In the 1920s and 1930s there were adventures to be lived and fortunes to be made by strong young men in the outback of Australia and the gold fields of New Guinea. This is the diary of five years spent in hot pursuit—not of honor and glory, but of excitement and riches—by one such adventurer, Michael "Mick" Leahy, his brothers Jim and Pat, and friends Mick Dwyer and Jim Taylor. Leahy and his associates explored the unknown interior of New Guinea, seeking gold and making contact for the fir...

One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within an Indian province known as Mabila. Although the Indians were defeated, the battle was a decisive blow to Spanish plans for the conquest and settlement of what is now the southeastern United State...

Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified “Others” became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of the field, A Global History of Sexual Science ...

How does a charismatic high school student build a massive carpet cleaning empire, take it public on Wall Street, and achieve a valuation of over two hundred million dollars, all without actually doing any business? The ZZZZ Best fraud of 1986 is one of the most audacious and terrifying auditing failures in American financial history. Barry Minkow realized early on that actual carpet cleaning was barely profitable. Instead, he funded his extravagant lifestyle by creating a massive Ponzi sc...

Whether you are designing a new system or need to update and get the most out of the one in place Sound of Worship will offer essential information to guide and inform you choices. Written to give the context to help you focus your choices as well as the technical information to understand options, this essential guide will help you avoid costly mistakes when working with acoustics and the sound systems of the church.When planning a system this book has you covered! Considering eve...

This is about a boy who was born in California and raised in Kentucky. He hitchhiked two thousand miles at the age of fifteen and got into the military life.

While electorally weak, the Communist Party of Great Britain and its Welsh Committee was a constant feature of twentieth century Welsh politics, in particular through its influence in the trade union movement. Based on original archival research, the present volume offers the first in-depth study of the Communist Party’s attitude to devolution in Wales, to Welsh nationhood and Welsh identity, as well as examining the party’s relationship with the Labour Party, Plaid Cymru and the labour an...

This is a book of prayer. In it are the heartfelt longings and joyful utterances of psalmists, saints, and sages. These ageless petitions and praises are pathways, guiding those who pray them into deeper experiences with God. DAWN TO DARK is an invitation to join our voices with those who have gone before us, uniting our prayers with theirs in a combined chorus of heavenly worship. This book introduces the ancient practice of fixedhour prayer, through which day and night are transformed into ...

Medical research is a global endeavor; a complex network of international drugs trials and data collection in the pursuit of novel treatments. And the Asia-Pacific region is considered an ideal "market" for such trials, with large populations and good hospitals. However, to become hosts to global trials, and to export valid trial data, researchers are required to engage local research ethics committees. Supported through grants from the World Health Organization, the Forum of Ethics Review...

A thriller book with mystery, adventure, and genetic engineering. Geneticist, Simon Barstow, has stumbled on the secret to immortality.Billionaire Gregory Noble, who has planned decades for precisely this event, orchestrates a ruthless strike to steal this world-changing breakthrough and eliminate the few who know of its existence. His goal—keep the discovery secret and sell eternal life only to those who will both pledge fealty and pay a ...

Medical thriller book with high adventure and higher stakes.When the Longevity Gene was released into the wild, 400,000,000 people were suddenly returned to a state of youthful vigor. A year has passed since this singular event, and the strain is being felt across the planet. The edifices of governments, corporations, and religions are cracking under the pressure. The very nature of what it means to be human is being challenged.In the United States, longevi...

This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze.Douglas A. Jones's Pragmatics of Democracy reads African American literature, from its beginnings through the mid-nineteenth century, to theorize how we have come to regard democracy as the most excellent form of political life. Jones notes that the aims of democracy, especially co...