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This book deals with two very large and often amorphous concepts: privacy and surveillance in the context of both government and the marketplace. Both concepts have undergone changes over the millennia of recorded human history, and those changes have dramatically sped up and expanded over the past few centuries, starting with the widespread use of the printing press in the mid- to late-15th century when books and newspapers began to proliferate across Europe and the rest of the ''civilized'' world by the end of the 17th century. The development of radio, television and the internet in the 20th century heightened the need to define more clearly what both concepts meant and how they applied both to governments (the ''public sector'') and individual and corporate players (the ''private sector'')...
When Tommy goes on a trip to an Outback farm, he runs into his old enemy, Frank Gardiner. And Tommy is about to learn why the bushranger is so desperate to stay out of jail!
From award-winning writer Erik Jensen comes a tender and involving narrative sequence of short love poems. 'These poems were intended first as gifts. They are the story of falling in love ... and realising that rejecting the gender binary is not one thing: it is everything.' -Erik Jensen A fragmentary account of life and its complexities, I said the sea was folded charts the first three years of Erik Jensen's relationship with his partner, Evelyn Ida Morris. These are love poems, written against the difficulty of understanding another person. They are startling in their simplicity and their frankness.
18 August 1966, five kilometres from the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist & heavy monsoon rain, a Company of 108 men held its ground with courage against a three-sided attack from a force of 2,500 Viet Cong & North.....
This book is Ashton Robinson's unique eye-witness account of the ISG's operations in Iraq, based at Camp Slayer, in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces The group's task was to search for weapons of mass destruction or to account for them if they did not exist. But the ISG discovered so much more.
Buying a rundown motel to start a new life - what could possibly go wrong? In this funny and moving novel, prize-winning author Stephanie Johnson turns her wry eye on us.
The Great Gatsby, third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.
Told in their own words, the stories of New Zealand women who have lived in - and escaped - abusive relationships.
A seamstress. A naval officer. An impossible decision. Harley Smith has always been unlucky in love, and this year is no different. Even if she can't get her best friend's brother out of her head. It's been almost a year, and with Valentine's Day approaching and no date in sight, perhaps it's time to stop holding out hope on her dreams. Maybe she should make her own happily ever after... Joey Gray is a sailor through and through. He's been hurt before, and his job has become the only thing he can truly count on. But then he met his sister's best friend - the woman who has filled his dreams for months on end, regardless of how much he has tried to forget her. Now his career isn't as fulfilling as it once was, and he knows who's responsible. He needs to see her again. And what better day to tell her how he feels than on her birthday-Valentine's Day? But is one week enough time to figure out what they have?
Where does your nose go when it runs? And how did a â¿¿streaker' end up in this book!? So come on, read some of the most gut-churning short stories ever.
The second riveting book in the fast-paced Black Spiral trilogy. Back from Germany and the assignment that went horribly wrong, Violet doesn't know who to trust: It's fortunate for me that the Foundation staff can't read my thoughts. . . If they could read my thoughts, they'd never let me go. I'd be a liability, and I know what happens to liabilities. Phoenix is equally adrift: For an hour I will forget who I am, what I have done . . . But . . . I will wake with the heavy knowledge that I am the Black Wolf, never to be trusted, never to be loved - because the only people I've ever loved are either dead or hate my guts. The only thing both of them know for sure is that they have to escape the Foundation's clutches
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