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Finnish Lessons 2.0What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, Second Edition by Pasi Sahlberg
Category: Reference | Series: Series on School Reform
The first Edition of Finnish Lessons won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2013. It was featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, CNNEducation Week, The Huffington Post, and Dan Rather Reports, and has been translated into 16 language ...Show more
On Disruption by Katharine Murphy
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty. On Disruption is a report from the coalface of that change: what has happened, will it keep happening, and is there any way out of the cha ...Show more
On Doubt by Leigh Sales
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Her classic personal essay carries a message of truth, scrutiny and accountability--a much-needed'pocket-sized antidote to fake news. Donald Trump, the post-truth world and the instability of Australian politics are all examined ?in this fresh take on her prescient essay on the media and political tren ...Show more
On Father (On Series) by John Birmingham
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the dark forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland. A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has experienced and survived deep gr ...Show more
On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
Category: No Category | Series: On ... Series | Reading Level: near fine
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar ...Show more
On Identity by Stan Grant
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately ho ...Show more
On Lust & Longing by Blanche d'Alpuget
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
On Lust and On Longing together for the first time. When On Lust was first published it caused a media sensation: Blanche d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society who had molested children and of events that ended in mystery. Now she reveals all. On Longing caused a similar sensation, for different reason ...Show more
On Mother by Sarah Ferguson
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
A mother's love over decades and across continents. The sudden death of Sarah's mother reveals their relationship with poignant clarity and shows her the individual who existed beyond motherhood. A reflection on mothers and daughters.
On Mutiny by David Speers
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Why was Malcolm Turnbull removed and how did Scott Morrison emerge as Australia's thirtieth prime minister? On Mutinyis the inside story, a blow-by-blow expose of the plotting, double dealing and numbers game by politicians in the most brutal period in Australian politics since the Dismissal. If we real ...Show more
On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
International bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today's shouty world.Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times.Quietism means 'devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will ... a calm acceptance of things as they are'. Gemmell makes the case for why quiet is st ...Show more
On Violence by Natasha Stott Despoja
Category: No Category | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Why is violence against women endemic, and how do we stop it?Every two minutes, police are called to a family violence matter. Every week, a woman is killed by a current or former partner.This is Australia's national emergency.Violence against women is preventable. It is not an inevitable part of the hu ...Show more
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices by Deb A. Dana
Category: Reference | Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology Ser.
A polyvagal approach to therapy is based on the knowledge that the autonomic nervous system is shaped by early experience and reshaped with ongoing experience, that habitual response patterns can be interrupted, and that new patterns can be created. Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theo ...Show more