"A Climber in New Zealand" by Malcolm Ross is an engaging narrative that captures the essence of adventure and exploration in the stunning landscapes of New Zealand. Ross, an experienced climber, shares his personal experiences and challenges faced while navigating the rugged terrains and majestic peaks of the region. His vivid descriptions transport readers to the breathtaking vistas and the thrill of scaling mountains, making it a compelling read for both climbing enthusiasts and those w...

In "A Climber in New Zealand," Malcolm Ross presents a captivating narrative that intertwines the exhilarating challenges of mountaineering with the breathtaking landscapes of New Zealand. Ross employs a vivid, descriptive literary style that evokes the raw beauty of the natural world while delving deep into the psychological and emotional complexities faced by climbers. Set against the backdrop of the early 20th century, the book weaves together adventure with introspection, exploring the...

The Southern Alps before the huts and the guides - Mount Cook, the Tasman glacier, first ascents made with local shepherds and improvised gear. Ross was a New Zealand journalist and one of the first to climb them for their own sake. This edition includes a gallery of 59 plates of painting by Albert Bierstadt, Caspar David Friedrich and Frederic Edwin Church, among others, alongside 29 illustrations restored and coloured for this edition.

The constituency for education and therapy in the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school and clinical settings to include the wider community. In Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy, Malcolm Ross integrates traditional Chinese Five Element Theory, also known as The Five Phases of Change, with contemporary Western psychological and cultural studies, to form a new Syncretic Model of creative artistic practice.The Syncretic Model is explor...

Two Kiwis recount their experiences of the Front at Gallipoli and France during the First World War. Included are a number of their own photographs."THE authors of this book, father and son, have seen much of the Light and Shade of War during the past two years, the one as a War Correspondent in Egypt, Turkey and France, the other as a soldier, and, afterwards, as one of the staff of The Times."The day for writing the histories of our different campaigns is not yet. For the p...

This new volume of the Language Family Series presents an overview of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages, spread across a region embracing eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. It provides sufficient phonological and grammatical data to give typologists and comparativists a good idea of the nature of these languag

The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the nature of evidence and the tools for correlating results from different disciplines.Drawing upon the latest evidence in genetics, linguistics and archaeology, this exciting new book examines the history of the peopling of East Asia, and investigates the ways in which we can de...

Malcolm Duffy's debut novel Me Mam. Me Dad. Me won the YA category of the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2019, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Prize 2019 and selected for World Book Night.Written with humour and heart, Sofa Surfer looks at what it means to be homeless. 15-year-old Tyler's teenage angst turns to outright rebellion when his family leave London for a new life in Yorkshire. He's angry with his parents about the upheaval and furious at losing his home. Wi...

Bloomsbury presents Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. by Malcolm Duffy, read by Ross Adams.WINNER SHEFFIELD CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2019, YA CATEGORY.WINNER REDBRIDGE CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2019.SHORTLISTED WATERSTONE'S CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2019.WORLD BOOK NIGHT TITLE 2019.– and many more.'It was the day the clocks went back. That's when I decided to kill him.'Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geor...

This book asks how we can reclaim the university for the public good. The editors and contributors argue that the sector is in crisis, accelerated by the passing of the UK Higher Education Research Act in 2017 and made visible during the University and College Union strikes in April 2018. In response to this, there are widespread demands to reclaim the university and protect education as a public good, using co-operative structures. Taking an interdisciplinary and social justice perspectiv...

When Charlotte Mullen, a fortyish flinty Irish spinster, takes in her orphaned cousin, the beautiful nineteen-year-old Francie Fitzgerald who had been living in Dublin with poor relatives, life in a small Irish village is dramatically upended. As Charlotte plots to marry Francie to a local squire's son, events build to a shocking crescendo with dire effects. Originally published in three volumes, this Warbler Classics edition is based on the combined 1895 publication and includes an afterw...

In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, leading researchers in fire ecology and management discuss how fire regimes have shaped and will continue to shape the distribution and abundance of Australia’s highly diverse plants and animals. Central to this is the exploration of the concept of the fire regime – the cumulative pattern of fires and their individual characteristics (fire type, frequency, intensity, season) and how variation in regime comp...