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Acknowledging that different people need different paths to God, the author explores a wide range of ways in which the spiritual life can be enhanced and the soul nourished.
The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush. Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste: ‘sludge’. Sludge submerged Victoria’s best grapevines near Bendigo, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir on the Loddon River and flowed down from Beechworth over thousands of hectares of rich agricultural land. Children and animals drowned in sludge lakes. Mining effluent contaminated three-quarters of Victoria’s creeks and rivers. Sludge is th...
THE COUNTRY CHILD by ALISON UTTLEY - Originally published in 1931. CONTENTS I . DARK WOOD . . I1 . WINDYSTONHEA LL . I11 . IDOLS . . . . IV . SCHOO . L . . . V . SERVING-MEN . . V1 . THE CIRCU . S . . V11 . THE SECRE . T . . V111 . TREES . . . . IX . LANTERNLI GHT . . X . MOONLIGH . T . . XI . DECEMBER . . . XI1 . CHRISTMADSA Y . . XI11 . JANUARY . . . XIV . THE EASTERE GG . XV . SPRING . . . . XVI . THE THREE CHAMBERS XVII. THE GARDEN . . XVIII . THE OATCAKME AN . XIX . MOWING-TIME . . XX . THE HARVEST . . XXI . THE WAKE . S . . vii THE COUNTRY CHILD DARK WOOD THE DARK WOOD WAS GREEN AND gold, green where the oak trees stood crowded together with misshapen twisted trunks, red-gold where the...
Between principle and practice : human rights in north-south relations / David Gillies.
Max Crawford was one of Australia's pre-eminent historians. As both a participant in and observer of many decisive episodes of the era; Europe in the midst of the Depression, America and Russia at the height of World War II, post-war reconstruction and the Cold War in Australia, Crawford was regarded as a radicalandsbquo; and outspoken defender of intellectual autonomy. This biography considers Crawford as an historian and a public intellectual. It relates his experiences as a student at Sydney and Oxford, a struggling teacher during the Depression, as the head of the History School at the University of Melbourne, a diplomat in wartime Russia, and a Cold War victim and accuser. The study of ...
When Detective Chief Inspector Sheila Whiteman was called to investigate the mysterious death of the world renowned concert pianist Simon McCann at his penthouse apartment in Birmingham she was not convinced it was a case of suicide the scene portrayed. As the investigation progressed, she became more convinced there was a connection with the death of Simon McCann and some unpublished works by the Polish composer Frederic Chopin discovered by electricians when carrying out refurbishment works at a house in Paris some two years previously. Eventually teaming up with Catherine McKenzie, the BBC Arts and Entertainments editor Sheila discovers the final piece of the jigsaw at The Holy Cross church in Warsaw. Returning to England the words inscribed on the plinth underneath the Chopin memorial at Lazienki Park kept running through her mind. They somehow seemed to provide more understanding than she’d ever been able to uncover in all her investigations put together. Fire will bite through painted history Treasures will be stolen by armed thieves Only a song will remain
Coming right up - a fourth rollicking round of Whiskey Mattimoe! Summer brings some new and familiar faces to her quirky Michigan town. There's MacArthur, the hunky Scotsman whose Glasgow real estate experience could make him an excellent agent at Whiskey's office; self-help author and karma expert Fenton Flagg, who's got Whiskey''s libido boiling over; and her ex-husband Jeb Halloran, who can still send chills down Whiskey's spine, when he's not crooning pet lullabies. But steamy romance is impossible amid the shrill cries of Velcro, Whiskey's new teacup-sized shitzapoo pup. Inexplicable sightings of Gill Gruen, the former mayor who drowned last winter, have the town on edge. But the doggy poop really hits the fan when Whiskey's felonious Afghan hound discovers a murder scene on the shore of Lake Michigan. If it wasn''t the riptide that killed Twyla Rendel, Whiskey's high-risk tenant, who did?
Whisky Mattimore and her Afghan hound Abra are attending the prestigious Midwest Afghan Hound Specialty in Amish country. During the show, a prize-winning pooch disappears, an owner is murdered, and a handler turns up dead. When Abra vanishes too and suspicious e-mails start circulating, Whisky knows something doesn't smell right and this time it's not the dogs.