Who is Katie Holmes we all wondered when she defied all odds and stealthy left her older, richer more powerful Hollywood husband with her celebrity daughter in tow arriving in New York City to welcome arms, and a starring role on Broadway.  Where did she get that independent streak?  How did we under-estimate her?   Who is Katie Holmes? fills in the blanks.  It tells the classic Hollywood story of small town girl who comes to tinsel town, ultimately ...

MalleeCountry tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people acrosssouthern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managedby Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramaticallytransformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening andburning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemesdevastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive thedroughts, dust storms, mice, lo...

The incredible untold stories of the British women who broke the rules and pioneered female running todayDid you know that until April 1975 women in the UK were banned from marathons and all races longer than four miles? Back in the 1960s, women started to break the rules and 'crash' men's road races, challenging discrimination and showing that they were perfectly capable of running marathons – or even further.Sports historian Katie Holmes shares the untold...

Discover Your Path to Vibrant Health and Longevity with Aim for WellbeingIn this beautifully illustrated and easy to read book, Drs. Steve and Sandi Amoils, respected pioneers in integrative and functional medicine, draw on decades of experience to provide a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to overcoming common health challenges and achieving optimum wellbeing.Aimed at being your lifelong companion, Aim for Wellbeing is n...

This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific background. Exploring ethical theory, environmental ethics, science and the environmental movement, Ea...

From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter one's feelings about a particular dish, they are hardly ever neutral.In MY FIRST POPSICLE, Zosia Mamet has curate...

With an incredible list of celebrated contributors including DAVID SEDARIS, NAOMI FRY, PATTI SMITH, SIAN CLIFFORD and JIA TOLENTINO, My First Popsicle revels in the delights of food in all its forms. Edited by ZOSIA MAMET - Shoshanna in Girls - this is a riotous, mouth-watering celebration of jelly, mac and cheese, donuts, the best sandwich in the entire world - and much more.Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of me...

The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (18872008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents - and it is vividly relevant to today, when the rights of people with disabilities are the subject of a royal commission.Those with an intellectual disability were historically the most vulnerable in our society and the least protected. Governments continually failed them by underdelivering on ambitious promises of reform. Failed Ambitions trac...

From 2011 to 2014, the Australian Generations Oral History Project recorded 300 interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989. The contributions to this book, a result of this project, reflect on the practice of oral history and how interviews can illuminate Australian social and cultural history.Three of the chapters consider oral history innovations: focusing on the potential for oral history in a digital age, the pioneering technologies that underpinned Australian Gener...

AN AUDIBLE 'BEST OF THE YEAR' SELECTIONThis is a neglected history. No attempt at a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular, told by Annabelle Hirsch through her selection of 101 objects, and now brought thrillingly alive for you by a chorus of 101 remarkable women in this ground-breaking audio release.Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you’ll discover objects that have been highly estee...

This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people’s perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In turn, the insights of environmental history challenge oral historians to think more critically about the ways an active, more-than-human world shapes experiences and people. The integration of these approaches enables us to more fully and...

When the statue of the town founder, Zachariah Mason is unveiled, and he is found with hsi head chopped off, Jesse Skylock Holmes is on the case. He gets help from his two best friends, Austin MacGreggor and Poe Jones. They have competition searching for the head by two popular girsl in school, Daytona Drew and Laura Ricci. In the boys search for the head, the boys discover something more shocking: a hundred year old dead body. The body is hiding two secrects: one, the town wants to keep h...