A unique record of the Hawkesbury's Frontier War and a powerful contemplation on memory and atonement.In this groundbreaking history of colonisation and frontier conflict in the Hawkesbury region, historian Barry Corr navigates the gaps and silences in the primary records to reveal settler amnesia, the cataclysmic nature of colonisation and the way history is remembered, or not remembered. Driven by primary source analysis of colonial records, the book is deeply in...

Originally published in 1993, Children’s Social Competence in Context provides a comprehensive and critical overview of current knowledge about family, school and cultural influences on children’s relations with others and the emergence of social competence at the time. Ongoing research in these areas is considered in the light of recent advances in the field of child development, especially the enhanced appreciation of the ways these context factors operate in conjunction with ch...

A cinematic science-fiction collection about artificial intelligence, consciousness, machine ethics and guilt. In THE CAGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Barry Redhead explores futures in which machines begin to remember, algorithms develop moral weight, and humanity must face the consequences of the systems it has created.

Understanding the Kingdom of God, God's way is an informative book that can be taught in theological schools and the church. This book can be read as a personal book to enrich your knowledge of God's Kingdom and how to understand it.

Barry Pain's The Problem Club is a witty Edwardian collection of linked comic tales built around a convivial society whose members present curious difficulties for discussion and solution. Blending club-story structure with light satire, Pain draws on the late Victorian and early twentieth-century taste for paradox, social observation, and urbane conversation. The book delights less in conventional plot than in ingenious situations, polished dialogue, and the playful exposure of middle-cla...

Discover long-lost stories of science spanning thousands of years of Life on Earth in this journey through our universe’s most peculiar properties. Amazon to Zodiac takes readers on a journey through science’s biggest, tiniest, weirdest, and wildest stories from the realms of explorers and inventors to space, evolution, myths, and more through 101 bite-sized chapters. Tour the pyramids, learn forgotten languages, re-invent the wheel, sail the seven seas, meet the dinosaurs, roam t...

He did not marry her for love.He married her to punish her.Cassandra Arden thought Kieran Halden was her second chance at love.He was rich, powerful, cold to the world, but gentle enough with her to make her believe she had finally found safety. For three years, she gave him her loyalty, her heart, and the kind of love a man should protect.Then one hospital visit changed everything.Cassandra learns she is seriously ill.On the s...

From the world of Barry Lyga’s New York Times bestselling I Hunt Killers trilogy comes a thrilling adult mystery about the hunt for a monstrous serial killer.Brides are being murdered on their wedding nights. Soaked in blood and draped in lace. With nothing left behind to help them find the killer, the FBI is at an impasse. Their only, desperate hope is to convince Jasper Dent, the son of two serial killers and a former teen prodigy at hunting down such mo...

Saint Lucifer: The Bishop Who Was Right About Everything and Punished for It AnywayHis name became the Devil's. His bones rest in a cathedral crypt in Sardinia. History forgot him for twelve hundred years, and got him completely wrong.Saint Luciferi was a fourth-century Christian bishop who defied an emperor, endured seven years of exile, and wrote the most ferocious theological invective in early Christian Latin, all in defence of a faith whose central cla...

Jook Right On: Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers is what author and compiler Barry Lee Pearson calls a “blues quilt.” These blues stories, collected by Pearson for thirty years, are told in the blues musicians’ own words. The author interviewed over one hundred musicians, recording and transcribing their stories. These are stories from well-known musicians such as John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, and Little Milton, and from more obscure artists such as Bi...

**"When you wish upon a car, and if your wish is deep,A starry kind of magic sometimes happens in your sleep . . ."Close your eyes, make a wish**, and join the cars, bikes, jeeps and trucks (and the little dreamers who've driven them to Dreamland) in this brilliant, rhyming adventure.From award-winning author, Barry Timms, with warm and wonderful illustrations by Ben Whitehouse, this brand new picture book i...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERTWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES, TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A masterpiece' Sunday Times'Stunning' LIZ NUGENT'Extraordinary' Irish Times