Books published by John Wiley & Sons Australia Lt

In this middle grade graphic novel from the acclaimed animator/cartoonist, Greta and her friend (and pet turtle!) have to solve the mystery of Friendlytown.

If you're like most of us, you spend your whole damn life working for everyone else: the bank, your spouse, or your kids - it's rare that you carve out some time to stop and focus on the vitally important questions. You know, the one's that are critical, but not urgent, like: Why... am I still in this job? Wasn't this supposed to be a stepping-stone? Why do some people seem to be doing better financially than me? Will I end up eating home-brand bangers and watching Family Feud in retirement? Am I on the right path? Together we're going to answer these questions. I'll give you a step-by-step plan that will clear away the cobwebs of doubt and give you clarity and confidence. But to get the most out of it, you need to do your part: sit uninterrupted in an easy chair, with a biro, a cuppa and a Tim Tam or two. To be truly happy you must be in control of your financial life - or lack of money will control you forever. So in this book, I'm going to step out my plan -- a plan that's allowed me to tread my own path, and will allow you to do so too. Over the years I've successfully taught this plan to thousands of people, from elite athletes to single mums on Centrelink. I'm confident it will work the same for you as it did for for them. I understand how busy life is. The average visitor to my website stays for around 2.38 minutes (or so my web geek tells me)... and I'm asking you to spend an afternoon with me?! So at the start of this journey together, I want to honour your commitment, and that's why I'll make this promise to you: You will be able to buy everything you need, while achieving your number one goal: whether that be dumping your debts, radically paying off your dream home, or retiring with dignity. You'll achieve it without using a strict budget, or living like your poor old Aunty Mavis. Above all, I'll give you the freedom to tread your own path. Sounds like bulldust, right? All I ask is that you keep an open mind. Read this book in your comfy chair, enjoy the bik
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This is a YA graphic novel, told from the perspective of a person with a developmental disorder, set in a real village operated by people with special needs.

We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any medals. They just want to get ...fit. Why this modern preoccupation with fitness? In this new book, Jurgen Martschukat traces the roots of our modern preoccupation with fitness back to the birth of modern societies in the eighteenth century, showing how the idea of fitness was interwoven with modernity's emphasis on perpetual optimization and renewal. But it is only in the period since the 1970s, he argues, that the age of fitness truly emerged, as part and parcel of our contemporary neoliberal era. Neoliberalism enjoins individuals to work on themselves, to cultivate themselves in body and mind. Fitness becomes a guiding principle of social life, an era-defining network of discourses and practices that shape individuals' actions and self-conceptions. The pursuit of fitness becomes a cultural repertoire that is deeply engrained in our institutions and way of life. This wide-ranging book shows how deeply fitness is inscribed in modern societies, and how important fitness has become to success or failure, recognition or exclusion, in a society that sets great store by self-responsibility, performance, market and competition. It will be of great value not only to those interested in sport and fitness, but also to anyone concerned with the conditions of success and failure in our societies today.
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What Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social, economic, and environmental benefits. Ronald Colman recounts two decades of working with three governments to adopt measures capable of quantifying factors that GDP overloo...ks.
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