In his first journey, Hamlin Baylis Wells, thirty years an undercover detective, has a major decision to make. His immaculate career and religious convictions are at odds with an impulsive decision not to declare a large sum of money found during a police operation.
Patrick Howard's history of the harvesting of the King William Pine — Athrotaxis selaginoides — one of Tasmania's most distinctive and ancient native conifers, endemic to the island's cool temperate rainforests and alpine areas, and historically one of its most prized timbers. King Billy pine grows slowly over centuries in some of Tasmania's most remote country — the west coast, the Tarkine, the highland lakes area and the south-west.
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence.
The official Air Ministry manuals for the Avro Lancaster Mk I and III bomber, compiled by Michael A. Fopp, with technical details, handling notes and armament information. Hardcover with dustjacket, 2003, 521 pages, illustrated.
An examination of the Anzac landing and initial battles that followed that questions some of the long cherished claims of noted historian Charles Bean.
This Folio Society volume presents Steven Pinker’s foundational work on linguistics and cognitive science, The Language Instinct. The text argues that language is a human biological adaptation rather than a cultural creation, blending cognitive neurobiology with evolutionary anthropology.