Glasshouses is an inventive, incandescent collection by one of Australia's most talented new poets. Drawing on a number of complex techniques, Stuart Barnes illuminates both city and coastal life, with allusions to classical and contemporary culture. Replete with extraordinary imagery, the poems maintain a beautiful accessibility and coherence despite their continually twisting, even disjointed figures.

“If we are the most intelligent creatures on Earth, why do we try to make our domesticated animals understand our language, instead of us understanding theirs?” From the paddocks of New Zealand and Scotland to the untamed hilltops of Ethiopia and the valleys of Alaska, Stuart Barnes has tracked, observed and trained dogs all over the world for over 25 years. In this book he shares his incredible insights to help us all learn to communicate with our canines on the level they understand. The...

E-commerce and V-business examines the impact of the Internet and associated technologies on two related aspects of business: electronic commerce and virtual organization. Using a combination of recent theory and empirical evidence it demonstrates how forward thinking organizations are reaping considerable advantages from exciting new business models in these areas. Such models require radical rethinking of many aspects of traditional business. The book covers many of the critical and cont...

MBusiness: The Strategic Implications of Mobile Communications presents recent theory and evidence on wireless information technologies and their application in business. Such information is useful in both the classroom and for interested practitioners contemplating new technological developments.MBusiness is a very fast moving area and consequently there is a need to provide relevant material for those who wish to understand the subject. This text provides recent ...

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.Issue Seventeen table of contents is available on the Tincture website, http://tincture-journal.com/

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.Issue Fourteen table of contents is available on the Tincture website, http://tincture-journal.com/

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.Issue Fifteen table of contents is available on the Tincture website, http://tincture-journal.com/

Tincture Journal is a quarterly literary journal based in Brisbane, Australia and collecting interesting new works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Australia and the world.Issue Twelve table of contents is available on the Tincture website, http://tincture-journal.com/

The perfect murder? This short story romp about lust for money, hatred of the one who provides it and getting away with murder (and the money) is a fiction must read for murder buffs.This short fiction story from "Australia's Queen of True Crime", Robin Bowles, brings her many years of experience investigating and writing about crime to the crime fiction genre with a short and exciting story.

Featuring:Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lisa Blower, Lavinia Greenlaw and Lionel Shriver.Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read ’in one sitting’. ‘Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect,’ he argued, once the effect has been established, of course.The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 all use brevity with striking results, whether presenting a comp...

A collection of short stories and poems with a twist

This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds. The authors are Patricia Grace, Albert Wendt, Alice Tawhai, Briar Grace-Smith, Paula Morris, Tina Makereti, James George, Renée, Jacqui McRae, Eru Hart, Helen Waaka, Toni Pivac, K-t Harrison, Anya Ngaw...