The 2010 edition of the James Backhouse Lecture Series. The Australian Young Friends reflect collectively on their place in the Quaker community and their journey toward spiritual discovery and deep bonding.

Finding Our Voice: Our truth, community and journey as Australian Young Friends

Religion & Spirituality

Friends, Australian Young

Christian Books & Bibles

Glass House Books

This latest issue of the James Backhouse Lecture Series looks at the issue of Earth restoration from a religious perspective. The author is passionate about restoring environments and considers permaculture 'sacred' knowledge to be carried and shared with others.

A demanding and uncertain adventure

Morrow, Rosemary (Rowe)

Everyday Prophets (Backhouse Lecture Series)

Abbott, Margery Post

Inge

John Veron

Five Roads Taken explores the importance of a father, focusing on the final loss of one man, through the raw, in the moment feelings and perspectives of his five kids, told in their own words. A touching portrait with a variety of views.

Five Roads Taken

Biographies & Memoirs

Gleason, Tom

Memoirs

During World War II and the years preceding it, a number of men were called "the most dangerous man in the Commonwealth". Logically speaking, only one could have been "the most dangerous", and this book does not claim to answer the question definitively. However, it examines the character and activities of some to whom this title might well have been applied.

The Most Dangerous Man in Australia?

History

Winter, Barbara

Australia & Oceania

Art from Adversity: A Life with Bipolar shines the spotlight on mental illness, in particular, bipolar disorder. It provides an insight into what it is like to become mentally ill, to ascend into mania, free fall into depression, and finally emerge profoundly changed by the experience. A memoir and guide to mental illness, Art from Adversity is a celebration of the creativity that can emerge from the challenges we face, and from the resilience we show in meeting them. This engaging account of Anne's battle with bipolar disorder reveals her story with imagination, sensitivity and humour. Based on her personal experience of caring for someone with a mental illness, she also offers unique insight for carers.

Art from Adversity: A Life with Bipolar

Naylor, Ann Therese

Community & Culture

The Beast Without

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Christian Baines

Fantasy

Tools For Hard Conversations will help professionals who routinely have hard conversations in the course of their work. It is a guide for how to have these types of conversations, while avoiding the compassion-fatigue and burnout that often comes with these roles. It goes into depth about the philosophies, approaches and practical tools that enable workers to help people more effectively without sacrificing their own well-being. Often helping professionals, unduly influenced by the medical-model approach to mental health, which sees them as the expert who needs to fix their clients problems, are just looking for tangible tools to guide their practice and to help people find their own solutions. The co-authors have developed and road tested a conversational map that can assist workers to enable change with the people they work with, positioning each client as the expert of their own life. With the help of extensive case studies, Tools For Hard Conversations enables workers and clients to walk away stronger from each therapeutic conversation.

Tools for Hard Conversations in the Helping Professions: Practical Tool from Abstract Theories

Health, Fitness & Dieting

D'Arcy, Jane

Holmes, Adrian

Psychology & Counseling

This colourful and thoroughly researched history of the Lord Delamere branch of the British aristocracy focuses on the famous Vale Royal Abbey in Cheshire, England. The Cholmondeley family, who owned the Abbey throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, are described in lavish and intimate detail as they maneuvered to maintain, through three generations, their status as a leading family in the United Kingdom. Beginning in the late 17th century, we follow Charles Cholmondeley as he served as a member of the Kings army in Canada in the war against the French. Part I witnesses the ubiquitous Thomas Cholmondeley who purchased the title Lord (Baron) Delamere for £5000 from the British crown in 1821. Part II covers the 2nd Lord Delamere, Hugh Cholmondeley, who led a very sad and difficult life, and experienced the deterioration of Vale Royal. Part III reviews the life of Hugh Cholmondeley, Jnr., 3rd Lord Delamere, his abandonment of Vale Royal Abbey and his relocation to East Africa. Narcissistic Hugh was part of the notorious happy valley crowd of Kenya and their lives of debauchery, sex and drugs. The Vale Royal Abbey lives on today, a national treasure and testament to the intriguing lives of those who occupied it over the centuries.

The Delamere Saga: The Untold Story of Vale Royal Abbey

Hebdon, Geoffrey

Historical

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