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  • Stories of Remembering and Forgetting

    by Bernard Marin ...
    Remembering and forgetting can be conscious or unconscious acts, which can heal or harm.Bernard Marin’s life has been rich in experience and intriguing characters, and he comes from a tradition where remembering, and perhaps forgetting, can be life-changing. With an eye for detail and a generous heart, Bernard brings you the stories that have moved him, filtered through a lively imagination and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burning Leaves

    by Bernard Marin ...
    Burning Leaves takes us to the heart of the Nazis' murderous assault on European Jewry and the long shadow it has cast since.Through conversations between descendants or relatives of the people caught up in these events, Bernard Marin brings them vividly to life. Some, like Albert Göring, are well-known; others, like the boy longing for freedom on the St Louis, are ordinary. Some events, such as ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • People Who Have Changed The World

    Imagined Interviews

    by Bernard Marin ...
    HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT IT MIGHT BE LIKE TO CHAT WITH SOME OF THE GREATEST PEOPLE EVER?Through the discussion between interviewer and interviewee, Bernard Marin has sought to offer insights into the personalities, passions and foibles of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes.Join Bernard as he ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Breakfast with Paul

    Two Novellas, Two Survivors

    by Bernard Marin ...
    TWO NOVELLAS BY TALENTED AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR BERNARD MARIN ON THE LONG SHADOW CAST BY WAR...BREAKFAST WITH PAUL: WE BEG TO DIFFERTwo old friends meet every Saturday for breakfast. Outwardly, their lives have followed similar paths - both are Jewish, both migrated from Europe after the war - but their childhoods are very different and shaped them in ways they are struggling to understand. Will their ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • My father my father

    by Bernard Marin ...
    Bernard Marin, a successful Jewish accountant, was almost fifty when he was suddenly struck down by crippling headaches. The problem, however, was not just physical. Bernard’s distress was the result of years of denial over his poor relationship with his father, who had died fourteen years before.Stan Marin had told his son nothing of his life; indeed, he had barely seemed to notice his son’s ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letter to my father

    by Bernard Marin ...
    In his own version of Kafka's Letter to Father, Bernard Marin reflects on fatherhood: his own experience as the son of a distant and angry father, and as a loving father himself. Recalling his father's gambling, his anger, his indifference, Bernard is surprised to discover happiness in the time he spent with his father at their nursery, surrounded by plants. Both men were called upon to fight, but ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Had a Dream

    Eyewitnesses to the struggle for justice and equality

    by Bernard Marin ...
    The 1960s was a decade of social and political upheaval that reshaped every facet of American culture, from civil rights, through feminism, to gay liberation and the anti-Vietnam War movement.Bernard Marin takes readers into the heart of this turbulent time in an anthology of historical fiction. Through Bernard's eyes, we join a young journalist who witnesses both the Chicago riot of 1968, and the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Stories of Profit and Loss

    by Bernard Marin ...
    Profit and Loss statements encapsulate much of the joy and pain of life; your accountant probably knows more about you than almost anyone else.Bernard Marin’s life in accounting has introduced him to high flyers and those who might seem perfectly ordinary . . . to anyone else. With an eye for detail and a generous heart, Bernard brings you the stories that have moved him, filtered through a lively ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good as Gold

    A Novel

    by Bernard Marin AM ...
    That night, the night I first met Jim, lightning blazed and thunder cracked and rolled overhead … Dad burst in through the front door, a flashlight in one hand, an Aboriginal boy clasped to his hip with the other. ‘This is Jimmy,’ he said. ‘He’s going to be living here with us now.’ I was watching the boy and saw tears mingle with the rain on his cheeks.It’s the mid 1950s, and racism is rife. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1

    Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability

    by Andrew W. Wood, David V. Calcino, Danielle M. Skocaj, Alan P. Hurney, Peter G. Allsopp, Paul White, Dr Richard Johnson, Prof. Gaspar Korndörfer, Dr Jean-Louis Chopart, M. T. Sall, Dr Louis Jean Claude Autrey, B. Ahondokpe, G. Walter, Dr Jehangir H. Bhadha, Dr R. G. V. Bramley, Dr T. A. Jensen, A. J. Webster, A. J. Robson, Dr Rianto van Antwerpen, Philipus Daniel Riekert van Heerden, Peter Tweddle, Salem Saumtally, Ronald Ng Cheong, Vivian Rivière, Dr Hardev S. Sandhu, Dr Charley Richard, Daniel S. P. Nassif, Leandro G. Costa, Kassio Carvalho, Pedro R. Pereira, Asha Dookun-Saumtally, Dr Kathy Hurly, Richard Nicholson, Carolyn Baker, Michelle Binedell, Vaughan Koopman, Graeme Leslie, Geoff Maher, Scott Pryor, Dr Francis X. Johnson, Manoel Regis Lima Verde Leal, Dr Abraham Singels, Anne Nyambane, Dr Biksham Gujja, U. S. Natarajan, Prof. Norman Uphoff, Prof. Bernard L. Schroeder, Professor Fábio R. Marin, Dr Murilo S. Vianna ...
    Series Book 37 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Provides a comprehensive review of best practice in sugarcane cultivation across the value chain from planting through to post-harvest operationsAssesses alternative uses of sugarcane for bioenergy and other applicationsAssesses the environmental impact of sugarcane cultivation ... Read more

    $215.99 CAD

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    This young readers’ edition tells the remarkable story, largely forgotten until now, of the young Jewish women who became resistance fighters against the Nazis during World War II. It has already been optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture.As their communities were being destroyed, groups of Jewish women and teenage girls across Poland began transforming Jewish youth groups into ... Read more

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  • Women's Experiences in the Holocaust

    In Their Own Words

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    This book brings to light women’s experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why women’s difficulties were different to those of men. Men were taken away and the women were left to cope with children and elderly relatives and obliged to take on new roles. Women like Andrew Sachs' mother had to deal with organising departure for a foreign country and making choices about what to take and what to ... Read more

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