Shortlisted for Best Wine Book for the 2018 Wine Communicator of the Year Awards.The Margaret River region of Australia's south-west is internationally renowned for its award-winning wines. There are now more than 200 wineries, predominantly boutique style, in the region, producing more than 20% of Australia's premium wine market.The Way It Was tells the story of the early days of the region's wine industry, from the first plantings by Dr Tom Culli...

Volume III of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars moves away from the battlefield to explore broader questions of society and culture. Leading scholars from around the globe show how the conflict left its mark on virtually every aspect of society. They reflect on the experience of the soldiers who fought in them, examining such matters as military morale, ideas of honour and masculinity, the treatment of wounds and the fate of prisoners-of-war; and they explore social issues such ...

Revisit the tale of Rumpelstiltskin with this graphic novel for new readers. The king demands the miller's daughter spin straw into gold. She doesn't know how until Rumpelstiltskin appears out of nowhere with his magic. But as the king asks for more gold, and Rumpelstiltskin demands repayment, what will happen to the miller's daughter?

One evening as he made his way to a local church social in the village hall during the 1950s, a loud crack shook the ground and the night sky turned to an orange glow, lighting the way for him. Shrugging his shoulders, the author made his way through the village, and in the distance he heard an explosion as a jet aircraft hit the ground. It was a common enough occurrence in the village of Ilton; RAF Merryfield was always losing aircraft and on a regular basis. Fifty years ...

Whether you enjoy cozies, noirs, police procedurals, whodunnits, or lighthearted mysteries, there's something for everyone in this terrific Christmas-themed collection by twelve of Canada's finest mystery authors! An OPP officer investigates a John Doe dressed like Santa in July. A Toronto woman traces a mall Santa to the Caribbean. A woman's body is found in an isolated part of Cape Breton. A graduate student helps CSIS trace the source of a death caused by listeria. An aging singer disco...

Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions Australasian philosophers have made to their discipline, a series of public talks by leading Australasian philosophers was convened at various literary events and festivals across Australi...

Technologies such as tablets, plagiarism software, and learning videos are now an important part of teaching and learning around the world. The underlying human-technology relations that shape modern educational settings have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future.This volume applies the analytical tools of postphenomenology to the context of education. In three sections, the contributors present empirical evidence on the use of technology in schools, sh...

Peter Forrest argues that Essential Catholicism is the one and only religion to which reasonable humanists could commit. Drawing onImmanuel Kant's Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason and Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity, he provides an in-depth philosophical investigation into the synthesis of Catholicism and the Enlightenment.In this nuanced study humanity and divinity are two species of the same genus. Chapters defend the apo...

This book offers a rigorous analysis of why commitment matters and the challenges it presents to a range of believers.Peter Forrest treats commitment as a response to lost innocence. He considers the intellectual consequences of this by demonstrating why, for example, we should not believe in angels. He then explores why humans are attached to reason and to humanism, recognising the different commitments made by theist and non-theist humanists. Finally, he analyses religious faith,...

‘Go home, you adolescent rabble! It must be past your bedtime!’ ‘Aw shut up, you old bat!’ Hellz shouts. ‘Yeah, we’ll go home when we feel like it,’ Tan yells. Hellz, Tan and Eddie are the local skateboarding trio. Every night after school they hang out together, terrorising ‘the Witch’. That’s what they call elderly Lallie. They make their own rules, and give cheek to anyone who gets in their way. But Lallie gives as good as she gets, and when Hellz unexpectedly finds himself in her garde...

If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis. The core of Lewis's many contributions to philosophy, including his work in philosophical ontology, intensional logic and semantics, probability and decision theory, topics within philosophy of science as well as a distinguished philosophy of mind, can be understood as the development of philosophical posi...

The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called “the fountainhead of radical American poetics.”The New American Poetry is referred to in every literary history of post-World War II American poetry. Allen’s anthology has reached its fiftieth anniversary, providing a unique time for reflection and reevaluation of this preeminent collection.