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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
If These Walls Could Talk... Genevieve Cumming-Jaffé, IPD. Interactive (Win/Mac) CD-ROM:ISBN
1876819626 $27.50.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
A guide/workbook to assist speech and drama practitioners and individuals wanting to improve their speech habits and public presentations. It places vocal enrichment back in its rightful balanced position as a path to confident communication, well being and self-realisation in all its aspects.
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.
Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-fiction Award This memoir is a nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s. Mixed with undertones of delightful humour and fading innocence.
The Best of IP 10th Anniversary Celebration CD, with nearly
400 pages of fiction, poetry, multimedia, podcasts, even a movie trailer
from some of the finest authors working in Australia today.
