TERROR TRAILS / Barry SmithThis fast-paced and exciting adventure is the start of a series of thrillers in which Ken Eliot and Kat Douglas risk all in detecting and combating evil and criminal plots against Australia’s interests at home and abroad.Terrorism. Espionage. Intrigue. Violence and Sex. From Manchester to Melbourne via Spain, Finland and Russia.The IRA bomb that devastat...

An international, religious war has broken out across theMiddle East between Sunni and Shia Islamic sects, cuttingoff all energy supplies from that region.Frustrated by its inability to acquire sufficient energy topower its ever expanding economy, China has invadedRussia, annexing the Siberian oil and gas fields andprecipitating World War 3.Cyber warfare has neutralised global defencecommunications creating a US-China stand-off and th...

BATTLE FOR THE NORTH reunites the heroes and heroines ofFor Freedom’s Cause-Dan, Charlie, Elspeth Liza and Alice, infrustrating Japanese espionage plots and raids into northernAustralia during World War 2. The action takes place in theKimberley wilderness and celebrates the daring and heroism ofmounted North Australian Observer Unit patrols, nicknamedthe ‘Nackeroos’ or ‘Curtin’s Cowboys.’Following on the bombing of Darwin and Broome, Japanes...

VICTORIA’S TWINSThe Rise of Manchester and Melbourne“Tales of Fighting for Freedoms, Fortunes and Football”This is a rich and dramatic historical novel that experiences the flowering of Manchester and Melbourne, two of the most significant cities of Queen Victoria’s Empire, as they emerged and flourished during the turbulent years of the 19th and Early 20th centuries.Both gave birth to world famous, ...

This book reviews Operations Research theory, applications and practice in seven major areas of airline planning and operations. In each area, a team of academic and industry experts provides an overview of the business and technical landscape, a view of current best practices, a summary of open research questions and suggestions for relevant future research. There are several common themes in current airline Operations Research efforts. First is a growing focus on the customer in terms of...

This is a revised and expanded second edition of Why Machines Will Never Rule the World. Its core argument remains the same: that an artificial intelligence (AI) that could equal or exceed human intelligence – sometimes called ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) – is for mathematical reasons impossible. It offers two specific reasons for this claim:Human intelligence is a capability of the human brain and central nervous system, which is a complex dynamic system

Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work, first published in English in 1988, besides being an important contribution to metaphysics in its own right, has considerable historical importance through its influence on Husserl’s views on internal time consciousness. The work is preceded by a long introduction by Stephan Körner in collaboration with Brentano’s literary executor.

Collects Avengers (1963) #98-114, Daredevil (1964) #99. Barry Windsor-Smith joins Roy Thomas for a three-part super-saga that assembles every Avenger from issue #1 to #100 against the combined threat of Ares and the Enchantress! Then, Steve Englehart takes the reins and begins his iconic tenure writing Earth’s Mightiest Heroes with an excursion to the Savage Land, the return of the Black Panther, and the traitorous master plan of the Grim Reaper and the Space Phantom! Hawkeye quits the tea...

An introduction to the field of applied ontology with examples derived particularly from biomedicine, covering theoretical components, design practices, and practical applications.In the era of “big data,” science is increasingly information driven, and the potential for computers to store, manage, and integrate massive amounts of data has given rise to such new disciplinary fields as biomedical informatics. Applied ontology offers a strategy for the organization o...

Collects Uncanny X-Men (1981) #194-200, Annual (1970) #9; New Mutants Special Edition (1985) #1; Nightcrawler (1985) #1-4; material from Bizarre Adventures (1981) #27. Chris Claremont, together with an absolute dream team of art talent — John Romita Jr., Arthur Adams, Barry Windsor-Smith and Dave Cockrum — brings you an indisputable Marvel masterwork! Beginning with the earthshaking return of the Juggernaut, tensions rise as Professor X’s health fails, a crisis of faith strikes Nightcrawle...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Most money advice comes in 2 flavors: the get-rich fairy tale and the vague pep talk. This book is neither. Inside are 300 named, numbered cash triggers, each with the platform to open, the exact price to charge, the honest time to your first dollar, and a warning about when to walk away. After a decade of building businesses and cash experiments, the author sorted what pays into 3 tiers: immediate cash this week, recurring cash every month, and c...

In the gritty underbelly of Sydney's slums, where survival often meant breaking the law, Barry Goode's journey unfolds in this gripping memoir.Born into poverty, he learned early on that the streets could be unforgiving. But it was within those shadows that he discovered his resilience and resourcefulness, forging a path that led him into a world of crime and evasion.From his first brush with the law at 7 years old, to life on the run, his story is a testament to the human sp...