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RADEMEYER, Leon B

Sep 1, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biological & Behavioural, Business, Manual \ Training Material, Medical Research, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development

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Four-Step Foresight

 

Imagine, lead, learn and fix your way to the future

Discover the neuroscience behind the brain’s ‘future-think’ to strategically manage change from the unwanted to the preferred.

Four-Step Foresight reveals how the brain thinks about the future and how we can utilise this knowledge to successfully plan for change. It reframes the future in terms of the relationship between brain time (our objective neurobiological reality) and mind time (our subjective mental reality) as we consciously imagine a better future, lead ourselves there, learn as we progress and finally fix our problems in the present.

Since thinking about the future (or foresight) is a uniquely individual capacity, the focus of Four-Step Foresight is on the individual (whether a leader or follower) in the first instance and the collective (whether an organisation or team) in the second. By developing the individual’s foresight capability, the collective is in a better position to negotiate continuous change successfully.

About the Author

 

LEON BESTER RADEMEYER is a futurist, political scientist and journalist with 30+ years of experience in communications, advocacy and business management roles across a diverse range of industries in Australia and abroad. He holds an MPhil in Futures Studies and has served on multiple professional boards.

He is a passionate cave diver and scuba diving instructor and sits on the board of the Cave Divers Association of Australia.

LLOYD PhD, Dr Maya

Jul 7, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biological & Behavioural, Health & Wellbeing, Manual \ Training Material, Parenting & Family, Psychology \ Mental Health, Reference

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Why Babies Need Love

 

Why Love Matters and How to Know if You’re Getting it Right

WHY BABIES NEED LOVE is a must-read for first-time parents and caregivers of babies aged 0-3. Parenting is one of the hardest yet most rewarding journeys, and the early years play a crucial role in shaping a child’s emotional and mental well-being.

Written by a psychologist and parent, this book explains how a baby’s brain is still developing at birth and how early experiences—especially the bond with caregivers—affect future behavior, relationships, and resilience. It provides insight into how your own emotional struggles can influence your parenting and offers practical guidance to help you build a strong, loving connection with your baby.

With mental health concerns on the rise, this book empowers parents to create a secure foundation for their child’s future. If you want to raise a confident, emotionally healthy child while navigating the challenges of early parenthood, WHY BABIES NEED LOVE is the guide you need.

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About the Author

 

Dr Maya Lloyd, Phd (MAPS, FCCP) is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years’ experience. She spent 10 years working as a senior psychologist for Queensland Health specialising in perinatal, infant, child and youth mental health. Now in private practice she works across the lifespan with children, adolescents, parents and families of all ages, supporting them in building strong healthy bonds with their babies and children.

Drawing from professional expertise, scientifific research and personal experience as a mother, Maya understands the challenges of early parenthood. Passionate about helping families thrive she offers insight into infant and early childhood development, parenting and emotional well-being, empowering parents to raise resilient emotionally secure children.

MORRIS, Don

Nov 28, 2023 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biological & Behavioural, Manual \ Training Material, Psychology \ Mental Health

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Role Models, Mentors. Leaders, and Elders

 

Our Potential to Be the Difference that Makes a Difference

To quote Hal David’s iconic 1965 song…

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love Not just for some but for everyone”.

This book suggests that Role Models, Mentors, Leaders and Elders can nurture and build love for one and all. Over time … more and more of ‘us’ … in these roles … can help build loving values in families, relationships, communities, and ecologies … locally and globally.

Through ever-increasing role-modelling, mentoring, leading and eldership, many persons and peoples of the Earth can nurture and proliferate love in the form of dignity, respect, kindness, fairness, generosity, integrity, and accountability.

You and I and ‘a host of us’ can nurture loving-valuesin- action to benefit all people, all our fellow species, and all of Nature. Millions of ‘us’ have the combined potential to fulfil these noble and necessary roles to help serve and heal our World and our Earth.

Over decades, a minority of exemplars can become many. Exemplars of love can become the new norm, the new normal way to be human. We can do this. We must do this.

This book is original and thought-provoking.

It is a quick and easy read.

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Dickheads, Wankers, and Arseholes

 

A bold and cheeky guide to decoding three male types and syndromes

If you haven’t read a book about Dickheads, Wankers, Arseholes? Here it is.

If you haven’t read about the syndromes of dickheadery, wankery and arseholery? Now you can.

It’s about time someone wrote about these bleedingly obvious personality ‘types’ … and about three enmeshed, problematic, and far-reaching cultural syndromes.

This book is plain-speaking, perceptive, penetrating, cheeky, and original. It is widely relevant, practical, and replete with insightful analysis. It is written in a distinctly Aussie voice.

And … it is written by a ‘man’ … with decades of experience through a blend of Policing, Community Corrections, Social Work, teaching at university, Consultancy, and training Police at all levels in a range of subject areas.

For some readers … there may be some seismic shocks. Look out … men.

Get ready to nod and sigh and refl ect on the painfully obvious that you may have intuited and-or observed … but had not crystalized into detailed understanding.

Grab this book … and get reading!

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Can We Do Better?

All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity. As clarified in all the poems — misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.

The poems weave a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. They highlight the impact of manmade harms to the earth, First Peoples, women, children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings.

Some men might struggle with this unusual and confronting anthology. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they work their way through the poems and the themes.

The poems advocate that societal evolution is contingent upon a critical mass of us facing key facts, truths and realities about wayward masculinity. The anthology concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.
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Are We Better Than?

ARE WE BETTER THAN? is the fourth in series of books that tackle pervasive and perplexing human issues. It is the scaled-down, abridged little-sister version of Can We Do Better? … which is the first and by the far the largest of the series. Comprising about half the number of pages of Can We do Better? … Are We Better Than? is less daunting and more manageable. This will appeal to people who prefer a smaller, easier, more compact read.

All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity.  As clarified throughout the book, misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere … by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.

Are We Better Than? weaves a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. It highlights the impact of man-made harms to the Earth, First Peoples, Women, Children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings. Some men might struggle with these unusual and confronting themes. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they read.

Are We Better Than? concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.

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About the Author

Don Morris is a family man and a retired veteran social worker. His professional background integrates counselling, program management, organisational improvement, cultural change, leadership development, teaching at university, and running his consultancy business.

Don is people-focused, a big-picture thinker, and a change agent. He is dedicated to promoting social justice and critical analysis of human issues. Don is perceptive, an original thinker, and solution-focused. He tackles issues with clarity, focus and determination.

In this anthology, Don is a ‘conscious dreamer’ and a mindful visionary. He is lucid about respective and combined influences of religion, populism, political machinations, pop-psychology, junk-science, conspiracy madness, internet misinformation, and social media inanity. In the face of these, Don is committed to educational processes that give voice to facts, truths and realities. He is also committed to possibilities for us to do better than so much unhelpful stuff that dumbs us down and holds us back.

In all his books, Don drills down into ‘inconvenient truths’ and synthesizes diverse macro and micro issues. He proposes ways for us to build a conscious blend of awareness, dignifying values, rationality, integrity, and accountability. Don reminds us that these interrelated priorities apply to individuals, relationships, institutions, communities, cultures, and governance. They are also crucial to our care and custodianship of human and environmental ecologies.

Don is person of mind, heart and hand. He is thinker, a lover, and a doer. His books encourage readers to think intelligently, rationally and strategically … to feel sentiently, passionately and earnestly … and to act purposefully, constructively and hopefully.

TOMLINSON, Angela

Sep 13, 2021 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Biological & Behavioural, Health & Wellbeing, Manual \ Training Material, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development
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The Seven Stories we tell Ourselves

Through all the events of our lives, we take the “facts” and arrange them into narratives that we tell ourselves.

Did you know we only have 7 basic stories from which to create these narratives?

And you can choose your narrative. But there are consequences
to the narrative that we tell ourselves. Each narrative has a pathway to resolution, a direction we must take. Each narrative can either serve us or hinder us in finding contentment and control in our lives. We can choose our narrative actively and therefore have control over our lives or we can allow ourselves
to choose subconsciously and accept the consequences of this.

The Seven Stories We Tell Ourselves provides a framework for understanding how we are telling our stories to ourselves.
It shows us the alternatives available for us to change our narratives and how we must proceed within our lives toward resolution of our daily conflicts and struggles. It is filled with inspiring stories and examples as well as tools to help us become the captain of our own ship, to be in charge of our own lives and to LIVE CONSCIOUSLY.

About the Author

Angela Tomlinson lives to add value to every endeavour she pursues and to the lives of each person she meets, which is lived out in her work as a personal development coach. Holding a BA in Comparative Literature and a DipEd, Angela has been an educator for over twenty years. She is an experienced public speaker and is the co-founder of Podium Public Speaking.

The Seven Stories We Tell Ourselves is Angela’s first book, but she warns there will be many.

Angela can be found at www.angelatomlinson.net and is available for coaching, workshops and public speaking events.

HODEL, Barbara

Aug 17, 2020 | *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Non-fiction, Biological & Behavioural, Manual \ Training Material, Reference, Self-help \ Personal Development

How to Love Your Teenage Dog by Babara Hodel
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How To Love and Survive Your Teenage Dog

All dogs (and humans) have to go through the teenage phase to reach the stability of adulthood. Some dogs breeze through this stage with barely a glitch, but most of us will have a challenging time.
It is normal to sometimes feel despondent or disappointed because we thought we did everything right when they were puppies and now nothing seems to be working. The challenges of the teenage phase are real and can put our relationship with our dog at risk.

It does not have to be like this! This book will help you to understand your teenage dog better and navigate these challenges, by covering: an understanding of the unique challenges you and your teenage dog face; why and how your relationship matters in the training process; the role of anthropomorphism and consideration of dog emotions and minds; the benefits of positive reinforcement; the importance of lifelong socialisation; how to keep your and your dog’s sanity despite some common setbacks; and promoting the value of calmness.

You can – and should – enjoy your teenage dog despite the difficult behaviours they show. The reward is
a happy and well-adjusted friend for life!

FRANKS, Peter & BURNETT-FELL, Beverly

Dec 18, 2019 | *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Non-fiction, Biological & Behavioural, Manual \ Training Material, Reference
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Choosing and Bringing Up

Your Puppy

In this witty no-nonsense guide to puppy selection and training, veteran dog trainer Peter Franks, gives the facts, poses relevant questions to the reader  and provides instruction on how to train a new puppy so that she or he matures into a well mannered, loving and responsive member of the family.

There are many photographs, sketches, cartoons and True Stories to help illustrate what Peter has to say.

Peter gives advice on:

  • how to identify the dog breed which best suits you and/or your family
  • where you can look for a puppy
  • what you need to get for and how to prepare your home for the new family member.
  • toilet training
  • consecutive training instructions – the sit, stand, down, recall, the stay,  walking and place up (heel).
  • There is a chapter on rescue dogs, another on what Peter calls the fear factor and yet another on how to deal with common behaviour problems such as separation anxiety and dominance.

In the Appendix there is information on Obedience Competitions. Peter uses the Companion Dog – Novice Class Competition as an example to:

  • state the Australian National Kennel Council Rule Book requirements
  • tease out what the rules mean
  • provide training tips for each exercise in the Competition.

About the Authors

Peter would like to thank his wife June for her support, encouragement and advice over the past 55 years. There are several others who have influenced him throughout his competition years, dog training career and Judging role. Pat Baily for her help in training his Golden Retriever Woody for the NSW State Titles Competition (Woody won the Novice Gold Medal). Thanks to George Bartolo for encouraging Peter to become an instructor, to Lucy Ellem who was his mentor and who gave Peter the incentive to join the NSW Canine Council and then to undertake his training to become a Judge. And to Danny and Silvia Wilson of BarkBusters™ for their encouragement over the years.

A special acknowledgement must go to Dog behaviourist John Fisher (author of “Think Dog”) who completely changed Peter’s approach to dog training from negative training where harsh words and actions are used, to positive training in which dogs are rewarded for trying and/ or doing something correctly. Beverly would like to thank her husband Daniel for his encouragement to get a dog; a dog who has improved their lives in so many ways.

Peter and Beverly would also like to express their gratitude to Kyle and Erin Charnock for allowing them onto their property and Eraky Labradors kennel at his farm in Bargo; to Wendy Donahue of Golden Retriever Rescue Inc for allowing them to use information directly from their website and for information on Roger.

Also thanks to the Committee of the Illawarra Dog Training Club for allowing us to attend a training session and to take photos while there. They really appreciated Noah’s mother Ros Southhall, for giving us Noah’s story and photo. There are many of Peter’s clients who have generously allowed their dogs to become part of this publication. Last but not least, we acknowledge Denis Ivaneza’s photographic expertise (Inner Visions) in getting some tricky shots for us.