E-book Pacific Exposures

Sometime around 1915, a dozen Australian women paused for a photograph as they readied for a Japanese-inspired parade at Wallaroo Mines in Kadina on South Australia’s remote Yorke Peninsula (see Figure 0.1). The women are dressed in homemade interpretations of kimonos and obis and wear chrysanthemums in their hair. Two of them hold …

E-book Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Cr…

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E-book Across the Copperbelt : Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Bord…

With a roller coaster history of economic boom followed by crushing bust, the Central African Copperbelt has come to epitomise Africa’s faltering ‘Industrial Revolution’.1 Throughout the twentieth century, its large-scale industrial copper mines attracted people, capital and power across national and continental boundaries. Following a protracted period of expansion after 1945,…

E-book The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force--employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical use of power to develo…

E-book Fluid Balance, Hydration, and Athletic Performance

Undeniably, water, the nutrient comprising the greatest percentage of mass in the human body, has the most dramatic impact on function and structure when its bal­ance is upset. The human body is resilient to some change. However, during physical activities, such as athletics, the effects of water deficit can be magnified to that point where physical and mental functions are diminis…

E-book Child Participation

This book defines children as people between the ages of 0 and 18 years. The extent of child participation should depend on the age, experience and maturity of the child. A baby cannot be expected to make logical decisions, while a child of seven years old should not be expected to take on the burdens and responsibilities of an adult. However, all children should be involved and consulted in so…

E-book The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Re…

This edited collection arrives at a crucial moment in the evolution of Writing Studies research. It brings together well-known and emerging scholars in the field of Writing Studies, broadly defined, to explore the range of research methods and methodologies, the types of research questions asked, and the types of data in play in research about higher education writing in the 21st century. Its c…

E-Book Resisting Happiness: A True Story about Why We Sabotage Ourselves

EVERY SINGLE MOMENT IS A CHANCE TO TURN IT ALL AROUND. Are you happy? It may be the wrong question. Most of us think we are relatively happy, while at the same time knowing that we could be happiermaybe even a lot happier. Ordinary people and the finest philosophers have been exploring the question of happiness for thousands of years, and theories abound. But this is not a book of theory. Resi…

E-book The Football Coaching Process

The Football Australia Coaching Expertise Model was developed to give coaches and coach educators a clear picture of what knowledge and skills are required to operate effectively as a football coach. Our vision on how to play football has been well-documented, through the publication of the National Football Curriculum and Football Australia’s Building Blocks of player development. The next …

Encyclopedia Of Life

Explore plants, water life, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals with this wonderfully comprehensive encyclopedia. Useful features include visual factfiles, bulleted facts, charts, world records, bizarre facts and top tens. The book is fully cross-referenced throughout and is packed with diagrams, illustrations and photos, making it a brilliant guide to everything you have ever want…