Penny: 1780 books
by Penny Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
Australia’s Wedge-tailed Eagle belongs to the family of eagles, which together span the world. Eagles are powerful predators, with exceptional powers of flight and sight. They may kill to survive, but they also sleep, play, enjoy a bath, make tender parents, and form lasting relationships. This book...
Night Parrot
Australia's Most Elusive Bird
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
For well over a century, the Night Parrot lured its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback. From the beginning it was a mysterious bird. Fewer than 30 specimens were collected before it all but disappeared, offering only fleeting glimpses and the occasional mummified body as proof of its continued...
Weaving the Cradle
Facilitating Groups to Promote Attunement and Bonding between Parents, Their Babies and Toddlers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expectant and new parents by helping them to become more attuned, sensitive and empathic towards their child.
Contributors bring together a range of...
Constructing Girlhood
Popular Magazines For Girls Growing Up In England, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This text explores the contribution of magazines to the social construction of female adolescence during a historical period of rapid change and locates the role of magazines in the lives of contemporary girls. In addressing this theme, the book explores the changing social, economic, political and...
Applied Theatre: Resettlement
Drama, Refugees and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The book offers a compelling combination of analyis and detailed description of aesthetic projects with young refugee arrivals in Australia. In it the authors present a framework that contextualises the intersections of refugee studies, resilience and trauma, and theatre and arts-based practice, setting...
Breaking the Chains
The Crusade of Dorothea Lynde Dix
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Dorothea Dix was almost forty years old when she discovered that people, especially poor people, with mental illness were "confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." Outraged by this knowledge, Dix led a forty-year crusade...
by Penny Lord, Bob Lord
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
As we begin our story of Saint Margaret, we need to add another name that has been used to paint a portrait of this gentle, yet powerful Saint: “Magdalen of the Seraphic Order.” A book could be written around that one title. But then let Jesus speak to you.
by Penny Lord, Bob Lord
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Table of Contents: Heavenly Army of Angels Part II
Angels in the lives of the Saints
Saint Stephen
Saint Peter in Chains
An Angel comes to Saint Paul
Saint Augustine and the Holy Trinity
Saint Patrick and the Angels
Saint Francis and the Seraph Angel
Saint Clare of Assisi
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint...
by Penny Lord, Bob Lord
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
Highlights from this Book:
Origin of the True Cross - from the Garden of EdenMoses and the Bronze Serpent - History of the CrossThe Cross, Past and Present, a Sign of ControversyNo Cross! No Pain! No Sacrifice!Christ on the Cross absorbs the poison meant for a BishopThe Living Cross of LimpiasThe...
by Penny Lord, Bob Lord
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Table of Contents:
Saints and Other Powerful Men in the Church Part II
Biographies of these Catholic Saints:
Saint Augustine
Saint Paul the Apostle
Saint John of the Cross
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education
An Introduction through Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
In this accessible introduction to Vygotskian sociocultural theory, narratives illuminate key concepts of the theory. These key concepts include mediation; Zone of Proximal Development; collaborative dialogue and private speech; everyday and scientific concepts; the interrelatedness of cognition...
Sisters of the Somme
True Stories from a First World War Field Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Following the outbreak WWI, the British Red Cross appealed for volunteers to train as frontline medical staff, and a major volunteer field hospital was built at Etaples in France. Women volunteered for a variety of reasons. Some believed that they were responding to a vocational or religious calling,...
Blitz Hospital
True Stories of Nursing in Wartime London
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
As the German Luftwaffe subjected Britain's major cities and ports to unremitting waves of aerial bombardment, doctors, nurses, and first aiders constantly risked their lives to give urgent treatment to the severely wounded. Over 80,000 casualties were sustained during this period and city hospitals,...
Daily Bread
April–June 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Daily Bread is the Bible reading guide that aims to help you hear from God as you read the Bible. If you've ever asked the question, 'What possible relevance can this verse have for me today?' or 'What difference does this passage make to my life?' then read on...