Seal: 48 books
Great Australian Stories
Legends, yarns and tall tales
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters...
The Savage Shore
Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks,...
Backyard Medicine
Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
With this “wonderful book all herbalists need,” you can learn to make your own teas, tinctures, poultices, and more (David Hoffmann, BSc FNIMH).
Modern medicine is truly a blessing. Advances are made with astonishing speed every day, using both science and technology to make our lives longer...
Dog's Eye and Dead Horse
The Complete Guide to Australian Rhyming Slang
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
A comprehensive collection of Australian rhyming slang, in all its fascinating (and bawdy) glory. It's much more fun to say 'What's the John Dory?' instead of 'What's the story?' and 'Give me a Captain Cook' instead of 'Give me a look', and wonderfully cheeky to remark 'Who made the apple tart?' instead...
Resilience
Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
New York Times bestseller
Author of The Heart and the Fist
“Eric Greitens provides a brilliant and brave course of action to help navigate life’s roughest waters.” —Admiral Mike Mullen, seventeenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
In 2012, Eric Greitens unexpectedly...
Meander
East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The Meander is a river so famously winding that its name has long since come to signify the frustrations and the virtues of the indirect approach; an approach that the author makes use of while traveling the length of the river alone and by kayak.
Jeremy Seal, a natural raconteur, takes readers...
These Few Lines - A Convict Romance
The Lost Lives of Myra and William Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A historical detective story for lovers of Colonial Australian history. With deftness and superb storytelling Graham Seal uses his own scholarly research, the fragments of letters, diary and journal entries left by Myra and William Sykes to give his readers an insight into an early Australian convict...
by Auburn Seal
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Catherine is forced to choose between her own happiness and that of her closest friends.
Church & Stage
Producing Theater for Education, Praxis, Outreach and Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Church and Stage is a guide for people in churches who want to employ theater in ministry, and for theater people who want to create opportunities to work in churches. The points of contact between religion and theater are numerous, and Dean J. Seal offers guidelines for making the connection work...
Great Australian Urban Myths
Revised Edition The Cane Toad High
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
We like to think that we live in an age of reason and rationality, that uncertainty and the unknown have largely been eliminated by technology and science. But it seems that we have nagging doubts. Continually, we tell each other odd tales about ankle slashers and hairy-armed women in the shopping...
Convergence
A Novel of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Tomas Companion is a smart guy with a mediocre life. Hes had numerous opportunities to improve his station but they just have not panned out. His fate takes a tumble for the worse when a series of fateful encounters leaves him at the gate of involuntary retirement and sorely short of income. And then...
Backyard Medicine for All
A Guide to Home-Grown Herbal Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Fifty plants that can help treat common ailments.
Among the plants growing abundantly on the roadsides we pass every day, many have medicinal uses that were once highly valued—but have been forgotten by much of the modern world with the rise of commercial medicine.
Backyard Medicine...
The Warrior's Heart
Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
In this adaptation of his best-selling book, The Heart and the Fist, Eric speaks directly to teen readers, interweaving memoir and intimate second-person narratives that ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of himself and others. Readers will share in Eric’s evolution from average kid to...
Raising The Bar
The Life and Work of Gerald D. Hines
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Gerald D. Hines stands at the top of the international real estate investment and development world. A Purdue graduate with a degree in engineering, Hines may have arrived in Houston in 1948 for a nine-to-five job at a heating and air conditioning company, but before long he was making the deals that...