This is the story of a woman who is determined to break down the barriers between the disabled and able-bodied. Alison has athetoid cerebral palsy, a condition which keeps her body in constant motion and affects her co-ordination and speech. Her parents were told she would never walk or talk. Nobody ever believed that she would lead an independent life. But nobody had reckoned on Alison's fiery, fighting spirit. Her extermely positive and self-aware personality thrives on each fresh challenge that comes her way. She has succeeded in confounding the Jeremiahs, living her life to the full via a series of major landmarks and turning points: learning to drive, getting her own flat and landing her first job. Then, in 1987, she married Mark John, an ebullient Welsh curate.

I, Alison: Reaching for a Life of My Own : An Autobiography

French, Alison

Groocock, Veronica

Biographies & Memoirs

Victor Gollancz

In 1951, a small, blue envelope reached the post office in Alice Springs. The address was simple: "Albert Namatjira, Famous Aboriginal Artist, Australia." It had been posted in India by an autograph hunter whose confidence in its delivery was not unreasonable, in lisght of the accurate description of the intended recipient. Albert Namatjira was, indeed, famous. He was also Aboriginal--a member of the Aranda "tribe" of Central Australia, now referred to as the Western Aranda (Arrernte) language group--and a pre-eminent artist. After the success of his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1938, Namatjira increasingly became "public property." Born at the dawn of a new century, his life spanned periods of radical change. Today--a hundred years later, at the birth of a new millennium--Namatjira, once a national symbol, has become a "scapegoat" of both the social policies of the time and aesthetic prejudices, his art virtually ignored by the mainstream of the Australian art world. Especially commissioned for the centenary of his birth by the Gordon Darling Foundation and the National Gallery of Australia, this publication provides the opportunity to redress this neglect.

Seeing the Centre: The Art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Australian Govt. Pub. Service

<p>Offers advice on cake baking and shows how to create cakes that look like a tennis racket, running shoe, playing card, koala bear, cat, rabbit, butterfly, space station, robot, and Christmas tree</p>

Party Cakes: 50 Spectacular Cakes to Make, Ice and Decorate

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Welsh, Virginia

Entertaining & Holidays

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Party Cakes: 50 Spectacular Cakes to Make, Ice & Decorate

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