CAPRA, Frank

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ViaCultura

 

Cultivating your personal intellectual and character growth

ViaCultura inspires you to cultivate your intellectual and character growth every day.

The organised and clear structure provides you with the ability to increase your daily productivity, expand your vocabulary, teach yourself a new language, foster personal accountability, monitor goal attainment, design self-styled curriculums and reading plans, as well as providing a daily reflection and journaling section and a key excerpt section to capture the best ideas or phrases from
the books you read and lectures you watch.

Do you wish to improve your intellect and character every day, and enjoy the benefits of seeing yourself progress and achieve your goals? Then this journal is perfect for you.

KANE, Robert

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Your Mate, Hodgkin’s

 

A True Story Of Resilience, Positivity and Self-Help

AT THE AGE OF 32, STAYING POSITIVE WAS ROB’S BIGGEST HURDLE, WHEN HE FOUND HIMSELF FACE TO FACE WITH STAGE 4 HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA.

While the doctors excelled in diagnosis, surgical procedures and prescribing chemotherapy regimens, when it came to maintaining
optimism or prescribing diets that nourish a body ravaged by cancer and treatment, the advice on hope and healing was scarce.

As Rob’s journey progressed, he seized the unique opportunity to analyse and document his path to maintaining a positive mindset.
Through simple yet powerful ideologies, Rob delves into the importance of perspective and captures deeply vulnerable moments through his journaling. Through the face of uncertainty, the agonising wait for a diagnosis, and the chilling realisation of death’s
veil over his life, Rob offers profound insights into the crucial strategies that enabled him to break free from the grip of negativity.

“I couldn’t escape by travelling overseas or quitting my job, the way most young people deal with their issues. My philosophy was to break the journey down into steps. One by one, there is a step to recognition, to recovery, and to maintain mindfulness and self-strength.”

Your Mate, Hodgkin’s is a compelling and detailed account of Rob’s journey through cancer. This must-read story weaves together extensive research with the firsthand experience of a chemotherapy patient. It offers valuable guidance to patients, support networks, and practitioners alike, providing essential tools for everybody coping with cancer and other life-altering traumatic events.

MAERSCHEL, Richard

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Blumberg Hill

 

The Silent Witness To The Events And People Of Birdwood

Blumberg Hill is the fourth in a projected series of seven books focussing on some South Australians – why they came, what they and their descendants did, and why the State is better for their achievements.

Author Richard Maerschel’s aim is to shine a light onto several unknowns, to propose answers to some hard questions, and to correct a few misconceptions.

His subjects are mainly 19th century German-speaking migrants, their relations with Anglo-Saxons and Irish, and rural transport and communications. For this series so far Richard has written over 800 pages with hundreds of references, photos and maps.

Available week of 18th November 2024

CROSS, Roger

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Everlastings

 

Becoming Me, Annie Richards the flower hunter

Annie so often described her life as ‘fearful’ and yet it is evident that she enjoyed a remarkable first success as a flower hunter and later an astonishing development as a ‘would be naturalist.’ With determination and persistence, she became one of the most prolific flower collectors for two scientific gentlemen – Baron von Mueller of Melbourne and Professor Tate of The University of Adelaide. Living in a lonely and isolated part of South Australia, she became, by chance, a trailblazer for what would eventually be called the ‘New Woman’.

This too is a tragic story of neglect and hardship; it dogged her desire to be a Victorian ‘lady’ and to be recognised as one of the famous flower hunters of the nineteenth century. Despite all her difficulties and disappointments she was to collect plant specimens for 20 years. Neglected and forgotten, Annie Richards was to triumph in most surprising ways. This account reveals her rightful place in the pantheon of Victorian women who broke the expected role of subservience. Annie’s life, 1845-1930, brings into sharp focus the plight of contemporary women who were bold and fearless, but unfulfilled intellectually.

Roger Cross has written this story out of a deep love of the Australian bush, especially the much maligned Mallee of Southern Australia. It was in the Mallee that Annie found herself and achieved so much. He feels saddened by the neglect shown to her by Baron von Mueller and is thankful to Professor Ralph Tate for recognising her worth, rescuing her dignity and her self-esteem.

CROSS, Mary Talbot

ISBN 978-1-923214-64-4
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The Foundling

A tale of the Burra Burra Mine

With Fortune’s Fool: The road beyond Eureka

Re-published as a single volume, The Foundling and Fortune’s Fool paint an authentic picture of South Australia and Victoria in the formative years of European settlement, and describe a young woman’s compelling journey of self-discovery from the social injustices of the Burra Burra to the challenges of Ballaarat and beyond.

THE FOUNDLING. Abandoned as a baby, taunted as a child, Julia Stephen – the Foundling of the title – learns to survive in the West Country of England until her adoptive Methodist family sets sail for South Australia in the earliest years of European settlement, in search of a better life.

Necessity takes them north, to work for the South Australian Mining Association of the Burra Burra, whose regime rates the workforce far below the appeal of profi ts. When Julia settles in the Company township called Kooringa, her past returns to haunt her.

Who is the mysterious packman from Julia’s Devon childhood who follows her through the streets of Kooringa township? What is the grim secret she uncovers in the dank squalor of a dugout in the Burra Burra Creek?

FORTUNE’S FOOL. Ballaarat in the goldrush of the early 1850s. A place of glittering promise and deep despair; where hidden resentments will swell into open rebellion against the colonial government in December 1854.

Into this male-dominated sex-starved shantytown comes Miss Julia Stephen, seeking her Cornish lover. Quick-witted, resourceful – and unscrupulous – she becomes one of the most successful women on the Victorian diggings. When tensions erupt into bloody rebellion at Eureka, Julia Stephen’s life is transformed beyond her wildest dreams.

About the Author

Mary Talbot Cross was born in Devon, England, and is a graduate of Scotland’s Aberdeen University. She has written four novels set in historical times; in addition to The Foundling and Fortune’s Fool, Fate Knows No Tears tells the story of the Edwardian poet ‘Laurence Hope,’ while Resurgence is the author’s tribute to South-west France. Mary Talbot Cross is the pseudonym of the historian Jennifer M.T. Carter. She lives in Burra.

BOND, Stanley Arthur

ISBN 978-1-923214-92-7
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Twists Of Fate

This remarkable story, compiled by his daughter, draws from Stanley’s manuscripts, letters, and newspaper articles written throughout his life.

TWISTS OF FATE spans eighty-five years, from 1914 to 1999, chronicling Stanley’s incredible journey from orphan to farm hand, Medic and POW, and ultimately, a foreign correspondent. The narrative offers a contemporary journalistic account of global history, covering pivotal moments like the 1926 British General Strike, life in German POW camps, post-war Europe, and the civil wars and unrest in Greece, Palestine, and China.

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About the Author

Born in the slums of London’s East End and raised as an orphan, Stanley Arthur Bond’s life took an extraordinary turn during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Moving to a farm in New Zealand opened doors to work and study, setting him on a path of global travel and participating in and observing many of the twentieth century’s historic events.