Heat gathers before sound, then the cicadas begin all at once. Occurrences stays with what happens when nothing is being managed — a bolt tightening or not, dust settling on skin, a man arriving at the end of his own instructions. Twenty-nine poems of Australian ground and ordinary hours, where one thing occurs and makes room for the next.

“This is one of those rare books that will make the reader stand up and applaud the hero for going after what he wants and sticking up for those he loves. This is a perfect tale with amazingly vulnerable and strong characters. A must-read!” —RT Book Reviews, Five Star Gold reviewCome hell or high water, the Men of Haven always ride or die for one of their own.A self-made man with his fingers in a variety of successful businesses, Jace Kennedy lives...

Has Kanban become the Kan-bane of your organization?Are you still lost in the woods when it comes to Kanban? Is WIP driving you crazy?Are you ready to banish all these problems out of existence?By popular demand, in this book bundle, we present to you Gary Metcalfe's best selling series Kanban. All the way from learning what Kanban actually is to ABC classification to learning Kanban implementation in different e...

Buckle up for a rollicking ride through the Australian outback with "Verses Popular and Humorous" by the legendary Henry Lawson. This audiobook cracks open a world of wry characters, bush larrikins, and hilarious scrapes. Hear tales of Cobb & Co coaches racing through the night, rum-fueled adventures on the "Grog-An'-Grumble-Steeplechase," and a cheeky encounter with a not-so-saintly Saint Peter. Lawson's sharp wit and knack for capturing the Aussie spirit will have you snorting with laugh...

Encounters with crocodiles, tussles with criminals, losing ships in cyclones ... these marvellous stories were originally published in the North Australian Fishing and Outdoors Magazine.These are true stories told by law enforcers, fishermen, scientists, historians and others.This book was compiled by Matt Flynn, a former Northern Territory of Australia journalist who now publishes outdoors magazines from his farm in southern Tasmania.

Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing how the development of the United States has always depended on its transactions with other n...

Comprehensive review of the effectiveness of particular agroforestry practices, from riparian forest buffers and filter strips, windbreaks and contour buffers to alley cropping, silvopasture and forest farmingSummarises current research on ecosystem services delivered by agroforestry, from promoting biodiversity and soil health to water quality and managementAssesses research on best practice in tree planting and management as well as optimising agroforestry produ...

Darkness lies in every corner of life. Sometimes you are lucky enough to avoid it; other times you are sucked in, and at its mercy. This journey through the horrors and torment of abuse in all its deplorable forms, is retold in explicit detail, because darkness does not care for the innocence of childhood nor for its screams of hope. From childhood to adolescence, then moving through teenage years, set against a backdrop of late 70s and early 80s punk rock London, this is a story of a youn...

The Lotus teaching says the broken human is the vehicle, not the obstacle. Nothing needs to be repaired first. Nothing is waiting somewhere else.So there is nothing here to study. No system, no ladder, no scaffolding to climb and discard. Only what is direct.Read one. Put it down. If something stays, it was already yours.The direct immediacy of experience touching us as life .

Every once in a while nature gives us insight into the human condition by providing us with a unique case whose special properties illuminate the species as a whole. Christopher is such an example. Despite disabilities which mean that everyday tasks are burdensome chores, Christopher is a linguistic wonder who can read, write, speak, understand and translate more than twenty languages. On some tests he shows a severely low IQ, hinting at ineducability, yet his English language ability indi...

Between 1840 and 1869 Augustus De Morgan - Professor of Mathematics at University College in London, author, bibliographer, sometime secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society, first president of the London Mathematical Society, prolific contributor to the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, consulting actuary, formulator of De Morgan's Laws, etc. - contributed reviews of over a thousand books to The Athenaeum, "Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Sci...

One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long–lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Ginsberg introduced Snyder to the East Coast Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, while Snyder himself became the model for the serious poet that Ginsberg so wanted to become. Snyder encouraged Ginsberg to explore the beauty of the West Coast and, even more lastingly, introduced Ginsberg to Buddhism, the subject of so many long letter exchanges between them. Beginning in 1...