Jul 26, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Adelaide, Australian, Education Studies & Teaching, Language \ Culture \ Linguistics, Reference, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government, South Australia
ISBN 978-1-923265-39-4
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THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST NATION
South Sudan: The World’s Youngest Nation is full of fast facts and cultural information aimed to help South Sudanese people who are living in Australia connect to their homeland’s past and present. This guide highlights the country’s journey, its cultural heritage in a quick yet comprehensive way.
About the Author
David Jock Nhial is a dedicated and compassionate social worker and author with extensive experience in helping individuals and communities. With a strong academic background, including a bachelor’s degree in Humanities, a Master’s Degree in Social Work, and various other qualifications related to child wellbeing and youth work, he is known for his empathy, excellent communication skills, and deep commitment to social justice. His achievements include publishing two children’s books, contributing chapters to notable publications, and being a finalist in the 2012 Pride of Australia Medal in the Fair Go category.
David conducted extensive research, including surveys with South Sudanese youth in Australia, to understand their struggles with cultural identity and adaptation. He found that many young South Sudanese in Australia have limited knowledge about their homeland. The information written here seeks to bridge that gap by providing valuable insights into South Sudan’s culture, history, and the journey to independence.
Through his book, South Sudan – The World’s Youngest Nation, David aims to inspire young readers to embrace their cultural heritage and understand the importance of unity and diversity. This work seeks to educate young readers about the Republic of South Sudan, which became an independent nation after separating from Sudan. David hopes to empower the next generation of South Sudanese youth, particularly those living in the diaspora, by helping them understand their cultural heritage, the history of their nation, and the significance of its independence.
Jul 25, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Beauty, Grooming & Style, Manual \ Training Material, Miscellaneous, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development
ISBN 978-1-923214-97-2
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How to do anything with style
Discover the secrets to living life with elegance and charm in Tea with the Dutchess!
Have you ever dreamed of mastering the art of sophistication and glamour?
Does a life of style tickle your fancy?
Are you ready to ignite your inner princess?
Get prepared to unleash your inner royalty as you delve into this enchanting world. From charming tea parties, to spellbinding candlelit soirées the Dutchess will unveil the secrets to captivate your guests with grace, the intricacies of hosting parties, transforming your humble abode into your own palace and indulging in a life of opulence —all while keeping your feet humbly on the ground but ensuring your crown never loses its shine!
About the Author
Kate Gawi is an accredited interior designer, who alongside her husband operates Architeria Architects and Interior Designers in Melbourne, Australia.
Kate has designed the interior for some of the most opulent and luxurious homes in Australia. She has studied art history and interior design and there is nothing dearer to her than creating beautiful homes and an equivalent lifestyle.
When Kate is not designing, decorating, or entertaining she will be found in her tea house, sipping on an Earl Grey while reading historical novels. Kate’s family has rarely witnessed a birthday without the pomp and circumstance, many times with themes resembling a bygone era.
Her European upbringing made her appreciate art and architecture and as a natural storyteller and a self-proclaimed lifestyle connoisseur Kate’s first book had to be about creating beautiful environments and how do it in style.
Jul 25, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Health & Wellbeing, Manual \ Training Material, Self-help \ Personal Development
ISBN 978-1-923214-10-1
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Anatomy of youth developments: step by step logics
DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF LEGACY?
Let us stop waiting for someone else to be ‘the one’ – YOU be the one.
Maybe you want to start doing something that makes you feel truly alive, but you’ve had anxieties about doing something like this for a long time, feeling uncertain, inadequate, or this or that.
But know this: you do not just walk into an extraordinary existence with ease. There are barriers that must be broken – shattered – to create a LEGACY.
Dive into your dream life, make mistakes, and dare to develop yourself as you stagger through the ladder of new human development and expansion. Subject all layers of your self-development process to a rigorous but well-articulated degree of discipline and watch yourself break new grounds for all to see.
Every exceptional invention was brought to LIGHT from this dry, unrealistic, uncertain, confused starting point. YOU do not need all the fact to be excellent and great. You do not need permission to do little things in extraordinary ways, you just need to be true to achieving the general good of all; that is the reason great achievements are deemed as BREAKTHROUGHS.
You can be truly exceptional in your life if you want to. Be that SHINING DIAMOND in the dark places and believe YOU TOO can shine bright like a DIAMOND.
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 18, 2024 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Health & Wellbeing, Psychology \ Mental Health, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development, Western Australia
ISBN 978-1-923214-22-4
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Changing the direction of your life to be resilient.
Everyone has challenges in their life, this is part of a normal life. Resilience is the ability to experience
these challenges and keep living a good life. It is not having a perfect life, it is more not getting derailed by the challenges and stuck in them.
Resilience is often marketed as a bunch of strategies like mindfulness, self-care, gratitude, and ‘boom’ you are resilient. These approaches generally don’t work. That is because they don’t address the problems in your life and they don’t give you a reason to do the work. They don’t answer questions like: Why should I engage in healthy relationships or mindfulness? Why should I forgive someone? Why am I so angry? A self-care walk is lovely to do, but you have to understand why you are going on the walk and do something about that.
This book will help you to understand your challenging experiences, and why some have impacted you and others have not. You will see why you set poor boundaries, give up on things too easily, or have conflict in relationships. It will also help you to develop better coping skills – embracing both your emotions and your practical side to work though challenges. Most importantly, this book will help you to redefine your worth. When you understand your value, you will work to change what is not working in your life.
Once you make different choices, you will experience a turning point. This is when you turn away from the current path you are on and start to travel on a more helpful one. These turning points aren’t always large changes, but they are enough to help you to live a resilient life. I hope through reading this book you experience your own turning points, and that you get to live the life you want. Life can throw some big challenges, but if you know how to manage them you can be resilient.
About the Author
Dr Mandie Shean has completed a Bachelor of Education (primary), Bachelor of Arts with First Class
Honours (Psychology), and combined Masters/PhD in community psychology (Resilience in adolescence)
at Edith Cowan University.
She is a registered teacher and psychologist. She has worked as a primary teacher for 20 years, a school psychologist in government schools, and a lecturer in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University (ECU). She is currently working in a K-12 school as the College Psychologist and holds an adjunct position at ECU.
Mandie’s research and practice is focused on increasing family, student, and teacher wellbeing. She believes in developing healthy community that support individuals to the be the best version of themselves
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.
