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Third World America: How our politicians are abandoning the ordinary
It's not an exaggeration to say that "middle-class" Americans, the hard-working, average citizen on an average income, are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable...
Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better
In 2019, climate activist Charlie Hertzog Young attempted suicide, following a succession of breakdowns. He jumped off a six-storey building, resulting in the loss of both legs. He spent a...
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a
ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET. Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster...
Living Places: Twenty Houses
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Community Profiling: A Practical Guide
The new edition of this popular book has been substantially revised and provides a practical step-by-step guide to community profiling, invaluable for students and practitioners involved in community-based research. The...
Paris: The Memoir
PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton. Founder. Entrepreneur. Pop Culture Maker....
The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing
In a society obsessed with staying young, how can we age with confidence? We are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age....
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and
"Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . As a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done." -Mary...
Twelve Golden Gifts: Part lament, part love letter, part practical
How a mother's wisdom and grace helped one family come to terms with her dementia. Chrisoula had long been known for frying up honeyed Greek donuts anytime a guest arrived...
101 Career Myths Debunked: The Ultimate Career Planning Workbook
What if everything you know about careers is false? Bombarded by toxic misinformation about unemployment and failing career prospects, job hunters are often halted by fear. 101 Career Myths Debunked...
Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second
Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on...
Healing the Hurt, Retoring the Hope: How to Help Children and
Even when teenagers appear to be "doing well" at times of divorce, death or crisis in their lives, the truth is they are probably suffering in silence. This straight-talking and...
Infancy: The Basics
Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the reader from before birth through the moment infants come...
Children of Parents with Mental Illness
Children of Parents with Mental Illness is a groundbreaking study into the frequently overlooked impact on children whose parents have a mental illness. By balancing theory with first-hand experiences from...
Understanding Women in Distress
Women are usually more in touch with their emotions than men and more readily seek help from professional sources when they encounter stress. The response they meet from doctors and...
The Depressed Mother: A Practical Guide to Treatment and Support
Depression in new mothers is very common, but it is often not simply a case of "the baby blues". Most mothers are suffering from general depressive disorders related to their...
Mission Control: How Nonprofits and Governments Can Focus, Achieve
In the last ten years the number of nonprofits and social sector organizations has grown by almost 25 percent, while charitable giving declined 30 percent over the same period. As...
Living in Sin?
Is celibacy the only moral alternative to marriage Should the widowed be allowed to form intimate relationships without remarrying Should the church receive people who identify as LGBTQ into its...
Against All Odds: The beating heart of Centrecare
This is the history of Centrecare a social welfare agency which came into existence and succeeded against all odds. Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing nation, this book traces...
The Book About Getting Older: The essential comforting guide to ageing
We are all living for longer, but how do we or those we love do it well? Now more than ever, we need to talk about getting older. Many of...
An Angel In The Court: The Life Of Major Joyce Harmer
"Here was this angel in the court who seemed to appear out of nowhere. In fact she's quite an earthy creature, not some saintly type. She's defi nitely no shrinking...
Older Australians: A Positive View of Aging
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Aimed at nurses and health professionals training to care for Australia's growing aged population. This book does not attempt to proceed from a pathological interpretation of aging but rather views...
The Stranger in Room Six
A gripping and emotional suspense about family, legacy and secrets that span generations, from the Sunday Times bestselling author. You may not know the stranger in room six. But they...
Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change
$12.00 AUD
With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the second ...a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day Greg Mortenson set out...
Featherhood: 'Ranks among the best modern coming-of-age memoirs'
'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald 'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree 'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell 'I was entranced' Cathy...
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services - Notes of a Former
Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow , a former caseworker's searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system-from foster care to incarceration-that exposes the deep-rooted biases...
Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography: THE INSTANT SUNDAY
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HEADLINES, THE REVELATORY ROYAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR From the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal correspondent, Robert Jobson - with his extensive connections within...
Therapeutic Community: Past. Present. And Moving Forward
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Dr. Perfas provides an intriguing account of the history, dispersion, and evolution of the therapeutic community (TC). His discussion of the TC's transformations, which he refers to as hybridization, is...
Undercover: A Duchess and a Journalist Bringing Hope to Abandoned
Award-winning investigative journalist Chris Rogers, smuggled himself into state-run orphanages in Romania and found proof that the appalling treatment of abandoned children continues, long after the fall of communism and...
Gain Control of Mental Illness and Prevent Relapse
Gain Control of Mental Illness provides a wide overview of all aspects which are part of, and closely associated with, Mental Illness (MI). The medical components and projection of MI,...
The Business of Philanthropy: Perspectives and Insights from Global
A collection of one-on-one discussions with 40 of the world's greatest thought and action leaders and prominent philanthropic figures. THE BUSINESS OF PHILANTHROPY features diverse insights into the power of...
The Lost Boy
As a child, Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his mother. The world knew nothing of his living nightmare and he had nothing and no-one to turn to....
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child
With the first cup of tea you are a stranger. With the second...a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. In 1993, Greg Mortenson tried to climb...
Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger?
The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy...
A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and
'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.' Belinda Black was just seventeen years old when she...
Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It - the
*FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023* 'A visceral, unsparing picture of our current situation' ROB DELANEY 'A radical vision for how we might do things better '...
Youth Health and Welfare: The Cultural Politics of Education and
Youth, Health and Welfare meets the demand for a critical, policy and practice-oriented inter-disciplinary perspective on the changing nature of young people's lives and how this affects their health and...
How We Think About Dementia: Personhood, Rights, Ethics, the Arts and
Exploring concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature and ethics of palliative care, this book will help those in the caring professions to understand and engage...
Will You Help Me?: Ralph's true story of abuse, secrets and lies
'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?' Six-year-old Ralph has only been in the care system for three days and has already been rejected...
Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It - the 2023 Orwell Prize Finalist
*FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023* 'A visceral, unsparing picture of our current situation' ROB DELANEY 'A radical vision for how we might do things better '...
The Noonday Demon
WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR The most affecting, intelligent, important and constructive book on depression there has ever been - a key text by a New Yorker writer...
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good
A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. You know...
Mental Health at Work
Build a practical positive mental health strategy in the workplace from Penguin Business Expert James Routledge One in five people are experiencing mental health problems right now. Stress, anxiety and...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
'Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' - Guardian What explains the spreading backlash against the global...
Paris: The Memoir
PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAMEHeiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton.Founder. Entrepreneur. Pop Culture Maker. Innovator. Survivor....