*"With laser-like precision, Graham fuses together our collective cultural memory and experience as he captivatingly describes "the contract" so many of us sign. A tacit agreement to don the cloak of cultural invisibility in exchange for the basement keys to the palace." -*Dr. Joy A. DeGruy, author of Post Traumatic Slave SyndromeWritten to speak for those who've been without a voice throughout their professional career, Plantation Theory: The ...

Norman Wisdom stars in this light-hearted comedy crime caperBritish comedy legend, Norman Wisdom plays small-time crook Norman Hood who’s just been released from prison for burglary. Hoping to make a new life as an honest man, he is entrusted to widow Natalie Matthews (Moira Lister), who offers him a job and accommodation. However, she has an ulterior motive…Follow the farcical misadventures of Norman, played out with a hug...

The Parts Within Us offers a gentle, accessible introduction to the idea that we all carry different parts within us - parts that protect, criticise, avoid, achieve, numb, fear, hope and long to be understood.Drawing on an IFS-informed approach, John Graham explores how these parts can develop through life experience and how they may continue trying to protect us long after the original danger has passed. Rather than seeing difficult thoughts, feelings or behaviour...

February, 2009, in the midst of Australia’s worst ever bushfire disaster, Jan Graham asked the question: “What can I do to help?” She had no idea that this question would lead her and her husband, John, into three years of intense relief work, helping survivors of the Black Saturday Fires.This is not another bushfire story, though that is the setting. This is a story about how a local church and community responded in the face of crisis, and it asks the question, are there still fi...

Originally published in 1976, this book discusses the management skills needed to evaluate, implement and control computer-based operation. Every chapter contains detailed check lists which guide the reader to formulate policies to deal with real situations. It provides a practical look at an indispensable tool of management, with a set of guidelines to help get the most out of the available technology.

We are seeing across our nation and around the world an increasing struggle for true believers to experience and express the liberty of their faith in God. Governments are rapidly removing symbols of Christianity, standards of Righteousness and Spiritual Freedoms. The days are truly evil. Therefore, Pastor Graham has taken an old story about a deck of cards used as a Biblical Study Guide to encourage the learning of Biblical truths. He illustrates the cards of either suit within the deck w...

Learning to Sit Beside is a reflective exploration of recovery, counselling, psychotherapy and the gradual process of learning how to be with another person's pain without trying to fix, rescue or control it.Drawing on lived experience, professional training and years of therapeutic work, John Graham reflects on what it means to become a therapist while remaining fully human. The book explores the lessons that emerge through recovery, counselling practice, supervis...

Far beyond Human space, a massive alien vessel appears, its systems badly damaged and its crew slaughtered in a mysterious ambush in the depths of the void. The emaciated survivors can only identify their attackers by one word: voidstalker.A year has passed since the events of Voidstalker, and Gabriel cannot forgive the DNI for its role in those events…or forget what he saw. Unknown to him, his enigmatic superiors in the DNI are pressing ahead with plans for his family long in the ...

The Relationships We Repeat explores why we can find ourselves drawn into familiar relationship patterns, even when those patterns repeatedly leave us hurt, disappointed or alone.Drawing on attachment theory, addiction psychology, lived experience and therapeutic reflection, John Graham looks at the ways early relationships can shape what we come to expect from love, closeness, rejection and emotional safety. The book considers why some people fear abandonment, why others ...

Ian McKnight thought he had left the horrors of war behind when he returned from the trenches of World War I. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Madeline Shaw, a brilliant cryptologist from Bletchley Park, arrives at his doorstep with a set of ancient parchments too compelling to dismiss. As a medieval scholar and linguistics expert, McKnight soon discovers that he alone holds the key to unlocking the secrets hidden within the 700-year-old texts. What begins as an intriguing acad...

Why We Escape explores addiction not simply as a problem of substances or behaviour, but as an attempt to find relief from emotional pain, shame, trauma and inner distress.Drawing on psychology, recovery and lived experience, John Graham looks beneath alcohol, drugs and compulsive behaviours to the deeper needs and patterns that can sit underneath them. The book considers why people return again and again to things that may ultimately harm them, especially when tho...

An accessible, comprehensive handbook to achieving change in any environment, featuring time-tested methods and practical tips from real activists.As President of the Giraffe Heroes Project, which since 1982 has been recognizing people who "stick their necks out for the common good," John Graham has seen what hundreds of average citizens around the world have done to bring about constructive change. He's drawn on their experiences, his own as a veteran environmental...