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The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2

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First there was Girt. Now comes ...

True Girt

In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt transports us to the Australian frontier.

This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous Indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm and sheep. Lots of sheep.

True Girt introduces Thomas Davey, the hard-drinking Tasmanian governor who invented the Blow My Skull cocktail, and Captain Moonlite, Australias most notorious LGBTI bushranger. Meet William Nicholson, the Melbourne hipster who gave Australia the steam-powered coffee roaster and the world the secret ballot. And say hello to Harry, the first camel used in Australian exploration, who shot dead his owner, the adventurer John Horrocks.

Learn how Truganinis death inspired the Martian invasion of Earth. Discover the role of Hall and Oates in the Myall Creek Massacre. And be reminded why you should never ever smoke with the Wild Colonial Boy and Mad Dan Morgan.

If Manning Clark and Bill Bryson were left on a desert island with only one pen, they would write True Girt.

An engaging, witty and utterly irreverent take on Australian history. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project

Astounding, gruesome and frequently hilarious, True Girt is riveting from beginning to end. Nick Earls

David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own biographical notes. His first book, Girt, won the 2014 Indie Award for non-fiction and was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Literary Awards and Australian Book Industry Awards. He has a birthmark that looks like Tasmania, only smaller and not as far south.

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It has been almost half a century since the mysterious phenomenon known as the Shroud took the planet Earth out of phase from the universe. Connection to the interstellar government of the Galactic Accord came to an abrupt halt. For Earth, space-faring civilisation had ended.

Into a culture of rampant ultrapowered beings appears Rescind, the symbiotic host to the Draknyd spirit of one of the most notorious Dragons from ancient galactic myth, and responsible for the creation of the Shroud. Without interference from forces beyond the planet, Rescind begins a warpath to become master of a new Drynn Dominion on Earth.

Professor Mikal Bodekka leads a team of scientists on the Autarch Project. Its mission: to discover the unifying metaphysical ultrapowers of the legendary Phoenix, with the hope of defeating Rescind and removing the Shroud. Only then can Earth rejoin the greater civilisation of the galaxy as it once was.

The potential of one will be realised by many, but can the Power of Legend survive as long as belief remains?

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Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using Splunk

About This Book

* A practical and comprehensive guide to the advanced functions of Splunk,, including the new features of Splunk 6.3
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Who This Book Is For

This book is for Splunk developers looking to learn advanced strategies to deal with big data from an enterprise architectural perspective. It is expected that readers have a basic understanding and knowledge of using Splunk Enterprise.

What You Will Learn

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In Detail

Master the power of Splunk and learn the advanced strategies to get the most out of your machine data with this practical advanced guide. Make sense of the hidden data of your organization  the insight of your servers, devices, logs, traffic and clouds. Advanced Splunk shows you how.
Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery.
Start with a complete overview of all the new features and advantages of the latest version of Splunk and the Splunk Environment. Go hands on with uploading data, search commands for basic and advanced analytics, advanced visualization techniques, and dashboard customizing. Discover how to tweak Splunk to your needs, and get a complete on Enterprise Integration of Splunk with various analytics and visualization tools. Finally, discover how to set up and use all the new features of the latest version of Splunk.

Style and approach

This book follows a step by step approach. Every new concept is built on top of its previous chapter, and it is full of examples and practical scenarios to help the reader experiment as they read.

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The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989

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Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, Laszlo Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others were not successful. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, "Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany," he was hardly doing justice to the complicated history of the era. The story of the process by which the transition from Soviet satellite to independent state occurred in Hungary sheds light on the dynamics of systemic change in international politics at the end of the Cold War.

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Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life

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Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representationwhether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers of Israeli and American Jewsthese essays reveal a social life of Jewish numbers. As they trace the uses of numerical frameworks, they portray how Jews define, negotiate, and enact matters of Jewish collectivity. The contributors offer productive perspectives into ubiquitous yet often overlooked aspects of the modern Jewish experience.

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Vanessa L. Ochs, Mitchell B. Hart, Anat Leibler, Josh Friedman, Carol A. Kidron, Oren Stier, Yael Zerubavel, Deborah Dash Moore, Michal Kravel-Tovi

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Introducing the essential companion for dental imaging success! Dental Radiography: A Workbook and Laboratory Manual is a concise, comprehensive solution for both dental assisting and dental hygiene students. Joen Iannucci and Laura Jansen Howerton have written this exciting new resource as the perfect companion to the bestselling Dental Radiography: Principles and Techniques text. This unique hybrid product is organized into two distinct sections (1) a student workbook with review questions and activities that reinforce core knowledge and (2) a laboratory manual with step-by-step instructions and competency evaluations for essential hands-on skills.. Combined with the bestselling textbook, the content review exercises and laboratory procedures help you link theory and technique to promote the mastery of clinical skills necessary for professional practice success.
UNIQUE! Hybrid approach combines workbook-like review with step-by-step procedures Comprehensive coverage of all major dental radiography topics Straightforward writing style focused on need-to-know content, practice, and application Case studies and critical thinking questions Hands-on activities Written exercises, including identification/labeling, short-answer, fill-in-the-blank, matching, crossword puzzles, and more Peer and self-assessments in each laboratory exercise Team activities More than 350 illustrations and photographs UNIQUE! Spiral binding for easy chairside use

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A dark, addictive thriller, ingeniously plotted with a twist that will make you gasp, LIE IN WAIT is perfect for readers of Angela Marsons or Rachel Abbott.

A man is dead. A woman is missing. And the police have already found their prime suspect...

Owen Hall drives into a petrol station to let his passenger use the facilities. She never comes back - and what's more, it seems she never even made it inside.

When Owen raises a fuss, the police are called - and soon identify Owen himself as a possible culprit - not least because they already have him in the frame for another more sinister crime.

Owen's always been a little different, and before long others in the community are baying for his blood. But this is a case where nothing is as it seems - least of all Owen Hall...

See what readers are already saying about LIE IN WAIT

"An exciting, twisty read that had me hooked from the first page . . . a brilliant summer read." Lisa Hall, #1 Bestselling author of Between You and Me

"This is one incredibly clever novel" Bibliomaniac

"A psychological thriller in the purest sense . . . Deeply satisfying" Cleopatra Loves Books

"Deserves to be read in one sitting . . . His books are some of the best I've ever had the pleasure to read" The Quiet Knitter

"A really clever and complex story. Immensely entertaining" Goodreads review

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To read a sample chapter, visit www.uapress.com.  Baltimore is the birthplace of Francis Scott Keys The Star-Spangled Banner, the incomparable Babe Ruth, and the gold medalist Michael Phelps. Its a one-of-a-kind town with singular stories, well-publicized challenges, and also a rich sporting history. Baltimore Sports: Stories from Charm City chronicles the many ways that sports are an integral part of Baltimores history and identity and part of what makes the city unique, interesting, and, for some people, loveable. Wide ranging and eclectic, the essays included here cover not only the Orioles and the Ravens, but also lesser-known Baltimore athletes and teams. Toots Barger, known as the Queen of the Duckpins, makes an appearance. So do the Dunbar Poets, considered by some to be the greatest high-school basketball team ever. Bringing together the work of both historians and journalists, including Michael Olesker, former Baltimore Sun columnist, and Rafael Alvarez, who was named Baltimores Best Writer by Baltimore Magazine in 2014, Baltimore Sports illuminates Charm City through this fascinating exploration of its teams, fans, and athletes.

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The Jihad for Democracy, Freedom and Womens Rights

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In Rethinking Islam, Katajun Amirpur argues that the Wests impression of Islam as a backward-looking faith, resistant to post-Enlightenment thinking, is misleading anddue to its effects on political discoursedamaging. Introducing readers to key thinkers and activistssuch as Abu Zaid, a free-thinking Egyptian Quran scholar; Abdolkarim Soroush, an academic and former member of Khomeinis Cultural Revolution Committee; and Amina Wadud, an American feminist who was the first woman to lead the faithful in Friday PrayerAmirpur reveals a powerful yet lesser-known tradition of inquiry and dissent within Islam, one that is committed to democracy and human rights. By examining these and many other similar figures ideas, she reveals the many ways they reject fundamentalist assertions and instead call for a diversity of opinion, greater freedom, and equality of the sexes. 

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As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on itand try to push it in productive directionsthan best-selling novelist and political commentator Alaa Al-Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al-Aswany used his weekly newspaper column for Al-Masry Al-Youm to propound the revolutions ideals and to confront the increasingly troubled politics of its aftermath.  This book presents, for the first time in English, all of Al-Aswanys columns from the period, a comprehensive account of the turmoil of the post-revolutionary years, and a portrait of a country and a people in flux. Each column is presented along with a context-setting introduction, as well as notes and a glossary, all designed to give non-Egyptian readers the background they need to understand the events and figures that Al-Aswany chronicles. The result is a definitive portrait of Egypt todayhow it got here, and where it might be headed.

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Alaa Al Aswany, Sarah Cleave, Russell Harris, Aran Byrne, Paul Naylor

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Essays on Literature and Philosophy: The Non-Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz

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The nonfiction writing of Naguib Mahfouz, presented in English for the first time.  The first Arabic language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, helped bring Arabic writing to an international readership. This collection of his early writing, from his time as a philosophy student, reveals the intellectual ferment of the young author, grappling with two millennia of philosophers and writers and establishing his own voice among them.  Available in English for the first time, these essays tackle a vast array of subjects, from Presocratic Philosophy to love and the sexual impulse. The intellectual development demonstrated here forms the foundation of Mahfouzs literary work, granting insight into the mind behind such famed works as the Cairo Trilogy and Children of The Alley.

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Naguib Mahfouz, Rasheed El-Enany, Aran Byrne

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A century ago, as World War I got underway, the Middle East was dominated, as it had been for centuries, by the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, its political shape had changed beyond recognition, as the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the insistent claims of Arab and Turkish nationalism and Zionism led to a redrawing of borders and shuffling of alliancesa transformation whose consequences are still felt today.             This fully revised and updated second edition of The Makers of the Modern Middle East traces those changes and the ensuing history of the region through the rest of the twentieth century and on to the present. Focusing in particular on three leadersEmir Feisal, Mustafa Kemal, and Chaim Weizmannthe book offers a clear, authoritative account of the region seen from a transnational perspective, one that enables readers to understand its complex history and the way it affects present-day events.

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T. G. Fraser, Andrew Mango, Robert McNamara, T. G Fraser

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The Fiction and Photography of Eudora Welty and Rosamond Purcell

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Serious Daring is the story of the complementary journeys of two American women artists, celebrated fiction writer Eudora Welty and internationally acclaimed photographer Rosamond Purcell, each of whom initially practiced, but then turned from, the art form ultimately pursued by the other. For both Welty and Purcell, the art realized is full of the art seemingly abandoned. Weltys short stories and novels use images of photographs, photographers, and photography. Purcell photographed books, texts, and writing. Both women make compelling art out of the seeming tension between literary and visual cultures. Purcell wrote a memoir in which photographs became endnotes. Welty re-emerged as a photographer through the publication of four volumes of what she called her snapshots, magnificent black-and-white photographs of small-town Mississippi and New York City life. Serious Daring is a fascinating look at how the road not taken can stubbornly accompany the chosen path, how what is seemingly left behind can become a haunting and vital presence in life and art.

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Provence today is a state of mind as much as a region of France, promising clear skies and bright sun, gentle breezes scented with lavender and wild herbs, scenery alternately bold and intricate, and delicious foods served alongside heady wines. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, a travel guide called the region a mostly dry, scrubby, rocky, arid land. How, then, did Provence become a land of desirean alluring landscape for the American holiday?  In A Taste for Provence, historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz digs into this question and spins a wonderfully appealing tale of how Provence became Provence. The region had previously been regarded as a backwater and known only for its Roman ruins, but in the postwar era authors, chefs, food writers, visual artists, purveyors of goods, and travel magazines crafted a new, alluring image for Provence. Soon, the travel industry learned that there were many ways to roamand some even involved sitting still. The promise of longer stays where one cooked fresh food from storied outdoor markets became desirable as American travelers sought new tastes and unadulterated ingredients.  Even as she revels in its atmospheric, cultural, and culinary attractions, Horowitz demystifies Provence and the perpetuation of its image today. Guiding readers through books, magazines, and cookbooks, she takes us on a tour of Provence pitched as a new Eden, and she dives into the records of a wide range of visual mediapaintings, photographs, television, and filmdemonstrating what fueled American enthusiasm for the region. Beginning in the 1970s, Provencefor a summer, a month, or even just a week or twobecame a dream for many Americans. Even today as a road well traveled, Provence continues to enchant travelers, armchair and actual alike.

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In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about the ancient and mysterious people from which he was descended and about the country from which his parents came. Thanks to his Basque surname and a wide network of family connections, Laxalt was able to penetrate the traditional reserve of the Basques in a way that outsiders rarely can. In the process, he gained rare insight into the nature of the Basques and the isolated, beautiful mountain world where they have lived for uncounted centuries. Based on Laxalts personal journals of this and a later sojourn in 1965, The Land of My Fathers is a moving record of a people and their homeland. Through Laxalts perceptive eyes and his wife Joyces photographs, we observe the Basques market days and festivals, join their dove hunts and harvests, share their humor and history, their deep sense of nationalism, their abiding pride in their culture and their homes, and discover the profound sources of the Basques strength and their endurance as a people. Photography by Joyce Laxalt.

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The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises evokes and investigatesfrom a Jewish American perspective and in the forms of poetry, essays, and interviewsthe Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Americas involvement as both perpetrator and victim of events in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and the multiple ways that poetics can respond to political imperatives. The poems range from the immediately lyrical to the experimental forms of the Apple Anyone Sonnets series, which relies heavily on the Arabic but has Shakespeare as its scaffolding. In the essays, Schwartz calls on the power of poetryand of some of the great poets in the Arabic, Jewish, and American traditionsto help rethink the battle lines of the contemporary Mid-East, with the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber looming large. The interviews provide Schwartzs discussions with Israeli poet and activist Aharon Shabtai, political philosopher Michael Hardt, and the late, great American poet Amiri Baraka. In these creative, analytical, and conversational moments, Leonard Schwartz rethinks the battle lines of the contemporary Middle East and calls on the power of language as the essence of our humanity, endlessly fluid, but also the source of an intentional confusion there is a necessity to counter.

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The Great Central Valley In Life And Letters

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Oildale native, Gerald Haslam, doesnt like it when folks dismiss the Central Valley as boring and flat. In this collection of essays, he argues that it is Californias heartland and economic hub. In addition, the valley has produced a crop of gifted writers. These nineteen essays range from reminiscences of childhood and adolescence to a portrait of Mexican-Americans and their position in the Valleys society to a moving essay about having the authors aging father come to live with the family. Even if you have never lived in the Valley, reading this book will give you an entirely new perspective the next time you drive into it.

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Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement

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A study of the artistic and literary responses to the Depression-era labor crises of the Golden State. Anne Loftis focuses on the work and activities of John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, Paul Taylor, and Dorothea Lange, who brought the story of California's labor struggles to the rest of the country. The realism and documentary expression of their art grew out of their personal involvement in the problems of society, and Loftis explores the lasting influence of their work. One of Steinbeck's unintended legacies was his treatment of California farm workers as victimsthe simple pawns of larger forces. In her balanced and intriguing study Loftis reveals that the workers were not victims, but rather the strong and resourceful creators of their own histories.

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Sand In a Whirlwind, 30th Anniversary Edition

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Sand in a Whirlwind is a dramatic account of the events surrounding hostilities between settlers and Pyramid Paiutes in the spring of 1860. Thirty years after its publication Ferol Egans now classic tale continues to enlighten and engage readers.

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An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media

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Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, artificial darkness has been overlookeduntil now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science and spectacle, and a century of advanced art and film. Artificial Darkness is the first book to historicize and theorize this phenomenon and map its applications across a range of media and art forms.  In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of productionsuch as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratoriesand their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Etienne-Jules Marey, Richard Wagner, Georges Melies, and Oskar Schlemmer revolutionized not only images but also everything surrounding them: the screen, the darkness, and the experience of bodies and space. At the heart of the book is the black screen, a technology of darkness that spawned todays blue and green screens and has undergirded numerous advanced art and film practices to this day.  Turning familiar art and film narratives on their heads, Artificial Darkness is a revolutionary treatment of an elusive, yet fundamental, aspect of art and media history.