Download or read book Sword of Allah written by David Rollins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Papua New Guinea, primitive highlanders are armed with AK-47's. In the Persian Gulf, a fishing boat has a sinister cargo. At a luxury hotel in Manila, a ‘financial planner' has a rendezvous with men on the world's Most Wanted list. In Israel's West Bank, the unwinnable war continues to rage. And in Canberra, top intelligence and police specialists assemble to find out why terrorists from either side of the world are joining forces in Australia's back yard. Present is Sergeant Tom Wilkes of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment. Wilkes is seconded to the US Central Intelligence Agency where he spearheads the action team set up to fight the latest extremist menace, a plan more monstrous than anyone – even the experts – could have foretold. Gripping, intelligent and terrifying, Sword of Allah is the ultimate thriller for the post September 11 world.
Download or read book Wandering Realities written by Steven L. Peck and published by Zarahemla Books. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wandering Realities gathers together much of the Mormon-themed short fiction of perhaps Mormondom's best living writer," says Michael Austin. "The collection is strange, wonderful, eye opening and amazing. It is a book of revelations and spiritual gifts from an immensely talented author to his religious community, which has long needed somebody to show us how strange and wonderful (and strange) we can actually be." "Wandering Realities is perfectly satisfying, a treat from beginning to end," says Steven Evans. "It is alternatively touching and funny and poignant, with horrors and wonders. Steven Peck is a gift to Mormon literature, and any opportunity to read his stories is not to be missed." "This collection is one of the freshest, most engaging, and most entertaining contributions to Mormon literature that I've seen in a long while," says Jonathan Langford. "Steve Peck is an alien. . . . That's the only explanation I can come up with for how, in this set of 16 stories, he so consistently manages to provide such startlingly different, yet at the same time deeply insightful, perspectives on the culture and religion he has adopted for his own." Peck's highly imaginative stories run the gamut from Mormons reverting to a medieval society on Mars to a bishop who is killing the neighborhood dogs. These stories not only entertain and delight, but they challenge and provoke as well. This collection includes several award-winning stories, including: • "Two-Dog Dose"—best short story of 2014, Association for Mormon Letters • "A Strange Report from the Church Archives"—second place, Irreantum fiction contest • "Avek, Who Is Distributed"—first place, Four Centuries of Mormon Fiction Contest 2012 • "When the Bishop Started Killing Dogs"—second place, Four Centuries of Mormon Fiction Contest 2012 "Every story Steven L. Peck writes seems to lead Mormon fiction in exciting and innovative new directions," says Scott Hales. "I hate hyperbole, but Peck might be the Moses of Mormon letters in the twenty-first century." Wandering Realities "may be the book of the year," says Andrew Hall. Peck is "perhaps the most interesting contemporary author of Mormon fiction." "Peck is the best LDS science fiction writer currently out there," says Steven Evans. "Wandering Realities is an immensely enjoyable and powerful collection of short fiction, one that highlights both the possibilities and inevitabilities of Mormonism."
Download or read book Australian Vegetation written by David A. Keith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Vegetation has been an essential reference for students and researchers in botany, ecology and natural resource management for over 35 years. Now fully updated and with a new team of authors, the third edition presents the latest insights on the patterns and processes that shaped the vegetation of Australia. The first part of the book provides a synthesis of ecological processes that influence vegetation traits throughout the continent, using a new classification of vegetation. New chapters examine the influences of climate, soils, fire regimes, herbivores and aboriginal people on vegetation, in addition to completely revised chapters on evolutionary biogeography, quaternary vegetation history and alien plants. The book's second half presents detailed ecological portraits for each major vegetation type and offers data-rich perspectives and comparative analysis presented in tables, graphs, maps and colour illustrations. This authoritative book will inspire readers to learn and explore first-hand the vegetation of Australia.
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Download or read book Sound Law and Analogy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the contents: Old Frisian 'fendsen' and 'hwendsen' (Alfred Bammesberger).- Puzzling datives in Old Frisian (Dirk Boutkan).- Vowel raising in the anonymous Lithuanian catechism of 1605 (Rick Derksen).- Laryngeals and Vedic metre (Jost Gippert).- Indo-European initial yod in Greek (Eric P. Hamp).- Vedic denominatives to thematic a-stems (Stanley Insler).- Syncope and anaptyxis in Hittite (H. Craig Melchert).
Download or read book Everyday Balinese written by I Gusti Made Sutjaja and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise and user-friendly guide to the Balinese language Everyday Balinese is targeted to anyone who wishes to learn to speak colloquial Balinese. There are 23 lessons in the book, each with a dialogue that centers around the Balinese daily life. These realistic beginner Balinese dialogues are a great way to learn Balinese as it is really spoken. The dialogue is presented twice: The first version representing the lumrah or common Balinese; the second the alus or refined Balinese. Both versions are exactly the same grammatically; the difference lies in the word choice. Lumrah or common words are used by participants of equal social status in a conversation, and it reflects intimacy and informality among the users. Alus or refined words are associated with distancing and formality among users in a conversation. Each lesson contains a section on the grammar an word function, as well as a list of words in both the lumrah and alus forms, followed by their Indonesian and English equivalents. Each lesson ends with a section on sentence construction--how to use the structures taught to make simple sentences. The book has a pronunciation guide at the front, and a section or greeting, ordinal numbers and a handy dictionary at the end. The dictionary is arranged alphabetically by Balinese, followed by their Indonesian and English equivalents.
Download or read book Birds of New Guinea written by Bruce M. Beehler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gazetteer of New Guinea ornithology [by] Jennifer L. Mandeville and William S. Peckover": pages 560-632.
Download or read book The Khumbu Document written by Adam J. Rosenberg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the 16th century, high in the Himalayan Mountains, a young Tibetan woman is given the task of watching over a mystical family heirloom, a responsibility that will precipitate an awesome journey. Ten years into the 21st century, in a modern Boston, a young American woman stumbles upon an ancient legend, and so begins her own journey. Each womans adventure leads down a spiraling path of discovery at whose center is an enigmatic manuscript called the Khumbu Document. Pursued by those who would use the Document for sinister ends, both Yoshu and Avery cross the globe, gradually uncovering the mystery of the manuscript, and its ultimate purpose.
Download or read book Trek of Time written by Cynthia Casto and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trek of Time: Into the Legend A sudden change will alter two siblings' lives forever. Destiny, a young lady struggling to find her place in the real world, is ripped away from everything she's ever known, including her family. At a time when two souls are just about to begin a life together, something more than coincidence pulls her brother, Dakota, into the unknown. Destiny is forced to react, and soon to realize her journey to find who she really is starts now. Join an all new story with a little something for everyone. A realistic fantasy full of life, heart, thrill, and mystery. Including fun, emotion, and sharp turns. Full of neveraEUR"beforeaEUR"seen drawings that aid the wonder seen by the main character. A unique story to enjoy and watch as it evolves. Follow along into a whole new world of adventure.
Download or read book Melanesia and Land written by Aron Tambala Hekenai and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is focus in teaching younger generation the initial principles of land ownership that was practiced by the early inhabitance of the Melanesian race. Since land ownership issue is a caused to social unrest and losing of human life. The principle outlined intends to help land owners, land department, developer and justice department of Melanesian nations in dealing with land ownership issues in manner that is just and morale in principle as was used by the ancestors. That the principles layout become guide to identify land owners. By doing so will: • Lessen conflict that usually ends up in severe fight and many dead. • Rightful owners been neglected their traditional ownership rights • Help developers understanding people and culture in development • Pass on to younger generation the knowledge of the ancestors. • As a leisure reading material for school students and others interested.
Download or read book Deep Water and Shoal written by William Albert Robinson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is William Albert Robinson’s seminal 1944 travel book, "Deep Water and Shoal". Complete with cannibal encounters and contretemps with hostile tribesmen, this fascinating and exciting account of twenty-five-year-old Robinson’s epic sailing adventure is highly recommended for fans of fascinating travel writing. Few have written a book about sailing round the world as good as Mr. Robinson's, which is arguably one of the most enthralling travel books ever written. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Download or read book Tibetan Civilization written by Rolf Alfred Stein and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overall view of the Tibetan civilization, both ancient and modern Tibet. This book relates developments in Tibet to those in the rest of Asia.
Download or read book A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap written by Don Kulick and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. Fewer than fifty speakers actively command it today. Based on linguistic anthropological work conducted over the course of thirty years, this book describes the grammar of the language, detailing its phonology, morphology and syntax. It devotes particular attention to verbs, which are the most elaborated area of the grammar, and which are complex, fusional and massively suppletive.The book also provides a full Tayap-English-Tok Pisin dictionary. A particularly innovative contribution is the detailed discussions of how Tayap’'s grammar is dissolving in the language of young speakers. The book exemplifies how the complex structures in fluent speakers’ Tayap are reduced or reanalyzed by younger speakers. This grammar and dictionary should therefore be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the mechanics of how languages disappear. The fact that it is the sole documentation of this unique Papuan language should also make it of interest to areal specialists and language typologists.
Download or read book The Australian Bird Watcher written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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