Oct 9, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Education Studies & Teaching, History, Reference, Victoria
ISBN 978-1-923265-13-4
PAPERBACK
The Intriguing Meanings Behind the Academic Hat
Have you ever wondered why the academic hat is so peculiar?
How did it become a square hat with a tail? And why is it worn at graduation ceremonies around the world?
This book explores the mystery behind the academic hat so you can begin to recognise its historical roots.
The Hat and Tail delves into mathematics, astronomy, and mythical stories in search of insights. It successfully links these to the reasons for the hat’s eccentricities.
The Hat and Tail will open your eyes to astonishing research that has rarely been explained before. It is a unique book that will equip you with a true understanding of the mystery so many accept but do not understand.
So, if you want to grasp how this hat encompasses all of what the university represents, this will be an exciting read.
Sep 25, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Fiction \ Novel
ISBN 978-1-923214-44-6
HARDBACK
ISBN 978-1-923214-77-4
PAPERBACK
A troubled family and school life in a big city in the early 1960s leads Brad to crime and imprisonment. However, fate presents him with a lifeline. This exposes him to the rigours of outback life and work, new friendships and close relationships. Serious injury forces him into an indigenous community for several months. His eventual return to the city sees him come to terms with himself and his past.
About the Author
Graham is a retired academic who has written extensively in academic circles, including the completion of a PhD thesis. However, he has always harboured the wish to write creatively and has published two books previously. After a suggestion by a friend and encouragement from fellow writing group members, Graham embarked on the ambitious task of writing a novel.
‘Outback Odyssey’ is the final result of three years work, study, research, rewrites and editing.
Sep 24, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Brisbane, Christian, Health & Wellbeing, Self-help \ Personal Development
ISBN 978-1-923333-15-4
HARDCOVER
ISBN 978-1-923333-16-1
PAPERBACK
Your Guide to Happily Ever After
My Loving Right Bible is a trilogy of feel good, easy-to-relate-to books that explore what you really have to do to finally have the relationship that you’ve been dreaming of but can never find.
Author Julie Reith takes you on a journey of self-discovery, giving your mind a makeover so that you are ready to find the love you deserve. The clever weaving of humour with situations that every woman searching for love can relate to provides a captivating read, guaranteed to leave you more confident, more positive and more inspired! Through this series, the author opens up a new way to land your Mr. Right. This book is a perfect start to understanding real love and the powerful truth for loving right.
Go grab your slippers and the everlasting packet of Tim-Tams. You’re in for a read of fun,
Sep 23, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Victoria
ISBN 9781923333208
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Ancient Realms New Directions
Imagine that you wake overseas one night and think you are in hell. In this darkness you fight oriental demons and dodge laser beams. You are strapped to the bed of a baffling building, tended by people you don’t recognise. Then imagine you are home again, and that you gradually get better on no medication. You take a year off to travel.
What would you then think and feel? Far from being broken you finish a medical degree and study psychiatry whilst holding on to your secret. Spin forward forty years after a career in community psychiatry. You decide to study and Beyond Bipolar- Ancient Realms New Directions is incepted, about living mood and psychotic disorders from the inside and the outside.
About the Author
Australian born psychiatrist Dr James Le Bas PhD is the author of Beyond Bipolar, Ancient Realms, New Directions. As a sufferer himself, his career was awakened in a basement ward in Manilla, the first of four hospitalisations for psychosis, depression, and mania. His new book explores the role of ostracism in the determination of what he has termed the tripolar disorders and incorporates the models of Jaak Panksepp and Jeffrey Gray. In his new book he deals with the difficult issues – love, addiction, and loss, as he faces up to the mystery of mental illness, both at large and within himself, with his new mode of understanding – the Tesseract.
Sep 16, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, New South Wales, Poetry, Sydney
ISBN 978-1-923589-20-9
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Mini Poems and Other Bagatelles
Mini Poems and Other Bagatelles is a collection of predominantly concise poems written over the past five decades. The majority of these verses have been unearthed from the bottom of drawers, neglected folders, the reverse sides of envelopes, and in other unlikely places. Some are humorous, while others encompass a degree of pathos; they are compiled here not in chronological order but randomly
– merely for fun.
ISBN 978-1-923265-35-6
PAPERBACK
Bone and Marrow-Deep is a collection of mainly recent poems, taut, lyrical, and short. Dealing with the passing of time, loss of memory, and old age reveries. Poems, in their simplicity, exploring both the complexities and caprices of existence. Poems in search of clarity, in search of things indecipherable. Paisio shows once again in these brief verses, that even if he deems existence superfluous, and unjustifiable, he is enamoured with the magnificent, wondrous, unique, and unrepeatable adventure that life is.
About the Author
Franco Paisio was born in Milan in 1936. He is an artist and poet who studied painting, sculpture, and ceramics in Italy and Australia. He had numerous solo exhibitions both in Australia and Europe. His works are held in many national, corporate, and private collections. Franco has given numerous poetry readings, and from 1975 to 1985 was a contributing editor of “Aspect”, the now defunct Sydney-based art and literature magazine. He lives and works in contemplative solitude in Sydney, Australia.
