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I Only Want to Get Married Once
Author: Chana Levitan
Format: Paperback | 160 pages
SKU: 498-2
For 22 years, Chana Levitan has been educating, mentoring, and enlightening people about how to find real potential in their relationships.
Her classes on the topic are standing-room only. With this book, she is finally sharing her knowledge with a bigger audience.
You ll find a smart, clear relationship guide with 10 essential questions that need to be asked before and during the dating process in order to spot long-term potential.
Filled with real-life anecdotes and insightful dating advice, these chapters will help you better understand yourself and what you really need to succeed in building a loving marriage. There is no rule that heartbreak must be a prerequisite for good judgment!
I Only Want to Get Married Once will help you get it right the first time and gain the confidence to steer through the decision making process of dating.
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Meditation Capsules: A Mindfulness Program for Children
Author: Janet Etty-Leal
Foreword by Dr Craig Hassed
A practical resource for adults who wish to teach children the skills of mindful meditation.
It outlines a comprehensive program designed for classroom use, ideally with students at upper primary school level.
But the lessons can readily be adapted to suit children of all ages, and the book will provide a helpful guide for parents, youth leaders, social workers and therapists – anyone who has an interest in teaching meditation or the enthusiasm to help children master meditation as a powerful personal tool.
About the author:
Janet Etty-Leal works as a Mindful Meditation Consultant. She has over a decade’s experience conducting meditation workshops for educational, health, corporate and sporting organisations, and is a regular speaker at conferences. Janet’s meditation courses are designed to equip participants with a wide range of life-skills, and are presented with an emphasis on interaction and fun.
"The world needs more books like this.” - Paul Wilson, author of 'The Guru of Calm'
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Who Knew?
Author: Jack Cooper (Forward by Berel Wein)
The perfect present!
SKU: 476-0
Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back?
That a famous passage penned by George Washington was actually the work of a rabbi?
That a Jewish athlete represented Nazi Germany in its infamous 1936 Olympic Games?
That Yasser Arafat was made by the KGB?
These and many more such intriguing stories make up Jack Cooper’s fascinating collection of historical windows on the life of the Jews.
Covering biblical times through to today, these unusual vignettes on the sidelines of history come together to form a story that is anything but a sideline, depicting a resourceful people who have survived and thrived despite the worst history has thrown at them.
Whether you read it straight through, or pick out individual stories to read as the mood strikes, you’re in for a captivating read!
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Alva's Boy
Alan Collins
Release date: November 2008
Hybrid Publishers
“I weighed up these women in my life and decided that none of them would fill the role of a mother. But then, what did I know about mothers anyway? … The short answer was nothing – bugger-all.”
Sydney in 1928 and Alva, a young Jewish wife, dies in childbirth. No family member is allowed to care for the baby, so “Alva’s boy” is sent from one children’s home to another. His father weds for the fourth time but young Alan finds his dreams of a real home shattered amid the ruins of this disastrous marriage. He navigates his way through childhood as a street-smart survivor, and not even the archetypal wicked stepmother, her terrible Ma or his own foolish father can rob him of hope.
With a keen ear for authentic dialogue and a wry humour, Alan Collins tells a poignant story with vitality and a remarkable lack of sentimentality. The adult author reconstructs his childhood through the memory of vivid sensory experiences and presents a cast of unforgettable characters. He has an unerring sense of time and place, and through his eyes we glimpse Australia, and in particular Jewish-Australian society, as it was in the 1930s and early 1940s.
He shows us a community caught up in the Great Depression, anticipating and then experiencing war, coping with poverty, ill-prepared for the ‘reffos’ who were coming from Europe. It is a memoir that is so Jewish and at the same time so Australian.
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BULLO : The Next Generation
by Marlee Ranacher
Random House
"I have always been an optimistic person. There have been many big challenges in my life but I've always met them head on. That's the way I was raised by my father for better or worse.
I had worked for almost my entire life of 39 years on our family property in the Northern Territory. I had invested everything on a practical and emotional level into Bullo and it was always understood between me and my mother that the property was part of our future. I would never leave the property and I didn't think she would either. I would raise my family there and in time it would pass to my children.
Now my whole life as I'd known it seemed to be at an end...But, I knew what I had to do. I would give it my best shot. If I had to fight for Bullo I would. I would do everything I could to save the land I loved."
The Henderson family of Bullo River Station in the Northern Territory has been immortalised in a series of best-selling books - three by mother Sara and one by middle daughter, Bonnie. And now it is time for the eldest daughter, Marlee Ranacher to break her silence and give her side of the story.
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Crafting Jewish
by Rivky Koenig
***NEW DECEMBER 2008
SKU: CRJH
Crafting Jewish is a unique and beautiful book. It has been designed both for experienced crafters looking for creative and unusual ideas and For beginners just starting to discover the joys of crafts. This book has it all!
■ Over 120 holiday and everyday projects, each with step-by-step instructions
■ Stunning full-color photos of every craft
■ Distinctive ideas for holiday get-togethers - many with delicious recipes
■ Pictorial reference guide of crafting tools and product buying guide
■ Full-size templates and comprehensive index
The entire family will love creating these marvelous, homemade crafts - and the warm and loving family traditions that you create at the same time, as you enjoy Crafting Jewish.
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Dark Star Safari
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country - Egypt, the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa - he visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before.
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Earth to Sky: The Art of Victor Majzner
by Leigh Astbury
Please note: ONLY A FEW LEFT
Australian publication
Hardback
Victor Majzner arrived in Australia in 1959 from Poland via France where he spent a year. His spectacular and unconventional paintings deal with issues of Jewish history in Australia, the Australian cultural landscape and increasingly with the idea of developing a unique, Jewish Art of world standing.
Leigh Astbury, an academic from Monash University who has written extensively about Victor Majzner, traces Majzner’s art from 1967 to 2002 with scholarly attention to biographical and historical detail. Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen contributes an insightful essay about Majzner’s religious (Jewish) paintings.
A feature of this book is the inclusion of Majzner’s drawings as they trace his artistic development.
Limited Edition of 50, each signed and numbered, includes an original etching.
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Fences and Windows
by Naomi Klein
PB
From the author of No Logo. An eyewitness account of a unique chapter in our history and an investigation of globalization and its consequences: a survival guide for life in the world economy. Naomi Klein is articulate and convincing in her arguments.
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Fields of Omagh
By Kristen Manning
This story of one of Australiaís most courageous racing champions not only covers his remarkable career but also takes us beyond the track to the tales of his owners and connections and how he transformed their lives.
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For Solo Violin
by Aldo Zargani
PB
A Jewish Childhood in Fascist Italy
Aldo Zargani was born in 1933 in Turin. Per violino solo was first published in Italy in 1995 and won several literary awards. In this extraordinary literary translation, Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938-45 when he and his family fled from Fascists and Nazis in Northern Italy.
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From Berlin to Biere: Growing up in the Holocaust
by Joseph Spring
Memoir
176 pages
In his moving account of how a young boy managed to survive the horrors of the Holocaust, Joseph Spring takes us through the deterioration of conditions under which Jews lived in Germany, his turbulent life as he fled to Belgium, hid in France on false papers, tried to cross the border into Spain and was then betrayed crossing the Swiss border and handed over to the Germans.
He describes life in Buna, a side camp of Auschwitz which supplied slave labour for the chemical combine IG Farben. With his life constantly threatened by hunger, disease or a bullet in Auschwitz, Joseph trained to be a welder and lived from one day to the next until on his eighteenth birthday he was forced to go on a death march.
The book also gives an account of the only court case to have taken place in the Swiss Bundes Gericht in Lausanne (High Court) re Swiss Government's attitude to Jewish refugees, where Joseph accused the Swiss government of participation in genocide.
Using precise details and a clear direct voice, Joseph conveys his experiences vividly and records for posterity the clear facts of this shameful time in Europe’s history.
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GIVING IT AWAY
by Denis Tracey
Scribe Publishing
PB
Australian publication
in praise of philanthropy
Philanthropy in Australia remains largely unexplored territory. When Denis Tracey interviewed about 60 individuals and families — some well known and some not — about their philanthropic activities and ideas, he discovered a few surprising realities.
Philanthropy doesn’t just do good; it also brings joy and fulfilment to the donors. It also doesn’t have to be the sole preserve of the rich, and it doesn’t necessarily involve money.
After reading this book, everyone will understand how and why individuals and families give away their time and money, and how they decide which causes and organisations to support. And they’ll also understand how philanthropy can be intensely satisfying.
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God According to God
Author: Gerald Schroeder
Published June 2009
Format: Hardcover | 256 pages
SKU: 978006171015
In this groundbreaking exploration, a biblical scholar and M.I.T.-trained physicist combines decades of research to change the debate between religion and science, presenting a new paradigm of how to understand God.
Gerald Schroeder has spent his career revealing the hand of God in the intricate discoveries of physics. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to this force, examining both the Bible and the physical world to discover the true nature of God—God according to God.
Schroeder argues that we have ignored those traits of God we find unappealing, replacing them with our personal desire for the all-knowing, all-loving, never-changing deity that so many worship today. This leads to the age-old problem: How can there be such a God when the world is filled with tragedy? Yet Schroeder reveals that this troubling juxtaposition is really smoke and mirrors. The God revealed in the Bible is 100 percent compatible with the world as we know it today. It is our misconception of God that causes the disparity. In fact, the concept of God that atheists rail against and that believers defend is inaccurate.
In God According to God, Schroeder presents a compelling case for the true God, a dynamic God who is still learning how to relate to creation. The key to God's action in the world, according to Schroeder, can be found in a well-known verse in Exodus that is typically translated "I am that which I am." Schroeder's correction that it should be translated "I will be that which I will be" reveals a God that changes to fit the ever-changing world.
This opens our eyes to other characteristics of God that we have long overlooked despite their being present in some of the most popular stories in the Bible—a God who regrets (the flood of Noah), a God who wants us to argue with Him (Jacob wrestling with God in the desert), and thus a God who changes His mind (Moses convinces God to spare the Israelite people), and a God who allowed nature, and the creation itself, from the very start, to rebel (Adam's and Eve's betrayal in Eden).
With riveting chapters on the origins of life, a scientist's view of creation, and the unique place of our planet in the galaxy, God According to God offers a radical paradigm shift that will forever change how we understand God.
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How to motivate your child
by Dr. Andrew Martin
Random House Publishing
How to motivate your child for school and beyond.
A positive, practical guide to helping children be the best they can be at school and beyond.
It offers achievable solutions for parents who want their children to do well at school - and enjoy the process.
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Jewcentricity
Author: Adam Garfinkle
Format: Hardcover | 320 pages
SKU:978047019856
A wise and wide–ranging explanation of never–ending exaggeration–by both philo–Semites and anti–Semites–about the Jews
Hamas blames the financial crisis on Jews. Mel Gibson blamed all the wars on Jews. Jews win a disproportionate number of Nobel prizes. Dishy Danish citizen Scarlett Johansson is Jewish, Madonna is into Jewish mysticism, and some claim that Abe Lincoln was Jewish. Who cares? Nearly everyone, it seems. If it′s about Jews, it′s news. Adam Garfinkle looks deeply into the world′s obsession with Jews, positive as well as negative, to find answers about where it comes from and where it might be going. He identifies four categories of exaggeration about Jews: positive bias by Jews and non–Jews, and negative bias by Jews and non–Jews.
Combining insights from history, sociology, religion, and international politics, he explains how a misunderstanding of strategies that have kept the Jewish Diaspora going for millennia have led to distortions about Jewish influence, intelligence, and success–and to charges of chauvinism, financial manipulation, and conspiratorial lever–pulling.
Adam Garfinkle (Washington, DC) is the founding editor of the American Interest, a bimonthly magazine on politics and public affairs. Formerly a speechwriter for both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, Garfinkle has taught international relations at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Tel Aviv University.
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Living in the 70's
by Alison Pressley
Australian publication
Relive the fabulous 70s in this celebration of an extraordinary decade.
LIVING IN THE 70s is a history of the decade through the eyes of Australians who were unknown teenagers and twentysomethings at the time as well as some of the young movers and shakers who were making their names.
It covers everything from platform heels to protest marches and it’s sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving, but always entertaining.
These stories will trigger memories in everyone who was young in the 70s, no matter where in the country they were or what they were doing. Musical mayhem, fashion atrocities, political upheaval, suburban dagginess, and the hedonism of the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll generation: this is an irresistible look inside the decade that taste forgot!
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LOVE AND DEATH IN KATHMANDU
WHITTAKER AND WILLESEE
On 1 June 2001, the heir to the Nepalese throne, Crown Prince Dipendra, donned military fatigues, armed himself with four guns and walked in on a quiet family gathering. Without speaking, he mowed his family down before turning a pistol on himself. But Dipendra did not die, and while lying in a coma was declared king. Sharing the world's fascination with the crime and captivated by the kind of society that could create such a situation, award-winning writers Amy Willesee and Mark Whittaker set out to understand what happened on the kingdom's darkest night. Exploring Kathmandu and other parts of the kingdom, they conducted exhaustive interviews with everyone from Maoist guerillas to members and friends of the royal family, gaining startling insights into the people involved in and the events behind the massacre. At the heart of the story is the strange love affair between Dipendra and beautiful aristocrat Devyani Rana - and the royal family's opposition to her that led to murder. But Love and Death in Kathmandu is also the chronicle of an enchanted realm where beauty and death exist side by side, and where the twenty-first century mingles uneasily with the fourteenth. Whether relating visits to prisons and palaces, or the crush of festival crowds and the smell in incense and smoke at funerals, the authors paint an unforgettable picture of the clash of old and new cultures that ended in royal bloodshed.
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My Dear Friends
by John S Levi
256 pages (hardback)
The year 2009 marked the centenary of the birth of Rabbi Herman Max Sanger.
The rabbi’s early life was shaped during the tumultuous years of the German Weimar Republic. A gifted linguist, the Berlin Jewish community appointed him their emissary when the Nazis came to power and he left Berlin just one step ahead of the Gestapo.
The young rabbi arrived in Australia in 1936 and immediately began to build the Australian progressive movement both in Melbourne and Sydney. A brilliant orator and teacher, Sanger saw Temple Beth Israel grow from a small group of discouraged Melbourne Jews into the ‘mother synagogue’ of congregations around Australia and New Zealand. It was often a lonely battle. Rabbi Sanger contended with years of bitter opposition and prejudice.
This fascinating and important biography has been written by his rabbinic successor, Emeritus Rabbi Dr John Levi AM. It has been published by the Australian Jewish Historical Society and sponsored by the Progressive Jewish Cultural Fund.
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My Grandson is a Genius
Giles Andreae
Brilliant, hilariously funny, and wonderfully reassuring, this is fabulous for parents to buy for overzealous grandparents, grandparents to buy for their adored grandchildren and grandchildren to buy for their doting grandparents. At last - a picture book for all the family.
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Raft
Hybrid Publishers
Howard Goldenberg’s second book, Raft, is a collection of unnerving true stories that reveal the author’s experiences as a doctor in Aboriginal communities and inside an outback prison.
During a period of more than a decade Howard Goldenberg, a middle-aged Orthodox Jew, made over fifty working visits as a relieving doctor for Aboriginal communities in outback Australia. On these visits he observed and recorded the lives of the people he met and treated.
The reader meets a dehydrated baby whose mother gambles away money for food; Zachariah, whose infected elbow hasn’t healed for five years; an old lady who receives a gashed head while fending off her thieving husband; and Ninnigur, one of the “Strong Women” whose tireless work helps women bring babies to term safely and to protect the next generation from malnutrition and disease.
Goldenberg writes, “Aboriginal Australians are not at peace. They are variously unwell, underfed, overfed, afflicted excessively by our lifestyle diseases, confused by our drugs and drink, endowed with income but not with work, living in sickening poverty in paradisiacal places, and distracted from their serious cultural business by the trappings of our serious cultural emptiness.”
Columnist and author Alan Gold exclaims, “Raft is a delicious, warm and endearing look at a side of Australian life known personally to very few of us. Through his measured and beautifully constructed words, we are privileged to glimpse an ancient land and its people through the eyes of a perceptive and sophisticated, but essentially generous, man. This is a book which should be in every home, and every parent’s gift to their children.”
Author Arnold Zable writes, “Goldenberg is both observer and physician, writer and participant, tenacious in his quest for understanding and lived experience, a seeker with a passionate belief in the power of the story.”
Prize-winning biographer and novelist Robert Hillman writes, “Goldenberg is a genuine artist and poet … The book works so well for three reasons: his craft, his sensibility, and his heart … a great achievement.”
Howard Goldenberg is a doctor, writer, marathon runner and Olympic torch bearer. His first book, My Father’s Compass, was published in 2007.
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Reefer Madness....& Other Tales from the American
Eric Schlosser
Fantastically rich and triumphantly in league with the future, America still hankers after innocence from foreign contagion and home-grown vice. Few writers have explored this mixture of headlong progress and nostalgia for a not-quite-mythical past as incisively as Eric Schlosser. Here he looks at three sources of hypocrisy, cruelty and occasional grandeur in the country's attempts to make sense of a disturbing world: pornography, drugs and migrant labour. Whether investigating the fall-out from the country's relentless and utterly ineffectual war on marijuana, the fate of migrant workers in a nation of immigrants, or the career of the 'Walt Disney of Porn', Schlosser has few rivals as the chronicler of a country exhilarated and terrified by its own potential.
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Restoring Tourism Destinations in Crisis
by David Beirman
Published by Allen & Unwin
Paperback 208X140. 304 pages. B&w photos
Restoring Tourism Destinations in Crisis:
A strategic marketing approach
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack against the USA impacted on airlines and tourist destinations worldwide, as did subsequent attacks on tourists.
These events highlight the importance of destination crisis management for the global tourism industry.
Experienced tourism marketer and trainer, David Beirman, has created a guide to crisis management for tourism operators and offices.
He argues that managing public perception is critical to the recovery of a destination after a crisis, and that much depends on providing clear, frequently updated and accurate information.
He provides detailed case studies of different types of crises from around the world, with analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of the approach taken by tourism managers.
This is an invaluable reference for tourism managers anywhere in the world, and a useful resource for tourism students.
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