A juicy piece of trivia is like a beautiful fresh cut of protein. It needs to be handled just right. Some fillets of trivia work well as a question, others are best posed as a ‘Did you know’. Some have so much flesh on them that they are better served up as a whole story or essay. That is what you will find between these pages, a smorgasbord of trivia treats to feast upon. Like a buffet on a cruise ship, you can start at the beginning and work your way along, you can push in at any point f...

Featuring revealing interviews with the members of AC/DC and other chart-topping acts, this chronicle profiles the careers of Australia's top songwriters, producers, and star-makers: Harry Vanda and George Young. From their partnership as members of Easybeats to their diverse range of hits—including "Friday on My Mind," "She's So Fine," and "Love is in the Air"—this inspirational account demonstrates how Vanda and Young harnessed the raw energy and power of Aussie pub rock to become legend...

When a bird of prey snatches a baby rabbit, the rabbits suspect something much worse. This thrilling adventure mixes naturalistic talking rabbits in the style of Watership Down together with psionic powers, teleporters, helpful robots and dangerous monsters. Follow the rabbits of Oraculum Warren, their neighbours Deep Index Warren, the hi-tech Greenmint Warren and the secretive Mothership Down Warren in this beautifully-told fable. The rabbits will need all their faith and courage to survi...

Hack the Edge Off Classics comprises a collection of all my surviving fiction writing from 2009 to 2024, the year I wrote and published my first novel called Warrens Witches Psionics. I consider all this earlier writing as practice for that novel. Both the included Warrens series and the Moral Hazard series belong to the same leaky universe as Warrens Witches Psionics, and form prequels to it. The Warrens series and my story game Dandelion developed closely together. I used Dandelion subse...

yellowcake, the common name for the uranium concentrate u308, created from the raw mined ore by sulfuric acid action. the metal has lept to 21st century importance as escalating world productivity demands more energy at less cost. but this thriller, spiced with ingredients of romance, adventure and surprise events confronts us with a nuclear disaster new to science, and how the characters handle that. georgia, recently- widowed paleontologist and zoologist takes a depression-enforced holid...

Recent research in Africa has shown a wide range of political systems, from small societies of wandering hunters to large states of several million people comparable with mediaeval European feudal kingdoms. In between are many societies in which a central government is lacking; the political system is based upon a balance of power between many small groups, which with their lack of classes or specialized political offices, have been called 'ordered anarchies'. First published in 1958.

Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of all sorts of communication, from color television to the clear transmission of photographs from the vicinity of Jupiter. Even more revolutionary progress is expected in the future.Beginning with the origins of this burgeoning field, Dr. Pierce follows the brilliant formu...

A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the world’s favorite flavors―The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary reveals the amazing history of spices both familiar and esoteric. John O’Connell’s erudite chapters combine history with insights into art, religion, medicine, science, and they’re richly seasoned with anecdotes and recipes. Discover why Cleopatra bathed in saffron and mare’s milk, why wormwood-laced absinthe caused eighteenth-century drinke...

God created you to be you, not someone else. So why do we so often settle for less? Why do we bow to the pressure to conform to others' expectations of us rather than boldly being the person we were meant to be? Why do we pretend to be satisfied with average, ordinary . . . common? What would it be like if we actually believed God desires to do something extraordinary with our lives?In this inspiring new book from the bestselling author of An Enemy Called Average,...

"A rollicking ride back to the roots of stock car racing in the Midwest." —Journal of American CultureNamed by BookAuthority one of the 22 Best Motorsport eBooks of All TimeChosen by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association as the second best motorsport book published in 2013Who won the first Daytona 500? Fans still debate whether it was midwestern champion Johnny Beauchamp, declared th...

When dreams collapse . . .Jon Peters had it all: record-breaking high school baseball pitcher, on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a beautiful girlfriend. He was going to play professional baseball. He was going to have everything he'd ever wanted. Until a shoulder injury and four surgeries changed his life. With dreams shattered, Jon struggled to find value and happiness. After years searching vainly to make sense of it all, alcohol, a suicide attempt, deep-seated...

From the unapologetic bad boy of professional golf comes a rip-roaring account of his rollercoaster life and careerFrom his battles with alcoholism and gambling addiction to marital problems (his fourth and current wife is facing money-laundering charges) and a highly publicized breakdown during a nationally televised tournament, John Daly has hit into his share of hazards.Daly’s play-it-as-it-lies approach drives a thrillingly candid memoir of a larger-tha...