One of Kennel Club Books' Country Dog titles, Hunting with Spaniels covers everything you need to know about selecting, training, and caring for flushing spaniels, including basic first aid. Lessons include basic training, using birds and bumpers, commands, obedience, field training, using whistles, retrieving, acclimating to the sound of gunfire, retrieving in water, marking the object, and quartering a field. Includes a section on The American Kennel Club (AKC) Spaniel Hunt Test program....

Pharaoh Khufu is building his House of Eternity, a pyramid on the Giza Plateau. The pyramid, an immense mountain of stone will safely protect him into the After Life, or so Khufu believes. Yet, as the pyramid reaches higher towards the sky doubts fill his troubled mind. The tomb of his mother, Queen Hetepheres has just been robbed and other royal tombs have also recently been looted, their royal mummies destroyed by ruthless robbers in the frantic search for stolen riches. Will Khufu suffe...

How were the three massive pyramids on the Giza Plateau built? Why were they built? Who constructed these enormous mountains of stone? In the first novel of the GIZA TRILOGY - THE PHARAOH these questions are answered, or at least plausible explanations offered to the reader... THE PHARAOH is the fictional account of the life and times of Pharaoh Khufu who ruled Egypt (Kemet) from 2589 - 2566 B.C. Khufu, who was considered by those he ruled over as a god-king was the builder of the largest ...

LOYAL and STEADFAST is the story of HMS CONSORT, a C class destroyer commissioned into the post-World War 2 Royal Navy. During her ten years of service, CONSORT spent nearly all her time in the Far East - participating in the Occupation of Japan, the Malayan Emergency and the Korean War. The book also documents in detail CONSORT's (up until now largely untold and ignored), involvement on 20 April 1949 in the Yangtze Incident. The Montebello Atomic Bomb tests and the Olympic Cruise to Melbo...

EATING WITH THE PHARAOHS is a collection of recipes and stories written by Pentu the Scribe, (a fictional character) who served as Master of Pharaoh's Kitchen during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu, 2589 - 2566 B.C. They bring to us part of the struggle of working as a cook in the Egypt of the pyramid builders. The recipes describe the ingredients and the ways of preparing the food more than four thousand years ago when accurate measuring was something not applied to food. In this intriguing co...

COLLECTED AUSTRALIAN STORIES is a visit into the Australian mind and the various facets of this ancient land. The impressive culture of the Aborigines, the original inhabitants of the land is brought to life in such stories as The Challenge and The Stone Country. Other stories such as The Wejii Man examine deeper cultural beliefs. The more recent history of Australia is also explored through such stories as Lost Souls, a story of hope and despair in the convict Australia of the early 19th ...

The DICK SLEUTH detective story collection is set in Tasmania and brings to life a most original detective whose unorthodox and bizarre actions leads to impressive (and often lucky) results. Just who is Dick Sleuth? In the thirty four stories in this bumper collection, the reader will find out just how tough and how good Dick really is. Just who is Dick Sleuth? Don't let the name fool you. His real name is Eddie Morrison and he is my cousin. He is also a private detective. Eddie, or as he ...

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywood – Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor – and the gay male fetishization of those faces.Classical Hollywood cinema is given to an aesthetic and ideological struggle between rival scopic economies: an erotics of “to-be-looked-at-ness” is countered by a hermeneutics of “to-be-seen-through-ness.” The latter emerges triump...

The first true pyramid, the Shining Pyramid of Pharaoh Snefru is completed in 2601 B.C. One god is elevated and another demoted in the eyes of Pharaoh and the people. Murder and chaos soon follows, with the priests of the demoted god demanding revenge on the one who has wronged them. This man is Quom, Royal Architect to Pharaoh, the man who has designed and constructed the pyramid for his pharaoh.Set against the beginnings of the magnificent pyramid age of Ancient Egypt, THE DIVINE...

THE SPHINX is the fictional (but well-researched) account of Pharaoh Khafre, son of Khufu and builder of the second largest pyramid on the Giza Plateau. He is also thought to be the builder of the Sphinx. Or was he? The novel is not only about the life of Khafre, his rule over Egypt (Kemet) and his many military conquests, but is also the story of the mysterious Sphinx. What did this massive and mysterious stone monument with the body of a lion and the face of a man really represent? Whose...

BELIEF is a historical novel set in 1574 B.C. during a crisis period in Pharaonic Egypt. The book depicts the struggle to expel the foreign invaders from the east, the Hyksos, and the difficulty in trusting a new god whose promises are too good to be true and also too vague to be trusted.Hori, a junior priest did not mean to serve a new god. He just wanted a little attention, but through his irresponsible and foolish lies, he ends up in a terrible situation. The events he unleashes ...

How can we make health care processes safer and more consistent? How do we improve care outcomes for patients? With a range of coaching tips, activities, scenarios and reflective exercises, this book enables you to translate current research on patient safety in to everyday good practice, by increasing understanding of the key concepts and helping you to develop strategies to minimise the risk of patient harm. It focusses on Human Factors to support understanding of the relationship betwee...