The evolution of Australian radio astronomy from 1945 to 1960 has been studied in detail by numerous historians of science in recent years. This Open Access book is the first to present an overview of this remarkable chapter in Australian science. The book begins in the post-war period, as the Radiophysics Laboratory in Sydney switched from secret wartime research on radar to peacetime applicat…
Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. His other three novels, published after his death, helped to found his reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. Discussing both Kafka's cr…
In the 17th century, markets in Europe were rapidly expanding and cocoa spread to most islands in the Caribbean and subsequently to mainland Venezuela and Colombia. In the same century, the Spanish succeeded in transferring a few live plants to Manila in the Philippines. Cocoa cultivation gradually spread southward through the East Indies, and ultimately also to Sri Lanka in the 19th century. A…