Sep 23, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Autobiography, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Victoria
ISBN 9781923333208
PAPERBACK
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.
Aug 7, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Melbourne, Poetry, Victoria
Without Angels is a series of small prose pieces written over the years since retiring in 1996.
It covers personal memories and observations of daily life.
About the Author
Michael Watson was born in 1942 in Melbourne.
After dropping out of High School he spent some years in farms around Victoria and New South Wales as a Jackeroo before returning to study at the age of 20. He completed a first class honours degree in Science at Monash University and went on to study for an MA at Princeton, New Jersey in 1967. The he met Nadine in 1969, whom he married in 1970. They have two children, Anne and David, and five grandchildren, Doug, Jack, Charlie, Juliette and Olivier.
Aug 5, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Business, Reference, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, Victoria
ISBN 978-1-923214-04-0
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How the Rich get richer while the Poor stay poor
A philosophical deconstruction of the Australian taxation system and its principles
Our Australian taxation system is an impressive clockwork-like machine with its origins in pre-Victorian times; designed on pre-Victorian principles and with pre-Victorian efficiency. Its workings today, even though falling far short of what is needed in this electronic age, are kept in working order at great expense to the Australian Community.
The author for 34 years was just a worker in Maintenance tasked with keeping everything running as previously. All his pleadings for updating and improving existing plant and functions were met with a glazed silence and just ignored. Instead he made notes of his observations and described in detail the issues causing concern and how a particular function might be made to work more efficiently or, in many cases, retired from service.
This book might easily be taken for a report by a Royal Commission set up for the purpose of looking into and reporting on its inequity, its inefficiency and its complexity. But such Royal Commissions and enquires were held and even examined the issues just mentioned but were unable to formulate the findings and recommendations our author makes in this book.
Jul 23, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Language \ Culture \ Linguistics, Memoir, Relationships, Victoria
ISBN 978-1-923214-54-5
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As a child, Mila and her brothers were taken, under a cloud of secrecy, by their parents from their home, school, extended family, country and culture. They were not allowed by their parents to talk about their forthcoming journey. When either parent made an order, the children obeyed. This order not to speak drew eight-year old Mila to pay special attention to her life.
This is a story with an interesting scope. It is about escape from oppression, about family, and about her various journeys through different cultures. Mila writes about her adjusting to the challenge of a new culture, home and language in Australia. She highlights the different ways that members of her family respond to this same challenge.
At the heart of this book is Mila’s understanding of our obligation to stay true to ourselves that reveal to us who we are, unrelated to our family or culture. Through the gift of her story, she is also celebrating the common humanity that binds us all, no matter where we come from.
Jul 17, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Children's Books, Relationships, Victoria
ISBN: 978-192-326-516-5
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James stands toes buried in the sand, ankles brushed by the cool waves of his beach.
Why should he leave?
Why should he have to go ?
…It’s their choice not his.
‘It’s not fair!’ he mutters.
James is faced with a difficult choice…he doesn’t want to leave his special place, but his family is moving and there is no way for him to stay.
Serendipity – a moment in time – intervenes and a surprise encounter helps him to stand up and be counted.
About the Author
KAREN LUKIN is a retired English teacher from Western Australia, who now lives in rural Victoria. Growing up, she was an avid reader and always wanted to be a published writer.
She uses family stories as her inspiration. She is married
to a retired farmer and has a love of the country life.
Serendipity is her first published work – it was awarded the state
prize in the Victorian Country Women’s Association Literature
competition in 2019. For publication as a picture book, she has
collaborated with a family friend and artist, Tania Vanzetti.
Other short stories she has written were included in the Kyabram Town
Hall Writers Group Anthology Celebrating Women published in 2021.
Jul 15, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Children's Books, Melbourne, Victoria
ISBN 978-1-923265-00-4
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