Tim is the new boy at school. Peggy is walking home one day when she meets Tim with a tomahawk in his hand.Can the Forest Ranger's suspicions be proved?What are Tim and his family really like?Jack Davis has written a funny, warm story of friendship between a boy and a girl whose families seem to have nothing in common ... until danger strikes and forces them to face their prejudices.llustrated by Ellen José.

With humane irony, Jack Davis gives a painful insight into the process of colonisation and the transformation of his people.The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit in him, which has survived 'civilisation'.

Jack Davis brings his playwriting to further maturity with this spirited story of the Millimurra family's stand against government 'protection' in 1930s Australia.'The native must be helped in spite of himself,' wrote the Chief Protector A.O. Neville, with the wisdom of the day. 'The end in view will justify the means.'No Sugar received international acclaim when it represented Australia at the World Theatre Festival in Canada in 1986; and was the co-winner that ye...

The Eyes Had ItA Modern Chronicle of the Dismantled Raceby Jack DavisWhat if every phrase you've ever read — every cliché, every bit of poetic fluff — wasn't metaphor, but warning?Martin Kell, a tired English teacher in South London, finds a battered romance paperback on the evening train. He expects bad writing. What he finds instead is an impossible line:"…his eyes slowly roved about the room."At fir...

The Iron CrownA Novel of Kings, Betrayal, and the Birth of a Dynastyby Jack DavisA king slain in the forest. A brother crowned in the silence that follows. A nation caught between bloodlines and ambition.From the death of William Rufus beneath the boughs of the New Forest to the rise and ruin of Henry II's mighty Angevin Empire, The Iron Crown weaves a vivid tale of treachery, conquest, and family torn apart ...

An autobiographical study by a celebrated Aboriginal poet and playwright, who writes of his boyhood in the south-west of Western Australia during the depression years of the 1920s and 30s. Written with humour and compassion, this book provides insights into a significant literary figure and an interesting period of Australian history.

In keeping with my longstanding interest in the surgical corrrection of external ear deformities, I have followed Jack Davis' contributions to this challenging type of reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery since I read his first article in 1951. As a longtime good friend of Jack in our roles as editors of the journal, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and as past presidents of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), I have kept up to-date in reading his numerous acc...

When the history of horror comics was written, one name stood and still stands above the rest: EC Comics. With equal parts suspense, gore, camp, and revenge, the triumvirate of EC’s horror output laid the groundwork for what was to come from many of the genre’s greatest writers and directors.Now, Pocket Universe Productions (producers of the X-Files and Locke & Key audio dramas) presents EC’s The Vault of Horror, its stories adapted and p...

Collecting Two-Fisted Tales issues #36-#41, this volume features--in fully remastered digital color--the work of comic book greats Jack Davis, Colin Dawkins, John Putnam, Jerry DeFuccio, George Evans, Reed Crandall, and John Severin! Foreword by Colleen Coover!Before Two-Fisted Tales burst onto the scene in 1950, war comics were largely unsophisticated, focusing only on action and adventure--wartime propaganda, essentially. But under the editorial...

Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. The contributors—most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community—review the evolution of the field, the rise of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new training and techniques designed to deal with 21st century national security problems. This second edition updat...

In Making the Unknown Known, leading scholars throughout Texas explore the significant role women artists played in developing early Texas art from the nineteenth century through the latter part of the twentieth century. The biographies presented here allow readers to compare these women’s experiences across time as they negotiated the gendered expectations about artists in society at large and the Texas art community itself. Surveying the contributions women made to the visual ar...

This is the second edition of Them Days Magazine. Published in 1975, this issue covers stories told about Labrador surrounding the Spanish Influenza, jam-making, fishing, holidays, childhood memories, and more.