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Winner, IP Picks 09 Best Fiction Award. Part comedy, part tragedy, part henna-drawn thriller peppered with romance and intrigue, A Beginner’s Guide to Dying in India is a spiritual journey across the continents of the soul. | ![]() |
The
story of a seminal conflict between the forest industry and the conservation
movement. “Terania Creek: Rainforest Wars strikes a brilliant balance between artful
story telling and objectively woven historical fact.” Lauren Daniels |
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| A Beginner's Guide to Dying in India, Josh Donellan, IP,
2009. PB: ISBN 9781921479304 256 pp, $32.95. |
Terania Creek: Rainforest Wars,
Dr Nigel Turvey,
GHB, 2006,. PB: ISBN 9781876819354 200 pp., $28. |
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| Winner, IP Picks 2007, Best Creative Non-Fiction. This inspiring travel memoir is about a man learning to open up to the new culture around him, letting in freedom and happiness. Written in an honest and natural voice Chris skillfully balances keen observations on Ireland, as well as historical and cultural details, with a good dose of humour. | ![]() |
An in-depth exposé of the Ultra Right in Australia during World War II, and how their nationalism degenerated into support for German fascism and Japan as well as rabid anti-Semitism. “A valuable reference to anyone working on the Australian Right in the 1930s and 1940s and on issues relating to detention and internment today.” — Dr Andrew Bonnell, Univ of Qld | |||||||||||||||||||||
A Few Drops Short of a Pint,
Chris Dowding, IP. PB: ISBN 9781876819729 208 pp., $30. Release date: November 2007 |
The Australia-First Movement and
the Publicist, 1936-42,
Barbara Winter, GHB, 2005. PB: ISBN 187681991X 304 pp., with index and bibliogaphy, $27. |
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| A former nurse tells it as she saw it: the dedication of medical professionals doing their best for their patients but also the limitations of people who are after all only human. | ![]() |
In this book, self-made multi-millionaire Huang shares his personal and business coaching, property marketing, management, investment and development advice to show you how to potentially create an extra $2 million to $10 million net equity for yourself and your family. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Blood and Guts - a nurse's story, Gloria Burley, GHB. PB: ISBN 9781921479069 240 pp, $30. Release date: 3 September 2008 |
The Australian Dream and $1 Properties,
Peter Huang, GHB, 2009. PB: ISBN 9781921479151 374 pp, $38. Release date: 1 March, 2009. |
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| Given contemporary attacks on religious faith, the 2008 Backhouse Lecture from the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia asks what are the intellectual resources and sources of spirituality that can sustain us in these times of uncertainty? | ![]() |
A history of intrigue and corruption in the 1880s at the highest levels in the celebrated Taranganba Gold Mine and the Sydney Company. An essential text for students of the history of resource development in Australia, exhaustively researched, with an index and extensive correspondence and reports from the period. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Faith hope & doubt,
George Ellis, 2008. PB: ISBN 97809803258-1-2 64 pp., $11. |
The Biggest-Ever Mining Swindle in the Colonies,
John Robert Peach. HB: ISBN 9781876819774 600 pp., $69.95. Release date: 15 July 2008 |
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| The Young Friends (Quakers) give their views on the key issues facing youth today in an effort to encourage spiritual discovery and deep bonding within and outside the Quaker community. | ![]() |
Navarre has a passion for the colourful and different personalities who made a positive contribution to the Planet, and little known places in the Australian Outback. Extensive interviews and documentary photographs. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Finding Our Voice, 2010 James Backhouse Lecture, Australian Young Friends (Quakers), PB:
ISBN 9780980325867 72 pp., $15.95 |
The Cane Barracks Story,
Eugenie Navarre, GHB. PB: ISBN 9780646476537 124 pp., $30. Release date: 15 July 2008 |
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Harry Potter Power uses motifs and situations from the popular Harry Potter series and links them to theories and strategies designed to help young people overcome anxiety, anger, depression and grief. | ![]() |
World famous actor Sam Neil and rap legend Chuck D rub shoulders with writers like JP Donleavy and Carmel Bird. Physicists, business leaders, publishers, political activists, soldiers, poets, athletes and comic book creators are brought together by their common experience of hitching a ride sometime in the past. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Harry Potter Power, Dr Julie-Anne Sykley, GHB, 2009. PB: ISBN 9781921479311, 152pp., $32.95 | The Hitchers of Oz, Tom & Simon Sykes, Glass House Books, 2009. PB: ISBN 9781921479199 248 pp, $32.95 Release date: 15 May, 2009. |
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The
author uncovers the reasons why her great-grandfather survived the Holocaust
when so many in his family perished. “She has provided a rich tapestry — through
narrative, visual images and sound — of Jewish life in that period. — Suzanne Rutland |
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Winner, IP Picks Best Creative Non-Fiction, 2010 Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear… Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searing account of survival in the urban Melbourne scene. |
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| If These Walls Could Talk... Genevieve Cumming-Jaffé, IPD. Interactive (Win/Mac) CD-ROM: ISBN 1876819626 $27.50. |
The Importance of Being Cool Olwyn Conrau, Glass House Books, 2010. PB: ISBN 9781921479670 224 pp, $32.95 eBk: ISBN 9781921479687, $16.95 |
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| A stunning biography set on the Great Barrier Reef. “Veron reveals the heart and soul of a person whose profound love of Nature touched all who knew her.” — Isobel Bennett, author of The Great Barrier Reef | ![]() |
An intriguing true story of the role Australia and its intelligence agencies played during the Pacific campaign of World War II. With endnotes, bibliography and index. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Inge,
John Veron, GHB, 2003. PB: ISBN 1876819944 240 pp., $25. |
The Intrigue Master,
Barbara Winter, Boolarong, 1995. HB: ISBN 0864391846 348 pp, $35. |
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A fusion of memorable quotes and breaktaking photographs by an award-winnng photographer and motivator. | ![]() |
During WWII and the years immediately following, several men were seen by the Australian Security Service as the most dangerous men in the Commonwealth. This history book uncovers the facts to invite its readers to make up their own mind. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Inspire Your Day, GHB,PB: ISBN 97819214791342, 72 pp, $32.95. |
The Most Dangerous Man in Australia? Barbara Winter, GHB, ISBN 9781921479847. 184 pp, $32.95 eBk: ISBN 9781921479854, $16.95 |
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Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Fiction Award. Marked by the events of the Great Flood of 1893 and the formation of the first miners’ unions, Over My Dead Body is an Australian epic; a literary feat exemplifying a writer’s craftsmanship and dedication to bringing history alive. | ![]() |
Incisive, punchy, emotional and humorous, this is a story of obsession. An absolute must-read for those people who spend four years of their lives waiting for each World Cup, not to mention those who have to live with them! | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Over My Dead Body, Jim Brigginshaw, GHB. Release date: 19 November 2008. PB: ISBN 9781921479113, 228 pp, $30. | The World Cup Baby, Euan McCabe, Glass House Books, 2009. PB: ISBN 9781921479199 398 pp, $32.95 Release date: 15 May, 2009. |
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Cutting edge multimedia, blending memoir, astronomy, mythology and documentary. Phase 1 of an ongoing project supported by a major grant funding by Arts Queensland. | ![]() |
Prepared over nearly 10 years, this is the distillation of the thoughts of 1000 Quakers with an interest in spiritual subjects. Includes inspirational writings and personal stories about challenge and opportunity, which reflect on the geography and social history of Australia. | ||||||||||||||||||||
My Planets, David P Reiter,
IPD, 2005. DVD-ROM: ISBN 187681960X $16.50. |
This We Can Say, Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, 2nd printing, 2004. 360pp, HB: ISBN 0-9751579-0-6, $40; PB: 0-9751579-1-4, $30. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner IP Picks 2005 Best Non-Fiction. ‘ A wonderful story of ordinary people made extraordinary through events not of their own making, coping with a much loved but always difficult child, and with an unheeding and incredibly unhelpful bureaucratic system.’ – Sharyn Pearce, QUT. Endorsed by SANE, Australia.
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| No Middle Name, Tilly Brasch,
2005. PB: ISBN 1876819901 168 pp, $27. |
Vocal Enrichment: Enlightenment Through Voice, Hazel Menehira, GHB, 2008. PB, concealed wire: ISBN 9781921479052 88 pp., $25. |
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The essential reference and research guide for professional and amateur growers of orchids. Over 100 pages of interactive text and 750 colour images about orchid genera worldwide. | ![]() |
When Nadine Neumann decides that she wants to be an Olympic swimmer at age eight, she trades a normal life of school friends and parties for the rigours of elite sports training. Sweeping from Perth to Germany, India to Sydney, Brisbane to Hong Kong, the reader is invited along this journey of a remarkable young woman who stops at nothing to achieve her goals. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Orchidopaedia, Volume 1, Genera (Version 2.1) Greg Steenbeeke & Gary Yong Gee, Orkology Kreations, 2002. Win/Mac CD-ROM: ISBN 0957788606 $88 | Wobbles,
Nadine Neumann, GHB, 2009. PB:
ISBN 9781921479298 292 pp, $32.95. |
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| Put the Billy On, Ann Jones, GHB. Release date: 15 November 2008. PB:
ISBN 9781921479083 210 pp, $30. |
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Rainshadows, David P Reiter,
ed., IP Digital, 2007. Mac/Windows CD-ROM, $27. |
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