Verandah music -- now in the library

'Verandah Music' is a unique anthology of writing on traditional Australian music which provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between the music and the people that produced and perpetuated it. Through interviews, photographs and personal stories, the book illuminates the traditions, working lives and family connections of some of Australia's most colourful characters and the music they loved.

The book comes complete with two CDs, mastered by the National Library of Australia, which greatly enhances the reader's understanding and enjoyment of this unique form of Australian folk music.

New DVD videos -- Million dollar baby etc

Million dollar baby

John Q

Finding Forrester

October Sky

Pay it forward

Stand and deliver

Breakfast Club

Notes on a scandal

Juno

Bringing down the house

Dangerous minds

Sold (Patricia McCormick) is in the library

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Lakshmi's family is desperately poor, but village life in the mountains of Nepal has its share of pleasures. When the monsoons wreck their crops yet again, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. She arrives at Happiness House' full of hope, but soon learns the unthinkable truth - she has been sold into prostitution. This new world becomes a nightmare from which there is no escape. But, very gradually, Lakshmi makes friends with others in the house, and gathers her courage, until the day she has to face the hardest decision of all: will she risk everything to reclaim her life? Deceptively simple, eloquent, and shocking - this is a story you will never forget. A phenomenal book, a punch in the gut...It drew me in from the first page, even though I wanted to turn away...McCormick has taken a difficult, distasteful subject and written something readable and compassionate without shying away from the truths of the matter. I only wish it was a historical document, not a portrait of a world we have all helped to create.' Deborah Ellis

Good Universities Guide 2011

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Dry times

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With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story. Dry Times: Blueprint for a Red Land provides new insights into how our desert environments and institutions work - and how this affects the people living in them, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike.

Whaling (Issues in society series)

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Unregulated commercial whaling has had a major impact
on the world’s whale populations. In spite of a complete
commercial whaling ban imposed by the International
Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986, whales are still being
killed on a daily basis by traditional whaling nations such
as Japan, Norway and Iceland. And despite broad global concern for the
depleting whale populations, there is still ongoing debate among IWC
members over if and how whaling should continue. This book examines
the history of whaling and focuses on Australia’s prominent role in trying
to secure a compromise from the whaling nations, especially Japan,
with whom diplomatic relations have become strained. The book also
details Australian and international efforts to protect whales through
sanctuaries, research and legal frameworks. Aboriginal subsistence
whaling, ‘scientific’ whaling and commercial whaling ... what is entailed
in each of these practices? Is there room for political compromise, or
do these giants of the ocean need a globally binding conservation
commitment to survive in the world’s already over-fished oceans?

Overschooled but undereducated

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This book synthesizes an array of research and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence. By mis-understanding teenagers’ instinctive need to do things for themselves, society is in danger of creating a system of schooling that so goes against the natural grain of the adolescent brain that formal education ends up unintentionally trivialising the very young people it claims to be supporting. By failing to keep up with appropriate research in the biological and social sciences, current educational systems continue to treat adolescence as a problem rather than an opportunity.
This book is about the need for transformational change in education. It synthesizes an array of research from both the physical and social sciences and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence. The book was conceived through a series of international conferences, and considers the education systems in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand. Its intention is to shake education out of its two-century’s-old inertia. In the saga of the ages, if a generation fails, the fault lies squarely with the previous generation for not equipping them well enough for the changes ahead. The most immoral thing a person can ever say is: ‘This will last out my time’.

Bleed for me

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Documents that shaped Australia

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Spanning more than 400 years, from the first documented sighting of the Southern Cross in 1516 to the Rudd Government's national apology to the Stolen Generations, this anthology presents in chronological form a richly varied spectrum of 100 historical documents that, like pieces in a mosaic, contribute to a broad understanding of some of the key moments in Australia's history.
John Thompson's diverse and eclectic selection - illustrated with facsimile documents, portraits, maps and photographs of related events - draws on a range of historical texts: journal and diary entries, official commissions, charters and proclamations, speeches of various kinds, letters and cables, newspaper editorials, press announcements and despatches written by journalists, petitions, Acts of Parliament, court judgements and manifestos.

Think like your customer

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The most common complaint Bill Stinnett hears from his corporate clients is that would-be vendors and suppliers "just don't understand our business." In Think Like Your Customer, Stinnett explains why the key to landing corporate customers is to learn to think about the things executives and business owners think about and understand how they make complex buying decisions.
Drawing upon his years of experience as a Fortune 500 consultant, he offers sales and marketing professionals a powerful framework for understanding the inner workings of a business; knowing what motivates its executives and influences their buying decisions; identifying a company's organizational structure and decision-making psychology; and using that information to develop a winning strategy for influencing how and why the customer buys.
In addition, you receive:
(a)Solid marketing insights delivered in a fun, breezy style by a top corporate consultant and seminar leader
(b) Expert tips on how to maximize the value and profitability of relationships with corporate clients and customers

Calling the shots

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Nick, Alex and Indie are delighted to be chosen to star in a hot new reality TV show. But they soon realise that being a celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be. The power they suddenly have is overwhelming, and Nick withdraws into himself, dropping out of school, stuffi ng himself with food and becoming increasingly violent. Things come to a head when he discovers that the TV company has been manipulating them, making things as stressful for them as they can. This makes ‘good' television – but it is the character's reactions that will make the most compelling viewing of all…

Library Week Competition

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Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

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Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.
Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.
Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

Bush Tucker Field guide

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Surf-o-Rama

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Richo DVD

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Bob Dylan -- Cambridge companion

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Black Adder DVDs

Blackadder is one of the most fondly remembered and critically acclaimed BBC comedies.
It traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of World War I.
This 6 disc deluxe edition includes series 1-4 digitally remastered plus brand new and exclusive extras including audio commentaries, extended interviews and a special documentary to mark Blackadder’s 25th Anniversary. Co-written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, Blackadder features many of the greats of British comedy – Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Miranda Richardson.
Includes:
Blackadder Series 1-4 Remastered
Blackadder’s Christmas Carol
Back And Forth
The Cavalier Years
Baldrick’s Diary
Blackadder Rides Again

Rewrite your relationships

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How many times have you heard yourself or someone else say, 'I wish he'd change!' or, 'It's too hard to meet people – why bother trying?' These negative patterns are 'scripts', and we all follow them. They dictate our decisions and tell us how to act, and are so powerful that they can be the key to the success of failure of our relationships. In Rewrite Your Relationships! Eve and Rob will help you to:

• overcome negative scripts and stop 'self-sabotage'
• gain a positive mindset for meeting people
• understand relationships and why they can go off the rails
• recognise and resolve conflict patterns
• bring fun and equality back into your relationship
• survive a break-up, if it happens
• develop and maintain healthy relationships for the long term
  

Coping with toxic managers

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Some people are toxic:narcissistic, aggressive, inflexible, unethical, ready to scapegoat, capable of transforming any workplace into an unending nightmare. How do people cope with such individuals, while protecting both career AND sanity? Simplistic, cookie-cutter solutions don't work. In Coping with Nightmare Managers,world-renowned psychiatrist and organizational consultant Roy Lubit shows the reader techniques that will. Drawing on his extensive experience as both a mental health professional and an organizational consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Lubit offers concrete, proven advice for subordinates, colleagues and superiors alike. Readers learn what's really driving their toxic manager...how to cope with the emotional stress of dealing with them...and how to create a strategy that reflects their individual personality, while drawing on today's powerful new insights into emotional intelligence. The techniques Lubit teaches apply to personal relationships with toxic individuals as well.

Warrnambool gig guide Jan 21st 2010

Mark Seymour is at the Flying Horse -- Click here for full gig guide

Grey nomads guide book

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More and more older Australians are continuing to join the ranks of the grey nomads – realising their dreams of freedom and adventure by embarking on a "Big Lap" around the country.
Drawing on their own experiences, as well as numerous campfire chats with others, authors Cindy and Jeremy Gough's guidebook is the essential companion for hitting the open road.
The Grey Nomad's Guidebook provides expert advice on: when and where to go; choosing a rig; financing and planning a long-term trip; managing your affairs while you are away; health on the road; setting up camp; hobbies and pursuits; and safety and maintenance, as well as a state-by-state breakdown featuring detailed maps showing major roads and attractions.
This comprehensive guide has been fully revised to include new material on superannuation, mobile communications, wireless internet connections, global positioning systems, caravan park prices and electoral registration, as well as the most up-to-date contact phone numbers, websites and prices. New chapter Six of the Best details several grey nomads personal experiences on half a dozen of the most iconic roads and tracks in Australia.
From the cities and the caravan parks to the bush camps and the campfires, grey nomads can't afford to leave home without the revised Grey Nomad's Guidebook!
Pages: 456Released: 2009
ISBN / Catalogue Number: 9780330424929