David Hill
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"David Hill had to die so that Anand Chintan could be born. My story is like the caterpillar spinning a cocoon, entering into death, and then being reborn as a winged creature. For me, meditation and the various therapy groups provided the cocoon. I entered as a world-weary intellectual, an alcoholic, deluded, manic-depressive atheist, and I emerged as a bright-eyed explorer of new worlds." Travel with David Hill as he moves from depression and despair...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. The motley crew of unruly marines and bedraggled convicts who arrived at Botany Bay in 1788 in leaky boats nearly starved to death. They could easily...
Series
Current and Future Developments in Physiology volume Volume 1
Publisher
Bentham Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The author plots the trajectory of everything from organized crime to America's fraught racial past, examining how a town synonymous with white gangsters supported a burgeoning black middle class. He reveals how the louche underbelly of the South was also home to veterans hospitals and baseball's spring training grounds, giving rise to everyone from Babe Ruth to President Bill Clinton.
12) Time out
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Alienated at school and troubled by his parents' separation, Kit loses himself in running, until one day an accident on the road catapults him into what seems to be a parallel universe.
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Migrants, refugees and deportees live through harrowing situations, yet not much is widely known about their experiences. Politicians and commentators mischaracterize and demonize, herald border crises, and speculate about who people are and how they live. This book reflects a desire to communicate their perspectives and experiences. Each one of them goes through the emotional and psychological intensity of alternating motion and stillness. They...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Picking up a year after Season 2 ends, the still-audacious Kenny goes to Myrtle Beach, SC, a tourist destination filled with fireworks stores, mini-golf and underage boozing and somehow resurrects his baseball career as the closer for the minor-league Myrtle Beach Mermen. Kenny struggles to come to terms with growing older, both in his personal life, and professionally.
20) Southern comfort
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When nine National Guardsmen enter the Louisiana swamp for routine training, they incite an all-out war with some angry local Cajuns. Armed with a precious few bullets, and confused by the moss-covered maze into which they've stumbled, the innocent guardsmen know they'll be picked off one-by-one, until they come up with a solution using the only resources they have left, themselves.