The purpose of this book is to allow interested community members to gain an understanding of the historically important role postal services made to contemporary Australia. Specific attention is given to the appreciation of the beautiful architectural styles of the historically significant postal buildings and red pillar post boxes that are still available to be viewed. In a similar format to our first book ‘Discovering Australia’s historical milemarkers and boundary stones’, this book be...

This edited volume brings together scholars, teachers, journalists, activists, and filmmakers engaged in environmental communication and media studies to explore the constructions of primitive and wild spaces in our cultural creations of film, television, advertising, social media, infrastructure, and new technologies, among other media. Contributors present close analyses of a number of examples - including Indigenous social media activism, National Geographic, #VanLife content, ...

How does a person learn to counsel others with the truth of God’s Word? Bob Kellemen believes that the best way to learn counseling is by doing it—by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real, raw Christian community.Gospel Conversations explores the four compass-points of biblical counseling:Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt.”Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope.”Reconciling: “It’s Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forg...

How does a person learn to counsel others with the truth of God’s Word? Bob Kellemen believes that the best way to learn counseling is by doing it—by giving and receiving biblical counseling in the context of real, raw Christian community.Gospel Conversations explores the four compass-points of biblical counseling:Sustaining: “It’s Normal to Hurt.”Healing: “It’s Possible to Hope.”Reconciling: “It’s Horrible to Sin, but Wonderful to Be Forg...

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into Carter's pyrotechnic creativity and pays tribute to her incendiary imagination in a reappraisal of Angela Carter's work, her influences and influence. Drawing attention to the highly constructed artifice of Angela Carter's work, it brings to the fore her lesser-known collection of short stories, Fi...

Can we truly address poverty without centring the voices of those who live it? Bringing together voices from academia, grassroots activism, NGOs and the UK voluntary sector, this timely and accessible book explores how participatory approaches to activism can drive genuine, inclusive change.Through short, focused chapters, the authors critically unpack the contested definitions of ‘co-production’, ‘participation’ and ‘lived experience’ while showcasing practice models from across t...

Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the text and the author. The essays it contains provide a synthetic overview of,...

Bill Nighy stars in these three plays by multi-award-winning author A. L. KennedyA.L. Kennedy is a celebrated novelist, playwright, short story writer and columnist. She has won numerous UK and international book awards, including the Costa Prize, and has twice been featured on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. A prolific writer for stage, screen and TV, she has also created several works for radio, among them this trio of dramas specially written fo...

Masterworks of Hubris and Horror – 3 Classic Gothic Novels immerses readers in a world where human ambition meets the macabre, unraveling tales that quintessentially define the Gothic tradition. This collection captures a spectrum of styles, from the ethereal prose of Romanticism to the dark, introspective reflections of human nature and error. The tales enclosed explore the chaotic terrain where scientific endeavor intersects with moral ambiguity, weaving stories rich in metaphor and mora...

Ciencia ficción, fantasía y romance. El nuevo libro de Tracy Wolff te llevará a una nueva galaxia.SIETE DESCONOCIDOS. UNA NAVE ESPACIAL Y TODO EL UNIVERSO BUSCÁNDOLOS.El sol se está muriendo y con ello todos los planetas de la galaxia: la única posibilidad de sobrevivir es una estación espacial y el artefacto alienígena que contiene. Los encargados de salvar la galaxia son siete protagonistas: una princesa, un mercenario, un artista, un pri...

This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the interplay between religion and the erotic, and the hedonistic horrors of the cannibalistic Gi...

Treasure Island charts young Jim Hawkins's flight from a quiet inn into mutiny, marooning, and buried gold. Narrated chiefly in Jim's lucid first person, with sober interludes by Dr. Livesey, it marries brisk prose to salty specificity: the creak of rigging, the stink of the stockade. Set within late-Victorian juvenile romance yet shadowed by Defoe, it consolidated pirate lore: the X-marked map, the talking parrot, and Long John Silver's unsettling blend of charm, cunning, and menace. Robe...