How true are the family histories that tell us who we are and where we come from? Who knows how much all the beautiful liars have embargoed or embellished the truth? During a long flight from Europe to Sydney to bury her mother, Australian expat Katrina Klain reviews the fading narrative of her family and her long quest to understand her true origins. This has already taken her to Vienna, where she met her Uncle Harald who embezzled the Austrian government out of millions, as well as Carl ...

The short stories take you for an eclectic tour around Europe in ‘Viennese Blood’, ‘The Ferris Wheel’, ‘Apple of Paradise’; to and from Australia with ‘Back Burning’, ‘Heatwave’, ‘The Colour of Haze’; crossing cultures in ‘The Boy from Bul’, ‘Matroshki’ ; and shifting between generations with ‘Eyes to See’ and ‘Western Rerun’. Also included are flash fictions that by definition show “less is more”. Finally, there are essays, published in World Literature Today, as written by the author whi...

A 2021 ‘BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR’ – THE INDEPENDENT‘A mouthpiece for our anxieties and a tonic for our hearts.’ Charly Cox‘Funny and honest.’ Pandora Sykes‘Offers readers of all stripes and ages a great overview of relationships in the digital era’. Matt HaigIn Millennial Love journalist Olivia Petter explores the questions, quirks and anxieties that consume th...

This is the very first title containing all available knowledge about the origins and history of traditional Reiki. Designed as a reference manual for teachers and trainers it presents at the same time a comprehensive and practical introduction to Reiki.

Dr. Hayashi is the most renowned student of Reiki founder, Dr. Mikao Usui. Dr. Hayashi Develped his own style of Reiki and became the teacher of Hawayo Takata, who introduced Reiki to the West. However, Dr. Hayashi had also tought Reiki to Japanese Students such as the Young Chiyoko Yamaguchi, born in 1920. The manual consists of: The Story of Dr. Hayashi, newly researched and sensationally illustrated with previously unpublished archive photos. Main exercises of Hayashi Reiki system which...

Reiki Best Practices: Wonderful Tools of Healing for the First, Second, and Third Degree of Reiki. The internationally renowned Reiki Masters Walter Luebeck and Frank Arjava Petter introduce primarily Western Reiki techniques and place a valuable tool in the hands of every Reiki practitioner for applying Reiki in a specific and effective way for protection and healing.

Create unique and amazing projects by using the powerful combination of Yocto and Raspberry PiKey Features\[\*\]Set up and configure the Yocto Project efficiently with Raspberry Pi\[\*\]Deploy multimedia applications from existing Yocto/OE layers\[\*\]An easy-to-follow guide to utilize your custom recipes on your Raspberry PiBook DescriptionThe Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation workgroup, which produces tools (SDK) and proc...

This book provides a detailed socio-legal examination of the experiences, perceptions, and responses of individual white-collar defendants following the criminal trial process.White-collar crime is defined both in an offense-based perspective and an offender-based perspective. The offense-based perspective focuses on non-violent acts for financial gain, while the offender-based perspective focuses on members of the elite in society who abuse their professional positions for financi...

Die vorliegende Anthologie zeigt die Vielfalt und den Zugang australischer und österreichischer AutorInnen zur literarischen Gattung der Kurzgeschichte und Kurzprosa. Sie demonstriert sowohl die Ähnlichkeiten als auch die Differenzen zwischen australischen und österreichischen Schriftsteller- Innen. Die Veröffentlichung dieser Sammlung fand gleichzeitig mit der 13. Internationalen Konferenz über die Kurzgeschichte auf Englisch statt, die vom 16.-19. Juli 2014 in Wien - und damit zum ersten...

Mariyah Aragon's only goal in life was to give her family a better life. In order to achieve this goal, she needs to study and work hard to pay off her parents' sacrifice for her. And she achieved it.One night, she was ordered by her mom to return a white handkerchief and pay a sum of money her mother borrowed to her Aunt Helen, she obeyed her by thinking it was just the only order to her.But she was deceived by the person she least expected to do it. Her mom literally paid...

Internal reviews of tangible or perceived deviant behaviour within the contemporary business sphere typically involve expert individuals and teams drawn from the legal and financial services professions. These specialists, fraud examiners, conduct analytical reviews with a large degree of independence as financial detectives in the private policing aspects of internal investigations within client organisations. Such reviews encompass undertaking forensic or factual evaluations of documents...

When Senenmut answers the summons to interview for the tutor for the Egyptian queen's daughter, he sees an opportunity to make a name for himself and earn titles and importance. He succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, becoming second in importance to the pharaoh. However, his very success causes failure, and he suffers a fate worse than death. His son Yahmose also succeeds to second in importance, but has to leave Egypt, resulting in the First Exodus. Then, he must return.