Mark Smith

Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his loyal dog Rowdy for company. He has stayed alive for two winters—hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders, an armed and dangerous gang that controls the north, led by a ruthless man named Ramage. But Finn’s isolation is shattered when a girl runs onto the beach. Rose is a Siley—an asylum seeker—and she has escaped from Ramage, who had enslaved her and her younger sister, Kas. Rose is desperate, sick, and needs Finn’s help. Kas is still missing somewhere out in the bush. And Ramage wants the girls back—at any cost. ‘Tense and atmospheric...Mark Smith’s debut is assured, gripping and leaves you wanting more.’ Best Books for Younger Readers 2016, Sydney Morning Herald ‘It’s easy to see why Mark Smith’s dystopian thriller has been compared with John Marsden’s Tomorrow When the War Began. I barely came up for breath as the pages flew. So strap yourself in for a high action ride.’ Kids Book Review

The Road to Winter

Coils of Hate -Virtual Reality 3

Morris

Virtual Reality

Steve Jackson

Ian Livingstone

Jamie Thomson

Sword of the Samurai

Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. This volume is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, focusing on five distinct periods over four millennia to trace changes in aspirations for the Osirian afterlife and explore when and why they occurred

Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia

Following Osiris

This book discusses the history and foundation of Stoicism in detail. It also explores the three main disciplines of Stoicism as well as the modern-day gurus of Stoicism. To understand and practice Stoicism is to also understand and internalize the history of this philosophical school and to know the foundations of it. Where we are right now and who we are as a people is because of the history we have behind us.To truly become a Stoic, you must understand the great Stoics of ancient philosophy, the fundamentals of it in both the Renaissance era and with Christianity, as well as modern-day role models you can emulate.

History of Stoicism

Stoicism

The crappiest book in the world is now available in print! Written with kids in mind, but adults can't seem to stop reading the train wreck of crappy information! Find out what all the stink is about before its becomes a #2 best seller! "Brilliant! Gross and Disgusting." I.P. Freely "Prefect bathroom book" John Crapper "The crappiest book ever!"Ben Dover Best selling children's book author Mark Smith has takes you closer than you may ever want to get to the world of animal poop. Don't be afraid. Dive right in! There are very few books that will make you laugh, feel disgusted and amazed at the same exact time. That is exactly what Animal Poop - What's All the Stink About accomplishes. This book is for kids, but adults will find the train wreck of animal poop facts hard to put down too. Let's face the facts,there comes a time in every kids life when they want to know more about poo. They want to look at it real close. This book gives them that opportunity without getting their hands all dirty. Dive in and find gross and disgusting facts about: Animal Poop Lingo Which Species Produces the Most Feces Dinosaur Poop Putting Animal Poop to Good Use Poop Paper Poop Cakes Poop Coffee Poop Medicine Poop Jewelry Is Animal Poop Nature's Filter? Will Bird Poop Make You Look Young? Using Poop as a Disguise Find out what all the stink is about. Grab your copy of Animal Poop today before it becomes a number two best seller!

Animal Poop - What's All the Stink About?

• From the author of The Road to Winter comes an exciting, action-packed sequel about friendship and loyalty, and how far we would go to protect the ones we love when survival is at stake • A brutal winter has passed and Finn, Kas and Willow are on a mission to fulfil the promise they've made to Rose—to find baby Hope. But first they'll have to face Ramage and his gang of Wilders, who are out for revenge and who won't stop until they see them dead • Wilder Country expands on the issues brought up in The Road to Winter while asking some big questions about morality • Explores themes to do with belonging and personal development • Like John Marsden's bestselling 'Tomorrow' series, this is an adventure story that will appeal to a wide audience, from teen to adult readers

Wilder Country

David Byrd

To reach the coveted next level, you must accomplish new goals, develop new skills, acquire new confidence, and reach for new levels of awareness. In short, you must achieve. Achievement is a very simple process-you achieve by simply doing the right things consistently over a sustained period of time-but most people are not achieving. They are not reaching that next level. Why? Because they don't know how to do it! Do you? Inside Achievement, you will discover exactly how to reach the next level. The Next-Level Achievement System® is proven, you can measure the results, and you are holding it in your hands! It is time for you to reach the next level of success!

A Proven System for Next-Level Growth

Achievement

A #1 Best Selling Children's Book! Parents and children love Do Monsters Wear Undies! "Do Monsters Wear Undies will make kids laugh out loud, and they will want to read it over and over." - Shawn "The kids in my preschool class love it. It is fast becoming a favorite of the class. I highly recommend this book!" - Jane Jones Preschool Teacher "My granddaughter who is 8 years old loved the book. Thank you for inspiring young readers to read!" - Tence "My kids laughed from start to finish and wanted more." - Cathy "This book is excellent! Makes the kids laugh and is easy to read. Well worth the buy!" - Janel "I'm a lover of all things that rhyme, but when it can make my 6 year old son laugh...you know it has to be great! Mark Smith hit a home run with undies for this story line." - Angela Best selling children's book author Mark Smith answers the question that every child wants to know. Do Monsters Wear Undies? Find out for yourself in this fully illustrated rhyming picture book that comes to life with bright vibrant colors, and a catchy rhythm that kids will fall in love with. Hooray for underwear! Says a giant monster bear. He wears his boxer shorts while playing his favorite sports. Say hi to Max, A monster who wears slacks. He has purple hair and matching purple underwear. This book has been created with early readers in mind, but the whole concept will appeal to the kid in all of us. Do monsters wear undies? What are you waiting for? Grab a copy and find out for yourself!

Do Monsters Wear Undies?

A madman is on the loose in the city. On the verge of psychic collapse, detective Arnold Magnuson follows clues in the murder's wake - through the Chicago of society clubs and nightclubs and the city of hoods and Mafia - through interrogations, lies and improvised stories, moving closer to a culprit who begins to feel alarmingly like himself.

A Novel

The Death of the Detective

Sally Breen

Emily Brugman

Madelaine Dickie

Sam Carmody

Jake Sandtner

Tim Winton says, 'Surfing is not just a subculture, it is culture, and here's proof', while Jock Serong says that the collection demonstrates our horizons are unlimited. From Gold Coast surf culture to the relationships of humans to the sea and from surf travel in Mexico to Taj Burrow's final campaign in Fiji, this collection features six authors writing about surfing, and the ocean, in six very different ways. Their stories are reverential, energetic and mystical, and between them cover thousands of kilometres of coastline, at home and abroad.

Australian Surf Writing

Lines to the Horizon

John Pickard

David Bayne

CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) and Core 2 (220-1102) Exam Cram is an all-inclusive study guide designed to help you pass the updated versions of the CompTIA A+ exams. Prepare for test day success with complete coverage of exam objectives and topics, plus hundreds of realistic practice questions. Extensive prep tools include quizzes, Exam Alerts, and our essential last-minute review CramSheet. The powerful Pearson Test Prep practice test software provides real-time assessment and feedback with four complete exams. Covers the critical information needed to score higher on your CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) and Core 2 (220-1102) exams! Install, configure, and troubleshoot PC hardware including CPUs, RAM, video cards, network cards, storage drives, and peripherals Work effectively with mobile devices: laptops, tablets, and smartphones Configure Windows settings, components, and administrative tools Manage and troubleshoot Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS Administer and support basic IT infrastructure including IP networking, IoT devices, virtualization, cloud-based systems, and backup systems Understand security features such as firewalls, multifactor authentication, permissions, and access control Defend against malware, network threats, and social engineering Learn the basics of IT documentation, change management, and incident response Prepare for your exam with Pearson Test Prep: Realistic practice questions and answers Comprehensive reporting and feedback Customized testing in study, practice exam, or flash card modes Complete coverage of A+ Core 1 (220-1101) and Core 2 (220-1102) exam objectives

CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1201) and Core 2 (220-1202) Exam Cram

Ann-Katrin Gill

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of a collection of glorification spells attested in five papyri from around 300 BCE. It includes a hieroglyphic synopsis of all known examples of the spells, and a transliteration and translation of the copy preserved in the Louvre.

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt

Viviene E. Cree

Scotland has changed, politically and culturally, in recent years, with persistent demands for independence culminating in a referendum in 2014. On this fluid political landscape, social welfare can be co-opted towards a wider ‘nation-building’ project. As a result, social work in Scotland is increasingly divergent from the rest of the UK. This book offers a comprehensive, critical and timely account of the profession in these changing times, charting its historical development, current practice and future directions. Bringing together a range of academic and practice experts, it considers social work as it is currently but also as it might be. Divided into three parts, the first part sets a context, identifying historical, philosophical, policy and legal influences on current practice. The second part picks up on current themes in policy and practice, addressing key issues of professional identity in an increasingly integrated policy context. The final part contains chapters on current domains of practice, identifying key areas of legislation, policy and practice. Social Work in a Changing Scotland is essential reading for social work students, offering an accessible yet critical overview of the profession. It will also inform current practitioners to understand better the changing contexts within which they practise, while prompting further academic debate about Scottish social work.

Social Work in a Changing Scotland

Rob Boddice

Emotion, Sense, Experience calls on historians of emotions and the senses to come together in serious and sustained dialogue. The book outlines the deep if largely unacknowledged genealogy of historical writing insisting on a braided history of emotions and the senses; explains why recent historical treatments have sometimes profitably but nonetheless unhelpfully segregated the emotions from the senses; and makes a compelling case for the heuristic and interpretive dividends of bringing emotions and sensory history into conversation. Ultimately, we envisage a new way of understanding historical lived experience generally, as a mutable product of a situated world-brain-body dynamic. Such a project necessarily points us towards new interdisciplinary engagement and collaboration, especially with social neuroscience. Unpicking some commonly held assumptions about affective and sensory experience, we re-imagine the human being as both biocultural and historical, reclaiming the analysis of human experience from biology and psychology and seeking new collaborative efforts.

Emotion, Sense, Experience

The belief that dead people could assume non-human forms is attested in Egyptian texts of all periods, from the Old Kingdom down to Graeco-Roman times. It was thought that assuming such forms enhanced their freedom of movement and access to nourishment in the afterlife, as well as allowing them to join the entourages of different deities and participate in their worship. Spells referring to or enabling the deceased’s transformations occur in the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead. But it is not until the Graeco-Roman Period that we find entire compositions devoted to this theme. Two of the most important are P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162, both written in hieratic and dating to the 1st century AD. Both texts have been known to Egyptologists for more than a century, but neither is currently available in an up-to-date comprehensive edition. This book provides such an edition, including high-resolution images of the manuscripts, hieroglyphic transcriptions, translations, descriptions of their material aspects, studies of their owners, their titles, and their families, reconstructions of their context of usage, analyses of their orthography and grammar, and detailed commentaries on their contents.

The Spells of P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162

Transforming the Dead in Graeco-Roman Egypt

British Museum

The mortuary texts of Papyrus, BM 10507

Catalogue of Demotic Papyri in the British Museum

The ancient Egyptians believed that rites performed for Osiris, the god of the dead, played a critical role in maintaining Egypt's well-being and prosperity. Not only did they ensure the renewed fertility of the country's arable land, they also guaranteed the political and social cohesion of the Egyptian state. However, it was not only at the national level, but at the individual level as well, that the Egyptians deemed such rites to be beneficial. Ritual texts intended to restore Osiris to life, suitably adapted, could also be recited for deceased individuals. Thus they could benefit from them in the same way that Osiris did. In the Graeco-Roman Period, adapted ritual texts of this sort were employed alongside texts originally composed for use in the funerary cult of ordinary deceased people. A number of ritual texts which are first attested in the private sphere subsequently appear in the temple sphere as well. Some ritual texts appear to have moved back and forth from one sphere to another, which suggests that the boundaries between the Osirian temple cult and the private funerary cult may have been more fluid than we usually imagine. The ritual texts edited in this volume offer an excellent opportunity to explore these and related issues. Most of them are known to have been employed both for the benefit of the god Osiris and for ordinary deceased people, in certain cases, during one and the same period of Egypt's history. This is one of their most interesting and striking features. They stand at the interface between temple cult and cult of the dead and allow us to trace the transmission of beliefs and practices from one sphere to the other.

The Demotic Ritual Texts of Bodl. MS. Egypt. A. 3(P)

Between Temple and Tomb

Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying its benefits. It does not seek to provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian ideas on this subject, but rather focuses on five distinct periods in their development, spread over four millennia. The periods in question are ones in which significant changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead are known to have occurred or where it has been argued that they did, as Egyptian aspirations for the Osirian afterlife took time to coalesce and reach their fullest form of expression. An important aim of the book is to investigate when and why such changes happened, treating religious belief as a dynamic rather than a static phenomenon and tracing the key stages in the development of these aspirations, from their origin to their demise, while illustrating how they are reflected in the textual and archaeological records. In doing so, it opens up broader issues for exploration and draws meaningful cross-cultural comparisons to ask, for instance, how different societies regard death and the dead, why people convert from one religion to another, and why they abandon belief in a god or gods altogether.

Mark Smith

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