Violent Melding Skies This book was written over a four-year period, during 1990 to 1994. It was written at the notorious Airlie Avenue, Prahran, Melbourne. Dream Engineering, which is a sixty-four-page book that I published originally with Minerva Press from London in 1997, is taken directly from Violet Melding Skies, which is over three hundred pages, so you will find Dream Engineering scattered throughout the book. This new book is an as-it-happened account of the nineties action. It is...

This book was written in the nineties from supernatural experiences. It will take you to my heart of darkness. I now live in the mountains and have found the meaning of life which you can also find in my last book of this seventeen year trilogy Avenue Dread. The middle book still to come. This poetry is explorative, incisive and original, the poems inspire a sense of inner beauty and complexity of life. Intense and direct evoking simultaneously the simplicity of structure and depth of insi...

To understand this book you have to go back to 1990. I was in my early twenties and the recession was on in Australia. I lived alone in my one bedroom flat and got into the music and club scene. Overnight I started to write poetry everyday and bought my first acoustic guitar. The experience was profoundly spiritual and at times supernatural. I knew then that I had a calling and that I would follow it my whole life. I published my first book in 1997 (Dream Engineering) and will republish it...

A life-threatening microbe. A desperate scientist. Can she isolate the disease before terrorists obliterate the world?Epidemiologist Leigh Austen can’t shake her lasting guilt. As the sole survivor of her team’s encounter with the Black Nile virus, Austen is tormented with memories of her colleagues' horrific deaths. But when an unknown pathogen annihilates an entire Asian village, she must bury the nightmares and step up to help prevent a worldwide epidemic.Joined by docto...

The Midewiwin is the traditional religious belief system central to the world view of Ojibwa in Canada and the US. It is a highly complex and rich series of sacred teachings and narratives whose preservation enabled the Ojibwa to withstand severe challenges to their entire social fabric throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. It remains an important living and spiritual tradition for many Aboriginal people today.The rituals of the Midewiwin were observed by many 19th century Euro-Americans...

Effective political communication involves diligent identification of problems on the one hand and proffering solutions on the other using popular images to affect decision making, sharing, and acting. This book is aimed at making readers politicians, students, policy makers, political activists, social actors, and researchers to understand the fact that political communication is not value-free. It shows the ways and means of generating media literacy as well as power literacy. Political ...

The advent of the Internet for global advancement and development has opened the world to new crimes. This is the first comprehensive book on the subject matter, considering the absence of textbooks in teaching the subject matter in higher learning institutions. Hitherto, the book is distinctive and timely in the wake of the inclusion of the subject matter as a new curriculum in many African universities. The book focuses on South Africa, where the Internet has been misused by individuals ...

Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly.Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the hemispheres, this collection examines local political rhetorics across the Am...

Originally written in 1740, Beauty and the Beast has been reimagined into countless theatrical, print, and film adaptations over the course of two and a half centuries. Its popularity has only grown since its initial publication. The basis for the 2017 film adaptation, this classic fairytale has proven to still appeal to modern-day story-lovers and readers alike.The narrative follows young Beauty, who is forced to live with a beast in an enchanted castle after her father a...

As Toronto’s pride parade marks its fiftieth year, this book is a stunning celebration of those who march.For the past fifteen years, Toronto photographer Angel John Guerra has captured his city’s pride parade on a human scale. In these 120 photographs, which glimpse beyond the usual media coverage, Guerra zooms in from the glorious spectacle to the small scenes and single participants, shining a light on moments of joy, strength, ferocity, resilience and love....

THE NOVEL THAT THINKS ITS THE HISTORY OF TERRORISM Terrere, early in life, suffers parental loss. Her mom dies while she is three due to domestic terror occasioned by the culture of marital rivalries. Her auntie decides to adopt her. Terrere slides into the lust battle caused by her aunties husband. Uncle deflowers her at a tender age, leading to the duo committing clandestinely feticide. With the help of the computer and Internet, Terrere enrolls in e-study in the evolution of terrorism, ...

Destiny is a riveting tale about the life of Michael Angel Torres, Sr. who by the grace of God, has survived numerous life-threatening situations that enabled him to tell the world about them. As a soldier (medic) in the U.S. Army, Michael braved the land of Vietnam without a firearm (his choice), solely trusting in the Lord for protection.