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Download or read book Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice written by Helen Garner and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts. Deceived wives and widowers, men who've never been loved and don't know why, Russian crew forced to leave their children behind for years at a time … And then there are the married couples: how calm the old ones, how eager the new! – but isn't a couple the greatest mystery of all?' Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice is the tale of a journey to Antarctica aboard the Professor Molchanov. With unmatched eloquence, Helen Garner spins a tale of ships, icebergs, tourism, time, photography and the many forms of desolation.

Download or read book The Cypherpunk Revolutionary written by Robert Manne and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one.' This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk underground, all the way through to the creation of WikiLeaks. Pulling together the threads of his development, Manne shows how Assange became one of the most influential Australians of our time.

Download or read book No Fixed Address written by Robyn Davidson and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora; the Hajj. By taking to the road we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.' Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomads. In this fascinating and moving essay she evokes a vanishing way of life, and notes a paradox- that even as classical nomads are disappearing, hypermobility has become the hallmark of contemporary life. In a time of environmental peril, she argues, the nomadic way with nature still offers valuable lessons. No Fixed Address is part lament, part evocation and part exhilarating speculative journey.

Download or read book The Brave Ones written by John Birmingham and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage pants, long hair and bandanas, with axes in their eyes and guns at the ready.' The Brave Ones follows the Indonesian Army's Battalion 745 as it withdrew from East Timor after the 1999 independence vote, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. Birmingham's unflinching account reveals the scorched-earth tactics of the retreating troops, and shows just how close Australia came to armed conflict with Indonesia.

Download or read book Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow written by Galarrwuy Yunupingu and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women . . . the flame will burn and intensify - an immense smoke, cloud-like and black, will arise, which will send off a signal and remind people that we, the Gumatj people, are the people of the fire. There are people of the fire around Alice Springs - and I reach out to them, too. We can then burn united, together.' Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow is 'no mere essay. It is an existential prayer,' writes Noel Pearson. Galarrwuy Yunupingu tells of his early life, his dealings with prime ministers, and how he learnt that nothing is ever what it seems. And behind him, he writes, 'the Yolngu world is always under threat. This is a weight that is bearing down on me; at night it is like a splinter in my mind.'

Download or read book The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada: Introduction. Nymphalidae written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: