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The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer, Veronica Anderson, travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out fifty years earlier to film the outback, but which mysteriously ended in tragedy.

Four young Americans from different walks of life drafted into the Army for the Korean War. Hillbilly was an easy going southern boy from the mountains of Tennessee. Zug a Jazz musician who managed to take his Saxophone everywhere he went even into combat. Mike a good athlete who came from a religious family. Then there was Rick a street smart kid who had only one thing in life, his name. God help the person who called him something other than...

This 2007 book examines the forms, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914.

Presents a literary and cultural history of glory and its development in France and explores the "economy of glory" Napoleon sought to implement in an attempt to heal the divide between the Old Regime and the Revolution.

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This book presents analyses focused on determining the function of projectile points from the Plateau Cultural area of British Columbia, including use of Shott's (1997) method designed to classify projectile points as either atlatl darts or arrow points. A total of 1065 projectile points recovered from archaeological contexts throughout the Plateau, spanning the Middle through Late Prehistoric periods, were examined. While Nesikep, Lochnore an...

A man with a strong social conscience and sense of social responsibility, William Martin Murphy has long been viewed as something of an ogre - as the man who starved the workers of Dublin into submission in 1913-14 and called for the execution of James Connolly in 1916. This revised biography re-examines Murphy's remarkable career. Thomas J. Morrissey, SJ, is a former headmaster of Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick and president of th...

Were you aware, in 2007, that Russian submariners planted their flag on the bottom of the ocean under the North Pole? Santa was aware! Were you aware that the H1N1 Flu that traveled around the world in 2009, mutated into the R1N1 Reindeer Flu by that year's Christmas Eve? Santa was aware! Were you aware that the Icelandic volcano of 2010, Eyjafjallajokul, continued to provide problems for air travel right up to that year's Christmas Eve? Santa...

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WORDS OF LOVE Some may be skeptical that poets could still be writing love poems. After all, for centuries romantics have been expressing their thoughts in verse and rhyme and surely we should have run out of couplets and soliloquies by now. However, the Greeks have five words for love that when coupled with the endless combinations and types of lovers, provides the poet with endless possibilities.They are all displayed here in one form or ano...

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Santa's Adventures II Were you aware in 2006 of the many, random labor movements around the world? Santa's elves were aware! Were you aware in 2008 that the melting ice in the Arctic Sea allowed shipping channels to open? Santa's reindeer were aware! Were you aware in 2011 of the progress scientists were making toward a cure of Type 1 diabetes? Santa's vet was aware! You can read about these situations facing Santa and his crew in this book of...

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Part of "Casper's Scare School" series, this title features stories such as: "Halloween Is For The Dogs", "Scare Fair", "Food Fight Fright", and "Cross-Realm Rivalry".

This ambitious volume reviews the best recent work in historical geography... It demonstrates how a dual sense of history and geography is necessary to understand such key areas of contemporary debate as the inter-relationship between class, race and gender, the character of nations and nationalism, the nature and challenges of urban life, the legacies of colonialism, and the meaning and values attributed to places, landscapes and environments...

This ambitious volume reviews the best recent work in historical geography... It demonstrates how a dual sense of history and geography is necessary to understand such key areas of contemporary debate as the inter-relationship between class, race and gender, the character of nations and nationalism, the nature and challenges of urban life, the legacies of colonialism, and the meaning and values attributed to places, landscapes and environments...

BRAVE THINKING is the culmination of more than 40 years of study, and 30 years of teaching this technology of transformation. People struggle with relationships. They struggle with money. They struggle with health. I've been coaching first as a minister, then for the last decade as a trainer outside the church world. But teaching, studying, and working in this laboratory called life. I've been both a student, and I've been a trainer in this la...

Police calls that will make you laughPolice work is ongoing stress. It includes tense association with people who commit theft, mayhem and murder. It also includes the human duties of telling someone their loved ones have been maimed, killed, or arrested. Punctuating this bitterness are those precious humorous moments which make the job acceptable and keep an officer's sanity. This book is a compilation of humorous situations which helped me c...