Download or read book The Bone is Pointed written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-09-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.

Download or read book Kundela written by Terry L Probert and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kundela is the name given to the sacred pointing bone of Aboriginal legend. Catapulted into the story from the first page, the reader shares the lives of an Australian farming family dealing with endless drought. Set in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, vivid action intertwines with mystery murder and romance. Your senses rise to the smell of eucalypt trees after rain, the terror of ants on attack, and the bold landscape colours. You feel a tinge of dust on your skin and these skills permeate this author's style. Joe's raid on the bikie camp, Aboriginal themes, and a midair heart attack add to the drama. Three bodies found on the roadside, their faces and hands blown away by shotgun blasts. Modern aboriginal women in ceremonial dress sit around a large flat stone in a manicured city park, a traditional singing circle. Dry bones shaped to make kundelas point to the effigy of a man. The steamy attraction of the policeman and Joe's daughter add romantic tension, while bush forensics of a senior policeman are a few of the subplots to keep the pages turning in a story that's hard to put down.

Download or read book The Pointing Bone written by J. Thomas Luther and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pointing Bone is an action adventure that will leave you drained. Set against the majesty of the Sydney Olympic Games and the Australian outback, terrorists build and then demonstrate that they have nuclear weapons and the willingness to use them. Entangled in this most daring terrorist plot ever is a young aborigine medicine man. Tuomartu would be asked by the tribal elders to chase the evilness that comes upon the tribe. For this purpose he has only one tool...the ornate stick passed through the generations believed to wield the power to stand against tribal enemies. Only the medicine man knew how to use the Pointing Bone...only he could save his tribe and perhaps the world from disaster thought unimaginable before September 11th 2001. Nuclear weapons in the hands of madmen! What the CIA, Australian Federal Police and inept Olympic security failed to prevent was now in the hands of the Aborigine's spiritual leader. Only the medicine man had the power of the spirit Gods at his disposal and with his Pointing Bone he alone would stand against the power of the atom in the hands of extremists.

Download or read book Lasseter s Last Ride written by Ion Idriess and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (from The Spectator, May 1936) In his introduction to Lasseter's Last Ride (Cape, 7s. 6d.) Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood writes : "The annals of Central Australian exploration are tragic and heroic, but it is long indeed since I read a more moving story of endurance and heroism in the face of terrific odds than the epic which Mr. Ion Idriess has woven out of the last few months of the life of L. H. B. Lasseter." The reader will agree with this, and wonder why he has not heard of Mr. Idriess before. He is well known in Australia, but this is his first book to be published in England. It will not be his last, if the present one meets with the success it deserves. Having himself been a prospector, the story he has constructed out of the fragments of documentary evidence - a few reports, the barely legible diary and letters found buried near Lasseter's last camps - is probably very close to what actually happened. Harry Lasseter had once discovered a rich gold reef in unexplored west Central Australia. Owing to a faulty watch, the bearings he took were useless. An expedition was fitted out to locate it. From the first, misfortune dogged the steps of the party. Food ran short and they returned to the base-camp - all except Lasseter, who went on alone. When his two camels bolted he was left waterless in the desert. Blinded by sand and tortured by dysentry, he found the reef, but died shortly afterwards, deserted by a tribe of aborigines with whom he had tried to make friends. Mr. Idriess tells this story in a simple, virile style which is, in its intense economy, comparable to Hemingway at his best.

Download or read book Deeply Into the Bone written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a personal, informed and cultural perspective on rites of passage for general readers, this text illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions.

Download or read book Electrochemical Biosensor Point of Care for Early Detection of Bone Loss written by Nasrin Afsarimanesh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the design of a robust, portable and low-cost PoC sensing system for the early detection of bone loss. The device can measure the level of CTx-I – one of the most sensitive biochemical markers of bone resorption – in serum and transmit the measured value to an IoT-based cloud server. The selectivity of the sensing system to CTx-I has been achieved by coating the sensor with artificial antibodies, prepared by means of molecular imprinting technology. Explaining all aspects of the system’s development in detail, the book will be of great interest to all engineers, researchers and scientists whose work involves the development of electrochemical sensors and PoC devices.

Download or read book The Pointing Bone written by Robert Lima and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Red at the Bone written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams 'An epic in miniature' Tayari Jones 'A banger' Ta-Nehisi Coates 'Generous and big-hearted' Brit Bennett 'A true spell of a book' Ocean Vuong 'A proclamation' R.O. Kwon 'A little masterpiece' Paula Hawkins 'I adored this book' Elizabeth MacNeal 'Pure poetry' Observer 'A sharply focused gem' Sunday Times 'Will remind you why you love reading' Stylist 'Haunting' Guardian 'A wonderful, tragic, inspiring story' Metro 'Prose that sings off the page... Gorgeous' Mail on Sunday 'A nuanced portrait of shifting family relationships' Financial Times 'As seductive as a Prince bop' O, The Oprah Magazine 'Razor-sharp' Vanity Fair 'Dazzling... With urgent, vital insights into questions of class, gender, race, history, queerness and sex' New York Times An unexpected teenage pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us. From the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer, Melody's mother, for a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's family - from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to post 9/11 New York - Red at the Bone explores sexual desire, identity, class, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, as it looks at the ways in which young people must so often make fateful decisions about their lives before they have even begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be. *** ONE OF THE BOOKS OF THE YEAR FOR: New York Times; Washington Post; Time; USA Today; O, The Oprah Magazine; Elle; Good Housekeeping; Esquire; NPR; New York Public Library; Library Journal; Kirkus; BookRiot; She Reads; The Undefeated ***

Download or read book Beyond the Bone written by Reginald Hill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stolen skeleton leads to a web of mystery: “Those who treasure quirky characters, lively dialogue, and ingenious plots will be delighted” (Booklist). In England, a skeleton from Roman times goes missing from the site of an archaeological dig—as does the man overseeing the project. In Baghdad, a diplomat dies suddenly. And in California, a scientist commits suicide. These three events are in fact linked—and one tough, determined woman may be about to unravel a shocking conspiracy that lies behind them all, in this lively mystery by “one of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists” (The Times, London). “The captivating cast includes an obnoxious student of archaeology, a fraudulent town official, a vaguely clairvoyant eccentric, a couple of mysterious brothers, and various other folks who aren’t quite what they seem to be.” —Booklist “Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers.” —Orlando Sentinel

Download or read book The Barf Diet written by Ian Billinghurst and published by Dogwise Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third book from Dr. Ian Billinghurst was written to help pet owners either understand or expand their knowledge of evolutionary diets for both dogs and cats. It contains important background research from his first two books together with lots of new information. Experienced "BARFers" will benefit from a number of new suggested recipes and practical information to assist in the home production of BARF diets - now everyone can do the BARF diet for their pets!

Download or read book Pointing the Bone written by Daryl Joyce and published by Xlibris Au. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quintessentially Australian novel set in modern day Byron Bay NSW is a tour-de-force, with a masterful plot that is both unsettling and triumphant. Young ARCHIE STENMARK is sent on an assignment to cover a story about a curse that has been cast on his father's family by the local Indigenous tribe in Byron Bay. While ARCHIE is researching the curse, his father tries to clear his name of a crime that the town still believes he committed in his youth. In his research, ARCHIE finds out that the elders of the local tribe had cursed his ancestors when they fenced off a sacred meeting place that had been used for centuries. In his search to catalogue the tragedies associated with the curse, ARCHIE meets up with a feisty young Indigenous lawyer, who is heading up the fight for Native Title over his family's land, but trouble erupts in the town when ARCHIE and his father support the girl's claim. The powerful STENMARK family, who have more lucrative plans for the waterfront land, become vindictive, and as the conflict unfolds, the seaside town becomes outraged, especially when a number of murders and a cruel abduction take place. Skilfully described and compulsively readable, 'Pointing the Bone' is both confronting and exhilarating. Joyce has deftly drawn characters on both sides of the cultural divide, with vivid characters springing onto the page throughout. In the story, the reader is confronted by some shameful incidents wrought by the wealthy family, but after learning about them, we have a deeper understanding of how colonisation affected our First Nation people. There is a dearth of stories on our shelves that shine a light on the brave struggle of Indigenous groups, and even fewer that have a happy ending, but this inspiring book is one. 'Pointing the Bone' deserves to take its place on the top shelf of libraries and bookshops throughout our land.

Download or read book Magic to the Bone written by Devon Monk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devon Monk is casting a spell on the fantasy world... Using magic means it uses you back, and every spell exacts a price from its user. But some people get out of it by Offloading the cost of magic onto an innocent. Then it’s Allison Beckstrom’s job to identify the spell-caster. Allie would rather live a hand-to-mouth existence than accept the family fortune—and the strings that come with it. But when she finds a boy dying from a magical Offload that has her father’s signature all over it, Allie is thrown back into his world of black magic. And the forces she calls on in her quest for the truth will make her capable of things that some will do anything to control...

Download or read book Skates Made of Bone written by B.A. Thurber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice skates made from animal bones were used in Europe for millennia before metal-bladed skates were invented. Archaeological sites have yielded thousands of examples, some of them dating to the Bronze Age. They are often mentioned in popular books on the Vikings and sometimes appear in children's literature. Even after metal skates became the norm, people in rural areas continued to use bone skates into the early 1970s. Today, bone skates help scientists and re-enactors understand migrations and interactions among ancient peoples. This book explains how to make and use them and chronicles their history, from their likely invention in the Eurasian steppes to their disappearance in the modern era.

Download or read book Building Bones Bone Formation and Development in Anthropology written by Christopher J. Percival and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bone is the tissue most frequently recovered archaeologically and is the material most commonly studied by biological anthropologists, who are interested in how skeletons change shape during growth and across evolutionary time. This volume brings together a range of contemporary studies of bone growth and development to highlight how cross-disciplinary research and new methods can enhance our anthropological understanding of skeletal variation. The novel use of imaging techniques from developmental biology, advanced sequencing methods from genetics, and perspectives from evolutionary developmental biology improve our ability to understand the bases of modern human and primate variation. Animal models can also be used to provide a broad biological perspective to the systematic study of humans. This volume is a testament to the drive of anthropologists to understand biological and evolutionary processes that underlie changes in bone morphology and illustrates the continued value of incorporating multiple perspectives within anthropological inquiry.

Download or read book Guide to the Australian Ethnological Collection Exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria written by National Gallery of Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basic and Applied Bone Biology written by David B. Burr and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic and Applied Bone Biology, Second Edition, provides an overview of skeletal biology, from the molecular level, to the organ level, including cellular control, interaction and response, adaptive responses to various external stimuli, and the interaction of the skeletal system with other metabolic processes in the body. The book includes chapters that address how the skeleton can be evaluated through the use of various imaging technologies, biomechanical testing, histomorphometric analysis, and the use of genetically-modified animal models. Each chapter delves deep into the important details of topics covered to provide a solid understanding of the basics of bone biology. Bone biology researchers who also train undergraduate and graduate students in the lab will use this book constantly to orient new students on the basics of the field and as a background reference for many of the technical aspects of qualification in bone biology (e.g., mechanics, histomorphometry, genetic modification, biochemistry, etc.). Presents an in-depth overview of skeletal biology, from molecular to organ level Offers refresher level content for clinicians or researchers outside their areas of expertise Includes updated and complete references Incorporates expanded study questions at the end of each chapter for further exploration Covers topics relevant to a modern course in skeletal biology

Download or read book Tender at the Bone written by Ruth Reichl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An absolute delight to read . . . How lucky we are that [Ruth Reichl] had the courage to follow her appetite.”—Newsday At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that “food could be a way of making sense of the world. If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were.” Her deliciously crafted memoir Tender at the Bone is the story of a life defined, determined, and enhanced in equal measure by a passion for food, by unforgettable people, and by the love of tales well told. Beginning with her mother, the notorious food-poisoner known as the Queen of Mold, Reichl introduces us to the fascinating characters who shaped her world and tastes, from the gourmand Monsieur du Croix, who served Reichl her first foie gras, to those at her politically correct table in Berkeley who championed the organic food revolution in the 1970s. Spiced with Reichl’s infectious humor and sprinkled with her favorite recipes, Tender at the Bone is a witty and compelling chronicle of a culinary sensualist’s coming-of-age. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Ruth Reichl's Delicious! Praise for Tender at the Bone “A poignant, yet hilarious, collection of stories about people [Reichl] has known and loved, and who, knowingly or unknowingly, steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world’s leading food writers.”—Chicago Sun-Times “While all good food writers are humorous . . . few are so riotously, effortlessly entertaining as Ruth Reichl.”—The New York Times Book Review “Reading Ruth Reichl on food is almost as good as eating it. . . . Reichl makes the reader feel present with her, sharing the experience.”—Washington Post Book World “[In] this lovely memoir . . . we find young Ruth desperately trying to steer her manic mother's unwary guests toward something edible. It's a job she does now . . . in her columns, and whose intimate imperatives she illuminates in this graceful book.”—The New Yorker “A savory memoir of [Reichl’s] apprentice years . . . Reichl describes [her] experiences with infectious humor. . . . The descriptions of each sublime taste are mouthwateringly precise. . . . A perfectly balanced stew of memories.”—Kirkus Reviews