Art Damani billionaire, owner of AZTECK, the largest tech company in the world, stands at the top of the ARK head quarters watching the US President plane and protection detail burn. Feeling like Nero watching Rome burn. How did it come to this? All he wanted was peace.Brokering a peace deal between two warring African nations, Art built the ARK a game reserve to replenish the worlds endangered animal species. The ARK a beacon of hope and peace for the world, is in ruins.Ar...

Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and correspondence of the era, Australian Music and Modernism defines "Australian Music" as an idea that emerged through the lens of the modernist discourse of the 1960s and 70s. At the same time that the new "Australian Music" was distinctive of the nation, it was also thoroughly connected to practices from Europe and shaped by a new engagement with the music of Southeast Asia. This book examines the intersection of nationa...

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers are wanting a summary of the play,...

Australian by birth but a longtime resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.1931) is central to both Australian and British modernism. During the early 1970s Australian musical modernism was at its height. Lumsdaine and his Australian contemporaries were engaged with practices from multiple places, producing music that displays the attributes of their disparate influences; in so doing they formed a new conception of what it meant to be an Australian composer. The period is similarly i...

The increasing interest in artistic research, especially in music, is throwing open doors to exciting ideas about how we generate new musical knowledge and understanding. This book examines the wide array of factors at play in innovative practice and how by treating it as research we can make new ideas more widely accessible.Three key ideas propel the book. First, it argues that artistic research comes from inside the practice and exists in a space that accommodates both objective ...

In this ebook short story, also available in the new, complete Jack Reacher short story collection No Middle Name, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Lee Child goes back to 1989, when Jack Reacher is serving as an officer in the military police.A young lieutenant colonel, in a stylish handmade uniform, roars through the damp woods of Georgia in her new silver Porsche - until she meets a very tall soldier with a broken-down car.What could connect a cold-bloode...

From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that pits former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger against the only man who might be able to outshoot him.A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear. Badly wounded, the team’s sole survivor, Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, aka “the Cruise Missile...

“One of the best writers today.” (Johnny Olsen) / “A master storyteller.” (Betty Richard) FROM AWARD-WINNING USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY AIR FORCE ONE IS DOWNBUT THEIR FIGHT TO SURVIVE HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN!Award-winning USA Today and million-copy bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy delivers another action-packed thriller in The Lazarus Moment.When Air Force One cra...

“One of the best writers today.” (Johnny Olsen) / “A master storyteller.” (Betty Richard) FROM AWARD-WINNING USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY WILL A DESPERATE PRESIDENT RISK WAR TO SAVE HIS ONLY CHILD?J. Robert Kennedy, author of the USA Today Bestseller The Templar’s Relic (#1 overall on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo), delivers another irresistible pulse-pounding, action-packed thril...

“One of the best writers today.” (Johnny Olsen) / “A master storyteller.” (Betty Richard)FROM USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYTHEY THOUGHT SHE WAS NOBODY.THEY WERE WRONG.When four women witness a brutal murder, the fight for their lives begins. One loses that fight, another is wounded, one is scarred psychologically, and the fourth is taken hostage.By the Russian mob.

“One of the best writers today.” (Johnny Olsen) / “A master storyteller.” (Betty Richard)FROM USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYTHEY WERE JUST ADVISORS.UNTIL THEY WEREN’T.On a routine advisory mission to Nigeria, Bravo Team finds themselves in the line of fire when the Boko Haram terrorist group attacks a local village, intent on kidnapping their girls.Vastly outnumbered, Bravo ...

Fighting crime just isn't the same without your best mate by your side.Police dog handler Mike Winters and his furry partner Falcon love a good chase. They'll do anything to protect the streets of Sydney, whether it's tracking a murderer through the woods or breaking up a bar brawl. To them, it's all fun and games until the bad guy gets hurt. And then it's just fun.Lately though, it seems that violent incidents are on the rise. When Mike and Falcon's beloved commander is ki...