N. L. Brisson
These books represent a decade of work, essays posted to a blog The Armchair Observer (now deleted) about what was happening in American Politics. A fiction entry predicts what America's future could look like.
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Sport & leisure industriesJune 2002Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World
by Graham M S Dann
This book contains a selection of papers from the prestigious Research Committee on International Tourism presented at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. While much of the present understanding of the tourist and tourism is grounded in metaphor (e.g. tourism as a sacred journey, tourism as play, the tourist as a child, etc.) such analogies need to be linked to transformations in tourism generating and receiving societies. Hence the focus on the tourist and everyday life, socio-psychological dimensions of the tourist experience, the tourist and conflicting expectations, and the tourist in a changing world.
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Agronomy & crop productionAugust 1997Intensive Sugarcane Production
Meeting the challenges beyond 2000
by Edited by Brian A Keating, John R Wilson
Increasing competition in the world sugar industry, combined with the need to maintain the resource base and minimise negative impacts on the environment, mean that sugar industries around the world face many complex problems. These challenges are shared by many other intensive cropping industries. However, advances in crop physiology, biotechnology, management systems, systems analysis and modelling and economics and policy initiatives offer great opportunities for these industries to meet these challenges. This book appraises the current situation and set the agenda for sustainable sugarcane production into the future. The book has been developed from papers presented at the Sugar 2000 symposium held in Brisbane, Australia, in August 1996. All the elements of successful intensive crop production are discussed. These include the biological, climatic, economic and social aspects which must be taken into account and judiciously managed. Topics addressed include new gene technologies and their potential value for sugarcane, along with using knowledge of crop physiology to bring about high levels of yield. Other issues considered include the economics of resource use, such as irrigation, and the impact of sugarcane production on the environment. The book is essential reading for all research scientists working with sugarcane, including plant breeders, physiologists, agronomists and food technologists. It also provides general agronomists with a model system for intensive crop production that will be relevant to other sustainable cropping systems. It is also relevant to economists, regulatory authorities, and commodity traders.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025‘Ten Pound Poms’
A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia
by A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Becca Parkinson
A riveting history of the 'Ten Pound Poms', a wave of British citizens who migrated to Australia and New Zealand after the Second World War. Between the 1940s and 1970s, more than a million Britons migrated to Australia. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story. The authors draw on a vast trove of letters, diaries and personal photographs, as well as hundreds of interviews with former migrants, to offer original insights into key historical themes. They explore people's motivations for emigrating, gender relations and family dynamics, the clashing experience of the 'very familiar and awfully strange', homesickness and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees. Filled with fascinating testimonies that shed light on migrant life histories, 'Ten Pound Poms' will engage readers interested in British and Australian migration history and intrigued about the power of migrant memories for individuals, families and nations.
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2018Special Interest Tourism
Concepts, Contexts and Cases
by Carol Southall, Lynn Minnaert, Nazia Ali, Ade Oriade, Allan Watson, Glen Croy, Ralf C Buckley, Dallen J Timothy, Steven Rhoden, Alison Caffyn, Richard Benfield, Cheng-Fei Lee, Sheela Agarwal, Graham Busby, Rong Huang
Special interest tourism is growing rapidly due to a discerning and heterogeneous travel market and the demand for more focused activity or interest-based tourism experiences. This book approaches the topic from the perspective of both supply and demand, and addresses the complexities now inherent in this area of tourism. It presents a contextualised overview of contemporary academic research, concepts, principles and industry-based practice insights, and also considers the future of special interest tourism in light of the emergence of ethical consumerism. With a clear, user-friendly structure, the book: -Links theoretical frameworks to clear practical applications. -Reviews key emerging issues for tourism relating to families and faith, the performing arts, active and passive pursuits, therapeutic leisure and travelling. -Includes contributions and case studies from international academics and practitioners to give a truly global overview. Sometimes referred to as niche or contemporary tourism, this book provides a complete introduction to the study of special interest tourism for students.
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FictionWhite Gold
by Rachel Amphlett
When Sarah Edgewater’s ex-husband is murdered by a radical organisation hell-bent on protecting their assets, she turns to Dan Taylor – geologist, ex-soldier, and lost cause. Together, they must unravel the research notes that Sarah’s ex-husband left behind to locate an explosive device which is circumnavigating the globe towards London – and time is running out. In a fast-paced ecological thriller which spans the globe, from London to Brisbane and back via the Arctic Circle, Dan and Sarah aren’t just chasing the truth – they’re chasing a bomb which, if detonated, will change the future of alternative energy research and the centre of England’s capital forever.
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July 2019The Warming
by Craig Ensor
‘The sun was so brutal, so twisted in its brutality, it seemed to grip us by the neck and push us down into the drowning waters. And, in the end, that was our choice: by water – or by sun.’ The year is 2221 and the world is dying. Temperatures soar as high as fifty degrees every day. Sea levels are rising year by year. The population has fallen to below 2 billion people. The ruined cities of the north – Sydney, Brisbane and beyond – were abandoned as the rising sea and the sun’s intensity turned them to wastelands. In an isolated coastal town south of Sydney, young Finch Taylor is captivated by the mysterious beauty April Speare and her pianist husband William when they move into a nearby beach house with a piano and a tragic secret. Finch soon begins a lifelong love affair with music, and with April. But as he and April follow the great migration south to Tasmania, and eventually to a warming Antarctica, they must decide whether to bring children into a world without a future. Hauntingly beautiful, The Warming depicts a nomadic existence, where love and hope are the only means of enduring a world that has turned against humanity.
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August 2021Muddy People
by Sara El Sayed
A hilarious and heartwarming memoir of growing up and becoming oneself in an Egyptian Muslim family In the outer suburbs of Brisbane at the turn of the millennium, Soos is growing up in an eccentric family: her Baba, who thinks Islam forbids taking out life insurance; her Mama, who is plotting divorce; her Nana, who collects stray dogs and encourages small lies; her infuriating older brother, Mohamed, and his white girlfriend; and her can-do-no-wrong perfect sister, Aisha. Soos’ family is muddy. Their skin is brown – kids say Soos is mud-coloured. Their culture and religion are puzzling to those around them. In their white-majority neighbourhood, Soos, Mohamed and Aisha are bullied by racists. Their parents are discriminated against at work. Soos, the baby of the family – her name means ‘little tooth’ – is working out how to balance her parents’ strict rules with having friendships, crushes and a normal teenage life. As her dad is diagnosed with leukemia, the cancer cells clouding his blood, she comes to see her parents as fallible, with morals based on a muddy logic. But they are also her strongest defenders. For readers of Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race and Mishna Wolff ’s I’m Down, this quick, clever, warm-hearted book introduces a talented new voice.
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Education2017The Reconciliation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
A step-by-step lesson plan for primary school teachers, scaffolded with thinking tools, cartoons and extension materials
by Eric Frangenheim
A one-day to six-day teaching and learning unit to extend all students in foundation and higher-order thinking as well as co-operative thinking skills. This lesson plan is based on a well-known story and Eric Frangenheim’s sequel, which charts Goldilocks’ dismay at her break-and-enter and her successful attempts at redemption. This unit is all about the use of thinking skills and thinking tools to encourage students to do their own thinking and become reflective, analytical and optimistic thinkers and learners. It is also a template for most teachers to modify any of their learning and teaching units, offering their students greater opportunities to engage in their own learning and to have FUN and experience SUCCESS.
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Business, Economics & LawJune 2021Small Company Big Crisis
How to prepare for, respond to and recover from a business crisis.
by Brownyn Reid
When the next crisis comes, will you freeze – or flourish?Global pandemics. Raging bushfires. The death of a loved one. Severe floods. Stock market crashes. Sudden illness. It seems that we no sooner get through one crisis when we’re faced with another. That is exactly what does happen, and businesses will continue to be buffeted by such crises. Whether personal or international, a crisis can have devastating consequences for a small business. This book is a timely, practical guide to preparing for, surviving, and coming out the other side of a crisis – with your business and sanity intact. 25+ years’ experience as a small business owner, Bronwyn Reid has experienced many economic booms and busts, natural disasters, and personal crises that can derail a small business. She shares the vital lessons learned along the way and outlines the actions you can take to ensure your business weathers any storm. • Explore the history of boom and bust• Learn the SEVEN KEY QUESTIONS you must ask yourself to build resilient businesses• Understand the TEN STEPS of dealing with a crisis – without freezing• Discover the opportunities that develop from a crisis, and how to seize them• Investigate the ways we can all do business better in the future Whether you’ve already experienced a business crisis, or whether you’re looking to future-proof your venture, Small Company, Big Crisis will help you confront the inevitable, protect your business (and yourself), and grow stronger as a result.
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September 2018NEW HUMAN FOOTPRINT - Unsere Welt im Umbruch
by Markus Eisl, Gerald Mansberger
The satellite images presented in New Human Footprint show impressively the status of and trends in our world at the beginning of the third millennium. Organized in thematic sections, large-format double pages display finest details in satellite images acquired from an altitude of 600 kilometers by satellites of the latest generation. The images provide a spectacular overview of landscapes formed or influenced by man in various ways.
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Agriculture & farmingMay 2017Advances in Nutrient Dynamics in Soil-Plant System for Improving Nutrient Use Efficiency
by R.A. Elanchezhian, K.Biswas, K.Ramesh & A.K. Patra
This book comprises 31 chapters on advances in soil-plant systems for improving nutrient use efficiency with four major themes viz. 1. Introduction and Fundamentals of Soil Plant Atmosphere Continuum and nutrient use efficiency 2. Soil physical, chemical, biological and agronomic management for improving NUE 3. Plant physiological, genetic & molecular biological basis for improving nutrient uptake & use efficiency 4. Climate change aspects related to soil and plant systems for improving NUE. Besides the book also include few chapters on analytical techniques and instrumentation for the study of nutrient use efficiency with respect to physico-chemical and biological parameters.
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Geography & the EnvironmentJune 2022The Plasticology Project
The chilling reality of our plastic pollution crisis and what we can do about it.
by Dr Paul Harvey
There IS something we can do - but we must do more NOW.From the deepest oceans to the highest mountains, from outer space to inside our bodies, plastic pollution is everywhere. Plastic has transformed almost every aspect of our lives, but at a huge cost to the planet and our future. In The Plasticology Project, environmental scientist Dr Paul Harvey reveals the disturbing extent of the plastic pollution problem the world is facing. Weaving together the latest science, international research, and first-hand experiences, The Plasticology Project is a broad, comprehensive analysis of global plastic pollution – how it spreads, the damage it causes, and the risk it poses to our health and wellbeing. Offering readers hope as well as warning, The Plasticology Project highlights the amazing work that is already being done to combat plastic pollution, and explores a wide range of practical steps we can take to be part of the solution at individual, community, and global levels. Informative and inspirational, this book is an urgent call to action for us all – it’s time to make a difference, become ambassadors for The Plasticology Project, and help reverse this plastic crisis.
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Global warmingMarch 2017Climate Change and Agroforestry
Adaptation, Mitigation and Livelihood Security
by C.B.Pandey, Mahesh Kumar Gaur & R.K.Goyal
Natural change in climate is slow and takes millions of years; and it is known to have made our planet hospitable to live. The climate change is not limited to one country or a continent. It is occurring across the globe as evident from droughts in Texas and flooding along the Missouri River in the United States and along the Red River in Canada. Climate change drives many stressors and interacts with many non-climatic stressors which make it difficult to forecast outcomes in any general way other than existing threats to agriculture. Agroforestry increases a high level of diversity within agricultural lands which supports numerous ecological and production services that bring resilience to the impact of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Climate change risk management is difficult in annual cropping systems due to increasing uncertainty of inter-annual variability in rainfall and temperature. Mixing of woody trees with crops, forage and livestock operations provides greater resilience to the inter-annual variability through crop diversification and increased resource use efficiency. Deep rooted trees allow better access to nutrients and water during droughts and when appropriately integrated into annual cropping systems and extract from different resource pools that would otherwise be lost from systems. Agroforestry increases soil porosity, reduces runoff and increases soil cover, which improve water infiltration and reduces moisture stress in low rainfall years. During periods of excessive soil moisture, tree based systems keep soils aerated by pumping out excess water and offer an economic return. The book contains 36 chapters mainly on agroforestry practices found in India and its role in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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Travel & TransportJanuary 2017The Solo Travel Guide
Just Do It
by Dee Maldon
Do you want to travel, but your friends or family don’t? So why wait? Travelling alone is better than never travelling at all. In the Solo Travel Guide: Just do it we give you suggestions on how to plan, how to cope when you are at your destination alone, how to stay safe and even some suggestions on where to go – good destinations for the solo traveller, places with wonderful things to see but where you will not stand out from the crowd. We also offer inspiration – snippets from those women who set off centuries ago without a guide book, a mobile phone and very little advice. Also available in paperback
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Carthago 1
by Christophe Bec, Eric Henninot and Milan Jovanovic
In the insatiable quest for natural resources, humans are searching further and deeper into the earth, threatening to unleash monsters thought to be long gone... The megalodon, the prehistoric ancestor of the great white shark was the most ferocious predator of the seas, an 80 foot killing machine extinct for millions of years… But when divers drilling in an underwater cave are attacked by this living fossil, oceanographer Kim Melville discovers that this creature may not only have survived, but thrived, and is reclaiming its place at the top of the food chain.
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June 2023Small Company Big Business:
How to find, win, and keep new customers.
by Bronwyn Reid
Small Company Big Business offers invaluable insights into the inner workings of the small business/big business relationship, and provides actionable steps to make your business stand out and capture the attention of powerful buyers. With this guide, you will discover exactly how to: Achieve unprecedented success by understanding how big buyers think Set solid business foundations and develop robust business systems Get on the radar of potential buyers and tell your story Create lasting relationships with large organisations Pitch or tender effectively for bigger business contracts Work through contracts with supply chain opportunities You'll also learn the critical language and appropriate jargon to use when writing tenders, pitching for contracts, and engaging in presenting your business as ready to punch above your weight. This book is a must-have for any small business looking to take on a contract with a large organisation. It also contains vitally important guidelines for big companies wanting to do more with their social governance responsibilities by working better with small businesses.This book changes all that!
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Business & managementJune 2013Bean Soup - Beyond Bean Counting
Steps for Lifting a Finance Function Skill Set Towards 'Adding Value'
by Stuart Bilbrough
Bean Soup is an innovative and engaging story capturing real-life challenges in getting Finance teams within businesses to add value and move beyond pure financial control. Written as fiction, it follows Callum Dangerfield, a newly appointed CFO at the Haven Hotel Group. Bean Soup – Beyond Bean Counting is more than a business book, it is a complete training toolkit that provides valuable yet logical steps for lifting a Finance function skill set towards adding value. Find out more at www.thebeansoupbook.com
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2020Corporate Fraud Exposed
A Comprehensive and Holistic Approach
by H. Kent Baker, Lynnette Purda, Samir Saadi
After each major corporate scandal, new suggestions for combatting fraud emerge from regulators and industry professionals. Despite changes to guidelines for firms’ corporate governance, augmented protection for whistle blowers, and enhanced cybersecurity measures, evidence documents an alarming increase in the prevalence and severity of corporate fraud. The rapidly changing laws aimed at curbing corporate fraud sometimes lag behind the changing sophistication of fraud schemes. Corporate Fraud Exposed discusses the motivations and drivers of fraud including agency theory, executive compensation, and organizational culture. It examines fraud’s consequences for various firm stakeholders and its spillover effects to other corporations, the political environment, and financial market participants, including those who participate via crowdfunding platforms. This book provides a fresh look at this intriguing but often complex subject. It skillfully blends the contributions of a global array of scholars and practitioners into a single review of some of the most important topics in this area. Given its broad scope, this practical and comprehensive title should be of interest to anyone curious about corporate fraud.
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Veterinary medicineJanuary 2022Pongamia for Bio-Energy and Better Environment
by M.V.R. Prasad
Pongamia pinnata is also credited with several preventive and curative properties as established by Ayurvedic medicine. It may be recalled that in the decades of nineteen seventies a few villages reaped sustainable incomes in the face of acute and chronic droughts that plagued the nation, solely due to the availability of some old Pongamia / karanj tree stands around those zones. Kranj oil has exhibited promise as a source of green energy. Nevertheless, the research on improvement of Karanj and its management as a productive plantation is nebulous. It is heartening that the Monograph on Karanj by Dr. M.V.R. Prasad fills this void. Dr. Prasad has been pursuing the work on oil bearing perennial trees of which Pongamaia pinnata has been studied in greater detail during the decades starting from nineteen eighties to date. The Monograph describes clearly as to how Pongamia pinnata could be harnessed to exploit the proven and potential benefits cited above, in addition to giving valuable information on its genetic improvement and plantation management.
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MedicineNovember 2021The Living Wetsuit
Fascia: The Body's Fabric of Life
by Sue Adstrum PhD
Imagine this wetsuit alive, dynamic, infused with an energy – a spirit – that disappears when we die. This wetsuit, The Living Wetsuit, is a simple analogy that helps explain and demystify fascia, the main connective tissue in our body. Understanding fascia is the key to understanding our own bodies and health, giving us a powerful tool to improve the ways we look after, treat, and heal ourselves. In the Living Wetsuit, Sue Adstrum traces the fascinating history of anatomy, explaining how and why our understanding of the human body – particularly fascia – has evolved over time. Exploring the crucial role fascia plays in our body, the book explains how it becomes damaged or hurt over time, and the practical solutions we can use to fix and care for our fascia. A unique, engaging analysis on the intersections of historic, cultural, and medical knowledge, The Living Wetsuit is an essential read for anyone who has a body. CONTENTS Include:1 – Anatomy Matters2 – Anatomies3 – Anatomised Bodies4 – Fascia5 – Fascial Anatomy6 – The Living Wetsuit7 – The Body’s Fabric of Life8 – When Things Start to Go Wrong with the Living Wetsuit9 – Healing the Living Wetsuit10 – The Living Wetsuit in the 21st Century
