The first installment of The RIISE Roadmap to Independent School Success & Beyond is an introduction to the experiences of Ms. Parker Collins’ family as well as an overview of the culture of independent schools. Subsequent installments will focus on issues including the application process, becoming an active parent, and dealing with the hurdles families face when entering predominantly affluent and white institutions. With a growing number of prospective and enrolled families of color in ...

River Processes deals primarily with flow and sediment dynamics in alluvial channels. It emphasises water flows (basic principles and characterisation), fluvial sediment, processes of erosion and sediment transport, bedforms that result from flow-bed sediment interactions in sand and gravel, flow and sedimentary processes in curved, braided and confluent channels, as well as aquatic habits.River Processes provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge about physical proces...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Akashic records are your pathway to not only understanding divinity but also becoming a disciple of the divine.The chapters of this book are laid out carefully to help you navigate the different energies you'll be facing as you soar lightly through endless oceans of vibrations.This is an opportunity to investigate the intricate lines that form your destiny and bend them to your will.In pa...

Contemporary students of mathematics differ considerably from those of half a century ago. In spite of this, many textbooks written decades ago, and now considered to be “classics”, are still prescribed for students today. These texts are not suitable for today’s students. This text is meant for and written to today’s mathematics students.Set theory is a pure mathematics endeavor in the sense that it seems to have no immediate applications; yet the knowledge and skills dev...

Bridging historical scholarship and Aboriginal oral tradition, this innovative book tells the story of the Gugu Badhun people of the Valley of Lagoons in North Queensland. It provides new insights into Aboriginal–European interactions, and new understandings of how Aboriginal people sustained their identities and exercised agency.It lays bare violence and oppression, but also recognises the inter-racial cooperation and friendships which were equally part of Gugu Badhun experience. ...

Ideal for history majors, nonhistory majors taking history courses, as well as general readers, this book provides not only the primary documents and artifacts of ordinary people in history, but also annotations that help the reader put them into context and grasp their deeper meaning.This two-volume work explores daily life across human history through primary sources, making use of this primary source material as well as detailed analysis to help readers understa...

This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with an object from the 21st century which represents the world...

A bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and a plea to keep Australia's famed open-mindedness, Cater tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture and outlook since Donald Horne published THE LUCKY COUNTRY in 1964. 'A great book.' Rupert MurdochA bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and how it is threatened by the rise of a ruling class. Nick Cater, senior editor at the Australian, tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture an...

Complete Casting Handbook is the result of a long-awaited update, consolidation and expansion of expert John Campbell's market-leading casting books into one essential resource for metallurgists and foundry professionals who design, specify or manufacture metal castings. The first single-volume guide to cover modern principles and processes in such breadth and depth whilst retaining a clear, practical focus, it includes: - A logical, two-part structure, breaking the contents down into cast...

A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization.How did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world?In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controv...

Former publisher of Griffith Review Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity.'Disruptive, bold and brilliant, The Idea of Australia is a work of masterful synthesis, intimate reflection and stunning vision' CLARE WRIGHTWhat is the 'idea of Australia'? What defines the soul of our nation?Are we an egalitarian, generous, outwar...

This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.