Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander I are just a few of the characters striding across the landscape in the years 1800 to 1815, holding the destinies of their nations in their hands as they struggle for survival in the Napoleonic era. It was a time when nations struggled to be kingdoms or republics. Sometimes when Republicans and Royalists couldn't agree, they would try a third thing, a tertium quid in Latin. This the second volume in the sweeping historical survey that will span the...

This is a story of the European political dynamics that proceeded from the mid-seventeenth century, affecting the destinies of Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, their allies and their colonies. This volume provides an introduction to the period, followed by a more detailed study of the years from 1754 to 1799--the years of George Washington. Future volumes will relate the years of Napoleon Bonaparte, Andrew Jackson, and Karl Marx.

The story of the one-hundred year-old oak tree with a consciousness culminates in an all-out battle between the lumber company and the men and women who would save him from the impending clear-cut. Thorn imparts his remaining wisdom upon Paxton, challenging him to become a prophet for his next incarnation, even as he attempts to convince Claire to be the mother of the Earths next great spiritual master. Tucker is caught between his loyalty to his friends and Thorns ominous warning that the...

Thorn is a one-hundred year-old oak tree with a consciousness. He is discovered atop a mountain in Maine by a lumberjack named Tucker and his mathematician friend, Paxton. They begin a two-week long conversation with Thorn through mental telepathy. Thorn explains that he acquired his vast knowledge through the airwaves and his spiritual acuity through meditation, where it is possible to visit AThe Chords@ and examine both past and future lives. They help each other unravel their past incar...

"You are hereby banished from the North American continent. Should you reenter it, you will be executed upon recognition. Within this facility, you have the right to life and to defend that life, unto your death."These are the last words spoken to the exiles banished to the Square, a massive penal colony encompassing the western triangle of what was once the state of Texas. Paxton Stephens, a disgraced and exiled scientist, gave the authoritarian Republic the wherewithal to harness...

When Dougy's sister Gracey is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: black and white relations reach explosion point. The time is ripe for the mysterious Moodagudda to seek a victim... In the end, it's up to Dougy to save his family - and to prove himself.

Charmwood High, and Year 8 plans to turn the school play, Romeo and Juliet, into a rock musical. Everything's moving along until someone mentions Equal Opportunity. There aren't enough roles for girls in this production. For the narrator, Peter Nutt, Equal Opportunity means more opportunities for teachers like Poxon and girls like Ravolini to get at him. And then there's Millie Miletic from the Holy Family of the Little Sisters by the Sea: she's in love!

Killer boots, all right. They'd kicked some wicked goals, but Greg was worried. It'd kill him if he had to give them back, and if things went real bad, his mum would kill him too.

Outside the wind was blowing the wrong way and the world was filled with the smell of death... Something is wrong at Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighbourhood it appears to be - strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and ...

The Dockers are in the finals for the first time, and Greg gets himself to Melbourne for the match against Geelong. Once there he finds himself in trouble.

Matt is shocked and angered when he witnesses a brutal assault on his friend George, an Aboriginal elder and one of the leaders of a protest against a uranium processing plant at the Port - angry enough to break into the Fortress and try to find out more about the people and company who want the plant built. Despite the odds Matt overcomes Goliath!

Dogs. Stand up to them and you might get your head ripped off. Keep running away and you might as well be dead. Two teenage boys and their fathers; united by a dog - divided by a dog. Love and hate. There's no middle ground here.