One of the better-written accounts of Hollywood, and in particular the seamier aspects of the B-movie industry, where desperation leads to sexual adventure.

The non-violent defiance of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai, Tohu Kakahi and their followers at Parihaka is one of the great New Zealand narratives. This extract from the book by journalist Dick Scott which brought the story to the wider Pākehā world describes what happened when troops and settler volunteers invaded the village of Parihaka on 5 November 1881.

One of the better-written accounts of Hollywood, and in particular the seamier aspects of the B-movie industry, where desperation leads to sexual adventure.

Award-winning writers Geoff Chapple, Claudia Orange, Anne Salmond and Dick Scott explore pivotal moments in New Zealand’s history in this bundle of BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. In When the Tour Came to Auckland Geoff Chapple describes the startling scenes as the Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981 comes to a violent conclusion.In What Happened at Waitangi...

This book is of interest to practitioners, researchers and graduate students seeking to apply existing techniques, to learn about the state of the art, or to explore novel concepts, in the theory and application of fuzzy sets and logic. Human knowledge and judgement are essential in both designing technological systems and in evaluating their outcomes. However, humans think and communicate in imprecise concepts, not numbers. Fuzzy sets and logic are well-known, widely used approaches to br...

This book focuses on an overview of the AI techniques, their foundations, their applications, and remaining challenges and open problems. Many artificial intelligence (AI) techniques do not explain their recommendations. Providing natural-language explanations for numerical AI recommendations is one of the main challenges of modern AI. To provide such explanations, a natural idea is to use techniques specifically designed to relate numerical recommendations and natural-language description...

A virginal secretary finds her way with a new man in the office, and learns to enjoy South Florida's swinging lifestyle.

Plaything of the Third Reich!A scarlet study of erotic opportunism, The Naked and Monique is a powerful tale of a young voluptuary who saw the Nazi occupation of France as a chance for sexual and economic gratification.

Exactly how you react to this book will depend to a considerable extent on how old you are. The younger you are, the more likely you will be to take much of it for granted. But we think it will contain fresh insights as well as a few surprises of other kinds even for youth who are currently in college. And we are certain that it will be a valuable reading experience for all.

The Reverend William Entercock is the highly unorthodox priest of Cumsdale Church. As well as running various lucrative undercover commercial enterprises, the randy rev also enjoys distinctly worldly relationships with a range of the parish's young ladies.The vicar's boisterous activities have aroused the suspicions of Bishop Simon Holesgood, who, joined by a vengeful Mother Superior, set their sights on getting Entercock defrocked. And even worse, an attractive young tabloid journ...

A reprint of a classic tale of erotic dictatorship. Jean Saddler's (AKA Claire Willows) most famous novel, The Fascinating Tyrant, is a riveting glimpse of sexual extravagance. Rarely has one man demanded more from his lovers--rarer still the man whose every perverse whim is met with delight!

The Very Private Secretary is a novel--and, we feel, an important one--about the advertising business and the living, breathing people who work in it. Its protagonist is Reid Hartley, who enjoys an enviable reputation in the profession but lately has been in a severe slump. Somehow, the old glibness which enabled him to devise highly successful ad campaigns in the past has deserted him... and, perhaps, he has begun to question some of his own basic assumptions.