RICKARDS, Scott

Sep 12, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Design, History, History showcase, Photography, Reference, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, South Australia

StupIT People by self-published author Steve Eatts

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ISBN 978-1-922452-84-9
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Adelaide: Between the Wars

A stunning collection of maps and rare photographs of Adelaide CBD between WWI and WWII. Between 1924 and 1926 the Fire Underwriters’ Association of South Australia produced a series of detailed maps of the main business district of Adelaide.

In this book, each of these maps are divided into six sections, showing in detail the businesses and dwellings of each street, as well as providing some insight to the architecture and features of each property. To accompany each of these maps, the facing pages show photographs of street scenes, businesses and people from within, or adjacent to, that map.

Price: $125

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Pick-up: from Green Hill Publishing 75-77 Dale Street Port Adelaide, 9am-5pm Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays). Credit card payment can be received in person (if not paying online).

Features:

Exclusive Limited Edition of 200 copies
Beautifully curated, written, designed and printed
Hardback with ribbon bookmark, gloss pages, printed ends, section sewn binding
Size 420mm x 420 mm (about 1/2 meter square!)
72 pages
36 giant super detailed heritage maps – focussing on Adelaide CBD streets and laneways.
Amazing rare historical photographs from the period.
Collection of business press advertisements referencing the maps.
Of interest to history buffs, photographers, Adelaideians and anyone interested in Australia’s premier planned city

A remarkable amount of information in amazing detail…

NEED, Allan

Aug 11, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Design, History, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, South Australia

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ISBN 978-1-922337-54-2 PAPERBACK

SA Greats

South Australians are lucky.

They have not only a temperate climate but a government, developed from the principles of the Enlightenment, which encourages innovation and social progress. The lead South Australians have given the world in agriculture, science and social advancement can, in part, be attributed to the women and men described in this volume and to the system set up by Wakefield and his team in London in 1835. The culture espoused by such people as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill reached a long way!

RB Smith’s invention of the Stumpjump Plough, Lawrence Bragg’s discoveries which eventually found the structure of DNA and Mary Lee’s world-first embraced innovation and social reform. Perhaps the greatest gift to humanity though was Howard Florey’s development of penicillin. These people and others are saluted in this book.

Their contributions do not appear to be diminishing. Terry Tao’s recent solutions to many different longstanding mathematical problems and the installation of the world’s biggest battery in South Australia in 2019 suggest we are not faltering, but there is a long way to go.

DUTSCHKE, Richard

Aug 9, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, History, Justice \ Law \ Crime, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government

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ISBN 978-0-6483239-1-4
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ISBN 978-0-6481379-9-3
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The Towitta Tradgedy

This story recounts the inquest into the murder of Bertha Schippan on 1 January 1902. Her elder sister, Mary, was charged with the murder, but she was found not guilty. At the time, the news surrounding the murder and trial captivated the nation.

On New Year’s Night 1902, in a lonely farmhouse at Towitta, 13 year old Bertha Schippan was brutally murdered. She suffered over 40 stab wounds and the walls and floor of the house were covered in blood. She had fought her attacker ferociously before succumbing to deep cuts to her neck. Her 24 year old sister, Mary Schippan, went to trial for her murder two months later, but was found not guilty. The murder was a sensation at the time with unprecedented media coverage throughout Australia. Mary’s relationship with Gustav Nitschke provided the press with much to write about and the police with an apparent motive. The crime remains officially unsolved. Ron Nitschke, a nephew of Gustav Nitschke, researched the case for over 50 years. He spoke to many people who lived in the district and knew the family well, including his own family. Ron tells the story of the murder in great detail. We learn why the murder was committed and by whom. The vast majority of people in the Murray Flats and the Barossa Valley knew who murdered Bertha. It seems the only people who didn’t were the police…

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BAUTISTA, Shane

Feb 16, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Addiction & Recovery, Memoir, Psychology \ Mental Health

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ISBN 978-0-6485862-6-5
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Resilience: A Story of Survival

Resilience a story of survival is a compelling memoir. Shane’s message of hope, recovery, and resilience.

With the odds stacked against kids that come from being ‘State Wards’ – drugs, becoming a teenage parent, living a life of crime, prison and even death; Shane got out and worked towards obtaining a higher education that leads to a career as a Mental Health Nurse.

Shane is his own success story.

About the Author

Shane Bautista is a gay male who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He currently works as a Registered Nurse and has a passion in helping others. As a child, Shane was made a ward of the state and placed in foster care at the age of seven years old. Shane suffers from mental health issues with depression and anxiety. Sharing his story of survival growing up in care and becoming a success story by defeating the odds and having the resilience to have overcome many diversities in his life. Shane is a first time author. Completing his debut non-fiction novel, has been Shane’s biggest achievement yet. Shane’s memoir ‘Resilience: a story of survival’ is raw, confronting and inspirational.

DICKSON, Peter

Oct 12, 2022 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Health & Wellbeing, Melbourne, Memoir, Sport, Victoria

Book _ He was my brother by Peter Dickson

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ISBN 978-1-922890-68-9
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He was My Brother

The story of Rob Dickson and me

“A compelling story I urge you to read”
Gillon McLachlan, AFL CEO

One phone call, one sudden unexpected tragic event in a distant land. That’s all it took to shatter one man’s world and his close-knit family into a thousand pieces.

The death of Australian football identity, reality TV star and documentary maker Rob Dickson stunned his hundreds of associates and friends across Melbourne’s corporate, sporting and social world.

But none felt it more than his hero-worshipping younger brother, Peter. The bond between them was unbreakable. From an early age they were far more than brothers. They were mates, buddies, best pals and eventually business partners.

Rob’s death hit Peter harder than he or anyone could have imagined. The aftershock has lasted for years, taking its toll not only on Peter’s mental and physical health but also his family and business relationships.

In this uplifting memoir of survival and recovery he tells with brutal honesty of his fight back from intense despair, with Rob as his ever-present inspiration and guide.

He delves back into the pair’s childhood under the strict but loving eye of their Bible-quoting mother, traces Rob’s larrikin rise into the world of Australian Rules and details his ongoing struggles to rival his brother’s skill behind the camera.

An immensely readable story of highs and lows told with the sharp eye of one who has beaten the odds to reach the peak of his profession as an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

“They were the greatest storytellers I’ve ever known, mixing larrikin humor with existential wisdom that left their audiences laughing & crying, spellbound & uplifted. Their love for storytelling and helping others was outshone only by their love for each other”
— Ben Crowe Leadership Mentor & Mindset Coach.