As engrossing as a novel, this story of the death of childhood in the cradle of the world's mightiest empire, and the atmospheric tale of crime and punishment leading to a sensational murder trial is from another time but implicitly raises questions which remain with us today.Steve Harris' book humanises a most bizarre social experiment and brings out its grotesqueness in dramatic form. The tale is so comprehensively and authentically written that it is a service to Australian and B...

Dads Like Us offers practical support and honest encouragement to fathers of children who are disabled. Written in a personal and straight-forward style by a father who has walked that road with his two sons, this brief book guides dads through the maze of emotions, experiences, and encounters unique to this parenting-role. "A parade of doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, specialists and others will march into your child's life—and yours," says the author. This book helps dads manag...

The universally admired salmon has long swum in the flow of human 'progress', but no other species has found itself amid such a maelstrom of modern debates. Within salmon's evolving narrative lies a remarkable but oft-forgotten quest: to bring salmon to the Southern Hemisphere. In this timely exploration, Steve Harris uncovers how an obsession in the penal colony of Tasmania led to one of the most audacious wildlife feats the world has ever seen."In the 1860s, James Youl conducted o...

Ron Penner, disgraced New York realtor is offered by a wealthy former client, a chance at redemption at a posh and very private island in the far east. Little does he realize the price of admission.

The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest.The British Empire's youngest and most distant outpost found itself at the epicentre of a new crime and empirical fears about the first inter-continental terrorist group, a con...

The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggles of good-evil, life-death, hope-despair, which drew the attention of Darwin, Twain, Trollope and Dickens as Van Diemen's Land evolved from a Hades of Evil to sow the seeds of nationhood. T...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is rather like an independent city-state and is the most modern and progressive emirate in the UAE, developing at an unbelievable pace in the tourist and trade sectors especially. Dubai is essentially a desert city with superb infrastructure, liberal policies (by regional standards), that became popular for its excellent tourist amenities. Just 5 hours from...

The limitless dimensions of the love that Jesus has for His bride cannot even begin to be expressed in human language. And He longs for His bride to be all that He has created and called her to be in all Her glorious victory. He draws her with His increasing Presence, and the promise of even greater fruitfulness and manifestations of His Glory as the end of days approaches.The Ekklesia is not just called to win the lost. It has been raised up by God to transform nations from grassr...

Having crossed over from death to life, I am, in a very real sense, a resurrected man.I was involved in a serious car accident that took the life from my body and sentmy spirit on a journey to the edge of eternity.It is only by the grace of God, expressed through the love and prayers of my grandmother,that my spirit and soul were able to return to my body, and that I am here todayto tell you the story of what happened.At the end of the book, ...

A collection of stories about buying a house in central France. Freddy is self made Yorkshire man who after a long career wheeling and dealing decides that he wants to buy a house in France.. The only problem is that he doesn't speak French, he's only once been out of Yorkshire and he's not reet keen on these ere foreigners. Follow his adventures and learn about the life in central France in a series of humourous tales about the author's experiences and of course, Freddy.Learn about shoppi...

The Truth Behind the Stories They Don’t Want You to KnowAmerica’s Secret History presents an undistorted picture of the history of the United States. Never in one volume have so many unknown facts that disprove America’s history books been brought together in a cohesive historical context, all based on verifiable information.Utilizing the House of Representative’s little-known 1953 Reece Committee revelations...

In recent decades, few communities in Devon have experienced such a rapid growth in population as Kingsteignton. Former country lanes are now busy highways and once green fields have given way to housing as the face of Kingsteignton has changed forever. Founded as a key settlement of the Anglo-Saxon conquest in the early eighth century, Kingsteignton became something of a backwater during the Middle Ages, quietly nestled on the north bank of the Teign Estuary. The development of the vast r...