This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the institutions and processes shaping work, labour markets and industrial relations policies in Australia.It explores traditional industrial relations issues and examines social change and policy failures in areas such as gender, work and family dynamics, skills and immigration and wage theft. Additionally, it considers how pandemics, climate change, technological advances and new business structures impact policy change. Addressing t...

Not sure how the Bible fits together? Abraham and Moses? The Exodus and the Exile? Confused over kings and prophets? Old Testament, New Testament? We'll start at zero, and assume nothing.We're running through the Bible in only 42 pages, and we won't be travelling alone. There's a red cord running with us, starting in Genesis where we begin our journey, through to Revelation at the end.The red cord binds the Bible together. It's God's rescue plan for the people he created, giv...

The extraordinary and revealing story of the Australian bank that took on the world, and the culture that lies behind its entrepreneurial approach.Finalist in the General Business Book of the Year category of the 2023 Australian Business Book AwardsMacquarie is everywhere. As an investment bank, a commodities player and an international leader in infrastructure fund management, Macquarie has inserted itself into your life somehow, no matter...

This book for all ages is a great choice for young readers, as well as for families, Sunday school teachers, and anyone who wants to read John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in a clear form.All the old favourites are here: Christian, Christiana, the Wicket Gate, Interpreter, Hill Difficulty with the lions, the four sisters at the House Beautiful, Vanity Fair, Giant Despair, Faithful and Talkative – and, of course, Greatheart. The list is almost endless.The first part of the stor...

Last night you dreamt you were falling down a hole. Down and down. Now you've woken up with a jump, and the room seems strange. Very strange. It's not only bright daylight, but you can hear people shouting and talking outside the window. And it's not even your window. Your window has curtains, not the wooden shutters that are now wide open. You don't know where you are, but you're definitely not in your own house! Ahead of you are pages and pages of adventure and puzzles. You don't have to...

In the last few years a new paradigm has emerged in couples relationships. One that is radically different from earlier heights to which we all aspired. This new Conscious approach represents a shift in how we can fulfill and sustain the aspirations we started our relationship with. For this offers a level of intimacy, harmony, healing, and personal and spiritual growth that is far beyond what people have come to expect after years of being together. Yet represents more closely the archety...

There is one command of Jesus at which many people draw the line. That particular command surely is going to extremes. It's unnecessary. "I can go so far, but not there." And this is where the line is drawn between being a believer in Christianity – in the teachings of Jesus – and actually being a Christian.What is this command, this line in the sand that many refuse to cross — or perhaps don't think they need to cross? Why bother to cross any line? It doesn't matter what you believ...

There is a new orientation and consciousness that is emerging around sexual lovemaking. It is one that offers a richer, more intimate and fulfilling experience of lovemaking than most couples have become accustomed to in their sex life. This process teaches man and woman how to make love together innocently, intimately, meaningfully, wondrously.Couples find this orientation expands into realms of pleasure and fulfillment that are beyond sexual “turn ons” and an erotic sexual releas...

Janika knows that she and Toby can't afford to keep her office above the Button Up Coffee Shop and pay the mortgage for their new house. Her main assignment is to discover what's behind a cellar door, following a plea from the joint owner. Unfortunately, it has a high security lock, and it's vital for her client's safety that she leaves no sign of entry behind. This assignment involves much planning and possible danger.As if that isn't enough to keep her busy, Janika has a...

25 Bible meditations based on Scripture verses and teaching nuggets from John Stott, with commentary and prayers from Christopher Wright.Accessible and bite-sized, fresh and exciting, each meditation deepens our appreciation of the timeless spiritual truths of Advent and Christmas.Introduction: The God who comes and comes - and comes againWeek 1 The God who comes in Scripture's story1 God comes rejoicing in creation2 God comes question...

Lots of people would like to know that they are going to Heaven when they die, and all they can do is hope for the best. Hope that somehow they've been good enough. Why? Don't they don't know that entry is free? "Free?" someone says. "Surely not. Only good people go to Heaven, and I've been working hard for a place! I thought we have to deserve our entry. Don't we?"

Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology approaches the question of method through conceptualisations of the visual world as light, sight, images and technologies of imaging that can be analysed and described through a range of visual practices in the course of anthropological research.The aim of the book is to move beyond making a case for the importance of “the visual” via its notional arrangement as a subject and means of study in anth...