How do we convey felt, intimate encounters between people, shared objects, spaces, and atmospheres? How do we inquire of moments that make themselves felt with the sparest of signs, in flashing glances and gestures; the felt feeling of relations in which unfamiliar forms take shape? Just how might we set about writing sensation?Writing Sensation: Sense, Events, and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry takes on these questions with creativity, speculation, and invent...

This is a chronicle of my journey through life's trauma including experiencing emotional abandonment, sexual abuse, PTSD and divorce, my opportunity for metamorphosis (conscious state change) to the metaphysical (finding spirit within).A journey whee I have come to realis that my story is just my story - it is not me. I can now consciously choose to be the best version of who I am and in the process I have peace in th vitues of kindness and humility.

I am a self-taught programming guru, specialising in computer games. I chose and then pursued this profession diligently in order to make enough money to set up an island of voluntary slaves as this had quickly become a fetish of mine as I passed through puberty and beyond. No-one knew of this, not even my parents or best friend but it only took half a dozen years and I had made enough to go looking for my island.As to the slaves, well that was a little more difficult. I had to som...

China is now at the forefront of electric vehicle adoption and a wave of Chinese manufactured cars is now hitting Europe and the West. As the world's largest car producer since 2008, China's automotive industry deserves a closer look.Driving the Dragon explores the history of Chinese car manufacture, looking at some of the important cars on that journey, the false starts and missed opportunities. The story begins with the Rover 75 and how it played a key role in moving the Chinese ...

This book of poems comes from an honest attempt to put the spiritual highs and lows of one person into verse but it also tries to find clues to living the life of Faith by following our great heroes. The poems also tackle some of the crises we have faced recently as well as the pain we all encounter through life. Wild Beasts and Angels is a strange title, so I should explain. In the Gospel according to St Mark, the temptation of Jesus is described as an experience linking earth and heaven,...

Described by Thomas Jefferson as "the most sublime of nature’s works," the Natural Bridge is a 215-foot limestone arch in Rockbridge County, Virginia, carved out over millennia by Cedar Creek. Jefferson acquired the bridge in 1774 and, for the rest of his long life, oversaw its preservation and management. In this book, Jefferson authority Andrew Holowchak guides readers through the story of the man and his monument. Notable episodes include Jefferson’s initial interest in the Natural Brid...

College Freshman Nicole Nicholson is trying to make a new start at college after a somewhat traumatic childhood. But around Halloween she receives an anonymous gift and thereafter she starts to experience various disturbing nocturnal ailments (nightmares, talking in her sleep, etc.) that make the young agnostic wonder if the supernatural realm really does exist after all.

This book reports on the first empirical validation of “AccuRate,” Australia’s national benchmark software tool for house energy ratings. The validation was conducted by the University of Tasmania in collaboration with Forest and Wood Products Australia, the Australian Government, the CSIRO and industry partners. The study presented here describes the results of graphical and statistical analysis of variations observed between the measured and simulated data from three different test build...

This volume celebrates the research contributions of Professors Theodore A Slaman and W Hugh Woodin, marking their distinguished careers in higher recursion theory and set theory as they approached the milestone of their 65th birthdays in 2019. It originates from the Institute for Mathematical Sciences program, Higher Recursion Theory and Set Theory, held at the National University of Singapore (May 20–June 14, 2019).The program explored cutting-edge developments in higher recursio...

Centred on a sudden accidental death – its shocking actuality, the aftermath, the admin – Kathy Pimlott's third pamphlet is an honest, lyrical and nuanced journey through the complexity of bereavement.As the world around her continues on - moths remain attracted to lights, Christmas comes and goes - Pimlott lives with the irreplaceable absence that follows the loss of a partner. Amid the pain and emotion is a streak of wry humour at the mundanity of settling affairs and a powerfull...

This riveting sequel to the best-selling Hadassah: One Night with the King continues the story of the Bible's Queen Esther. When the king is murdered, Esther struggles to understand God's role for her and the people of ancient Persia. And in a parallel story set in the Middle East, the Israeli prime minister's wife must delve into the past to fight terrorism in the present.

Best-selling author and inspirational speaker, Tommy Tenney teams up with Mark Andrew Olsen to deliver a mesmerizing tale of historical fiction. Favorably compared to Anita Diamant's The Red Tent for its unexpected plot twists, Hadassah is the fictional account of the Bible's Esther, the Jewish peasant girl who became queen of Persia.