Glasshouses is an inventive, incandescent collection by one of Australia's most talented new poets. Drawing on a number of complex techniques, Stuart Barnes illuminates both city and coastal life, with allusions to classical and contemporary culture. Replete with extraordinary imagery, the poems maintain a beautiful accessibility and coherence despite their continually twisting, even disjointed figures.

Stuart Barnes has spent over forty years of his life immersed in rugby union, remembered as one of the most controversial playing names during the dying days of the English amateur era and now regarded as a controversial observers in the media – on both television and in print – with over two decades of broadcasting and journalistic experience to draw upon.Sketches from Memory combines autobiography with an objective and off-beat study of the sport from the author's childh...

“If we are the most intelligent creatures on Earth, why do we try to make our domesticated animals understand our language, instead of us understanding theirs?” From the paddocks of New Zealand and Scotland to the untamed hilltops of Ethiopia and the valleys of Alaska, Stuart Barnes has tracked, observed and trained dogs all over the world for over 25 years. In this book he shares his incredible insights to help us all learn to communicate with our canines on the level they understand. The...

E-commerce and V-business examines the impact of the Internet and associated technologies on two related aspects of business: electronic commerce and virtual organization. Using a combination of recent theory and empirical evidence it demonstrates how forward thinking organizations are reaping considerable advantages from exciting new business models in these areas. Such models require radical rethinking of many aspects of traditional business. The book covers many of the critical and cont...

MBusiness: The Strategic Implications of Mobile Communications presents recent theory and evidence on wireless information technologies and their application in business. Such information is useful in both the classroom and for interested practitioners contemplating new technological developments.MBusiness is a very fast moving area and consequently there is a need to provide relevant material for those who wish to understand the subject. This text provides recent ...

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.Issue Seventeen table of contents is available on the Tincture website, http://tincture-journal.com/

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.Issue Fifteen table of contents is available on the Tincture website, http://tincture-journal.com/

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.Issue Fourteen table of contents is available on the Tincture website, http://tincture-journal.com/

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.Issue Twelve table of contents is available on the Tincture website, http://tincture-journal.com/

David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic, absurd and disturbingly true.

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. However, even the most reluctant of heroes sometimes need a little help to make their dreams come true. This is the story of a small dog, the color of warm chocolate with four white paws that look as if he is wearing mismatched socks. His wish to find someone to love him comes true under rather extraordinary circumstances with help from an unusual ally.

A collection of short stories and poems with a twist