x 642 pages. Overseas customers please note the book weighs over a kilo and will attract additional postage. The library damage is limited to the title page (Marist Brothers stamp) and the back end paper and paste down (Blank sdate due slip, handwritten accession stamo and Dewey number, as well as a library pocket.There are remnant tape stain on both paste downs, but these are relativelty discrete. Overall a clean, solid and possibly never read copy. "In 1872, the Marist Brothers were invited by the Archbishop of Sydney to assist in developing schools for young Australian people. The Brothers' early schools were established in the most underprivileged areas of Sydney, in keeping with Saint Marcellin Champagnat's devotion to young people deprived of the opportunity to learn. Their first school was established in partnership with the Society of St Vincent de Paul in 1896. Boarding schools would soon be set up in country towns to ensure remote students would also have access to education. By the 1940s, the Marist Brothers' first school had become a large institution. However, in the 1970s, the Brothers began to focus more on facilitating foster care and reaching out to the whole of the Western Sydney community. One decade later, the Brothers had moved into houses within the community, opened their first youth refuge and begun a family restoration program. By 2002, Marist Youth Care was established, and in the next eight years it would grow to encompass 300 staff members and volunteers and care for 1,000 people every year. The renaming of the organisation in 2016 to Marist180 was to reflect its commitment to creating positive change for everyone.... (Marist 180)