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Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house.When the youngest was two and the oldest eighteen, Dad died and Mother bravely took over his business. Now, to keep the family together, everyone has to pitch in and pinch pennies. The resourceful clan rises to every crisis with a marvelous sense of fun - whether it's battling chicken pox, giving the boot to an unwelcome boyfriend, or even meeting the President. And the few distasteful things they can't overcome - like castor oil - they swallow with good humor and good grace. Belles on Their Toes is the entertaining sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen. -
What do you do with the rest of your life, after you’ve achieved brilliance at an early age? This is the question posed by celebrated journalist Chris Wright to some of the most renowned adventurers, athletes and politicians of the twentieth century. What happens if you are an athlete or gymnast and your career peaks at 14, like Nadia Comaneci, who scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic competition – and the second, and the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. What is the next challenge for the likes of adventurer Reinhold Messner, when you have climbed all the really tall mountains? Where do you take your career, when you’ve achieved the impossible and walked on the moon? In this far-reaching and illuminating book, Chris Wright travels the globe, talking to Apollo astronauts, record breakers, world leaders and prisoners of war, people whose defining moments came early in their life, and asks a rare but captivating what happened next? Those interviewed in this book are: Don Walsh; the Moonwalkers; Nadia Comaneci; Reinhold Messner; Gloria Gaynor; United 232; Apollo 8; John McCarthy; Ray Wilson; Russ Ewin, The Sandakan Survivor; Chuck Yeager. -
Mothers are very special people and Aussie mums are no exception. Two hundred years ago, European settlers came to this land and battled to establish a new colony and a new country. The women worked side by side with their men to tame the land and build a life. Drought, flood, fire, isolation from the Mother Country, the vast distances between settlements...all of these were part and parcel of life for Australian pioneer women. They faced and overcame them with strength and commitment – and developed a truly Australian way of living. This book looks at how they coped with the climate, the recipes they used, how they made a house a home, how they reared their children and the wisdom they lived by. Illustrated.
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I was lucky enough to be born a Catholic and fortunate enough to be Irish. What more could anyone ask? Well, my mother asked much more than that. She wanted a charming, polite, intelligent well-mannered youngest child - instead of the off-beat, rebellious child she had... So began the education proper of Jane and her friend Mary - an education that included illicit smoking. skipping classes, illegally conducting paid tours around the cloisters and sighing after the boys of St. Giles...an education which often strained the patience of Mother Superior but which always holds the delighted attentions of the reader. Filmed as The Trouble With Angels. -
1996 edition. In this volume: The Cult At The End Of The World – The Incredible Story of Aum: David E. Kaplan and Andrew Marshall; Mukiwa – A White Boy In Africa: Peter Godwin; The Lost Treasures Of Troy: Caroline Moorhead; Child Of The Snows: Nicholas Vanier; Below The Parapet - Denis Thatcher: Carol Thatcher. -
Innings Of Grace: Janet West
$15.00A life of Bishop W.G. Hilliard. ‘The Bishop’, as he was known in the media, was a household name in the Sydney of the forties and fifties. Poet, orator and headmaster, he excelled in many fields of endeavour, not least in his ministry to men. He rose from the humblest of origins by sheer force of personality, unremitting dedication to his work and depth of faith. He was equally at home with the leaders of the land and the man in the street. He loved cricket, once describing it as his ‘second religion.’ To play the game in life, according to God’s rules, was his aim at all times. He left an imperishable mark on the Australian and New Zealand Church and on the boys of Trinity Grammar School. This biography published on the centenary of his birth and the 75 th anniversary of the school.
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Still convinced that the only true modern traveller is the business traveller, Peter Biddlecombe takes the reader on another irreverent global tour. He snubs his nose at the 'gimmick tourists', eschews crossing the Sahara naked on a skateboard and carries on doing what he does best - business, all over the world, with a wonderfully diverse range of characters. Power-players in Milan, storm-trooping language police in Toronto, and just general chaos in a mere selection of the obstacles the international businessman must face as he struggles to get to grips with the local way of doing things. But it's all in the name of commerce, and whether he's trapped in a luxury hotel during the riots in Bombay or working his way through a Good Food Guide to Ouagadougou in one of the poorest countries in the world, Peter Biddlecombe usually comes up trumps...not necessarily with the deal he was after, but always with a hilarious tale to tell.
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Book Two contains the text of seventeen interviews heard ion the award winning programme The Search For Meaning. They reflect the diversity of society and include: Poet Kevin Gilbert; management consultant Margot Cairns; former father of the Federal Parliament, Hon. Tom Uren; natural therapist Dorothy Hall; and others whose stories are equally of interest, for all participants reflect on the meaning which shapes their lives. They speak from the authenticity of their own experience. -
The people you’ll meet will touch your heart as Swampy brings to life to all the dram and delight of life in outback Australia. There’s Frederick Aloysius Millard, the only dog ever to become a member of a Citizens’ Club; the man who refused to go to the doctor because he’d been hit an a rather unfortunate spot that made it clear he was running away; the hapless bloke who tried to blow a snake out of the dunny and almost took himself out of existence – and much more.
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