Tim is the new boy at school. Peggy is walking home one day when she meets Tim with a tomahawk in his hand.Can the Forest Ranger's suspicions be proved?What are Tim and his family really like?Jack Davis has written a funny, warm story of friendship between a boy and a girl whose families seem to have nothing in common ... until danger strikes and forces them to face their prejudices.llustrated by Ellen José.

With humane irony, Jack Davis gives a painful insight into the process of colonisation and the transformation of his people.The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit in him, which has survived 'civilisation'.

Jack Davis brings his playwriting to further maturity with this spirited story of the Millimurra family's stand against government 'protection' in 1930s Australia.'The native must be helped in spite of himself,' wrote the Chief Protector A.O. Neville, with the wisdom of the day. 'The end in view will justify the means.'No Sugar received international acclaim when it represented Australia at the World Theatre Festival in Canada in 1986; and was the co-winner that ye...

Jack Davis: The Maker of History contains essays by several prominent Australians that offer new readings and different perspectives on the work of this poet, storyteller, playwright, politician and humanitarian. Various aspects of Davis's work are discussed: his blending of Aboriginal oral culture and Western dramatic forms, his politicising of the dramatic space as a statement about place, history and Aboriginality, his use of storytelling on both a personal and political level ...

The Eyes Had ItA Modern Chronicle of the Dismantled Raceby Jack DavisWhat if every phrase you've ever read — every cliché, every bit of poetic fluff — wasn't metaphor, but warning?Martin Kell, a tired English teacher in South London, finds a battered romance paperback on the evening train. He expects bad writing. What he finds instead is an impossible line:"…his eyes slowly roved about the room."At fir...

An autobiographical study by a celebrated Aboriginal poet and playwright, who writes of his boyhood in the south-west of Western Australia during the depression years of the 1920s and 30s. Written with humour and compassion, this book provides insights into a significant literary figure and an interesting period of Australian history.

The Iron CrownA Novel of Kings, Betrayal, and the Birth of a Dynastyby Jack DavisA king slain in the forest. A brother crowned in the silence that follows. A nation caught between bloodlines and ambition.From the death of William Rufus beneath the boughs of the New Forest to the rise and ruin of Henry II's mighty Angevin Empire, The Iron Crown weaves a vivid tale of treachery, conquest, and family torn apart ...

In Making the Unknown Known, leading scholars throughout Texas explore the significant role women artists played in developing early Texas art from the nineteenth century through the latter part of the twentieth century. The biographies presented here allow readers to compare these women’s experiences across time as they negotiated the gendered expectations about artists in society at large and the Texas art community itself. Surveying the contributions women made to the visual ar...

In keeping with my longstanding interest in the surgical corrrection of external ear deformities, I have followed Jack Davis' contributions to this challenging type of reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery since I read his first article in 1951. As a longtime good friend of Jack in our roles as editors of the journal, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and as past presidents of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), I have kept up to-date in reading his numerous acc...

Collecting Two-Fisted Tales issues #36-#41, this volume features--in fully remastered digital color--the work of comic book greats Jack Davis, Colin Dawkins, John Putnam, Jerry DeFuccio, George Evans, Reed Crandall, and John Severin! Foreword by Colleen Coover!Before Two-Fisted Tales burst onto the scene in 1950, war comics were largely unsophisticated, focusing only on action and adventure--wartime propaganda, essentially. But under the editorial...

An American general is captured in the Middle East by terrorists who threaten to behead him within days. One strange fact: moments before he is rendered unconscious during the attack, the general notices that his captors speak American English. What's going on?Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Swanson, a top Marine sniper, is vacationing on a yacht in the Mediterranean when he receives orders to mount a top secret mission to rescue the general. But as the Marines prepare to land in the Syrian deser...

In the fourth novel in the New York Times –bestselling series, a Marine sniper is targeted by a man he once idolized—a true American hero turned traitor.Kyle Swanson and his beautiful girlfriend, CIA agent Lauren Carson, are on a mission in Pakistan when their world is turned inside out. Kyle is captured and thrown in prison. Lauren is accused of being a double agent. The one person they trust to help is the man who sent ...