Discusses latest research on sorghum structure, chemistry and physiologyReviews varied uses of sorghum as a feed and food grain, forage and energy cropIncludes case studies of key challenges facing sorghum cultivation in regions such as Asia, Africa and South America

Wick has always lived in the dark and dreadful Harklights Match Factory and Orphanage, working tirelessly for greedy Old Ma Bogey. He dreams of escaping, until one day a bird drops something impossible and magical at his feet - a tiny baby in an acorn cradle. As midnight chimes, Wick is visited by the Hobs, miniature protectors of the forest. Grateful for the kindness shown to their stolen child, they offer Wick the chance of a lifetime - to leave Harklights, and make a new start with them...

In science one reasons by analogy, so when mankind is confronted by experiences entirely beyond its understanding it takes an individual with intelligence and bravery in equal measure to push back the boundaries of the unknown…In London, in the 1900s, the solutions to supernatural occurrences were investigated by a man who was famous for his dealings with the unknown and the worlds of the dead:Jarrem Lee - Ghost Hunter, (or as he prefers to call it, a psychical detective). With the...

Amelie and Nanette are best friends, and have been FOR EVER.Because there is nothing nicer than having a best friend to share your secrets and adventures with.Everyone will be charmed by the wonderfully nostalgic, delightfully innocent and enchantingly carefree world of Amelie and Nanette. Their lives are rich with adventure – sometimes good, sometimes bad (and sometimes a little sad), but always mixed with laughter. From riverside picnics and seaside capers to cake...

Proven, mature government policies sustain good lives and societies at the same time that they bolster economic growth in 95% of countries that adopt them; 80% of countries that do not are in a collapse-trending today as well. Transition Economics Maturity Models describe what are the important measurable targets of any economy and explains how to change Policies as needed and when. Policies in housing, energy, interest rates, debt, social policy - 18 measures in all. TE Maturity Models co...

The Dark Side 2: Day Zero and Other Stories is a mix of stories, dividing broadly between six’horror’ stories and six’thriller’ stories. Horror stories often fill us with dread and show us a much darker side of human behaviour. At the same time, they can be funny and satirical. The other six stories are more varied. Some are thrillers where the main aim is to excite the reader. Some like’Auto Message’ try to say something about how technology is affecting our daily lives. Others like’The C...

When William John Smith unexpectedly proposes to eighteen year old Ann Neilson, she imagines a future as a prosperous colonist's wife in the convict free settlement of South Australia. She finds herself instead at Kororareka in New Zealand's Bay of Islands, a place widely known as the Hell Hole of the South Pacific. With her eldest at death's door, and the family losing everything in the first Maori uprising, does she have the courage to start again?Ann's story begins in the narrow...

Based on the short stories by Henry A. HeringThe Burglars' Club is the most exclusive of exclusive Gentleman's Clubs in Victorian London. To pay their dues, members must steal something very valuable and hard to get, and present it to the club at the following meeting (They return it afterwards, of course, if possible). Full of comedy, suspense, and mystery. The award-winning Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air brings these wonderful stories to life with a full cast, music, ...

A baby, destined to die, lives. Marty's story begins in a small rural hospital, where there is no hope-yet hope and miracles surround her as she enters the world. Follow her journey as she struggles to overcome every obstacle that crosses her path while raising a family and maintaining a professional career she has come to love.Relive her fears as she learns of a mysterious illness for which there is no cure, forcing her to face the loss of nearly everything she holds dear. Walk be...

Barawling Australians, Polish pilots burning to avenge themselves on Germany for the invasion of their country, the German officer who drowned while trying to escape from a South Tyne PoW camp, and the pub landlady who watered down her gin in order, she claimed, to prevent naive Land Army girls getting drunk it was all part of life in Tynedale as the district went to war for the second time in twenty-five years.Although well away from the battlegrounds of Europe, Tynedale did not escape th...

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise—environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological—in the colonization of British Africa.A key source for Helen Tilley's analysis is th...

Leigh takes you on a 10 day journey of a meditative vipassana retreat. 2 years after suffering multiple strokes at the age of 38, abruptly cutting short a fast paced lifestyle complete with the city job, big house and fancy car. 10 days of no technology, no talking and no connection!Along this journey of physical and mental endurance he experiences vivid hallucinations and a roller-coaster of emotions, reflecting on a life he once took for granted.Despite being bound, like ...