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Sometimes the biggest message comes from the smallest voice. The king's battles with the dragon were always mighty and loud . . . CLING CLANG CLONG! ROAR! But Boy lived in a silent world and couldn't hear the fighting. Though he could not hear, Boy could see the fear around him . . . and how everyone would be much happier without it. From the CBCA Honour Award-winning team of Phil Cummings and Shane Devries comes this tender tale of power and perception.
Rachel is in the kitchen, warm and safe. Her father is in the trenches, cold and afraid. When Rachel makes biscuits for her father, she adds the love, warmth and hope that he needs. This is a touching story of a family torn apart by war but brought together through the powerful simplicity of Anzac Biscuits.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author and “one of our most talented biographers and historians” (The New York Times) David Maraniss delivers a “thoughtful, poignant, and historically valuable story of the Red Scare of the 1950s” (The Wall Street Journal) through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication. Elliott Maraniss, David’s father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerge...
In the futuristic city of tower dwellers and street people, Jonah Dallow's father has suddenly been imprisoned for a financial crime and is about to be transported to a penal space colony. Left on his own, Jonah becomes involved with a gang of street people who eventually find themselves on the same penal ship as Jonah's father.
Collection of essays by a gay journalist. Examines issues related to gay and lesbian life such as coming out, sports, body image, HIV, drugs, intersex, the media, the Catholic Church, and gay bashing. Foreword by Christos Tsiolkas. Published simultaneously in paperback and downloadable PDF formats. Author was born in Melbourne and started his journalistic career for the 'Frankston News' and has been a staff journalist for 'The Age' and 'The Australian'. This is his first book.
The cloudless sky suddenly roared like thunder. Shadows, swift and frightening, descended. The boys brother grabbed him by the arm. Run, quickly, But my ball. Leave it. From the Prime Ministers Literary Award-shortlisted creators of Feathers, comes this compassionate tale of a familys search for a safe place to call home.
This volume aims to offer a comprehensive and easy-to-read turtorial. It describes the protocols, techniques, products and concepts that enable an organization's computer and data networks to carry ever-greater volumes of data at ever greater speeds. This book guides readers from legacy access methods such as Ethernet and Token Ring through the high-bandwidth technologies and concepts accessible to both new and experienced professionals.
Maritime issues are particularly important for Asian countries, where there is a high reliance on shipping routes for international trade, many difficult disputes over maritime boundaries, and the prospect of increasing tensions where maritime power might play a significant role. This book uses contributions by 17 experts to build a comprehensive survey of the maritime issues affecting Asia. It discusses the issues overall, goes on to examine the issues from the perspective of each of 14 key countries, and concludes by assessing the prospects for resolving common problems in order to preserve good order at sea.
This volume comprises contributions from different disciplines (cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuroscience) concerned with the generation of natural speech. It summarizes the outcome of a six-year long priority program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that aimed at bringing together colleagues with different viewpoints but sharing a principal interest in the cognitive processes underlying language production. The result is a state-of-the-art discussion of one of the most fascinating branches of human behavior taking into account a particularly rich multidisciplinary empirical data base.