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A comic pseudo-history of the von Schnitzelgruber family in Australia who bred haggises for sport and trained kangaroos to draw the stage coaches that crossed Australia from Perth to Sydney. Other members of the family are described and the problems inflicted on Australia when haggises escaped and went feral.

A collection of short stories by a writers' group in the Mind-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, covering murder-mystery topics, relationship issues and life in rural Australia. The writers have all come to the writing world in middle life after professional existences in other fields

Start winning in life A famous football manager paints a white line from his apartment to his team's training ground. A woman faces trees in her local park and pulls some unbelievable shapes. People who have never exercised in their lives keep heading back to the gym. In this book from Entrepreneur and Author Michael Davies, the author looks at why people develop habits to succeed and what you can do to win at life. * Learn how you can eat more healthily and live longer* Learn how to exercise and keep returning to the gym where your friends quit* Learn how to save money for long-term goals* Learn how to win at life* Learn secret visualisation techniques that you can use to be even more successful* Learn mindfulness techniques that you are not taught in class

Medical English: A Grammar Guide is an updated version of The Medical English Grammar Guide. This compact book is aimed at medical students, doctors and nurses who are of basic and intermediate level and who need an understanding of grammar with examples that you can use in the workplace.

A collection of short stories and illustrations submitted by children as part of the annual "Tell Me a Story" competition inschools in the Manning and Great Lakes regions of New South Wales, Australia.

A collection of short stories and illustrations produced by students in schools on the Mid-North Coast of NSW resulting from a competition now in its sixth year and in the fourth year of publication. Each year, the number of entries has increased and the popularity of the event grows.

Two young men learn how to hack into hospital systems and then into pacemakers implanted in patients' bodies. They use this skill to blackmail wealthy people with the fear of stopping their hearts and demonstrate that they can do exactly that. In a few cases, they kill the victim who resists paying up. They are persuaded by a man with Mafia connections to work with organised crime and extract state and military secrets from senior personnel in the security forces and military. This becomes a matter for the security forces in the UK, USA and Australia where the attacks have taken place.

Your search for the perfect Business English coursebook is over. This book is designed to help students to speak, write and understand Business English with confidence. The Business English Grammar Guide is a helpful book designed to explain English grammar points to students of Business English. It contains helpful examples that you can use a in a real-world environment and includes idioms and slang terms to sound like a native speaker of Business English. The Business English Grammar Guide is aimed at non-native speakers of English of intermediate level and above.

"From the hosts of the popular NBC Sports show Men in Blazers and one of the biggest soccer podcasts in the world, Roger Bennett and Michael Davies will profile the greatest male and female soccer players of all time. With the same signature humor as they brought to their New York Times Bestseller Encyclopedia Blazertannica, Bennett and Davis will feature a mini biography, fun facts and an illustrated or photographic portrait of both new and legendary soccer players, from Pelâe, Maradona, and Messi to Mia Hamm, Marta, and Megan Rapinoe. In their one-of-a-kind laugh out loud style and schtick, the guys will tell the stories of triumph, skill, and tenacity, experienced by household names like David Beckham and Alex Morgan, along with lesser-known icons such as Garrincha, the Brazilian star of the 1960's who was born with one leg six inches shorter than the other and Briana Scurry, who trail-blazed a path for young, black, soccer-playing women. Collectively, these stories will create a comprehensive history of soccer-its evolution and growth-as told by the lives of the legends of the game and the way their play transformed the world of soccer itself"--

A series of murders is happening in a small town in New South Wales. At first, some are not even recognised as murders but appear to be accidents and a suicide. But in all cases, there is not a single clue as to the perpetrators. The Detective in charge of the case is baffled. And why are the killings all occurring on the ninth of the month? As she begins to identify the deaths as murders, she is faced with a crisis that could threaten her sanity and even her life.

Jiangan co-ordinates slow diaphragmatic breathing with graduated stretching and strengthening exercises to promote circulation and stimulate the cardiovascular system. This book offers a concise practical guide to Jiangan exercises, providing detailed instructions and illustrations while also exploring the Chinese philosophy behind the art.

Prior to Vatican II, 80% of young people leaving Catholic schools practised the faith, today, 3% do. The much vaunted New Pentecost is seemingly no quite so awesome as the first. This catastrophic collapse is primarily the result of the heresy of Modernism, which has seeped into the Church's blood stream like AIDs, sapping her vitality and reducing her to a shadow of her former self. Since Vatican II, with one or two honourable exceptions, Western sees have been filled by Rome with dreary, vacuous, bog-standard Modernists. Under the leadership of these men, Christ Body in the British Isles, and elsewhere, has simply haemorrhaged away? It is also no coincidence that the horribly sex-abuse scandals, mostly perpetrated by predatory sodomites, occurred on their watch. To cure a disease, one must first understand it. In this booklet, Michael Davies uses his scholarship to lucidly expose the nature of this deadly virus in terms that all can understand. By Graham Moorhouse Chairman, PEEP

Garry Barton is an Australian business consultant working for a Chicago-based accounting firm. He reviews his firm's computer technology and advises the partnership that they are severely at risk because of their outdated systems. This so enrages the partners that they fire him. Garry joins a small, advanced accounting group and builds up their consulting business, much of it by taking away clients from his old firm. They begin to panic and try threats of violence against him. This doesn't work and the partners become more and more panicked as they see their firm decline and eventually the try and have Garry killed.

A new, vast spiritual force is approaching Earth. As it nears, the influence becomes extraordinary as people's spiritual awareness grows dramatically. Some remember past lives, others develop new abilities. The Infinite Soul is coming for a purpose - to cure Humanity of a sickness that threatens the survival of the entire Universe. There are one million species in the Universe, of which Humanity is one. As they near the end of the spiritual cycle of growth, they will eventually merge to form the supreme entity we have called God. But this cannot happen while Humanity is sick. The approaching Infinite Soul must complete its mission. But therre are evil forces in the Universe, committed to the destruction of the entire Universe. The final battle between Good and Evil must be won or all of Creation will be lost.

Kaiden and Hazel meet at school and soon discover they have an extraordinary connection. They soon discover that they are twins, separated at birth and adopted by two different couples. As they research their origins, they find that they were the result of extraordinary medical experimentation that at the time was illegal. These experimenta have given them some super-human abilities. Together, they can travel into the past and find themselves in Victorian England and Prohibition-era Chicago, they create a magical fantasy world and then go to a future Sydney. They must learn to control these powers in order to live normal lives.

Katrina, Jamie and Amelia leave the far west of the state for the two-day drive to the coastal resort of South West Rocks for a family holiday. But within a short distance they encounter a red fog that envelopes the car in a violent storm and when they emerge, they have reached their destination. Bridget and Warren, their parents are unaware that anything is wrong and have no memory of the storm, nor do they seem to notice that there is nothing there - no town, no shops, no camp site. The mystery deepens when six-year old Amelia demonstrates strange powers over animals and she heals Katrina when she is bitten by a lethal Brown Snake. Then Jamie discovers the astounding reality. Not only have they travelled over a thousand kilometres in a few moments, they have also gone back in time by 500 years. But they have yet to learn the shattering truth of how and why this has all happened. The children must display great courage and intelligence to solve the mystery of just who or what is Amelia, why do their parents not notice anything strange and how to combat the enemy that has followed them through the time portal and how they can return home.

Twelve years have passed since the events of "The Star of the Yshan Kings." The rightful heir has been crowned as Emperor Garamax 19th of the Yshan Galactic Empire and rules over a peaceful and prosperous Empire. Now Charlie marries Kyle before he and Josh take their posts as newly-commissioned officers of the Imperial Fleet. Almost as soon as they have joined the ship, an invasion by an enemy fleet occurs, almost capturing the Empire's Capital World and only brilliant action by the battleship's crew and a new weapon designed by Charlie's father save the day, at least for now. But the enemy hasn't finished and with support by the traitor Princess Sophie and her uncle, deadly danger threatens the Empire and the life of Emperor Garamax, the friend of Josh, Kyle and Charlie. They must risk everything to save themselves and the Empire.

The rightful heir to the throne of the Galactic Empire has been kidnapped and with it, the Star, the sentient crystal that has guided the Yshan Dynasty for several thousand years. Kyle and Sophie, the twin children of the Emperor have come to Earth to seek out the Prince and the Star and they are joined by Josh, Charlie and Henry, but they must overcome treason and great dangers before teh rightful heir to the throne is found and rescued.

Taught only by her grandfather, Charlotte plays the cello beautifully. After her grandfather died a year ago, Charlotte now has his cello, but tragically this is damaged in an accident during a concert. But a mysterious old man who seems to know her gives her a new instrument, a cello of extraordinary beauty and sound. Soon after, she plays the solo part in the Elgar Cello Concerto at a concert and word of her ability reaches the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She is invited to the Sydney Opera House to play before world-famous Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Concertmaster, Dene Olding and Principal Cello, Catherine Hewgill. Not only are they astonished by her playing, but they identify the cello as the long-lost and legendary cello made by famed luthier, Nicolo Amati. This cello was believed stolen in 1700 and said to contain an amazing secret. But others want the cello and its secret and Charlotte is kidnapped and the ransom demanded is the cello. As part of the search for Charlotte, the detective in charge of the case uses high technology to examine the cello and finds what appears to be the answer. Somehow knowing this, the kidnappers release Charlotte. Charlotte's friends are also helping and in their own research, they discover what the answer to the huge secret is. The hunt for an extraordinary treasure goes to Italy and then back to Australia and Charlotte finally realises her dream when Vladimir Ashkenazy leads her out to the stage of the Sydney Opera House to play the solo part in the Elgar Cello Concerto to a packed house.

Mickie Dalton is now fifteen but in his mind is the genetic memory of the entire life of Markel, once the leader of the Pfafth race in their prime as the rulers of the known Universe and during their downfall and flight into hiding. In his three years of travelling the Universe aboard the inter-galactic trading ship, he has grown, matured and developed some of the astonishing and lethal powers of the Pfafth and met many different species, some of them friends, some dangerous enemies. He has also encountered and fought the dreadful Sillaron, the frightening and destructive race that caused the downfall of the Pfafth over a million years ago and he has barely escaped with his life at times. Although unable to contact them, Mickie has discovered where the Pfafth have locked themselves away in a Space and Time outside of normal Space and Time. Then the Pfafth make contact with Mickie and he finally gets to meet his species and learn of the role for which he has been bred over a million year program. But the encounter reveals a reality for which he could never have prepared himself and a crisis far worse than could have been dreamed of. Unless the hidden galaxy of the Pfafth is returned to normal Space and Time, all of the Universe could become unstable and break apart. Mickie is faced with the ultimate choice between his own life and that of his entire species.

Nearly a year has passed since Mickie Dalton joined the massive inter-galactic trading ship and began the search for his origins and answers to the mysteries of how his people, the Pfafth vanished from the Universe over a million years ago, where they went and how they could be hiding from even the universal telepaths, the Speakers. As the ship continues its travels trading between species on planets in many Galaxies, small hints are found that the Pfafth are SOMEWHERE. As he matures, Mickie finds more and more of the astounding powers of the Pfafth and sometimes he is frightened of just how much more he will develop. But not only are Mickie's powers growing, so too are those of the ancient enemy, the Sillaron, a mysterious and ancient species that is seeking the Pfafth to destroy them finally. Then the Pfafth begin to reveal themselves and as more is learnt about the million year-old war between the Pfafth and the Sillaron, Mickie is confronted by the truth of what happened to his people and why they fled to a Space outside of Space and a Time outside of Time. Now he must contact them and save the entire species from destruction by a merciless enemy. This is the second book in the Mickie Dalton Trilogy.

Life for twelve year old Mickie Dalton is miserable. Cold, abusive parents make his home intolerable. So when Mickie meets a young couple in the park, an escape opens up. They tell him an astounding truth - Mickie is not a human being, though just what he is, where he came from and how he came to be on Earth are all a mystery. Mickie joins his new guardians on an immense spaceship that travels the Universe, even between galaxies, trading with many intelligent species on other planets as he seeks out his origins and nature. Slowly, he begins to develop extraordinary powers that must have been part of his people. As he also starts to find strange hints of what may have happened, he learns that he is one of an ancient race, the Pfafth who once ruled over forty galaxies but vanished without trace a million years ago. But other forces learn of Mickie's presence, huge forces of immense evil and power that were the cause of the destruction of the Pfafth and now they are intent on finding Mickie and his vanished people so that they can complete the destruction of that ancient race. A million year old war has started again and Mickie must draw on all his astonishing, growing powers and seek the help of allies, some strange, some beautiful, some terrifying as he seeks his people to prevent their end.

Geneticists had dicovered that our DNA holds a visual and aural records of our lives and those of our direct ancestors. It becomes possible to look back through time. New historical facts are discovered, old one revised and the whole meaning of what it isd to be human starts to change. The biggest change occurs when it is found that the basis of the world's great religions is quite different from what been believed and everything must change, often with violent consequences. But as new discoveries are made about the ancient world, a new renaissance in the arts, science, medicine, justice and diplomacy arises and the world changes just as it had done before. But a critical question arises - why do we have this ability? Where does it come from?