Wellness Library in South Melbourne
House of Culture Dr David Juan Ferriz Olivares, located in South Melbourne, now offers a wellness library service!
Our library
Our library offers to our yoga students, natural medicine and art courses students, books to borrow to read and research.

Avaliable titles
SCIENCE
THE HUMAN BODY:
The Complete Human Body, Alice Roberts, DK, Penguin, 2016
The Human Body, Parragon Books, 2012
The Complete Book of the Human Body, Usborne, 2015 (for children)
Anatomy of yoga, Abby, Ellsworth, Hinkler books, 2018
What to expect when you are expecting, Heidi Murkoff, Harper Collins, 2003
Reflexology, Hinkler books, 1991
Emergency first aid, John Heines, APL health care, 1991
Acupressure map
NUTRITION
What the health?, Eunice Wong, Keegan Kuhn, Kip Andersen, Ben Bella, 2018
The China study, T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell, Ben Bella, 2016
How not to die, Gene Stone and Michael Greger, Flatiron books 2016
Bliss bites, Kate Bradley, Hardie Grant Books, 2017
Superfoods, Murdoch books, 2015
New vegan cooking, Roberto Martin, Perseus Group books, 2015
Easy vegan, Sue Queen, Murdoch books, 2015
Going raw, Judita Wignall, Quarry Books, 2011
The Encyclopedia of herbal medicine, Andrew Chevallier, DK, Penguin, 2016
30 minutes vegetarian, Rose Elliot, Harper Collins, 2012
Clean and green, Parragon Books, 2015
ECOLOGY:
Encyclopedia of Planet Earth, Anna Claybourne, Gillian Doherty and Rebecca Treays, Usborne, 2008
Planet Earth (the photographs), Alastair Fothergill, BBC books, 2007
The Crystal Bible, Judy Hall, Octopus, 2003
ART
PAINTING AND SCULPTURE:
Artists their lives and works, DK, Penguin, 2007
What is the aboriginal art?, Margo Birnberg, JB publishing, 2017
The Art and architecture of ancient Egypt, W. Stevenson Smith, Yale University Press, Pelican, 1965
Florence, Christofer Hibbert, Viking, 1993
Leonardo da Vinci the Complete Paintings and Drawings, Frank Zöllner,Taschen, 2017
Michelangelo the complete works, Christof Thoenes and Frank Zöllner, Taschen, 2014
Bernini, Howard Hibbard, Penguin, 1990
Caravaggio, John T. Spike, Abbeville Press, 2001
Vincent Van Gogh: the Complete Paintings, Ingo Walther Rainer Metzger and Taschen, 1989
Impressionism, John Russel Tylor, Octopus, 1981
Auguste Rodin, Summerville Story, Phaidon Press, 1970
This is Matisse, Catherine Ingram, Laurence King publishing, 2014
Gustave Klimt the founder of Vienna secession, Octopus, 2016
Masterpieces from the Musee du Quai Branly collections, 2008
Frida Kahlo, Claudia Bauer, Prestel Publishing, 2018
LITERATURE:
Writers their lives and works, DK, Penguin, 2018
The complete work of William Shakespeare, Willian Shakespeare, Knickerbocker classics, 2014
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austin, Dover classics, 1996
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, Vintage classic, 2007
The little prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Penguin, 1995
Arabian nights, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Fall River Press, 2012
The complete stories, Frank Kafka, Schocken books, 1978
Ulysses, James Joyce, Bodley, 1993
The Waves, Virginia Wolf, Vintage books, 2004
Labyrinth, Jorge Luís Borges, Penguin, 2011
Eva Luna, Isabel Allende, Penguin, 1999
POETRY:
The Waste Land, by T. S. Elliot, Faber and Faber, 2015
Rumi’s little book of the art, by Rumi, Hampton Roads Publishing, 2016
PHILOSOPHY
Philosophers their lives and works, DK, Penguin, 2019
Encyclopedia of the world religions, C. Zaehner, Burns and Noble, 1997
Aztec and Maya, Charles Phillips, Lorenz books, 2019
The Popul Vuh, Andesite press, 1908
God and religion of ancient Egypt, Lucia Gahlin, Hermes house, 2014
The Mythos, Stephen Fry, Penguin, 2017
The Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle, Penguin, 2004
Bhagavad Gita, Bhaktivedanta book trust, 2015
The Koran, Penguin, 2014
The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michelle Foucault, Routlege classics Bergson, Mark Sinclaire, Routlege, 2020
Three Early Modern Utopias, Oxford University Press, 1999
PSYCHOLOGY
Focus, Daniel Goleman, Bloomsbury, 2013
Emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Bloomsbury, 1996
HISTORY
The Cultures of ancient Peru’, Luis Felipe, Villacorta Ostolaza, Roberto Gheller Doig, 2015
Cleopatra, Alberto Angela,Harper Collins Italia, 2018
The life of Elisabeth I, Alison Weir, Ballantine books, 1998
The Cambridge story of the impact of Christianity in England, Ian Cooper, Christian heritage, 2015
Empire: how Britain made the modern world, Niall Ferguson, Penguin, 2003
Nelson Mandela in his own words, tributes and speeches, Abacus, 2013
AUSTRALIANA
An introduction to the dream time, R. Lewis, Gecko books, 2017
The boomerang information book, Ian King, Gecko books, 2018
The Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe, Magabala books, 2018
LANGUAGE SECTION
How language works, David Crystall, Penguin, 2007
Italian grammar in use, L. La Cifra, Hoepli, 2014
Italiano per inglesi, F. Pellegrini N. Albertini, Hoepli, 2013
Mandarin phrasebook, Lonely planet, 2000
TRAVELS
The travel book, Lonely planet, 2004
Peru’, Lonely planet, 2016
Great Britain best trips, Lonely planet, 2017
Oxford, Pitkin City Guides
Naples, Pompeii & the Amalfi coast, Lonely planet, 2019
Venice, Thomas F. Madden, Viking, 2012
Scandinavia, VILO, 2000
South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, Lonely planet 2006
Japan, Lonely planet, 2017
India, Lonely planet, 2010
China, Insight guides, 2004
World’s greatest cities, Parragon, 2013
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
SPANISH:
Los Grandes Mensajes, Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, Editorial Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1998
Yug, Yoga, Yoghismo, Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, Editorial Diana, 1974
Propósitos psicológicos I-VI, Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, Editorial Nueva Era, 1987
Propósitos psicológicos VII-XII, Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, Editorial Nueva Era, 1979
Cultura física y judo, Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière, Editorial Nueva Era, La Supremacía de la Jñana Yoga en la Era del Saber, David Juan Ferriz Olivares, Publicaciones Hipótesis y Síntesis de la Fundación FISS, 1994
Por el Sendero del Saber, David Juan Ferriz Olivares, G.F.U. *, 1984
* hoy por antonomasia Magna Fraternitas Universalis
Educación para el Talento y la Paz, María Nilda Cerf Arbulú, José Miguel Esborronda Andrade, María Adriana Beristain Mowbray, Fundación ELIC, 2009
6° Congreso para el Talento de la Niñez ELIC, 2011 (memorias)
FISS Congreso Mundial de Juventudes Científicas, 2009 (memorias)
Tipón, obra maestra de la ingenería idráulica del imperio de los Incas, Wright, ASCE Press
Historia de la Eternidad, Jorge Luís Borges, Contemporánea, 2011
Meditaciones del Quixote, José Ortega y Gasset, Catedra Letras Hispánicas, 2019
Confieso que he vivido, Pablo Neruda, Austral, 2011
El nuevo concepto de la Divinidad según Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière,
Elena Radin, Editorial Académica Española, 2019
La Buena Voluntad y la reflexión como bases de las relaciones humanas, Elena Radin, Editorial Académica Española, 2021
ITALIAN:
Ipazia, Silvia Ronchey, BUR saggi, 2011
MAGAZINES
The National Geographic (2010-2017)
NGV magazine (2020-2021)
DVD
Stanotte a … Pompei con Alberto Angela (in English)
Perú lo tiene todo (in English)
Agora’ (in English)
2° Congreso Mundial de las ELIC (in Spanish)
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