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Astrology and Cosmology in the Worlds Religions
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Foodies Guide 2011: Melbourne
Hardie Grant Books 2010; US$ 14.95The Melbourne food scene is alive and well! No matter the worlds financial position, Melburnians it seems still want to enjoy good food. Fresh produce markets are buzzing with customers, great food stores are busy, bakery shelves are cleared of sourdough loaves by mid-afternoon and our chocolate makers are rolling chocolate truffles as fast as... more...
Foodies' Guide 2012: Melbourne
Hardie Grant Books 2011; US$ 12.99The Foodies Guide to Melbourne will place the citys best kept food secrets at your fingertips. With wonderful little hole-in-the-wall businesses popping up every day, who can keep track of where to find the best of the best in Melbourne? Discerning food writers Allan Campion and Michele Curtis can. And theyre sharing their secrets,... more...
Jupiters Children
Liverpool University Press 1999; US$ 22.50On 21 October 1988 at 6.15pm the cruise liner Jupiter was sunk after a collision in the Aegean Sea with the Italian ship Adige . On board the Jupiter were 391 schoolchildren, 84 adults and 110 crew members. A teacher and a child were never found; two crew members died. In Jupiters Children , 16 girls, one boy and 12 adults from Cator Park School... more...
The Lions
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 18.00Big Avalanche Ravine Just the warning light on a blue crane. Just mountains. Just the mist that skimmed them both and bled to silver rain lashing the condominiums. But there it sank on me. This urge to carve a life from the long expanse. To hold some ground against the surge of sheer material. It was a tense and persistent and metallic... more...
The King's Mistress
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a manipulative woman who used her great beauty and sensuality to take advantage of an aging and increasingly senile king. But who was the woman behind the scandal? A cold-hearted opportunist or someone fighting for... more...
History of Western Astrology II
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00Astrology is a major feature of contemporary popular culture. Recent research indicates that 99% of adults in the modern west know their birth sign. In the modern west astrology thrives as part of our culture despite being a pre-Christian, pre-scientific world-view. Medieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. It was a... more...
The King's Mistress
Random House 2011; US$ 9.34From childhood Alice Salisbury has learnt obedience in all things and at fourteen dutifully marries the man her father has chosen for her - at the cost of losing for ever the love of her mother and the family she holds dear. But merchant Janyn Perrers is a good and loving husband and Alice soon learns to enjoy her marriage. Until a messenger brings... more...
The Grave Gourmet
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2011; US$ 12.75From the Champs-Élysées to the twinkling banks of la Seine, chic Parisian policewoman Capucine LeTellier plunges into a uniquely Parisian affair of gastronomic delights and bureaucratic intrigue to close a case that could make her career-or kill it . After dining on such delicacies as oyster sorbet and avocado soufflé, Jean-Louis... more...
The Synthesis of Three Dimensional Haptic Textures: Geometry, Control, and Psychophysics
Springer 2011; US$ 79.99The sense of touch is fundamental during the interaction between humans and their environment; in virtual reality, objects are created by computer simulations and they can be experienced through haptic devices. In this context haptic textures are fundamental for a realistic haptic perception of virtual objects.This book formalizes the specific artefacts... more...









