Some journeys begin with a destination. Others begin simply with the need to leave.In The Long Way Home: Poetry of Love, Loss, and Return, John David Smith traces the quiet distances between restlessness and belonging, freedom and responsibility, departure and return.Across five poetic movements, these poems follow a wanderer who believes distance will loosen what binds him, only to discover that some things travel with us: love, memory, absence, r...

In a world where the next global war will be fought in silence and shadows, ODIN Spear Ruler follows the journey of a master hacker whose skills can topple governments and rewrite the rules of power. When a mysterious, adaptive cyber weapon—known as the "Dragon's Veil"—emerges, it threatens to destabilize everything from financial markets to military satellites.As the Phantom Hacker moves through Parisian cafés, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the digital corridor...

‘Harriet’s Eternal Tears’ is an emotionally uplifting drama of a mother’s love and loss during the First World War, when her two sons went out to face the uncertainties of conflict. Harriet is happy in her close-knit community until the horrors of war descend on her. Her two sons, David and Emrys, go off to fight despite Emrys only being sixteen. He soon discovers that joining the cyclist battalion is not the fun that he had expected. As the story unfolds, a chance meeting with suffragette...

ETFs have taken global financial markets by storm.In this book, you will learn how to gain cheap and easy access to a broadly diversified basket of Australian shares, international shares, bonds, commodities or even currencies – just as easily as buying company shares on the ASX using your share trading account.Due to their low cost, transparency, and ease of use, ETFs are already improving the investment strategies of over 200,000 Australian investors, inc...

***Geordies — Wa Mental!***, is the first volume in the autobiographical trilogy (Stardust and Coaldust) of David John Douglass, a coalminer for 40 years. It tells the fascinating story of the radicalisation of a working-class Geordie ‘baby-boomer’ during the first twenty years of his life, providing a unique and valuable insight into the political and cultural movements of the 1960s.

This is both the life of Giacomo Casanova and a chronicle of eighteenth-century Europe. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century's greatest men and women, from Frederick the Great to Catherine the Great, from Voltaire to Albrecht von Haller, from Pope Benedict XIV to Pope Cleme...

In POSTMODERN SPIRITUALITY IN THE AGE OF ENTITLEMENT, impatience, quickness, and the need for instant gratification unconsciously push the postmodern person towards "social and spiritual shallowness." Attempting to cope with an ever-increasing flow and flood of information, knowledge, and data, we skim and scan, instead of deep reading and absorption. David Robson weaves numerous thoughtful and stimulating viewpoints from other noted experts combined with his timely insights into how our w...

What would you do if the person you loved betrayed you in the worst way possible?Domini Parrino's life is fantastic. She has a loving husband, son, and lifelong best friend. And her business is booming. Life couldn't be better.However, her perfect world is about to come crashing down around her. She has a viper in the nest—her cheating husband.Now his terrible secret is out. He's betrayed her in the worst way possible. And now he’s going to pay the ...

ETFs have taken global financial markets by storm.In this book, you will learn how to gain cheap and easy access to a broadly diversified basket of Australian shares, international shares, bonds, commodities or even currencies – just as easily as buying company shares on the ASX using your share trading account.Due to their low cost, transparency, and ease of use, ETFs are already improving the investment strategies of over 200,000 Australian investors, inc...

The definitive history of the great coal strike of 1984/85 and the background to it, this book explodes all the prevailing myths around that epic period, and corrects the inaccuracies in dozens of books previously penned by academics and journalists. Written by a participant at the sharp end of that struggle, it uniquely deals with the post-strike period, which hitherto no other writer has attempted to describe, nor any commentator understood. It portrays the efforts of the miners to stay ...

Dave Douglass was a pitman for 40 years in the coalfields of the Tyne and in South Yorkshire. This book, the second in his trilogy Stardust and Coaldust, deals with the period from the end of the 60s to the coming to power of Thatcher. In this 15-year period, dramatic events in the world revolution course around the globe. Dave Douglass transports us back to a time conventional histories have tried to forget or bury or rewrite. It is political and social history told by a direct participan...

What would you do if the person you loved betrayed you in the worst way possible?Domini Parrino's life is fantastic. She has a loving husband, son, and lifelong best friend. And her business is booming. Life couldn't be better.However, her perfect world is about to come crashing down around her. She has a viper in the nest—her cheating husband.Now his terrible secret is out. He's betrayed her in the worst way possible. And now he’s going to pay the ...