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|  | | A Foundation for Living Ethically
This book presents a foundation for living an ethical life based on five core human values, and beginning with the simple idea of ethics as consideration of the well-being of others.
i>A Foundation for Living Ethically/i> presents a distinctive approach to ethics for use as a practical companion for living, in personal, social, professional and business contexts. It provides a perspective on the nature of persons that leads to a foundation of five core human values. This is combined with a definition of ethics from Albert Schweitzer, couched in terms of consideration for the well-being of others and the natural world.
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p class="MsoNormal">The book is presented as a series of conversations between two people, in which they dis | |  | | A Modest Quest
The author begins to explore his family history. Initially he just wanted to find out the basic facts about his parents’ brothers and sisters, and his grandparents. Even this turned out to be surprising, and the modest quest was soon stretching deeply into the past.
The book describes the author’s quest to find out about his family’s past. It was intended just to find out the basic facts about his parents’ brothers and sisters, and his grandparents.
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p class="MsoNormal">Growing up, he had thought that all his grandparents had died before he was born. This turned out not to be the case, but it took some serious research and more than two years to bring the facts to light, and by then the lives of the ancestors had pulled him in. The quest was extending far beyond its initially modest aim | |  | | All the Rivers Come Together: Tracing Family
This is a collection of over forty stories drawn from the family history of Glenn Martin. Our family history can be illuminating, even inspiring. At its worst it is still cautionary, and suggests to us how we might steer our own lives better, and that of our own families and communities. The stories span five generations, going back to the early 1800s. There are no famous or wealthy people here, but all of these people did remarkable things in their lives. What shines through is something like the universal spirit of humanity.
Family is the place where we begin, before we even have a concept of what family is. It is the place where our deepest qualities and feelings are first formed, and it is the place (for better or for worse) from which we launch ourselves to live our lives. Our family’s history affects us even if we do not know it. But to know it can be illuminating, even inspiring. Even at its worst it is still cautionary, and suggests to us how we might steer our own lives better, and that of our own families and communities.
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Histories of the world are generally written to either celebrate technology and science, or to herald doom. My book examines the path of the spirit in the onward rush.
The history of humanity is different depending on the point of view you take. Some accounts are excited by the adventure of it – explorations, civilisations, wars, empires, inventions, and the modern age.
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p class="MsoNormal">FUTURE wonders what an inquisitive spiritual perspective would see.o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal">Our history has featured violence, greed and appetite, hierarchical societies and oppression, unregulated economics and unbridled technology. In the face of these themes, what hope is there for the future? Indeed, wil | |  | | Human Values and Ethics in the Workplace
Is it possible in the current business environment to work and lead with integrity and values?
In Human Values and Ethics in the Workplace, Glenn Martin shows how people’s values and behaviour arise out of their beliefs - their world view. He offers a framework of values that enables us to move beyond the legal compliance perspective towards constructive, high-quality relationships, and a sense of worthwhile purpose in work and life.
Glenn also presents a five-dimensional model for human values that explains why cultures around the world have arrived at similar core values. He explores how we can develop the practice of living, working and leading ethically. Rather than being an additional burden on people or organisations, ethics and values are a liberating force, indeed, the very basis for sustainable success.
font size="2" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ethics can be a difficult issue for executives and for employees in business organisations. This was demonstrated with the collapse of major Australian corporations HIH and One.Tel in 2001. It was clear very soon that ethical failings were a major cause of the collapses. Later, we learned about the ethical dilemmas that employees had faced during their employers' descent into oblivion. /font>
font size="2" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">How can workers and managers – those | |  | | Library Meets Book Fair
The author went to a book fair and saw books that he already owned. It resulted in a quest to find such books, and with forty in hand, he began to revisit the books. It took him in many directions, and became a thorough refreshing of his outlook.
The author has a personal library of around four thousand books. It has grown over the years. Living in Sydney now, he goes to book fairs. And he buys books that interest him. Does he come across books that he already owns? Yes! Paying attention to this, over three months he found nearly forty books. Some of them were from a long way back in the past, and he had not thought about them for years. He began to explore what these books meant to him now. This book is the result of that exploration.
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Glenn shares threads of his life in this searching memoir. It includes glimpses into his doomed relationships, his life as a hippie, his experiences as a teacher, manager, magazine editor, head of a national organisation, and his emergence as a writer. He calls it a reflection on experience.
In this account, you could say that Glenn Martin’s life has been unfortunate. His father died when he was sixteen. He nearly lost his leg after a motorcycle accident when he was twenty-three. His relationships were all disastrous. And his attempts at forging a career were haphazard. He spent many years in the bush, being a hippie, and then striving to be a member of the local community. Along the way, he carved out worthy projects in community development.
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p class="MsoNormal">Then, when his work was sabotaged, he turned to university, | |  | | No Gold in Melbourne: A Scottish Family in Australia
The story of a Scottish family (mine) who migrated to Melbourne and whose son was killed in a goldmine shaft. How does that affect a family?
A prominent stream of my ancestors is Scottish, particularly the Mackie family. Scottish people began emigrating as far back as the early 1600s. Many of them went to America, but in 1852 Alexander and Rachel Mackie emigrated to Melbourne, taking with them their five children. Alexander was a skilled tradesman, both a weaver and a stonemason, and Melbourne was about to stir as the hub of the Victorian colony’s gold rush. o:p>/o:p>
p class="MsoNormal">It would have been a cheerful story of increasing prosperity that flowed down through the generations, except for the fact | |  | | Sustenance
After a young man breaks up with his girlfriend, he has an encounter with an old Chinese man who gives him a message about freeing himself from fate. He takes a job working with unemployed youth and has to learn how to relate to them at the same as dealing with a vexing co-worker and a management committee where the self-serving, the brutal, the scheming and the inept often hold sway.
p class="MsoNormal">This story takes place in a country town where a young man is starting a new life after a breakup with his girlfriend in the city. He has taken a job working with unemployed youth. The rough environment of the support service thrusts multiple challenges upon him – how to relate to the young people in their struggle to find a place in the community, his difficult female co-worker, and the dangerous foibles of some of the people on the management committee. o:p>/o:p>
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In our lives there are stories, and there is a big story that frames all the others. Sometimes the big story falls apart. The author retreats from the city to the country, but he returns years later. Is it a new start?
This book is the story of a journey through the disintegration of the “big story”. The big story is the one we live inside of, the one that gives us the certainties and continuities of our lives. The disintegration occurred in Sydney in the late 1960s, amid social and personal turmoil, and led to the narrator's flight to the country. He finds a place to settle, gives up books, begins to garden.
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p class="MsoNormal">Gradually he reclaims the centre, and gradually he re-engages with society, although there is tumult in that too. But | |  | | The Quilt Approach: A Tasmanian Patchwork
This book describes a trip through Tasmania based on the idea that it is a quilt made up of stories. The stories are about the experience of places today, and this is laid against experiences from a trip to Tasmania in 1973, and the newly discovered family history of the author.
What happens when you go back to a place you visited forty-six years ago? Tasmania. Do the ghosts rise up, or has the past all been erased? What if you now knew that some of your ancestors had lived there? Convicts. And another branch of your family settled there and came to prominence? Colonialists.
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p class="MsoNormal">It might start to look like a patchwork instead of a simple story. And then the patches might be stitched together and make a quilt. Thirty-two stories stitched together with meaning. The quilt approach.o:p>/o:p>
/ | |  | | The Search for Edward Lewis
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, who became a policeman and legal clerk, but who seemed to disappear in his forties.
This is a true story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. They met in Hobart Town and married, and Edward subsequently became a policeman, detective and then legal clerk. In his detective work, he came up against powerful political forces of the day. At some time in his forties he seemed to disappear. The mystery is taken up by William and Rachel of the Archer and Martin Family History Detective Agency (a product of pure fiction; so too is the man calling himself Edward Lew | |  | | The Ten Thousand Things: A story of the lived experience of the I Ching
A man comes to a leadership position in an organisation, only to discover that all of its funds have been embezzled. From that shaky beginning he learns what it means to be a good leader and manager, even when faced with people who have a destructive agenda. His guide along the way is the ancient Chinese book of wisdom, the I Ching.
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The book is an exploration of the reasons why a young man left Sydney and went bush, looking for an alternative community and a “back to the earth” lifestyle.
A young man who should have found a corporate ladder somewhere and climbed up it, turns his back instead and goes off into the bush. Years later he comes back to the city that he left. In this book he rakes over the ground: the search for a viable livelihood living close to the earth, the search for an alternative community. He asks himself, was the questing anything more than loss and failure? What do those young-man dreams look like now? And what does business look like?
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p class="MsoNormal">This is personal archaeology, not a work of tidy | |  | | Travel with a Pen
I went to Tasmania to graduate from my Diploma of Family History, then go to Oatlands to explore my great great grandmother’s time there as a young Irish convict in the 1850s. In my diary, I brought the scattered bits together, revealing new possibilities in her life story.
This book is the record of a two-week trip to Tasmania by the author. So, in one sense, it is a diary. The purpose of the trip was to attend his graduation from a Diploma of Family History course, and to go to a small town in the midlands to see what he could find out about his great great grandmother’s time there as a young Irish female convict in the 1850s. He also wanted to see places in Tasmania he hadn’t seen before.
p class="MsoNormal">This book is also an extension of the author’s many existing books, delving into history, philosophy, ethics, and persona |
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