We always tend to focus on Gallipoli as an Anzac story but it was a battle involving seven countries, all of which suffered in the hell of the 1915 campaign. This new book takes a fresh approach to telling the…
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Raising Stress-Proof Kids
This is a must-read parenting guide by Australian author, teacher and expert in restorative practice, Shelley Davidow. Her award-winning books deal with a wide range of social issues. This book explains the importance of minimising stress for our children and gives…
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I Just Get So … Angry!
Giving teens tools to deal with anger: This is an amazing little graphic novel written to help teenagers combat anger and build resilience. The author and the illustrator are a husband and wife team and are both trained school counsellors…
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Mindful Learning
In these busy times we have a tendency to do things with a lot of thought, often resulting in a lack of connection and a lack of interest. Clinical psychologist Dr Richard Chambers and Dr Craig Hassed understand that “mindfulness”…
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The Happiness Trap Pocketbook
A few years back, Dr Russ Harris came up with the novel concept of the happiness trap and told us all how to avoid it. This little book is a pretty much the same concept but all compacted and now…
Sniffing out dog facts
Every Dog Has Its Day: A Thousand things You Didn’t Know About Man’s Best Friend, by Max Cryer (Exisle Publishing, RRP $30): After penning books on everything from proverbs to music, Max Cryer has now turned his attention to man’s…
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Stop the Train! I Want to Get On!
Nostalgia keeps on track: As a boy in the railway town of Te Kuiti, Graham Hutchins spent many hours watching the trains thundering through the town, fascinated by the machines. There’s something special about train travel and train enthusiasts then…
Healthy eating begins, as it always did, with real food
Optimum Health the Paleo Way, by Claire Yates (Exisle Publishing, RRP $40): It seems every week there is some new fad diet promising to fight flab in some miraculous way, but the so-called paleo diet is proof that there is…
Book promises to put end to itch
The Eczema Diet, by Karen Fischer (Exisle Publishing, RRP $35): Aussie nutritionist and award-winning author Karen Fischer has drawn on her experience of being the mum of a child with eczema to produce a book that promises to change the…
Advice from skin care to intuition
Self-help books available now include: Emotional First Aid, by Dr Guy Winch (Exisle Publishing, RRP $30): We have methods of treatment for all our physical injuries but most of us have no idea how to treat day-to-day emotional injuries such…