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A lavish reference source for all things Native American, with spectacular colour photographs, artwork, depictions of artifacts and historical photographs. History, dress, lifestyle, spiritual beliefs and much more is covered. Illustrated. -
With his usual skill, Frank Clune weaves history and contemporary fact into an exciting and significant pattern that will delight armchair travellers who accompany him on this unusual tour through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria and Greece, by plane, train and jeep. The primary reason for Clune's journey was to learn something about the work of the International Refugee Organisation, to see the migrant camps and to see displaced persons go through the initial stages that prepared them to become new Australians and listens to their hopes and dreams of Australia. With black and white photographs. -
This is Freddy and Philip's story - the true story of a couple who married during the 70 day seige of Singapore and who became prisoners of the Japanese and were interned in Changi Gaol in Singapore. With other imprisoned medical men, Dr. Philip Bloom was forced to perform miracles of improvised surgery, using anything he could lay his hands on to make artificial limbs for crippled fellow-prisoners. Freddy, an American and temporary nurse, was interred in the women's camp. Apart from sharing the suffering with 400 other women and 80 children, she fell victim to the dreaded Kampei Tai and was locked for days and nights in a 'cage' with imprisoned men. Both survived, but suffered terrible hardships. The book is their lives in the prison camps. Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
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. -
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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Mary Kay: Mary Kay Ash
$120.00This is the success story of the spirited and indomitable woman who founded Mary Kay Cosmetics with a $5000 investment and turned it into a multi-million dollar business. Sharing her feelings, philosophies, disappointments, joys and hopes, Mary Kay revealed how she developed a tiny store front business into a company whose products are sold around the world by over 100,000 saleswomen. She tells the story of her childhood, her struggles to support her three children after she was widowed; and how she invested her life savings in Mary Kay Cosmetics, against the advice of her accountant and attorney. But her gamble paid off and she became a living legend to her army of independent representatives. -
Or: Twenty Reasons Why Growing Old is Great! Virginia takes the reader on a wacky journey where growing old is not a loss but a gain. If your memory's going, you can forget all the ghastly men you slept with...you can have the fun of comparing all your ailments with other oldies...and you can be a legitimate bore since you're in your 'anecdotage'. Includes fun little verses as well. A really good guide to growing old disgracefully. -
A fabulous little reference work written by a gardener who really did learn from trial and error from the time she was a child. A great many of our beautiful flowers and how to grow them are here:Christmas Bush, Native Hops, Banksia Honeysuckles, the cheerful Happy Wanderer (or Hardenbergia violacea) Brachycome, Native Mint and much more. Illustrated with colour lline drawings and paintings by the author. -
Margaret Rutherford was without a doubt one of Britain's best-loved comic actresses. But behind the kindly, serene front Rutherford presented to the world lay a life of trauma and repeated nervous breakdown - the legacy of the legacy of family tragedy that saw her father murder her grandfather during a bout of mental illness and her depressive mother later kill herself. Rutherford appeared in such thoroughly English classics as Blithe Spirit, The Importance of Being Earnest, Passport To Pimlico and I'm All Right, Jack! She was Miss Marple in four films - and entirely created for the screen the role of Agatha Christie's elderly and fearless private detective. But the laughter she inspired on screen masked a tragic personal life in which her purely platonic marriage to actor Stringer Davis lead her to forming unrequited crushes on unobtainable, younger men. A vulnerable woman, liked and respected by all, known for her quiet acts of kindness, whose life story has great appeal to everyone who appreciates both classic English comedy and simple human decency. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
