In "An Expedition to Explore the Interior of Western Australia," Robert Austin presents a meticulous account of his adventurous venture into the largely uncharted territories of Western Australia in the late 19th century. With an engaging narrative style that combines scientific observation with vivid descriptive prose, Austin captures the essence of the Australian landscape, its diverse ecosystems, and the rich cultural history of the indigenous peoples encountered along the way. His work...

What makes the Apple iPhone cool? Bang & Olufsen and Samsung's televisions beautiful? Any of a wide variety of products and services special? The answer is not simply functionality or technology, for competitors' products are often as good.The Soul of Design explores the uncanny power of some products to grab and hold attention—to create desire. To understand what sets a product apart in this way, authors Lee Devin and Robert Austin push past per...

Replete with photographs, “TALES, OBSERVATIONS & NOTES: BOB AN ACTOR’S MENTOR” is a fascinating, informative and educational journey into New York’s cultural, quirky and serendipitous world of acting and directing. Compellingly, through Bob, we meet the irascible Stanley Kubrick, just prior to his making “2001: A Space Odyssey”. We learn how the brilliant film auteur manipulated all those he encountered, including Bob, in order to achieve his goals. The reader also discovers Bob’s origins ...

The Palace is the story of an average guy who gets recruited by a committee in Tibet that's responsible for overseeing a palace that's been overrun by war-torn refugees fleeing Russian aggression.The palace is more than just a spectacular structure on earth. It's a metaphor for the mind, and the refugees represent the uninvited and disempowering thoughts that create chaos and disharmony.The Palace is not only a great adventure and love story with more twists and turns than ...

Are you tired of feeling trapped in a toxic relationship? In "Breaking Chains: Unveiling the Signs of a Toxic Relationship" by Robert Austin, you'll discover a transformative guide that empowers you to break free and reclaim your happiness. With years of experience as a relationship counselor, Austin uncovers the hidden signs of manipulation, control, and emotional abuse that holds you back.Through practical strategies and exercises, he provides the tools you need to establish heal...

The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral countries abandoned neutrality and joined NATO. Other countries remained neutral but were still perceived as a threat to the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival research, this volume offers state-of...

For many years Andovia was a military school for boys from wealthy families, but somewhere along the way, it was abandoned and eventually turned into an orphanage. It was the place where ten-and-a-half-year-old Amelia, nicknamed Meely, had lived for the better part of her childhood and where, she believed, nothing would ever change. Then on a Monday morning, in the spring of 1950, at breakfast, in between bites of yucky mush, Sybil whispered that a new girl was coming soon, an odd-looking ...

What does it mean for nature to be sacred? Is anything supernatural or even unnatural? Nature’s Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism discusses nature’s divinizing process of unfolding and folding through East-West dialogues and interdisciplinary methodologies. Nature’s selving/god-ing processes are the sacred that is revealed as nature’s transcendent and immanent dimensions. Each chapter of Nature’s Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Inte...

On August 31, 1940, a beautiful warm summer night, a night when no one could have imagined that something so evil could happen, an innocent young White girl, barely fifteen, named Claudine Williams, was murdered under the White Bridge, in a small Southern town of Pixley, by Olin Chilton, a fourteen-year-old Negro boy who was immediately arrested, convicted, and forgotten until fourteen years later when Jake Ross, a Yankee attorney, comes to town and lets it be known that he is there to pro...

In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of the essays in this volume attends t...

When Sarah Madigan lost her three children to diphtheria, she also lost her hair and was shunned and thought to be crazy, a thought not far from her own assessment or her husband's. Broken in spirit and pregnant with her fourth child, she stole a Diary in which she found some release for her sorrow and pain. When the baby came, she was ready to begin again until her husband, bedridden after being trampled by his horse, secretly sent their fourth child away, pushing her to the edge of insan...

It's 2044, and Alexey Markelov is living a comfortable life on the moon. That life is disrupted when a hacker steals all of his assets. He must travel to Mars with an engineer in the hopes of securing a new fortune.