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Buddha at Bedtime (for children)
Building on the age-old art of storytelling, Buddha at Bedtime retells 20 ancient Buddhist tales in a way that is fun and accessible to children. Featuring superb full-page illustrations, the stories transport children into an imaginary world of enlightenment and discovery where they meet delightful characters at the same time as learning a message that teaches them about the importance of values such as patience, perseverance, honesty and generosity.
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The New Codependency
Twenty-five years after Melody Beattie introduced the world to the term codependency in her book Codependent No More, the question remains: What is and what is not codependency? In this follow-up volume, Beattie clears up misconceptions about codependency and reminds us that whilst much of it is normal behaviour, there are times we do too much, care too much, feel too little, or overly engage.
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Laughter is the Best Medicine
“In this book you’re going to meet some of the Clown Doctors. More importantly, you’re going to meet some of the 85,000 patients and families they see (on average) every year” says author Jean-Paul Bell. The Clown Doctors work in conjunction with medical staff in hospitals around Australia and overseas to give children, especially, the opportunity to play, laugh and sing
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Listening to Country
Listening to Country is the true story of an eight-day pilgrimage to the Northern Territory’s remote Tanami Desert in 2006 by author Ros Moriarty with the matriarchs of her husband’s Aboriginal family to perform ceremony.
Her journal opens a rare and vivid window to the secret and hidden world of the Law women and reveals the human relationships and philosophical insights which enable them to transcend the heartbreaking material poverty, illness and increasing violence of their community, to live with astonishing happiness and purpose.
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The Meditation Handbook
The Meditation Handbook by Professor David Fontana is an excellent book for those wanting to get an overview of meditation, including benefits gained from practice along with meditation techniques.The book emphasises how good meditation is for developing harmony, inner peace, and enhancing physical and psychological health, and for enabling the practitioner to explore the mysteries of the mind and the spiritual dimension to existence.
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Seriously Good! Gluten-Free Cooking
On 2nd March 2010, Coeliac UK, the national charity for people with coeliac disease announced Phil Vickery as their new Food Ambassador. Phil Vickery has worked with Coeliac UK for the past few years to help raise awareness of the condition and for the need for more catering establishments to offer gluten-free menu options.
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Looking for Lionel
Latest figures indicate there are approximately 200,000 Australians diagnosed with dementia along with more than 1,000 Australians carers. Both of these numbers are expected to increase. So this book, Looking for Lionel by Sharon Snir is certainly timely. Taking a non-clinical humanistic approach, the book is about Sharon’s Mother Lily, and her husband Lionel.
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Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey
When “experiential journalist” Rak Razam sets out to document the booming business of Amazonian shamanism in the 21st century, he quickly finds himself caught up in a culture clash between the old world and the new. Braving a gringo trail of the soul, he joins a movement of Western seekers in search of the multi-dimensional reality shamanism connects one to.
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Guardians of Being
This delightful collection of witty text by world-acclaimed spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and illustrations by Patrick McDonnell (well known for the comic strip MUTTS) is a unique and wonderful collaboration which celebrates the joy we receive from the many life forms in nature, and particularly animals.
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The Back Sufferers Pocket Guide
The Back Sufferers’ Pocket Guide has been designed to be a quick and easy guide to the treatment of back pain that can be carried around with you. Back pain, says authors Sarah Key and Vicky Roberts, affects 80% of people at some point in their lives, and is the second most popular reason for visiting a GP in the UK.
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Spontaneous Evolution
We’ve all heard stories of people who experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from illness, but can the same thing happen for our world? According to pioneering biologist Bruce H. Lipton, Ph. D., it’s not only possible, it’s already happening.
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Hurry Down Sunshine
It is a summer evening in New York, Michael Greenberg returns home to find his daughter has been picked up by the police after rushing into a busy road, convinced she can halt oncoming traffic. A parents nightmare, there will certainly be many who can relate to it.
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And Picasso Painted Guernica
This beautiful, tabloid-sized book, begins by taking the reader back in time to 1881 – when Thomas Edison created the electric light, the Orient Express opens, and Pablo Picasso is born. Throughout the book, author Alain Serres recalls significant events and demonstrates how they influenced Picasso’s work.
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The Little Book of Healing for Children
Author of this very special book, Xanthe, said when she asked her two children what mattered most to them they said feeling worthy and happiness. It was with this in mind that Xanthe put her book together, and it really is a real gem with lots of really good, sensible information for children and parents on how to look after yourself in a fun and nurturing way.
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The Priest and the Medium
Psychic Medium B. Anne Gehman gave her first spirit readings to her teddy bears at the age of five. At the age of 14 Anne home to pursue her quest to develop her natural psychic gifts for the greater good. Similarly, Wayne Knoll also left home at 14, but to follow his calling and devotion to the catholic faith.
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Committed
Hot on the tail of her international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, author Elizabeth Gilbert continues her story with the man she fell in love with, Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, whilst the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, they also swore to never legally get married.
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Nine Lives: In search of the sacred in modern India
In Nine Lives, bestselling travel writer and historian William Dalrymple (In Xanadu and White Mughals) explores how nine very different religious traditions have transformed during the recent period of rapid economic growth in India.
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Source
This landmark anthology of biographies from Janine Burke, award-winning author of The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection, explores the idea of nature or place as a source of inspiration. In her painstaking research into the lives and careers of some of the world’s greatest literary and artistic talents, including Claude Monet, Virginia Woolf, Karen Blixen, Ernest Hemingway, Georgia O’Keefe, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Janine’s Source gives a brilliant new insight into these great literary and artistic minds.
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Saved by a Poem
A word is dead
When it is said
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
– Emily Dickinson
‘Poetry was created to be experienced in the body and spoken aloud. Made of breath, sound, rhythm, meaning, and silence, a poem is a physical event. It needs a human body to give it life.
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Radiant Health Radiant Skin
Written by two writers; Dr Megan Mathews, a medical doctor who has extensive experience in nutrition, herbs, acupuncture, osteopathy, kinesiology and spiritual medicine, and Alison Cassar who is a naturopath and nutritionist who specialises in skin conditions, Radiant Health and Radiant Skin will tell all you need to know about maintaining good skin condition.
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Love in Mid Air
Forty-something Elyse has a seemingly perfect marriage – a daughter, a cat, a job she likes, a nice house and group of friends, and a husband Phil who is a Dentist. However flying back from a work trip she meets a married man she is attracted to, and …eventually … she says yes. Witty, intelligent, intense and sexy, the novel Love in Mid Air offers a provocative take on marriage and adultery.
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The Deeper Secret
“Nothing will simply fall out of the sky, however much you wish for it, and however positively you think. The real secret is how you can get what you wish yourself: by knowing how you should wish, and that an inner decision is inherent to a wish, the decision to really want it – not with your head but with your heart,” says author of The Deeper Secret, Annemarie Postma. Millions of people around the world have read or seen The Secret and have incorporated the law of attraction into their lives.
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First Do No Harm
With their extensive medical and professional experience, Australian General Practitioners, Leanne Rowe and Michael Kidd have created a legacy to be shared with doctors worldwide at all stages of their careers.
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Meeting Fairies
This, is a very, very special book. The author Roc, was a loving and gentle man, a wondrous storyteller, a musician, an actor, and an embodiment of the best of Scottish charm. He was the wise old man, the grandfatherly figure children adore, and the magician who guides heroes and heroines on their paths of accomplishment.
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Ox-Tales: AIR
Ox-Tales: Air is one of four original collections, featuring stories by leading British and Irish-based writers. Each of the writers has contributed their story for free in order to raise money and awareness for Oxfam.
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Happy Healthy Kids
Happy Healthy Kids is a practical and down-to-earth guide to the health and wellbeing of children. It includes easy to follow treatments for everything from colds and allergies, to bruises, burns and bedwetting, and also details how parents may handle a range of emotional challenges of children from shyness and lack of self-confidence, to aggression.
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The Intimacy of Death and Dying
There is no rehearsal for death or dying and that adds to its challenge. People who are dying
feel isolated and those left behind feel as if no-one understands. The Intimacy of Death and
Dying addresses some of the issues attached to people dying and their carers and is presented in a simple and sensitive way, alternating between practical advice and brave and honest accounts of different aspects of death.
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Bats Sing Mice Giggle
Did you know that bats compose their own songs and babble to each other? Or that mice giggle when they are tickled? That lizards do push-ups to seduce a mate, or that elephants mimic the sounds of passing trucks to stave off loneliness? Bats Sing, Mice Giggle is the culmination of many years of research and reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have inner, secret lives of which until recently (although many animal lovers will have instinctively believed it) we have had little proof.
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Defy Gravity
This new book by author Caroline Myss (who some may know through her previous bestsellers Anatomy of the Spirit and Sacred Contracts) certainly does not let you down. Caroline is a consummate writer and know the healing domain exceedingly well. The caption to Defy Gravity – ‘Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason’ I think says it all.
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Isabel’s World
Roy Grinker, author of Isabel’s World, is an anthropologist ie. a social scientist who studies culture. In 1994, his daughter was diagnosed with Autism. Largely as a result of this diagnosis, Grinker embarked on his own journey to discover how culture affects the way autism is viewed around the world.
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The Perfect Menopause
I am always a bit sceptical reading about women’s issues when the author is a man – how can they really know? But I found The Perfect Menopause answered many questions that I wanted to know, and explained the differences between natural, synthetic and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy very clearly. Similarly, it was really good to get more of an understanding about the ‘infamous’ WHI 2002 and 2004 reports on the effects of HRT.
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Commit to Sit
In Commit To Sit , the art of meditation is introduced and endorsed by some of the foremost voices in contemporary Buddhism. Meditative techniques are devolved along with finding a comfortable seating position and ways to sustain motivation. The book is tailored to people who would like to begin meditating, but also offers support and guidance to the experienced mediator, and is a guide anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of themselves and their inner world.
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Timeless Wisdoms Volume 2: Reflections of Spirit
Most people would probably agree that we live in trying times, and author of Timeless Wisdoms Dr John-Roger says “ we can go through life laughing or crying” and in his book he provides a way to look at life and ourselves from a higher altitude.
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The Perfect Day Plan
Based on the principles of ancient Chinese medicine, The Perfect Day Plan (or chi cycle) reveals how each organ influences aspects of your body, your emotions, and your potential for happiness and success. For example, discover why feeling anxious or experiencing panic attacks, chronic fatigue, or depression means your stomach is in need of attention.
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Be your own Back Guru
The thing that works about this book mostly, is the pictures. Sometimes I think we can use words ‘until the cows come home’ but it is images that we more quickly respond to. In the case of back pain, the author Dr Chris Chin has very carefully put this book together so if you suffer from back pain, you can out find out why, you can find out if the exercises you are doing are harmful, you can see how back injuries occur during sport, you will find out about occupation hazards (which are many), and you can learn about posture and movement, breathing, and how to avoid bending or twisting at the waist.
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The Vortex
At the hub of the teachings provided in this book by the non-physical consciousness known as ‘Abraham’, is the concept that (1) the basis of life is freedom (2) the result of life is expansion and (3) the purpose of life is joy. As you read through each page these teachings provide an empowering sense of clarity as you discover how you can more deliberately create the relationships that feel best to you ie. allowing yourself more of what you do want, and less of what you don’t want.
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The Revolting Child – A Blessing in Disguise
The Revolting Child is a true story of how one family is raising one of their sons (Caleb) who was diagnosed at aged 5 with ADHD. Written with passion, openness and honesty, author Lillian Reekie describes how she and her husband Andrew learnt that there was a different way they could raise both of their children - by learning to have more respect for them.
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Bodies
The New York Times writes of the author of Bodies; “Susie Orbach is, aside from Sigmund Freud, probably the most famous psychotherapist to have ever set up couch in Britain”. In Bodies, Susie Orbach raises fundamental questions about the pressure to perfect our bodies and argues that how we view our bodies is a mirror of how we view ourselves.
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The Art of Extreme Self-Care
Do you wish you had more time for you? Designed as a practical, action-oriented program, The Art of Extreme Self-Care offers you 12 strategies to transform your life, focussing on one behaviour (that keeps getting you into trouble) one month at a time.
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The Tao of Rejuvenation
I liked The Tao of Rejuvenation particularly because I learnt so much, and the way the information is presented and explained sets it above other books in this genre. From The Regenerative Power of Conscious Exercise and Sexuality, to Unlocking the Secret Spring of the Endocrine System, to the Essentials of Healthy Blood, Herbal Formulas and Proper Rest, author Angelo Druda has his finger on the pulse of how to survive in today’s fast-paced world.
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Eros Ascending
British playwright, composer, actor, author, lecturer, and musician John Maxwell Taylor is perhaps best known in America for his portrayal of Carl Jung in his award-winning one-man play Forever Jung. Other influences keenly felt through this outstanding book are from Russian mystic and philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff, Paramhansa Yogananda and Taoist master Mantak Chia. In Eros Ascending, Taylor presents a study of sexual dysfunction in society and explains how healthy sexuality can be an entryway to universal love and higher consciousness.
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Postcards from Heaven
Nearly all of us either have had or have heard of an experience in which a soul already departed reaches back to those of us who have been left behind…Sometimes, it’s no more than a whisper, a familiar smell in the air, or just the feeling of presence as vivid as when the loved one was still alive.
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Drug Repair That Works
Author and ex-drug addict Jost Sauer, says that from his extensive drug experiences as well as his many years working with people struggling with drug dependence, he has become aware of the limitations of the current approach to drug issues, the inadequacy of many rehabilitation methods, and why so many people continue to ‘fall off the wagon”.
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So you think Medicine is Modern?
Virginia, from the Commonwealth University (US) states “We believe that life science research is initiating a progression of development that begins with traditional reductive science and ends with the not yet completely defined science applying the principles of complexity”.
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The Return of the Prophet
The Return of the Prophet, written by Hajjar Gibran (great cousin of Kahil Gilbran author of the acclaimed masterpiece The Prophet), is based on Hajjar’s real-life experiences. The book is a collection of inspiring words that are spoken to Hajjar by Kahlil in a series of visions.
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Scattered – the inside story of Ice in Australia
At the beginning of Scattered, the author Malcolm Knox assures us that the use of Ice or crystal
methamphetamine in Australia is on the decline and that the majority of ice users are using it
within safe limits.
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The Mayan Prophecies for 2012
This gorgeous, pocket-sized, hardback book documents the author Benedict’s in-depth study into
the Mayan prophecies, with a particular focus on the Long Count Calendar’s end date in 2012.
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Kids! Indigo Children & Cheeky Monkeys
Don’t let the name fool you on this one, as a lot of the material within this book can also be applied to adults. However, the intention of the writers has been to provide an in-depth profile of five different personality archetypes which can help parents, carers, health care professionals and teachers to bring out the best in children.
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Whats happening to our girls?
What is really going on is certainly covered by Maggie in this truthful, revealing, in-depth look into the lives of girls in Australia - from birth to their teenage years.
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A Soft Place to Land
A Soft Place to Land is a collection of very short and succinct tips on essentially - making your life easier and more enjoyable. I would describe each ‘piece’ as a life lesson.
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Animal Dreaming
This is the revised and expanded version of the original first published in 2003, and it really is a great item to have on your bookshelf. In it you will find a comprehensive list of Australasian animals, with the spiritual and symbolic language for each.
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Better - A surgeon's notes on performance
Atul Gawande is a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, and a frequent contributor to The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Beyond the Emotional Roller Coaster
The vision that Anthony Salerno has for this book is to help ”you heal and transform the things in your life that are holding you back so that you can make a quantum leap to a new level of living and experience the peace, joy and love that you seek”.
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Soul Mate or Soul Inmate
Firstly, don’t be misled by the title of this book .’Soul Mate or Soul Inmate is a really in depth look at our ‘selves’ from an energetic level.
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Permission to Dance
Not to be entered
into lightly, Permission to Dance is a very real and valuable
opportunity for us to really face who we are, to really look inside
rather than just peek.
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The Wellness Zone
The Wellness Zone is an absolutely jam-packed, comprehensive ‘bible’ of
information, a fantastic resource book. The writer, Dominique
Finney, is a well-recognised Australian natural therapist who is
passionate about herbs and wellbeing achieved through natural means.
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The Structure of Energy Healing
Kay Urlich, the
author of The Structure of Energy Healing, was diagnosed with
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 16 years ago.
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Turn Over a New Leaf
I saw this book and just fell in love with
it. Finally, a cookery book that seems interesting when you pick it
up – that tells you what you need to buy each week, how to store the
food you buy, and has recipes that don’t require you to weigh
everything!
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It could be allergy and it can be cured
Phillip Alexander has over twenty years
experience in helping people who suffer from allergies and currently
runs a very successful clinic in Dee Why, Sydney.
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Chi-Reflexology - Guidelines for the middle way
Moss Arnold, BA, Dip Ed, Dip FR, Dip OM, Dip
TCM, Natural Therapist and Reflexologist, has been an educator
for over 20yrs and a therapist for more than 10yrs.
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