series of sixteen bestselling historical novels known collectively as the Waverley novels, that the writer established himself as a literary icon. Such works as Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, and Kenilworth, among many others,...
| Автор | S. Fowler Wright |
The book they said couldn't be written is here … ROCKET NORTON: LOST IN SPACE by Rocket Norton It's a story born in the sixties, a story that booze couldn't drown and drugs couldn't squelch, a story obsessed with sex and unafraid to 'do it in the road' or anywhere for that matter. Author, Rocket Norton says, «Aw Hell with the lawsuits, it's a story I just had to tell.» As the drummer with the infamous Seeds of Time and later Canada's Group of the Year,...
| Автор | Rocket Norton |
Facing a crumbling marriage, an insecure financial future, and the daunting prospect of single parenthood, Nathy Gaffney was scared. At the age of forty-seven, it felt like all of her friends had their shit together while she was a struggling actress flailing for a lifeline. How would she survive—and thrive—in her new reality? In her no-holds-barred memoir The Gap Year(s), Gaffney takes readers on a raw and rollicking odyssey through heartbreak, utter resolve, and ultimate...
| Автор | Nathy Gaffney |
Sometimes I wonder how I didn't go crazy and end up in some nut house through all the madness I had endured throughout the years. The violence I witnessed as a child, being molested, dealing with alcoholism, deceitful people and then the fact I was gay. This had such a huge impact on me causing me to become such an angry person and it took a long time for me to seek help and forgive those who were responsible. I needed to stop judging those who were also in fear and pain as I once was....
| Автор | Shelley A Dewar |
"It is vivid and convincing, its voice utterly authentic…And for all its record of distress it is written with love. I felt that the writer had to write it. Which is probably the most important thing you can say about any book." ALEX MILLER, twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award Set in Sydney and Melbourne between 1932 and 1955, Divided Houses depicts the doomed relationship of Eddie and Vivien, two people whose lives have already been affected by the Great Depression and its aftermath....
| Автор | Janice Paull |
“Once a Grand Duke” is a 1931 work by former Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866 – 1933), a dynast of the Russian Empire, author, explorer, naval officer, and the brother-in-law of Emperor Nicholas II. Within these pages, he gives a fascinating and unique account of the last fifty years of the Russian Empire, concentrating of course on the Romanov Family and the events leading up to the fated February Revolution. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in Russian history and in...
| Автор | Alexander Mikhailovich |
While African National Congress narratives dominate much of the scholarship on South Africa’s freedom struggle, Josie Mpama/Palmer’s political life offers a different perspective. Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes that hindered black women from actively participating in politics, Mpama/Palmer was an outspoken advocate for women’s social equality and encouraged black women to become more involved in national conversations. The first black woman to join the...
| Автор | Robert R. Edgar |
In the waning days of marijuana prohibition in the pacific northwest, a generation of young outlaws is scrambling to turn the green leaf into cold cash. Johnny is one of these men. Raised in middle-class Portland, from an early age the impressionable Johnny was enamored by the street life. After getting his start selling dime bags from his college dorm room, a chance connection with an East Coast criminal syndicate presents him with the opportunity of a lifetime. Now, with legalization...
| Автор | Johnny Mitchell |
Blink Spoken Here is a powerful tale of a family’s rare twenty-seven year journey with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). It is told through the eyes of the patient, Christopher Pendergast and his wife Christine. The book takes the reader on a roller coaster ride to dizzying heights and abysmal lows experienced in the world of ALS. With un-sugared words, the couple reveal intimate, disturbing, frustrating, gut wrenching and life altering experiences. It is also an uplifting, joyous portrayal of...
| Автор | Christopher Pendergast |
'The Art of War' is the most important book ever written about warfare and conflict. Lionel Giles' translation is the definitive edition, his commentary is indispensable. 'The Art of War' can be used and adapted in every facet of your life. It explains when and how to go to war, as well as when not to. Learn how to win any conflict whether it be on the battlefield or in the boardroom. Lavishly illustrated with eleven brilliant illustrations by renowned artist Luke...
| Автор | Сунь-цзы |
In Letters from the Other Side of Silence , Joseph Little chronicles his search for a meaningful life after slipping into a mystical state atop Pacaya, an active volcano in Guatemala. The journey takes him to a reclusive Russian mystic meditating in the Himalayas, an American theologian in St. Louis who helps him turn the quest inward, and eventually to an Agent Orange orphanage in Vietnam, where Little begins to realize the wholeness of a life that balances the inner fire of wordless prayer...
| Автор | Joseph Little |
The natural world has the power to awaken, restore, and transform us, and nowhere are these capacities more evident than in the thirty-six luminous essays that make up The Ashokan Way . Written in the form of journal entries that take place over the course of a year, the essays explore both the outer landscapes of the awe-inspiring Ashokan Reservoir, a vast open space surrounded by the ancient bluestone peaks of the Catskill Mountain Watershed, and the equally awe-inspiring inner landscapes of...
| Автор | Gail Straub |
'Autobiography of a Yogi' introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West. The book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels across America lecturing and establishing his...
| Автор | Paramhansa Yogananda |
His Goal: To Kill An «Even Fifty»They called him «Uncle Willie.» At night, Robert «Willie» Pickton visited the streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The women he picked up never came back. . .His Methods: Rape And TortureFor years, police built a long list of missing prostitutes, women at the edge of society. Some people claimed there was a serial killer. One detective lost his job for saying so. But investigators didn't have a single body. . .until someone found a skull sawed in...
| Автор | Gary C. King |
Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, is undoubtedly among Canada’s greatest living writers. In this unique, intriguing collection, Brenda Pfaus gives fresh insights into some of Munro’s most enduring works: Lives of Girls and Women (1971) , Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) , Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) , Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) , and The Moons of Jupiter (1982) . This collection of essays reaches from the early years of Munro’s career...
| Автор | Brenda Pfaus |
In 1961, Andy Warhol resolved to become the chronicler of the affluent society. His series of consumption products is heralded by hand-painted dollar bills, coke bottles, and the 32 varieties of Campbell's soup cans. In 1968 he is shot down. The doctors declare him clinically dead. But Andy remains productive for nearly 20 years more. He dies in 1987. Author Willi Bloess asked Annette Schulze-Kremer to draw this comic biography as a reference to the 1960 years and to Mort Drucker, one of...
| Автор | Willi Bloess |
His whole life-long, the surrealistic painter Dali was obsessed to come to terms with three key moments of his childhood in Spain. 1. The fear that in his parents eyes, he is only a rebirth of the dead first son, 2. the shocking effect that the pictures of venereal diseases discovered in his father's library have had on him, and 3. the betrayal of his father, whom he found in bed with his mother's sister. His "floating clocks” gain worldwide famousness and become a symbol for a reality...
| Автор | Willi Bloess |