Winner of the NIB Waverley Award for Literature.Forget about wilderness, Tim Low says, nature lives in our cities and gardens, exploiting everything we do. Many endangered species now live in industrial zones and cities. In our forests, native creatures have become pests. Fifteen years on, The New Nature continues to challenge the way we view the interactions between human beings and nature, and pushes us to review our relationship with Australia's wilderne...

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia’s distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the birds of Australia flew beyond the continent’s boundaries and around the globe many millions of years ago. This eye-opening book tells the dynamic but little-known story of how Australia provided the world with songbirds and parro...

In the winter of 2015, eight men attend a meeting in suburban Melbourne. Forty-five years earlier, they had been sexually abused by a priest who taught them. They discuss their lives and the lives of the other four class members who have committed suicide. During the months that follow, the men decide to take action in response to the damages they have experienced. The events that follow will change their lives forever and have international repercussions.Tim Lowe takes us on a jou...

This second edition handbook details new and improved procedures, current drugs and updated algorithms used by the crews of the Great North Air Ambulance who have been providing this life saving intervention since 2004. It will be of interest to pre-hospital care doctors and trainees, especially those studying for the GNAAS course.Pre-Hospital Anaesthesia is one of the most demanding interventions that can be made in the field. The exact incidence of failed intubation is difficult ...

Pre-Hospital Anaesthesia is one of the most demanding interventions that can be made in the field. The exact incidence of failed intubation is difficult to quantify, but it is clear that it is higher than in hospital. Equally it is certain that anyone undertaking it should have clear instruction in the technique and a thorough understanding of all it entails. This handbook details the procedures, drugs and algorithms used by the crews of the Great North Air Ambulance who have been providin...

A new moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost.For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land across the merciless sea.Lampy is distracted; he has too much going on in his smal...

New and Improved 2nd Edition!Would you like to never have to worry about picking stocks again? To have a portfolio that you literally set up once, and then touch just 4 times a year? A portfolio that is not only safe during crashes, but also averages over 11% a year? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you!In The Set & Forget Portfolio, aut...

So gesund ist Fett!Seit Jahrzehnten predigen Ernährungswissenschaftler und Abnehmratgeber das immer gleiche Mantra: Wer dauerhaft schlank werden und sich gesund ernähren will, muss fettarm essen. Jeder, der mit dieser Methode gescheitert ist (und das sind viele), weiß: So funktioniert Abnehmen definitiv nicht. Der Professor für Sportmedizin und Ernährungsexperte Tim Noakes hat das wissenschaftlich untermauert und verkündet die radikale Abkehr von allen bisher gelte...

Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will potentially look and feel like, what lives we might live in them and what choices we might have to make to get there.

Low-Pressure Living: Designing a Life That Doesn't Constantly Demand You explores the quiet exhaustion of modern life, in which even ordinary days can feel like a series of demands waiting to be met. In the world of constant notifications, emotional obligations, invisible expectations, unfinished tasks, and endless self-improvement, pressure often becomes so familiar that it feels normal. This book offers a calmer way to understand that pattern, inviting readers to look at...

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.Stories include:Introduction (Stephen King)Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg)Crouch End (Tim Curry)Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)Dolan’s Cadillac (Rob Lowe)The House on Maple St. (Tabitha King)Umney’s Last Case (Robert B. Parker)Head Down (Stephen King)Br...

The provenance of artworks is a burning issue in current scholarship and politics. Transpose provenance into architecture and it reveals new and surprising dimensions in the social, material and cultural lives of buildings and architectural artefacts, reframing questions of migration, movement and circulation. Provenance in architecture illuminates the intricate trajectories of fundamentally composite objects from their complex origins to their uncertain destinations.This dictionar...