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Book The Riddle Exposed

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Stokes
  • Publisher : Interactive Publications
  • Release : 2021-03
  • ISBN : 1922332526
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The Riddle Exposed written by William Stokes and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973 the firebombing of the Whiskey Au-Go-Go nightclub grabbed the headlines in Brisbane unlike any other disaster beforehand. 15 people were killed amid the inferno, the worst mass-murder ever in Australia. Rumours were rife. Detectives were forewarned, but was the firebombing part of an implausible notion to embark on an extortion racket? Or was it a scheme for insurance purposes? Perhaps it was the act of a disgruntled customer, a former employee, or someone owed money? Politicians from all sides of Parliament demanded quick answers. Unbeknown to but a few, early in the morning after the fire, Billy McCulkin was the first person interviewed by detectives while his wife and young daughters fled from their Highgate Hill house; and they only returned to their house after the arrests of John Stuart and Jim Finch. Later, Mrs McCulkin confided to her co-worker, as well as a neighbour, and her brother that she feared for her safety because she knew her husband and his associates were involved in both the Torino and Whiskey Au-Go-Go nightclub fires. During the months of anxiety for Mrs McCulkin, the courtroom appearances of Stuart and Finch heard repeated outbursts from them asserting that detectives had concocted a false verbal confession. The subsequent wire-swallowing protests by Stuart and Finch were extraordinary. Finch even whacked off a piece of his finger, but the self-mutilating efforts from both achieved nothing. The trial, being the longest and costliest staged in Queensland, proceeded without Stuart, or any legal representative for him, while he lay handcuffed to a hospital bed - a first for any Australian court when a life imprisonment term is mandatory. Not long after the Whiskey murder trial, and the fifth reported wire-swallowing protest from Stuart, Mrs Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters disappeared, murdered by Vince O’Dempsey and Gary Dubois, though they were not then brought to stand trial because the case was far too riddled with the standard 1970s police corruption. Interwoven around the Waterside Workers Union journal, Port News, as its publisher William Stokes’ account of his acquaintanceship with everyone concerned - including the bizarre Clockwork Orange gang and a nympho wife who believed she was demoniacally possessed - leads to a harrowing tale. Expect the unexpected.

Book The Controversial Bernborough

Download or read book The Controversial Bernborough written by William Stokes and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Bernborough is an uplifting one, decked with highs and lows, focused around the life of a phenomenal Australian racehorse. Played out from the beginning of World War II, the story includes several colourful characters along the way. Bogus records, a ring-in, massive betting coups, suspense, controversy and intrigue all feature around Bernborough. The racing stewards in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Newcastle repeatedly banned him from competing at their racetracks. Only in postwar Australia was he allowed to perform on the metropolitan racecourses. Then, within months, this amazing galloper set the nation agog. An enigmatic hero, Bernborough rapidly became a household name without anyone ever knowing all that was involved. When he was later booked for stud in Kentucky, his sale to Louis B. Mayer from MGM studios was also loaded with never-ending controversy.

Book Scientific Canadian Mechanics  Magazine and Patent Office Record

Download or read book Scientific Canadian Mechanics Magazine and Patent Office Record written by Canada. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exposure

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  • Author : Robert DeFosses
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2013-11
  • ISBN : 149171266X
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book Exposure written by Robert DeFosses and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill, a handsome first-year photography teacher at Miss Porter's finishing school, and Betty, a senior at the school, see the ghostly images of a young man and woman when they use an antique camera Bill finds at the school. They soon realize they themselves are reliving the couple's failed love story from long ago.

Book Illustrations

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  • Author : David W. Jones
  • Publisher : Valjean Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Illustrations written by David W. Jones and published by Valjean Press. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three frogs are sitting on a log. Two decide to jump. How many frogs are left? Three. Deciding to jump means nothing. Action is everything. Poignant stories, parables, and quotes can not only bring life to a sermon, speech, or presentation, they can help the hearers to take flight and go from listeners to doers.

Book Cosmology

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  • Author : Edward Harrison
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2000-03-16
  • ISBN : 9780521661485
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book Cosmology written by Edward Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated introduction to past and present cosmological theory.

Book Journal

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  • Author : Anthropological Society of Bombay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1122 pages

Download or read book Journal written by Anthropological Society of Bombay and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transformations

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  • Author : Helen Schwartzman
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461339383
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Transformations written by Helen Schwartzman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a book about play leads to wondering. In writing this book, I wondered first if it would be taken seriously and then if it might be too serious. Eventually, I realized that these concerns were cast in terms of the major dichotomy that I wished to question, that is, the very perva sive and very inaccurate division that Western cultures make between play and seriousness (or play and work, fantasy and reality, and so forth). The study of play provides researchers with a special arena for re-thinking this opposition, and in this book an attempt is made to do this by reviewing and evaluating studies of children's transformations (their play) in relation to the history of anthropologists' transformations (their theories). While studying play, I have wondered in the company of many individuals. I would first like to thank my husband, John Schwartzman, for acting as both my strongest supporter and, as an anthropological colleague, my severest critic. His sense of nonsense is always novel as well as instructive. I am also very grateful to Linda Barbera-Stein for her Sherlock Holmes style help in locating obscure references, checking and cross-checking information, and patience and persistence in the face of what at times appeared to be bibliographic chaos. I also owe special thanks to my teachers of anthropology-Paul J. Bohannan, Johannes Fabian, Edward T. Hall, and Roy Wagner-whose various orientations have directly and indirectly influenced the approach presented in this book.

Book Sites of Exposure

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  • Author : John Russon
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-28
  • ISBN : 0253029414
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Sites of Exposure written by John Russon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and important questions in our everyday lives. In Sites of Exposure, Russon grapples with how personal experiences such as growing up and confronting death combine with broader issues such as political oppression, economic exploitation, and the destruction of the natural environment to make life meaningful. His is cutting-edge philosophical work, illuminated by original and rigorous thinking that relies on cross-cultural communication and engagement with the richness of human cultural history. These probing interpretations of the nature of phenomenology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics, are appropriate for students and scholars of philosophy at all levels.

Book Saint Peter V Nero 666

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  • Author : William Stokes
  • Publisher : Interactive Publications
  • Release : 2021-05-15
  • ISBN : 1922332569
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Saint Peter V Nero 666 written by William Stokes and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nero: for thousands of years his name has stood synonymous with the Roman Empire. But why? What was it about this enigmatic personality that catapulted him into becoming Emperor as a 16-year-old? It was at a time when Rome not only ruled the world, but also managed to house 1 million inhabitants - a population achievement not reached for almost a further 2,000 years when Queen Victoria reigned in London. In his heyday, pagan priests proclaimed that Nero was a living god, whilst hundreds of years after his death the Christian Church branded him as the Antichrist who would one day return to wreak havoc and destruction upon the planet. Throughout the many historic books published about Nero not even the historians are in total agreement with what happened during his lifetime, though the theologians do agree that the biblical number 666 is the Apostle Peter’s code-number for Nero. He certainly fiddled while Rome burned and then sentenced hundreds of Christians to a hideous death before banning any further worship of this religion. Forgetting his many murderous acts, games, extravagant parties and building projects, above all else, Nero believed that the god, Apollo, had blessed him with a divine voice, as well as the theatrical talents to entertain an audience.

Book Statistics for Research in Psychology

Download or read book Statistics for Research in Psychology written by Rick Gurnsey and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics for Research in Psychology offers an intuitive approach to statistics based on estimation for interpreting research in psychology. This innovative text covers topic areas in a traditional sequence but gently shifts the focus to an alternative approach using estimation, emphasizing confidence intervals, effect sizes, and practical significance, with the advantages naturally emerging in the process. Frequent opportunities for practice and step-by-step instructions for using Excel, SPSS, and R in appendices will help readers come away with a better understanding of statistics that will allow them to more effectively evaluate published research and undertake meaningful research of their own.

Book Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields

Download or read book Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields written by Peter Stavroulakis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-01-08 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting new results, this book covers the subject of biological effects of EMF in its entirety. Experimental verification of the theoretical results is given when at all possible, and the book is expected to open new areas of research, providing material for university course creation.

Book The Kindness of Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Boswell
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1998-11
  • ISBN : 0226067122
  • Pages : 523 pages

Download or read book The Kindness of Strangers written by John Boswell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a wide variety of sources, John Boswell examines the evidence that parents of all classes gave up unwanted children, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the church, or delivering them in later centuries to foundling hospitals. He shows what happened to these children, and he illuminates the moral codes that condoned abandonment.

Book Class and Gender in Early English Literature

Download or read book Class and Gender in Early English Literature written by Britton J. Harwood and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often applied to such literature." -- Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text.

Book Folktales of the Jews  Volume 1

Download or read book Folktales of the Jews Volume 1 written by Dov Noy and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2006-09-03 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion begins the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the first volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The 71 tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives, Named in Honor of Dov Noy, The University of Haifa (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Sephardic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.

Book Exposure Therapy for Children with Anxiety and OCD

Download or read book Exposure Therapy for Children with Anxiety and OCD written by Tara S. Peris and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many providers have difficulty implementing exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), despite it being the leading treatment for this condition. Exposure Therapy for Children with Anxiety and OCD: Clinician's Guide to Integrated Treatment provides a step-by-step framework for how providers apply exposure therapy in practice. The book begins with empirical support for the treatment followed by suggested implementation of exposures for specific conditions and ages. Tables of sample exposures and case illustrations are provided throughout the book and common challenges that may complicate implementation are addressed. Intended for busy providers to implement directly into practice, chapters provide clinical excerpts and illustrate techniques in an easy "how-to" format. - Summarizes empirical support for exposure treatment efficacy - Recommends how to implement exposure therapy treatment for anxiety and OCD - Provides guidance on overcoming common challenges when implementing exposures in practice - Offers separate treatment guidelines for children and adolescents - Integrates exposure therapy with other therapy modalities - Includes case studies and clinical excerpts illustrating techniques