American-born Gus Pierce arrived in Australia and 1860 and promptly deserted, swimming ashore at Port Phillip. He worked as a photographer for Batchelders and painted scenery for the Lyceum theatre before hunting for snakes with Joe Shires – the inventor of a snake-bite cure. He compiled a strip map of the Murray River from Albury to Goolwa, by ......
Walking in the Lake District - the highest mountains in England
This guidebook to walking the highest mountains in the Lake District includes 30 high level and fell walks including Scafell Pike, Helvellyn, Skiddaw, and the Fairfield Horseshoe. Covering some of England's finest and highest mountain scenery, in the UK's most popular national park, this guide features classic routes as well as quieter favourites. ......
'My manager doesn't give a f**k' - Is this what you want your people to say about you?' This book doesn't just tell you what to do to lead well: it tells you exactly how to do it - what to say, how to say it and why - when you need it. This practical, skills-based handbook for managers and leaders provides helpful guidance, practical ......
A guide to why people from marginalized backgrounds may be uniquely qualified to become effective higher education leaders--and how they can get there. Students and faculty in higher education increasingly reflect more diverse backgrounds, but this diversity remains rare in many leadership roles. In Leading from the Margins, Mary Dana Hinton ......
Neurodivergent people are so often thwarted in academic and corporate careers because we don't know the unwritten social codes of large organisations, and because we struggle with entry level tasks even though we excel at strategic thinking. Neurodivergent thinking is conversely overrepresented in sole traders and entrepreneurs. Many of us ......
From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to call him the "dean of American church musicians." Yet in time, Sowerby's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Canticle of the Sun and the rest of his corpus lost favor with the A-list symphonies and prominent musicians who had once made him a ......
Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries updates, expands upon, and broadens the discussions on the future of libraries and the ways in which they transform information services to best serve their ......
This book explores, in rich, ethnographic detail, the lives of a group of Japanese fishers and community residents in coastal Japan in the aftermath of the tsunami generated from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Focused on one town in Miyagi Prefecture near the epicenter of the 2011 quake, the text provides a singularly unique opportunity to ......
This is a gripping story that begins in February 2022, when the author and his family shared the fate of millions of Ukrainian refugees driven out of their cities and villages by the Russian invasion. Over a year later, the intense panic of the first weeks and months has subsided, and the author is able to convey the story through a clearer lens. ......
