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How to give up the desk job and find your perfect new careeron and around the water If working on or near a boat all year round is your idea of heaven, then this book is for you.

a relational video] grammar: extrapolation by Kate Pelling is an editing experiment that uses drawing and the addition/reconfiguration/obliteration of text to examine speech generated during the making of direct address to camera, within a context of artists' film and video. a relational video] grammar: extrapolation tests the conceptual relationships between linguistic and technological editing processes. The multiple layers of information within the pages of this publication contain narrative possibilities that engage with these editing processes on many levels, without the necessity of...

Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume argues that the combination of global environmental change and global economic restructuring require a re-thinking of the priorities, processes and underlying values that shape contemporary development aspirations and policy.
This volume brings together leading scholars to address these questions...

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for.

Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that...

This work is a collection of studies on health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England. It concentrates on the health experience of the majority of the population in this period - artisans, labourers, servants, the poor and women, and especially older women.

These twenty-two entries are a compilation of the author's own memories and experiences throughout his lifetime. The majority of the tales within are entirely fictional, but many of the pieces are also true life. The reader will be able to differentiate between the two types of writing, and the author is sure that both the fiction and the real life entries will be most enjoyable to peruse for both are either enthralling or interesting. There are many pages of history within including a rare insight into the wonderful area of bottle collecting. The author has detailed what is a remarkable...

Ten-year-old best friends Jeremy and Gerard are quiet, country-bred, peace-loving souls who respect nature. They enjoy each other's company as much as they enjoy fishing in the river near their families' farms. Their peaceful existence is threatened, however, when they witness two bullies-Joey and Lance-destroy the sports pavilion. Jeremy and Gerard report the crime to the authorities, and now the miscreants plan to get even. During the first attack, Joey and Lance follow Jeremy and Gerard to their favorite fishing hole; as the two ten-year-olds try to escape on their bicycles, Joey and Lance...

These five stories depict a sordid way of life and are unsuitable for junior readers. The writings contain references to sex, drugs and violence. Unseemly language is also heavily used throughout the five tales.
Adult readers only are encouraged to enjoy these manuscripts.

Bernie is an exercise in an adult way of life with teenagers.

Exit the Cross has the seedy style of the old King's Cross in Sydney depicted, with Pimps, Male and Female Prostitutes, Bad Language, Drugs and Violence.

Pat-Tricia is the story of two eight year old girls who are mixed up at the...

It was not the holiday travel either of them expected. Thurston Klotz, owner of Klotz Holdings and Investments Limited, and his business manager, Delumi Vido, decide to drive the company limousine to its meeting at the mine instead of taking the mundane trip by air. While crossing the Nullabour Plains in Western Australia, Klotz turns sharply to miss a kangaroo jumping in the road; the car swerves, crashes, and bursts into flames. Klotz perishes instantly, but Delumi survives. Delumi wanders for days without food and water, only to be found by an Aborigine youth, who brings her to his home of...

When foreman Ray Cress and his assistant Gerry Jones discover the arrival of a suspicious crate at the customs warehouse where they both work, they are curious enough to investigate on their own. They discover a shipment of illegal guns-but their snooping almost leads to their demise when they are snatched by the thugs. Cress and Jones manage to escape and report their discovery to the authorities, who recruit the two muscle-bound civilians to work undercover to help bust what appears to be an international scheme tied to both gun running and the drug trade. Their job is to flush out the...

Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major events of the last generation of the Republic, as well as painting an insightful picture of this man who sacrificed everything for power. Pelling's volume gives a new translation of the Life together with a full introduction and running commentary on the events it describes. Culminating in the crossing of the Rubicon, Caesar's victory in the Civil War, and finally his assassination on the Ides of March, 44 BC, it goes on to trace the first stages of the new...

Abnormal Psychology in Context focuses on Australian and New Zealand perspectives, showcasing local research, statistics and resources.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for.

Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that...

The first study of the Churchill government of 1951-55 based on the Prime Minister's political papers (including his correspondence with President Eisenhower) and diaries and letters of Eden, Butler and other ministers. A picture emerges, not of a Government dominated by Churchill as in wartime, but of many sharp disagreements about foreign and domestic policy. But in spite of Churchill's stroke in 1953 and Eden's serious illness they emerged to win major diplomatic successes. Meanwhile Butler and Macmillan both attained leadership status.

Providing essays, sources with questions and worked answers, together with background to each topic within Irish history, Nick Pelling provides a good foundational text for the study of Anglo-Irish relations.

For centuries the relationship between Ireland and England has been difficult. Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798 1922 explores the tempestuous events from Wolfe Tone's failed rising to Michael Collins's arguably more successful effort, culminating in the controversial Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921.

Classic struggles between key figures, such as O'Connell and Peel,...