The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother's worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia.On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy worsened when, without a murder weapon, a body, or even a motive,...

The authority on developing strategies and a strategic plan for any public and nonprofit organizationStrategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations is the comprehensive, practical guide to building and sustaining a more effective organization, delivering a clear framework for designing and implementing a better strategic planning and management process. The field's leading authorities share insights, advice, helpful tools, and specific technique...

Three Revolutions in the Equatorial Americas.A volume of three feature pieces treating revolutions in each of Panama, Nicaragua and the building of tensions in Haiti.In Panama, a Pantomime.Billed as support for a rebellion against General Noriega, the US invaded Panama for Christmas 1989. A year later Western expatriates in their clubs and enclaves were still divided.GENERAL NORIEGA'S portrait stood on the hotel bar, his cap crusted with laurels,...

Whoring Around, a novella in six stories.PrologueBlowing ItBetween WhoresDreaming of GloryA Sense of ProprietyMore and more we lunched at his tennis club. He had recently become its honorary treasurer. I remember an afternoon, with the washed blues and faint yellows of early winter, when we ate on the terrace. The stonework was damp where the sun had not touched it. The other tables were empty, so it was early in the week.Humphrey's world...

A novel written true to the histories, and true to the memories of Enric Torres i Barbo, whose life and philosophies this novel takes for its guide.Twin boys Enric and Josep, at ten years of age, served as spies and couriers in the Resistance by the Republican Spanish against the invasion of Fascist forces in Spain, then from Italy and Germany during the Civil War.In Catalonia the war begins in Barcelona.THE MAZE of alleys and passageways of the old city as we passe...

Five Asian pieces, four from Kalimantan, Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, and one column piece from Samarinda, in one volume.His Brow in Feathers, the Dyak Chieftain and his Equation for the Order of Time.A Festival of Redemption, led by the Chief of the People Benuaq, Dyaks of the Central Lakes, Borneo.His lake was once a mountain, which inverted its form in an act of compassion for people who were without fishing grounds. The people are grateful. They und...

The Personality of War - A volume comprising five pieces.Dresden.Now an old man, a onetime Air Force flyer recalls his time in the night sky during the bombing of Dresden.For the incineration of a hundred and forty thousand souls, if things went right, for the destruction of a graceful city, of its old walls and obedient gardens, they flew east. He was the navigator.Rehearsals for the Death of Taipei.One day every year Taiwan practiced its defenses agai...

Brilliant Artists in TrioA volume of three feature pieces.Janet Baker, the Wind in Her Hair.Opera's Dame Janet, now retired from the stage to song performance, takes to sea on a yacht, the better to understand the rhythms of Elgar's Sea Pictures, of which she is already the world's authority.She was playing with the sound of the waves from the bow, it seemed to me, "Never before under sail', she said. It was very close to song....

A World This Size.You will have a restaurant like this in your city.And, if you have spent time eating alone in restaurants, you will have felt the reverie of the imagination, which will cause you to scrutinise other diners for clues to their personalities and attribute to them lives you could find interesting. This is the story here.A little Baroque music struts overhead. Here a man sits by himself. He is waiting on a martini. His fingers drum the c...

Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan is the companion workbook to Bryson's landmark book, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, a step-by-step guide to putting strategic planning into effect. Using revised, easy-to-understand worksheets, the authors provide clear instructions for creating a strategic plan tailored to the needs of the individual organization. With more material on stakeholder analysis, visioning, strategic issue identification...

In Rage, Rebellion - A volume comprising three feature pieces:Backstage at the RevolutionWhile the African National Congress was a banned organization in South Africa, and the white minority ruled with gunfire, the ANC theatre troupe Amandla toured the world. Amandla is Power. Every performer is a trained soldier and musician, dancer. Here is their tour of Australia.Beginning in darkness, the Overture is unlike any music theatergoers have heard before.

Islanders, Far South - Three feature pieces and one column piece in one volume, events in the lives of southern fishing communities in Tasmania.1.Pride of the Crayfish Fleet.Life in the Bass Strait Islands, out of the Port of Lady Barron.THE CRAYFISH I HOLD in my hand is forty years old. By whatever system of temporal measurement crayfish use, it is a very old man. In a few weeks its tail will be sliced into the white discs restaurateurs like to call medallions, and ...