Autor: Luke Strongman

A "bush telegraph" is an antipodean slang noun phrase for a "grapevine" or an informal network of communication. The title of this book on English language use comes from the fact …

How do I improve my essay writing skills? Where can I learn quickly how to improve my speech writing? How does writing for the web differ from conventional writing? Are there some categories of mista …

The Bronze Mask presents an analysis of 51 famous protagonists from some of the finest and most enduring works of fiction – predominantly novels – over the past five hundred years. The characters fro …

This book concerns the retracing of the steps of the colonial project beyond the binary oppositions and Manichean divisions of master and slave, colonizer and colonized, Christian and infidel, to the …

The Copper Garden: New Zealand Novels is a book of literary criticism and review about Aotearoa New Zealand fiction over the past one hundred fifty years. It focuses on those novels that have receive …

Reconstructions is a book about international development and several of its conceptual, theoretical, and some of its practical and behavioural facets. It is an exploratory introduction to the subjec …

The highlight of many peoples’ daily lives is business, the act of communicating and exchanging, negotiating and transacting, of selling and buying. In business, while there is always potential for t …

This book is a critical and practical guide to the aspects of public relations in the everyday business world. It explores key thematical trends and developments within the public relations and reput …

BCD. Business Communication Digitally is a book for today’s and tomorrow’s business practitioner and student that is structured into eleven chapters, each dealing with topics salient for aspects of b …

The chapters of this book discuss in differing ways the transition in the second millennium of the Common Era from the Renaissance, through Enlightenment and subsequently, Romanticism, with a focus i …

The Silver Conclave presents a critical analysis and reflection on fifty heroes, heroines and villains of English and American literature, folklore, history, film and graphic art. The characters are …

Mind over Matter explores issues in popular psychology and science that are firstly concerned with the evolution of the human species and, more particularly, of the human mind and its functioning; se …

Education is the harbinger of change; technological learning in the Information Age is at the cusp of that change, bringing new technologies, enhanced interfaces, dialogue, mobile learning and networ …

This publication aims to give comprehensive information on the methods of gamma knife radiosurgery and the results of treatment of the most frequent diagnoses using radiosurgery. A summarization of e …

This book provides an overview of the scientific methods used to search, analyse, appraise and synthesize studies on angiogenesis. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive piece of literature that …

This book elucidates the Qing history from perspectives of Confucianism as well as modern sciences. It emphasizes the Chinese spirits in explicating the socioeconomic changes of the dynasty. Historia …

China was defeated during the first Sino-Japanese war and Japan was defeated during World War II including the second Sino-Japanese war. Since then, the relationship between China and Japan has varie …

Industrial technologies have rapidly developed since the Industrial Revolution, and technological progress during the 19th century had been significantly promoted by the great inventors of that centu …

Since the discovery of the glucagon hormone, our knowledge of the pathophysiological changes of glucose metabolism has increased substantially. One of the first major breakthroughs in our understandi …

The classical problem about a steady-state supersonic flow of an inviscid non-heat-conductive gas around an infinite plane wedge under the assumption that the angle at the vertex of the wedge is less …

This book focuses on the Australian occidental tourists’ expectations and satisfaction in one of the oriental tourist destinations such as Vietnam. It makes use the HOLSAT model to assess the holiday …

High order harmonic generation (HHG) produced by the interaction of an intense laser pulse and a gas medium can provide a table top scale coherent radiation source in the short wavelength range from …

The aim of this work is to show that certain acts related to the body (sport, tattoo, clothing), when practiced to excess, go beyond sanity and aesthetics. Through interviews and the administration o …

The Steel Registry. Characters of Crime Fiction is a celebration of the genre of detective fiction and detective fiction characters. Beginning with the earliest eighteenth and nineteenth century crim …

This volume explores, in twenty-one concise chapters, perspectives on teaching for the tertiary sector. Divided into three sections, Character, Context and Conduct, this book is written from a practi …

This book details Eva Green’s film and acting career. Extensively researched, it is concerned with her film roles, and the many movies in which she has appeared. It describes, with critical commentar …