Bøker av David Stanley

Barry has lived his whole life in Bathurst. He is a potter, but his degenerative neurological disorder means he is becoming more and more frustrated and forgetful. His wife Terrie is also frustrated and develops a plan to leave Barry and move out with her lover, Bruno. Barry finds support through his friendship with Tony and Jay, and her daughter, Nettie, and is comforted by loving memories of his first wife, Molly. As he embarks on an emotional odyssey, the potter confronts his loss of memory and his changing world with resilience, love, and friendship to aid him. The narrative at the core of the potter's story invites readers to contemplate the delicate interplay of courage, compassion, and the enduring power of the human spirit as he experiences challenges in the face of betrayal, physical change and memory loss, and the eventual interplay of couple of bumbling bank robbers.

Born with two larger, stronger brothers, Cordelia learns very early how to stand up for herself. Her parents are proud of her courage and tenacity, but they have no idea how valuable those characteristics will be when their peaceful valley home is threatened. Her father, Corzell has a premonition that something evil is coming to the valley. But the five valley clans are still caught off-guard when the Krat clan, led by Captain Kratt invade the valley and start to banish other magpie clans to take over the clan lands. During the fight to repel the invaders, many lives are lost. After receiving a head injury and falling into the back of a ute, Cordelia is whisked away to a property hundreds of kilometres from the valley. With no memory of her former life, she must re-discover who she is and where she is from, before finding her way back to the valley to seek revenge on Kratt. When she returns, what greets her is not one problem but two. In the final fight, assistance comes from an unlikely source.

Ironbark Creek: Blood Lines is the follow up and continuation of the Ironbark Creek trilogy. In it, Cathy and Jack and all the people at Ironbark Creek face two new threats. One from the military arm of the Global Reset Committee and one from the final grey, that is set on revenge. They are joined by two refugees from Darwin and learn of a wider threat. Again they have to fight to save their home, their community and thei land.

This is a book about 12 mischievous monkeys and their adventures. This is the first book of Multiple Monkey stories.

This is a collection of poems and thoughts about a wide range of issues and challenges written over the course of 2016. Some are comical and some are deeper reflections on my feelings at the time of my mum's death.

David Stanley introduces the bold, new leadership theory of Congruent Leadership, presenting it through a series of corporate and clinical case studies and examples, which guide the reader through the possibilities for using their own values to inform best practice.

The Pangolin Diary offers reflections and insights by an Australian male midwife working in remote, rural Zimbabwe in the early 1990s, as AIDS and TB spread their shadow across the continent. Some stories are funny, many are sad, but they offer a range of perspectives on midwifery, health care and life in Zimbabwe. Says author David Stanley: "The book addresses my first year as a midwife and midwifery tutor in Africa and tells the story of my arrival at Murambinda Mission Hospital and transition to life away from my friends and family. The Pangolin Diary also deals with issues of grief and loneliness, the building of friendships and the medical and social issues faced by Zimbabwean women as they grapple with the impact of HIV/AIDS and other medical and midwifery conditions." Read along as the author struggles to understand and adjust to the strange or unusual customs, while facing the challenges, isolation, and dangers of working in a medically confronting, resource poor, and overburdened health service. David Stanley was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of six, he moved to Whyalla, South Australia. He trained as a nurse and midwife at the Whyalla and District Hospital, and has travelled and worked as a nurse and midwife in Africa, Singapore, Australia, and England. He now lives in Perth, and works as an associate professor teaching nursing at the University of Western Australia. He wrote the children's books When Emus Dream and A Lovely Day for Knitting, and a general poetry book Rhymes with Reason. His academic books include Clinical Leadership: Innovation into Action and A Preceptor in My Pocket.