Long Half-Life: The Nuclear Industry in Australia (Lowe Ian)(Paperback)

Atomic Thunder: British Nuclear Testing in Australia (Tynan Elizabeth)(Paperback)

British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on

My Life of Love and Truth: A Spiritual Autobiography (Long Barry)(Paperback)

This posthumous autobiography tells the story of Barry Long's life from his early years in Australia to a career as a successful newspaper editor and then how successive spiritual crises and realizations made him into a spiritual master who changed the lives of thousands of people around the world

Curse of the Mistwraith (Wurts Janny)(Paperback / softback)

The stunning first volume in Janny Wurts's epic tale of two half-brothers cursed to life-long enmity, now re-released with a striking new cover.The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the

The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma (Epstein Helen)(Paperback)

This intrepid memoir tracks sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma 'invents its own genre,' wrote Sherry Turkle. 'The author suspects sexual abuse in her

Australia & the Pacific: A history - Hoskins Ian

Australia's deep past and its modern history are intrinsically linked to the Pacific. In Australia & the Pacific, Ian Hoskins - award-winning author of Sydney Harbour and Coast - expands his gaze to examine Australia's relationship with the Pacific region; from our ties with Papua New Guinea and

Bilingual: Life and Reality (Grosjean Franois)(Paperback)

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many

Half Life (Cantor Jillian)(Paperback)

The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she'd made a different

The Fire Sermon (Haig Francesca)(Paperback)

Nuclear war, dystopian unrest, a genetic mutation that divides twins in life and unites them in death--the 'refreshingly nuanced' (Booklist, starred review) first novel in award-winning poet Francesca Haig's richly imagined and action-packed post-apocalyptic trilogy 'is poised to become the next

An English Ghost Story (Newman Kim)(Paperback)

A dysfunctional British nuclear family seek a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them

Gunner: My Life in Cricket (Gould Ian)(Pevná vazba)

Gunner: My Life in Cricket is the revealing and absorbing story of Ian Gould, who became one of the best umpires in the world after playing for England, Middlesex and Sussex. He had a close-up view of the best players and biggest controversies during 13 years at the top, including the infamous

Level 4: On The Beach (Shute Nevil)(Paperback / softback)

Nuclear war has destroyed all life in thenorthern countries of the world. Now the deadly radiation is travelling south. In Australia, where people are still alive, Peter and Mary Holmes are trying to live their lives as normally as possible as the radiation comes closer and closer. What can they

Nuclear Reactions (Bell Mark S.)(Paperback)

Nuclear Reactions analyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries. Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than

Long Dark Dusk - Australia Book 2 (Smythe James P.)(Paperback / softback)

Life was simple on the Australia: you fight or you die. On Earth, however, things are a lot more complicated

Finishing the Picture: Collected Poems (Abbot Ian)(Paperback)

Ian Abbot's life was one devoted to poetry, but at the time of his early death in 1989 he had published only one collection of poems. To the complete text of that first book, 'Avoiding the Gods', this new volume adds poems from Abbot's archives in the National Library of Scotland - some carefully

Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Close Frank)(Paperback)

Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. In this Very Short Introduction Frank Close gives an account

Midnight in Chernobyl - The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Higginbotham Adam)(Paperback / softback)

Free (Vlautin Willy)(Paperback / softback)

Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy has lived a half-life in a group home for eight years. Pauline is the nurse who tends Leroy, who lives her life in an uncomplicated way, emotionally removed, until she meets a young

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Jervis Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the potential for nuclear Armageddon has changed the meaning of war, the psychology of statesmanship, and the formulation of military policy by

Nuclear Politics in America (Duffy Robert J.)(Paperback)

The promise and peril of nuclear power have been a preoccupation of the modern age. Though the nuclear industry has witnessed periods of expansion and retrenchment, there are now more than one hundred nuclear reactors providing America with almost a quarter of its electrical power. Robert Duffy now

Long and the Short of It - A guide to finance and investment for normally intelligent people who aren't in the industry (Kay John)(Paperback / softback)

Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl (Petryna Adriana)(Paperback)

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed

Contractual Procedures in the Construction Industry (Ashworth Allan)(Paperback)

Contractual Procedures in the Construction Industry 7th edition aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the subject, and reinforces the changes that are taking place within the construction industry. The book looks at contract law within the context of construction contracts,

Pages from the Goncourt Journals (De Goncourt Edmond)(Paperback)

No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt The journal of the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature, a work that in its richness of color,

A Life in Football: My Autobiography (Wright Ian)(Paperback)

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Wrighty's characteristic honesty means his book is far more engrossing than most bland football memoirs' Sunday Times Ian Wright, Arsenal legend, England striker and TV pundit extraordinaire, is one of the most interesting and relevant figures in modern football. His