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  • The Essential Spirit

    Providing Wholistic Services to and with Older Adults

    Edited by Donald R. Koepke ...
    Everyone who provides services to older adults believes in the biomedical model that addresses the body, mind, and spirit of their clients. On the whole, service providers--be they long-term care professionals, academics, social workers, program professionals, counselors, or even clergy--are quite adept at dealing with the body and the mind. But few understand the essential role of the client's ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mallee Country

    Land, People, History

    by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes ...
    Series series Australian History
    Mallee Country tells the compelling history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government-backed settlement schemes devastated ... Read more

    $39.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dark Emu

    Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Lie of the Land

    Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

    by Guy Shrubsole ...
    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES________________________________The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good s... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • People of the River

    Lost worlds of early Australia

    by Grace Karskens ...
    A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.Winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Australian History 2021Winner of the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize 2021Co-winner of the Ernest Scott ... Read more

    $16.69 USD

  • The Winter Road

    A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek

    by Kate Holden ...
    True crime writing at its finest, from the multi-award-winning, bestselling author of In My SkinWinner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards: Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction).In July 2014, on a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales, 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull took out a .22 and shot ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ferals that Ate Australia: The fascinating history of feral animals and winner of a 2022 Whitley Award from the bestselling author of The Dogs that Made Australia

    by Guy Hull ...
    Dangerous predators and ravenous herbivores: the story of Australia's feral nightmareWinner of the 2022 Whitley Award, for a book about invasive species zoology.Isolation was once the impenetrable barrier that protected Australia and its unique fauna. But a little over two hundred years ago a foreign power took possession and brought with it the foreign animals that now dominate the country's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • First Knowledges Country

    Future Fire, Future Farming

    by Bruce Pascoe, Bill Gammage ...
    What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Forest Wars

    The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests

    by David Lindenmayer ...
    Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export.Since colonisation, Australians have been frantically logging our native forests as if our lives depended on it. Our lives do depend on the forests—but on keeping them, not destroying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Victorian Bush: its 'original and natural' condition

    by Ron Hateley ...
    The Victorian Bush: its ‘original and natural’ condition aggregates in a readable way extracts from logs, reports and diaries of Victorian explorers, early settlers, travellers and officials that describe the vegetation and fauna they encountered.The author analyses what he sees are the major ecological processes across south-eastern Australia, including the role of fire. Obviously Victoria today ... Read more

    $8.55 USD

  • First Knowledges Plants

    Past, Present and Future

    by Zena Cumpston, Michael Fletcher, Lesley Head ...
    What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known this to be true. For millennia, reciprocal relationships with plants have provided both sustenance ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Let the Land Speak: A history of Australia - how the land created our nation

    by Jackie French ...
    From one of our most respected and award-winning authors, Jackie French, comes a fascinating and fresh interpretation of Australian history, focusing on how the land itself, rather than social forces, has shaped the major events that led to modern Australia.to understand the present, you need to understand the past. to understand Australia's history, you need to look at how the land has shaped not ... Read more

    $10.99 USD