One of the better-written accounts of Hollywood, and in particular the seamier aspects of the B-movie industry, where desperation leads to sexual adventure.

The non-violent defiance of Te Whiti-o-Rongomai, Tohu Kakahi and their followers at Parihaka is one of the great New Zealand narratives. This extract from the book by journalist Dick Scott which brought the story to the wider Pākehā world describes what happened when troops and settler volunteers invaded the village of Parihaka on 5 November 1881.

Award-winning writers Geoff Chapple, Claudia Orange, Anne Salmond and Dick Scott explore pivotal moments in New Zealand’s history in this bundle of BWB Texts. These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers. In When the Tour Came to Auckland Geoff Chapple describes the startling scenes as the Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981 comes to a violent conclusion.In What Happened at Waitangi...

One of the better-written accounts of Hollywood, and in particular the seamier aspects of the B-movie industry, where desperation leads to sexual adventure.

This book is of interest to practitioners, researchers and graduate students seeking to apply existing techniques, to learn about the state of the art, or to explore novel concepts, in the theory and application of fuzzy sets and logic. Human knowledge and judgement are essential in both designing technological systems and in evaluating their outcomes. However, humans think and communicate in imprecise concepts, not numbers. Fuzzy sets and logic are well-known, widely used approaches to br...

This book focuses on an overview of the AI techniques, their foundations, their applications, and remaining challenges and open problems. Many artificial intelligence (AI) techniques do not explain their recommendations. Providing natural-language explanations for numerical AI recommendations is one of the main challenges of modern AI. To provide such explanations, a natural idea is to use techniques specifically designed to relate numerical recommendations and natural-language description...

"Clinton Is A Superlative Carnal Craftsman, Whose Secrets Of Seduction--Unblushingly Dramatized In This Book--Threaten All Those Women Who Still Take Pride In Their Virginity!"--Kevin James, Recollections (London, 1891)James is a self-confessed lecher dedicated to "patrolling the continent in search of goods, overhauling every shape and make of female flesh between Constantinople and Calcutta."Beginning with his artful seduction of his father's 19-y...

A classic of pre-revolutionary France, this novel examines the inside of a monastery, and offered not a little criticism of false pieties from the clerical regime. Olympia republished this work in the earlier days of the Traveller's Companion, it is believed but not assured that Austryn Wainhouse was the translator.

About:As the curtain is raised on this drama, the foibles of the characters come into focus—the small town hard-working accountant who is trying to save his money in order to start his own business, the little rich girl whose only talent is identifiable by a dollar sign, the political performer fighting for power with his only negotiable asset, the disillusioned Vietnam veteran, and the dedicated thespian. In this richly tapestried setting filled with contemporary theatrical fledglings, Th...

The intimate and revealing confessions of a young girl devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and the pleasures of the flesh.

When Monsieur Dormeuil calls upon a certain Mademoiselle for a spot of lascivious, he is surprised to learn of her humble origins as a convent Sister and of her tale of eventual liberation, of sexual and of her habit, by a man even more predisposed to licentiousness than he; Monsieur Alexis Lorille!When the true object of Dormeuil's lust arrives, Pauline, the three make their way to Hotel X and to the company of Count Alexis. With the rooms of this palatial abode all manner of orgi...

All good stories begin with fascinating characters, and this novel is replete with them. We have Gwen, nineteen, five feet two inches, voluptuous and gorgeous. Gwen is a budding journalist who will do anything to get a story — and the story she gets leads her far deeper into an awareness of herself and sexual experience than she ever planned to go. We have Dan, big and brawny, a young cop, who discovers in himself a love of Gwen so overpowering that it leads him to heights of heroism and t...