MOSCOW 1987: With Gorbachev’s Soviet Union in a state of flux and uncertainty, Londoner Norman ‘Nobby’ Robert Jackson — amateur Classicist, fluent Russian-speaker, business consultant and blackmarketeer living comfortably in Moscow with two mistresses — is approached by a fellow British businessman to locate the ‘Apsheron icon’. All is not what it seems, however. Next day ‘Nobby’ discovers the man brutally bludgeoned to death in his hotel room. Who has killed him, and why? Pursued to Yalta...

MOSCOW 1991 to 1996. Following the collapse of Gorbachev’s Soviet Union, Norman ‘Nobby’ Jackson, Moscow-based failed business consultant and amateur Classicist turned private detective, again joins forces with his old sparring partner Colonel Lev Alexandrovitch Shcheglov, head of Moscow’s CID (see ‘Nobby’s’ previous adventures in ‘Moscow Ain’t Such A Bad Place’), to disentangle a Byzantine plot that links the murders of London gangsters prior to an international c...

When Sleepers, Wake! was released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world. Now its author, the polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has happened since—especially to politics, health, and our climate in the digital age—and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and public institutions.Jones sees climate change as the greatest problem of our time, but political leaders have proved incapable of d...

From quiz kid to Australian Minister for Science, from frustrated school teacher to National President of the ALP, from the suburbs of Melbourne to UNESCO in Paris, Barry Jones has had a prodigious public life.Barry Jones first came to public prominence as Pick-a-Box quiz champion, and from then on he has embraced a myriad of passions and causes. A Thinking Reed spans his remarkable career, from a lonely childhood in Melbourne of the 1930s and 1940s to the fight he led aga...

Men are sent into space to explore the universe. During their expedition, they encounter nothing but evil. It seems that theirs is the only planet in the now known universe where there is any good. So they build powerful robots and send them out to tame some of the surrounding worlds. The robots tame the worlds, but they also get caught up in the evil and return to their home planet several generations later. The men on the home planet dig up the old codes and use them to order their robot...

(53,282 words) A plague gets loose on Mars and wipes out a Martian colony. Where did this plague come from? How is it able to breed on a lifeless planet like Mars? Or is Mars really lifeless? During the course of his investigation, Earth Based Affairs (EBA), Special Investigator, Colonel Danial Stark finds out about three laborers who stayed at the colony and may have ultimately been responsible for its destruction. Tracing their footsteps, he finds the ruins from an ancient civilization. ...

This three volume Encyclopedia offers the first comprehensive and authoritative survey of the rapidly developing field of international political economy. Its entries cover the major theoretical issues and analytical approaches within the field. The set also provides detailed discussion of the contributions of key individuals and surveys a wide range of empirical conditions and developments within the global political economy, including its major institutions.The Encycl...

A university textbook of modern European and world history covering the two centuries the Soviet syllabus treated as the age of bourgeois revolution: from the English revolution of 1640 to the eve of the Paris Commune.Its span takes in the English civil war, the Enlightenment, the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic wars and the Restoration, industrialisation and the rise of the working-class movement, 1848 across Europe, the unifications of Italy and Germany, the Ameri...

86,320 words. While exploring another realm, Joe discovers a planet, which dwarfs the Earth. They name it Other World. Over time, Joe explores Other World and many of its wonders. He finds trees as big as mountains and animals bigger than entire cities. After a while, vampires and demons make it to this world. Joe and the Society find themselves defending Other World.

One of the more ambitious books Progress ever sent abroad, and one of the least polemical: a collaborative world history of the Middle Ages by a group of scholars from Moscow and Leningrad, edited by the medievalist Victor Rutenburg.Its subject is not a country or a century but a whole epoch taken globally - Western Europe and Byzantium, Russia, the Arab and Iranian lands, North Africa, Ethiopia, pre-Columbian and colonial America, India, China and Japan - each region treated by a ...

What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe, up to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Through detailed case studies, the authors highlight significant differences between Britain, France, Italy and Germany,...

(Total word count–38,741) In Communicating through time, while surveying a planet for possible colonization an astronaut encounters a creature that he thinks is hostile, but can’t be sure. In Healthclub, the crew members of a spaceship relate their stories to a new crew member. In Captives of Benevolence, the crew of the EBA, Lancelot find these little creatures and study them. The creatures turn out to be far smarter than the Lancelot crew gives them credit for. In Courtroom, a local reve...