A Cats Tale is the adventures of a cat that was born in ancient times who gained favor with, but was also cursed by the Egyptian Goddess Bast for helping to restore her worship in the temples of prehistory, but failed to follow a simple rule that all cats know.."Do not speak to humans!" Our cursed hero, Amun, violated this rule and is now cursed to live 8 extra lives serving Bast in the accomplishment of righting wrongs or helping to advance some aspect of modern civilization. Book II-Cleo...

The Glosters’ stand at Imjin River exemplifies extraordinary courage, buying crucial time for UN forces in a brutal cold-war crisis.On 25 June 1950, the simmering Cold War suddenly turned hot when North Korea, backed by the Soviet Union, crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the South. The United Nations responded rapidly, urging member states to aid South Korea, and among the nations that committed troops was the United Kingdom.One of the British units dra...

A Cats Tale is the adventures of a cat that was born in ancient times who gained favor with, but was also cursed by the Egyptian Goddess Bast for helping to restore her worship in the temples of prehistory, but failed to follow a simple rule that all cats know.."Do not speak to humans!" Our cursed hero, Amun, violated this rule and is now cursed to live 8 extra lives serving Bast in the accomplishment of righting wrongs or helping to advance some aspect of modern civilization. Book III-Apo...

A Cats Tale is the adventures of a cat that was born in ancient times who gained favor with, but was also cursed by the Egyptian Goddess Bast for helping to restore her worship in the temples of prehistory, but failed to follow a simple rule that all cats know.."Do not speak to humans!" Our cursed hero, Amun, violated this rule and is now cursed to live 8 extra lives serving Bast in the accomplishment of righting wrongs or helping to advance some aspect of modern civilization. This adventu...

A continuation of the lives of the cursed cat, Amun, who travels through space and time at the whim of the Egyptian Goddess Bast.

Provides a fundamental understanding of current as well as future concepts and techniques essential for systematically defining and manufacturing a receiver that is flexible yet functional in today's world. An excellent introduction to communications and the role of receivers in conveying information.

Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia.In the 21st century,...

This collection provides the first comprehensive account of eResearch and the new empiricism as they are transforming the field of Australian literary studies in the twenty-first century. These effects are especially evident in the exponential expansion of the online research environment, the rise of book history, print culture studies, the history of reading and publishing, and in the resulting transformation of Australian literary criticism and history.The essays range from accou...

Republics of letters: literary communities in Australia is the first book to explore the notion of literary community or literary sociability in relation to Australian literature. It brings together twenty-four scholars from a range of disciplines - literature, history, cultural and women's studies, creative writing and digital humanities - to address some of the key questions about Australian literary communities: how they form, how they change and develop, and how they operate w...

Illustrated with empirical case studies from Europe, Africa and North America, this book provides an overview of the wide range of innovative methodologies, models and instruments currently being applied in the formation of and implementation of land management strategies. It examines techniques such as data acquisition, data modelling, the legal instruments of land management and structural theories and applications ranging from historic land use to current programmes of urban redevelopme...

Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness – substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight.

Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan's contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature.Flanagan's fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of those whose voices have been lost beneath official accounts of history, stor...