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Illustrated encyclopedia of the universe
By Martin J Rees. 2009
The ultimate guided tour of our universe. From the fiery mass of the Sun's core to the black hole at…
the centre of the Milky Way, take off into the farthest limits of space and discover our universe. Explore the latest discoveries in astronomy, spectacular star charts and stunning images from space probes and telescopes.The Babylonian Genesis: the story of the creation
By Alexander Heidel. 1951
Here is a complete translation of all the published cuneiform tablets of the various Babylonian creation stories, of both the…
Semitic Babylonian and the Sumerian material. Each creation account is preceded by a brief introduction dealing with the age and provenance of the tablets, the aim and purpose of the story, etc. Also included is a translation and discussion of two Babylonian creation versions written in Greek. The final chapter presents a detailed examination of the Babylonian creation accounts in their relation to our Old Testament literature.Core of my heart, my country: women's sense of place and the land in Australia and Canada, 1828-1950
By Maggie MacKellar. 2004
When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd…
landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past. In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience. Core of My Heart, My Country weaves together experience and insight from women who lived and wrote in different landscapes, in different climates and in different eras. It is a provocative and remarkable encounter with buried stories and persistent myths.Three crooked kings (Three Crooked Kings #1)
By Matthew Condon. 2013
In 1949, a young Terence Murray Lewis graduated from the police academy, ready to start his career in law enforcement.…
Over the next four decades, he rose to the pinnacle of power as the knighted Commissioner of Police in Queensland before his spectacular downfall and imprisonment after the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late 1980s. Three Crooked Kings follows Lewis’ journey through the ranks, as he becomes part of the so-called Rat Pack with detectives Glen Hallahan and Tony Murphy under the guiding influence of Commissioner Frank Bischof. The alleged suicide of prostitute and brothel madam Shirley Brifman in the early 1970s provides the turning point for a culture that reigned unchecked for several decades. It was part of a grand narrative teeming with murder, pay-offs, political machinations, drug heists, assisted suicides, police in-fighting and a complicated system of corruption that ultimately collapsed under its own weight. Based on unprecedented interviews with Terry Lewis and access to his personal papers, Three Crooked Kings is the missing piece in the puzzle of the story of Queensland’s endemic generational corruption.The matter myth: beyond chaos and complexity
By Davies, John R Gribbin, P. C. W. 1992
Bringing together articles written over the last ten years, this book covers all the areas with which Paul Davies' books…
have been concerned - including quantum physics, superstrings, complexity and the relationship of theology and modern physics.