Andreas Ersson Library

By Michael French Smith

Kragur village lies at the rugged north shore of Kairiru, a steep volcanic island simply off the north coast of Papua New Guinea. In 1998 the village appeared a lot because it had a few twenty-two years past whilst writer Michael French Smith first visited. yet he quickly stumbled on that altering conditions have been shaking issues up. Village at the Edge weaves jointly the tale of Kragur villagers' fight to discover their very own course towards the longer term with the tale of Papua New Guinea's travails within the post-independence period. Smith writes of his personal stories in addition, residing and dealing in Papua New Guinea and attempting to comprehend the complexities of an strange lifestyle. to inform a lot of these tales, he delves into ghosts, magic, myths, ancestors, bookkeeping, tourism, the realm financial institution, the Holy Spirits, and the that means of growth and improvement. Village at the Edge attracts at the insights of cultural anthropology yet is written for someone attracted to Papua New Guinea.

By Ian Knight

The Maori humans of recent Zealand have been skilled box engineers even ahead of they got here into clash with Europeans within the nineteenth Century. war among rival teams used to be endemic in Maori society, and it used to be universal perform to guard villages with surrounding entrenchments and wood palisades, often called pas. As touch with the ecu global elevated, the Maori spoke back by means of adopting firearms into their conventional armory. It used to be now not till 1845, although, with the 1st scuffling with among the Maori and the British, that it grew to become transparent simply how robust and complex the Maori fortifications have been. For the simplest a part of twenty years, the Maori held off the dominant and technologically more advantageous British forces, by means of adapting and constructing their defenses in accordance with each new development within the British artillery. The advanced community of trenches and sheltered 'bomb-proof' dug outs, designed to withstand additional British attacks, proved so potent they had a powerful effect at the trench conflict structures of global struggle I. This ebook explores the evolution and layout of Maori fortifications, and charts the process a clash that might eventually see the British holiday the Maori pas, resulting in a sour guerrilla bush struggle.

By Michael Fishbane

First released in hardback in August 1985, Professor Fishbane's e-book deals the 1st finished research of the phenomenon of textual research in historical Israel. It explores the wealthy culture of exegesis ahead of the improvement of biblical interpretation in early classical Judaism and the earliest Christian groups, and examines 4 major different types of exegesis: scribal, criminal, aggadic, and mantological. In learning this topic, it emerges that the Hebrew Bible isn't just the root rfile for the exegetical tradition of Judaism and Christianity, yet an exegetical paintings in its personal correct. Professor Fishbane, who has further new fabric in appendices to this paperback version, has been presented 3 significant prizes for this paintings: the nationwide Jewish publication Award 1986, the Biblical Archaeological Society 1986 ebook Award, and the Kenneth B. Smilen Literary Award.

By Brian F. McCoy

This is often an simply readable e-book that explores how Indigenous males comprehend their lives, their healthiness and their tradition. utilizing conversations, tales and paintings, the writer exhibits how Kimberley barren region groups have a cultural price and dating defined as kanyirninpa or holding.

By Ross Coulthart, Duncan McNab

Telling the bloody, insider’s tale of the foreign drug and guns smuggling operations of the scary Bandidos gang, this chilling story is the 1st time that an insider has informed the real tale of the motorcycle gangs that dominate the drug and unlawful guns alternate around the globe. For 10 years, Steve Utah used to be a Bandidos insider, a relied on confidante of senior motorcycle gang participants alongside the east coast of Australia. He prepared their safety, cooked their medicines, and witnessed conferences within which in another country guns smuggling was once deliberate. Utah enjoyed the wildness of the Bandido lifestyles and their contempt for the legislation, yet as he plummeted deeper into the center of the gang, his lifestyles began to spiral uncontrolled. He witnessed vicious beatings, helped unload corpses, and observed males performed in entrance of his eyes. In a determined try to regain regulate of his existence, he resorted to the unthinkable—he rolled over to the federal police and informed all of them he knew concerning the Bandidos. This surprising, unflinching, tragic tale is his confession, and doubtless his death gasp, for he understands that necessarily the Bandido code could be commemorated and he'll be silenced.

By J. M. Spaight

The legitimacy of aerial battle, the Hague laws, codes for aerial battle, the Madrid Debate of 1911, sovereignty or freedom of the air, belligerent access of impartial territory, seizure and confiscation, therapy of civilian enemy are one of many conventions of warfare mentioned during this booklet. comprises fold-out desk exhibiting how plane and airmen of belligerent or impartial nationality are handled after they fall into enemy fingers.

By Geoff Plunkett

In 1966 a fireplace ripped via Melbourne's William sales space Memorial domestic for destitute and alcoholic males. even though it is still Australia's deadliest construction fireplace, it really is, just like the 30 males who died in that fireplace - forgotten. This stunning narrative describes the inferno's starting place and development, the slowly festering blaze that built into an explosive backdraft. It recollects the efforts of the firemen who attempted, opposed to very unlikely odds, to rescue the death males. They by myself remember the caged males, the makeshift mortuaries and the nameless burial of the 'nobodies'. as though cursed, the Salvation military have been struck with one other lethal development fireplace in Adelaide in 1975. Seven males, trapped in a suspended alley hellfire, have been misplaced while it crashed to the floor. because the William sales space tragedy 163 humans have died in construction fires in Australia, the most recent within the Quakers Hill Nursing domestic in 2011 the place 14 died. hundreds of thousands have died around the world and all of those deaths might have been avoided. To today the most lesson has no longer been learnt. A lifesaving gadget, to be had prior to the discovery of the sunshine bulb, continues to be absent in lots of constructions.

By Matthew(Author) Reilly

By Stephen Henningham