Download or read book English written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Anna Wierzbicka, the distinguished linguist known for her theories of semantics, has written the first book that connects the English language with what she terms "Anglo" culture. Wierzbicka points out that language and culture are not just interconnected, but inseparable. She uses original research to investigate the "universe of meaning" within the English language (both grammar and vocabulary) and places it in historical and geographical perspective. This engrossing and fascinating work of scholarship should appeal not only to linguists and others concerned with language and culture, but the large group of scholars studying English and English as a second language.

Download or read book The Lighthorseman Series written by Marjorie Jones and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lighthorseman, Dale Winters rode in the great charge at Beersheba in the final months of The Great War and has never forgiven himself for surviving. His younger brother did not. As a result, guilt-ridden, Dale gives up the passion in his life—horses. If his brother could no longer ride the animals he loved so much, then neither would he. A shattered man, Dale returns to his home in Western Australia. Emily Castle, late of Arizona, inherited one-half of the Castle Winters Sheep Station in Western Australia when her Uncle Charles passed away. For years, through his letters, her uncle had regaled Emily with tales of the exploits of the boys he had fostered. With a heart full of hope and happiness, she moves to her new home and an inevitable meeting with the amazing and adventurous Dale Winters. But the man who comes home from the war is not the one she envisioned in her dreams. Broken promises and a vow made to a dead man have stolen away his joy of life. Then Emily wagers her share of the station, and herself, on a horse race and becomes unable to ride. Will Dale learn, before it's too late, that some promises are meant to be broken? In The Flyer, Paul Campbell has fought the Turks, the Germans, and the occasional rogue crocodile, and as a confirmed bachelor, veteran of the Great War, and jack-of-all-trades in the rough country of Western Australia, he is free to live the rest of his life in peace. He has only one goal: to make life easier on the residents of the Outback by flying medicine, supplies, and the rare letter to those who live in Australia's sprawling interior. That is, until a new doctor lands on his doorstep begging for a gentle hand and a warm kiss—even if she doesn't know it yet. Helen Stanwood left the relative comfort of her San Francisco home with a mission: to forget the pain of her former existence by devoting herself to helping those in need. But when she arrives in Australia she is faced with the realization that she can't run away from

Download or read book The Lighthorseman written by Marjorie and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dale Winters rode in the great charge at Beersheba in the final months of The Great War and has never forgiven himself for surviving. His younger brother did not. As a result, guilt-ridden, Dale gives up the passion in his life ? horses. If his brother could no longer ride the animals he loved so much, then neither would he. A shattered man, Dale returns to his home in Western Australia. Emily Castle, late of Arizona, inherited one-half of the Castle Winters Sheep Station in Western Australia when her Uncle Charles passed away. For years, through his letters, her uncle had regaled Emily with tales of the exploits of the boys he had fostered. With a heart full of hope and happiness, she moves to her new home and an inevitable meeting with the amazing and adventurous Dale Winters. But the man who comes home from the war is not the one she envisioned in her dreams. Broken promises and a vow made to a dead man have stolen away his joy of life. Then Emily wagers her share of the station, and herself, on a horse race and becomes unable to ride. Will Dale learn, before it?s too late, that some promises are meant to be broken?

Download or read book The Fossickers written by Ramon L. Mills and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fossickers is an action-adventure novel involving the discovery of iron ore and gold by a small group of wildcat miners in the Great Eastern Desert of the Pilbara, located in the isolated north of Western Australia. The mining project is offered to a large London-based mining investment group. The scene then shifts from the Pilbara to London, where conspiracy by an opposition mining investment company arises. Chinese-backed financiers obtain the discovery data and attempt to control the project, taking it away from the London group. A small British security company is retained to recover the stolen data from the Chinese. In the aftermath, the original London investment company's executive and his wife are murdered. The scene shifts between England and Australia, describing the tough and isolated conditions of the miners, who call themselves The Fossickers. There is plenty of typical Australian bush humour, combined with a murder mystery that spans the globe. Who will end up controlling the mine? Ramon L. Mills is a retired international timber trader who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheFossickers.html

Download or read book Buried Alive written by Davon Roberts and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davon Roberts is a forty-six-year-old man serving an eighty-year prison sentence. He has two sons: Davon Deyontee Roberts, twenty-eight years old, and Davon Roberts Jr., seventeen years old. Mr. Roberts prides himself on being loyal to his family and comrades. Since writing this book, Davon has married his longtime friend, Nina Roberts, on May 13, 2022. Davon is currently at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Jessup, Maryland. He currently is awaiting an outcome of his appeal. He is a man of God, and his faith is not shaken easily!

Download or read book The Man Behind the Uniform written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Central to Nowhere written by D. J. Blackmore and published by Rhiza Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ivy steps over the cattle grid, reality hits. Capricorn Station is vast, desolate and Central to Nowhere. But Ivy has come too far to back out now. She's left her past behind her and is desperate to make this work.Stockman Adam O'Rourke is equally determined she's going home ASAP. This girl is not the jillaroo he was expecting to help on his station over the summer. She can't even handle a horse.It isn't long before Ivy realises there's more between her and Adam than the job. But Ivy has only one summer on Capricorn Station. One season that's passing way too fast.And when Adam's past blows in unexpectedly, Ivy realises too late that falling for him is bringing back everything she is running from.

Download or read book Demography Day written by Peter Breally and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young journalist expecting her first child attends the prenatal clinic in Gladstone Australia where she lives and by a quirk of fate discovers that all women the world over have stopped falling pregnant for no explicable reason. The story that she writes for her newspaper rocks the world to it’s core and spirals her personal life onto an unimaginable journey of hope and despair.

Download or read book Bad Debts written by Peter Temple and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long and he’s still cooking for one. But then Danny turns up dead and Jack has to take a walk back into the dark and dangerous past. Peter Temple is widely regarded as one of Australia’s finest writers, and his novels have been published in twenty countries. During his lifetime he worked extensively as a journalist and editor, before teaching editing and media studies at a number of universities. His novels, among them the Jack Irish series, Truth, The Broken Shore and An Iron Rose, are celebrated as some of the best crime writing in English. Temple died in March 2018. ‘Bad Debts is wonderful, quintessentially Australian stuff, full of authentic, diehard types, old culture cops, backstreet humour and inner-city dialogue you can overhear in the bars of certain hotels, the ones with framed pictures of horses on the walls. It is the genuine article and an absolute pearler of a read.’ Australian Book Review ‘Like his characters, Temple has a spare, funny delivery, and a sharp eye for a target...Temple writes with the urgency of someone who wants to disrupt an official investigation, and his story is kept up like taut wire. Brothers and sisters in crime, worship at the Temple.’ Australian ‘The prose is tight, the pace breathless, the dialogue inspired, and Temple’s take on the Victorians’ football mania hilarious.’ Sun-Herald ‘Temple can be as tough as nails, but also displays a wickedly droll sense of humour which, like the work of, say, the American writer Joe R. Lansdale, frequently has the reader holding his sides with laughter even while immersed in some particularly unpleasant scenario...With Bad Debts Temple has created a world-class novel.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘Unlike many good crime stories, this one can be related to our immediate environment. It incorporates icons and mediums which are very much part of most Australians’ lives...These are the elements which make Bad Debts such a good crime novel. From the unforgettable cast of characters to the events which pre-destine their lives, the story literally explodes off the pages.’ Geelong Advertiser 'One of the world’s finest crime writers.’ The Times ‘Having read the new novels of Michael Connelly and Martin Cruz Smith, I have to say that Temple belongs in their company. Australia is a long way off, but this bloke is world-class.’ Washington Post ‘Fortunately, Text Publishing last year began the welcome and long-overdue project of ensuring that Temple’s entire backlist, which includes four Jack Irish novels and five stand-alones, is available on these shores...Irish is tough and resourceful, yes, but it’s the way Temple brings out his fear, desire, humor, and self-doubt that ranks him among the most interesting series heroes.’ Booklist US

Download or read book Seven Bones written by Peter Seymour and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We have a dead second wife and a missing first wife…we’ve got a huge problem here.’ Detective Peter Seymour Seven Bones is the story of one of the more bizarre murder investigations in Australia’s history. Two wives die in suspicious circumstances: co-incidence or, as husband Thomas Keir describes it, ‘bad luck’? Three years after Thomas Keir alleged his first wife Jean deserted him and her young son for another man, his second wife Rosalina, Jean’s cousin, lay scorched and strangled on her bed. Arriving on the scene, Detective Peter Seymour realised he was either dealing with the world’s unluckiest husband, or a serial wife killer. While Keir was remarkably found ‘not guilty’ of Rosalina’s murder, despite a clear-cut case, her death unlocked the mystery of Jean’s disappearance. A subsequent police investigation lead to the discovery of seven small fragments of Jean’s bones - fingers, knuckles and toes - buried deep under the same house in which Rosalina died. Keir’s ‘grieving husband’ act was suddenly in question. The investigation revealed Thomas Kier was a man so jealous he hated even his own baby son touching his wife, Jean. A man so possessive he threatened he would cut her up and feed her to the dogs if she ever left him. A man who thought he could commit the perfect crime and publicly taunted the police through the media. Written through the eyes of Detective Peter Seymour, Seven Bones follows his relentless pursuit of justice and his own family sacrifices, through the drama of the police investigation into Jean’s death, and the three trials, convictions, and appeals that would take fifteen years to reach their final conclusion.

Download or read book No Traces Backwards written by Andrew Ryan and published by Andrew Ryan. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Downfall written by Mark Barber and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub Officer Kyle Hawkins is two days out of his training as a Knight Hospitaller when he is sent to the jungle planet of Paradiso. After four years of gruelling training as a warrior of the NeoVatican, criticised by his superiors for his liberal, pacifistic theological views, he volunteers for the Paradiso assignment in an attempt to prove his worth. However, after arriving he finds that it is little more than a simple security detail, attached to a platoon of Fusiliers of the PanOceanian Light Infantry, guarding a sleepy MagnaObra research facility not far from the border of Yujingyu territory known as Alpha Four Four. The platoon Hawkins works alongside is led by Lieutenant Priya Shankar, a driven, serious minded officer whose professionalism makes her popular with her seniors, but seemingly cold and unapproachable to the soldiers under her command. Experienced with peacekeeping, disaster relief operations and ceremonial guard duties, Shankar has done everything expected of a Fusilier officer - except actual combat.

Download or read book The Skull written by Adam Shand and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian “Skull” Murphy. Bestselling author Adam Shand tells the story of the last of the super cops. Through dramatic recreations, The Skull follows Brian Murphy on the beat as he collars big-time crims and small-time thugs, rubs shoulders with corrupt officials and flashy assassins, and uses a combination of old-school persuasion and self-styled ‘slychology’ to recruit his network of informers. Murphy ventures into the grey areas of law enforcement and the criminal underworld of the ’70s and ’80s, where he confronts such renowned villains as Christopher Dale Flannery, the Kane brothers and Ray Chuck. Fast-paced and gritty, The Skull is the life and times of a legendary crime-fighter. ‘An energetic writing style that often captures the emotion of some truly extraordinary scenes.’ —NineMSN ‘A fascinating read ... an insider’s insight into Melbourne’s underworld.’ —Examiner ‘An enjoyably racy biography of a police officer’ —Sydney Morning Herald

Download or read book Lasseters Legacy written by Steven Elliott and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lasseter legend is well known in Australia, or at least it was when I was a younger man. The story goes that a man named Harrold Lasseter whilst journeying across the desert from Alice Springs to the west coast around 1900 reportedly discovered a fabulously rich reef of gold. Nothing was done about the discovery until many years later in the 1930’s when Lasseter mounted an expedition to relocate the fabulous reef, an expedition that resulted in his death and no reef. Since that time many people have ventured into the desert in search of the reef with no success. This book details a geologists quest for the reef and his own fabulous gold find which become embroiled in criminal conspiracy and action. Of course the hero geologist triumphs and a World class series of gold mines is established. It should however be noted that the author believes that Lasseters gold reef never existed.

Download or read book Nightsafe written by Robert L.J. Borg and published by Luminosity Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search is on for a vigilante causing havoc on Sydney’s trains; will the police catch him before he strikes again? By February 1994 Mark Lander has re-married. His new wife, Robyn Shelly, whom Mark had saved from unsavoury characters earlier that year, is not completely what he had thought. She is bi-sexual, a fact Mark only discovers after their wedding. Oddly, he allows his wife’s lesbian relationship to flourish, and in doing so, strengthens his own bond with his wife. Meanwhile, Mark’s best friend, Detective Inspector Jim Sanders has been assigned two cases: the hunt for a vigilante, who has been preying on the thugs responsible for tormenting passengers on Sydney’s trains, and also, a murder at a local hotel. Although the latter is challenging, a break in tracking down the vigilante comes from an unexpected source, and the police are confident they will soon have their man. Mark, however, isn’t too sure the person the police are focusing on is culpable and decides to run his own investigation to prove him innocent. Reader Advisory: Includes graphic violent (murder) sequences. Also, graphic sex scenes. PUBLISHER NOTE: Commercial Crime Fiction with Erotic Romantic Elements, M/F; F/F/M; F/F; F/F/F/M (orgy). 68,000 words. All characters depicted in this work of fiction are 18 years of age or older.

Download or read book For Freedom s Cause written by Barry Smith and published by Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book World wide workforce III written by Sander Schroevers and published by CCBS Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third issue in the‘World-wide workforce’ series provides you with a comprehensive analysis of recruiting practices in Australia, Austria, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Spain and Sweden. This book shows how domestic recruiting conventions often differ significantly from those in other countries. Comparative desk research, focus interviews with, and online polling of, HRM professionals in the mentioned countries made us realise how much cultural factors can affect job search strategies across the globe. World-wide workforce provides an easy-to-use reference for those aiming at a cross-border career, or those interested in international HRM issues.