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See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill

$32.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. 'You must get so frustrated when you think a woman's ready to leave and then she decides to go back,? I say. 'No,' replies one phone counsellor, pointedly. 'I'm frustrated that even though he promised to stop, he chose to abuse her again.' Women are abused or killed by their partners at astonishing rates- in Australia, almost 17 per cent of women over the age of fifteen - one in six - have been abused by an intimate partner. In this confronting and deeply researched account, journalist Jess Hill uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest - and most intimate - ways imaginable. She asks- What do we know about perpetrators? Why is it so hard to leave? What does successful intervention look like? What emerges is not only a searing investigation of the violence so many women experience, but a dissection of how that violence can be enabled and reinforced by the judicial system we trust to protect us. Combining exhaustive research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do dismantles the flawed logic of victim-blaming and challenges everything you thought you knew about domestic and family violence. ...Show more

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Fair Play: A Win-Win Solution for Women with Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky

$32.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women. Eve Rodsky is changing society one marriage at a time with a twenty -first-century solution to an age-old problem: women shouldering the brunt of domestic responsibilities, regardless of whether they work outside the home. The unequal emotional labor and "invisible work" in marriage is a hot-button issue, but no one has offered a real solution to this dilemma, until now. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually is and how to get it done efficiently. The resulting time- and sanity-saving system offers a completely original lexicon that identifies the 100 main tasks in any marriage and then divides those tasks fairly (not necessarily equally!). Fair Play allows couples to renegotiate all of the work it takes to run a home--and empowers them to reimagine their relationship, time, and purpose. With four easy-to-follow rules and a figurative card game played with your partner, winning means rebalancing your home life and reclaiming your Unicorn Space--as in, the space to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Let's deal you in. ...Show more

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How to Have Feminist Sex by Flo Perry

$26.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

We talk about feminism in the workplace and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but women's own patriarchal conditioning can be the hardest enemy to defeat. When it comes to our sex lives, few of us are free of niggling fears and body image insecurities. Rather than enjoying and exploring our bodies unin hibited, we worry about our bikini lines, bulging tummies and whether we're doing it 'right'. Flo broaches everything from faking it to consent, stress to kink, and how losing your virginity isn't so different to eating your first chocolate croissant. Her mission is to get more people talking openly about what they do and don't want from every romantic encounter. ...Show more

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The New Manhood by Steve Biddulph

$27.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

THE NEW MANHOOD by Australia's world renowned family activist, Steve Biddulph, is the most influential book written for generations on the lives of men. For 20 years Steve Biddulph's groundbreaking MANHOOD and the revised edition, tHE NEW MANHOOD,have had a remarkable impact around the world. thousands of men have reconciled with their fathers, become closer to their children, improved their marriages or made sweeping changes to their lives. Women love the book for giving them a deeper understanding of their husbands and sons. Steve explores the elements of a man's life that often cause unhappiness, emptiness or frustration. Love, sex, marriage, raising children, friendship, spirituality and finding your true work are amongst many subjects dealt with in an honest and uplifting way. this is a handbook for men of all ages, and for the women who love them. ...Show more

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Diary of A Crap Housewife by Jessica Rowe

$29.99 AUD

Category: Relationships | Reading Level: 3 Biography

Why not cut the crap, take the pressure off and admit to the moments, days, weeks and months when the wheels of the household do fall off?

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Love by Leo F. Buscaglia

$19.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

This book is about love. What it is and what it isn't. It is about you--and about everybody who has ever reached out to touch the heart of another. Among many other lessons of the heart, Leo Buscaglia reminds us: Love is open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holdin g only yourself.@@@@From the Paperback edition.@ ...Show more

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Love, Sex and Marriage: Relationship Tips from the Victorians

$14.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

A little theatrical feigning of a headache may induce in one's spouse the most agreeable keenness to be wantonly pleasured.' Good heavens! Beneath the surface, the Victorians were a rather saucy society. This little book gathers together some of their full-frontal frankness in matters romantic, marital and sexual. Prepare to have your eyebrows raised and your ribs tickled by this extraordinary and unashamed advice. SELLING POINTS: • Will appeal to those who enjoyed the bestselling Sex Tips for Husbands and Wives from 1894 (ISBN: 9781849539760), • The perfect gift for anyone who enjoys a cheeky and irreverent take on history. ...Show more

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Belong - Find Your People, Create Your Community, and Live a More Connected Life by Radha Agrawal

$42.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

It's the great paradox of the digital age, what Radha Agrawal calls "community confusion"--the internet connects us to hundreds, thousands, even millions of people, and yet we feel more isolated than ever, with 1 in 4 Americans saying they have zero friends to confide in. Where are our people? The answe r is found in Belong, a highly energetic and beautifully illustrated guide to discovering where and with whom you fit. After suffering her own bout of community confusion, Agrawal embarked on a journey that ultimately resulted in cofounding Daybreaker, a transformative phenomenon where thousands of people get up at the crack of dawn, meet in event spaces in 22 cities around the world, and dance. Now she's distilled her experience for finding meaningful connections into a two-step process. The first step is GOING IN. This includes determining what we want in a friend and community and what we offer, becoming intentional about our relationships, gauging the type of energy we emit and respond to, and understanding how we do--or don't--show up for others. Then comes GOING OUT--how to find a few special friends who feed our soul; or how to find a fully engaged group with similar business, artistic, and social aims; or both. Connectedness is the most significant factor in human happiness-- Belong is a creative blueprint for bringing this most important dimension back into our lives. ...Show more

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Expectation by Anna Hope

$29.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

A fierce emotional contemporary novel about what it takes to lead a meaningful life. Cate, Hannah and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, desire and revelry - and the promise of everything to come. T hey are electric. They are the best of friends. Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question- what does it take to lead a meaningful life? This is a story of the highs and lows of friendship - how it can dip, dive and rise again. It is also about muddling through- as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel. Most of all, it explores that liminal space between expectation and reality, the place - full of terrible pain and wondrous joy - in which we all live our lives. ...Show more

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Happily Ever Parted by Bronwyn Marquardt

$19.95 AUD

Category: Relationships

Your marriage has just broken up and you feel as though you

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I Do! by Jenny Clements

$19.95 AUD

Category: Relationships

I Do! Follows the hugely successful format of Good Luck! featuring inspiring text matched with highly evocative black and white images. A perfect gift for any couple either recently engaged or about to walk down the aisle. Both poignant and amusing, the images show the myriad of emotions that couples ex perience around the world everyday. ...Show more

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Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse: Cultivating the Relationships We Need to Thrive by Carolyn Baker

$24.99 AUD

Category: Relationships

Given the daunting, dire predicament in which we find ourselves on this planet, what is described by social critic James Howard Kunstler as a "Long Emergency" may in fact become a "Last Emergency" for humanity. Whether we encounter a "long" or a "last" emergency, Carolyn Baker seeks to offer inspiration and guidance for inhabiting our remaining days with passion, vitality, empathy, intimate contact with our emotions, kindness in our relationships with all species, gratitude, open-hearted receptivity, exquisite creations of beauty, and utilizing every occasion, even our demise, as an opportunity to invoke and "inflict" joy in our world. Love in the Age of Ecological Apolcalypse addresses an array of relationships in the Last Emergency and how one's relationship with oneself may enrich or impede interactions with all other beings. Drawing upon her deep experience as a life coach, Baker writes of the specific need to understand our key relationships in a society in collapse, and how to navigate through differing levels of acceptance of collapse, trauma, and grief. Key relationships include those with our partners, children, friends, neighbors, as well as relationships with our work, our bodies, our natural resources, food and eating, animals, future generations, Eros, and indeed, the powers of the universe. Baker's writing is engaging, inspiring, and often beautiful in its depth and candor. She introduces a variety of spiritual practices facilitate our developing a relationship with the deeper Self. With these practices and giving and receiving support from others who are walking a similar path, we begin to live more frequently from the deeper Self, or at least are able to access it more quickly when we find ourselves becoming embroiled in the ego. Table Of Contents - Introduction - Chapter 1: Living, Loving, and Preparing With A Reluctant Partner - Chapter 2: Children And Collapse - Chapter 3: Friends, Neighbors, and The Community - Chapter 4: Work and The Creative Soul - Chapter 5: Our Relationship With Resources - Chapter 6: Loving The Body As The World Falls Apart - Chapter 7: Our Relationship With Food: Mindful Eating As A Spiritual Practice - Chapter 8: Loving The Time Of Your Life - Chapter 9: What An Animal You Are! - Chapter 10: Darkness Matters - Chapter 11: Ensconsed In Eros, Bathed In Beauty - Chapter 12: Our Relationship With The Powers of The Universe - Chapter 13: Near-Term Extinction And Waking Up To Death - Chapter 14: Empire, I Wish I Knew How To Quit You - Chapter 15: Grief And Love In A Culture Of Congestive Heart Failure - Chapter 16: Our Relationship With Future Generations ...Show more

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