Fourteen Months in Thao Dien documents the author’s first fourteen months living in the Thao Dien district of Saigon, Vietnam, weaving street and travel photography into a unified visual narrative.The street section lingers within the neighborhood, observing daily life with patience and proximity—capturing gestures, quiet routines, shifting light, and the subtle textures of place. The travel section extends beyond Thao Dien to other regions of Vietnam, tracing movement, co...

What if the most important changes in our world didn’t arrive with noise —but with comfort?Mile Marker 2026 is not a book about technology.It is a book about attention.Written as a quiet reflection rather than a warning, this work pauses at a single moment in time — a point on the road where humanity has gained extraordinary tools while slowly surrendering effort, responsibility, and presence without fully noticing the trade.Moving through visible wo...

Before man was connected,he was formed.Before screens, systems, and shortcuts,there were hands—hands that shaped clay,hands that worked soil,hands that lifted faces toward heaven.In Man Was Formed: Returning to the Hands That Made Us, Mark Rossetti calls the reader back to the original design—before life became abstract, before identity became digital, before meaning became weightless.This is not a re...

The incredible story of the special investigations unit that tracked down the Nazis who called Australia home after World War II.In 1986 journalist Mark Aarons presented a Radio National series, which established that a significant number of Nazi collaborators and war criminals – particularly from Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Yugoslavia – had settled in Australia after World War II.Aarons' explosive reporting led to the formation in 1987 of the Special ...

The coauthors of Unholy Trinity uncover a wide-ranging, international conspiracy against the Jews from WWI to the Reagan administration.Drawing on thousands of declassified documents and numerous insider accounts, attorney John Loftus and investigative reporter Mark Aarons expose nearly a century of clandestine operations against Israel and the Jews, carried out by Western countries such as the United States and Great Britain. Professed allies of Israel on ...

For more than seventy years, Australia has been a safe haven for war criminals. After World War II, hundreds of Nazi war criminals illegally entered this country. Governments, both Labor and Liberal, decided to turn a blind eye. Some known killers were even recruited by Australian intelligence in the Cold War battle against communism. Others became active in Australian party politics.Half a century later, nothing has changed. Australia continues to be a sanctuary for war criminals ...

In early 1965 at age thirteen, Mark Aarons came under the ‘adverse notice’ of ASIO, which opened volume one of his nine-volume security file. Mark was following in the footsteps of his father, Laurie Aarons, whose 85-volume file commenced in the early 1930s when he was fourteen.For four generations the Aarons family were ‘subversive revolutionaries’, avowed communists who challenged the established constitutional order.Having obtained access to his family’s ASIO files – the...

Develop the skillset essential to successful securitisation swaps managementSecuritisation Swaps is a complete practitioner’s guide to this unique and complex class of derivatives. This detailed examination follows the entire life cycle of securitisation swaps to give quants, structurers, traders, originators, issuers and lawyers a common reference for understanding their shared objective. Broad in scope to provide a common-ground perspective — yet detaile...

In 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia’s Catholic bishops created a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party’s massive trade union base. Soon, The Movement, working closely with ASIO, became a sophisticated intelligence agency that would influence every corner of politics.Santamaria based his Movement (also called The Show) completely on the Communist Party, copying its spectacularly successful union-organising m...

Here is an accessible, step-by-step, easy to understand, and hands-on resource for any librarian who is interested in learning basic marketing tips to raise the profile of their library. While other books on library marketing are dense and assume that the library has a full-time marketing staff person, a publicist, a graphic designer, and a big fat budget., this book offers tips and tricks (often free) that any librarian can do to market the library. It will focus on the small changes to t...

Whether in an allegorical tale or wisecracking narrative the characters in Keep Your Shorts On! reveal that self-identity affects how humans solve problems. When facing social, psychological, spiritual or personal dilemmas they find ways to cope, -- or face the consequences of their choices.The Legend of Lenny Lemming is an allegorical tale about the essence of life. Like all of us, Lenny has much to learn. Why does he do the things he does? His relationship with a mysterious chara...

This book connects teaching practical strategies and ideas with educational theories to give you techniques to use in the classroom to capture students' attention and engage them with instruction.Drawing on the literatures of adult education and of teaching skills, Engaging Diverse Learners: Teaching Strategies for Academic Librarians presents a wide range of methods to improve how you teach. Coauthors Mark Aaron Polger and Scott Sheidlower argue that in o...