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After The Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007

After The Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989-2007

Gelder, Ken And Salzman, Paul

From crime fiction to the postmodern colonial novel, from Australian grunge to 'rural apocalypse fiction', from the Asian diasporic novel to the action blockbuster, Gelder and Salzman show how Australian novelists such as Frank Moorhouse, ...
Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

Ken Gelder

In this volume, Ken Gelder offers a comprehensive account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary and cultural field, tied directly to the logics and practices of entertainment and industry.
Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial ...

Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial ...

Ken Gelder

In Uncanny Australia Gelder and Jacobs show how Aboriginal claims for sacredness radiate out to affect the fortunes, and misfortunes, of the modern nation.
Sunk Without Trace: 30 Dramatic Accounts of Yachts Lost at Sea

Sunk Without Trace: 30 Dramatic Accounts of Yachts Lost at Sea

Paul Gelder

30 Dramatic Accounts of Yachts Lost at Sea Paul Gelder. PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x 10 11 12 13 14 15 1 THE END OF THE AFFAIR 1 from YachtingMonthly, Feb 2010 2 BLUEWATER CASTAWAYS 7 by Jack Gush, 1991 3 STORM ...
The Subcultures Reader

The Subcultures Reader

Ken Gelder

This new edition features a wide range of articles from some of the biggest names in the field including Dick Hebdige, Paul Gilroy and Stanley Cohen, and expertly combines contemporary essays and critique with classic and canonical texts on ...
Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland

Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland

Ken Gelder

Study of the works of one of Australia's most critically acclaimed contemporary authors, who has won the Miles Franklin Award three times.
Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice

Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice

Ken Gelder

In 1984, Geoff Mains published an important book called Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration ofLeather Sexuality. This book in fact had noth- ing to do with Aboriginal people at all, but it claimed the designation and attached it instead to a  ...
Reading the Vampire

Reading the Vampire

Ken Gelder

Reading the Vampire embeds vampires in their cultural contexts, showing vampire narratives feeding off the anxieties and fascinations of their times: from the nineteenth century perils of tourism, issues of colonialism and national identity ...
Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions: Yachtsmen Own Up to ...

Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions: Yachtsmen Own Up to ...

Paul Gelder

Accompanied once more by cartoons from the inimitable Mike Peyton, this collection helps to prove that worse things really do happen at sea!
Confessions: Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins

Confessions: Yachtsmen Own Up to Their Sailing Sins

Paul Gelder

Over 17 years readers have owned up to their most embarrassing moments afloat for the amusement and enlightenment of their fellow yachtsmen.
Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social ...

Colonial Australian Fiction: Character Types, Social ...

Ken Gelder

As this book shows, colonial Australian character types are fluid, contradictory and often unpredictable. When we look closely, they have the potential to challenge our assumptions about fiction, genre and national identity.
Chronic Disease Management, An Issue of Primary Care Clinics ...

Chronic Disease Management, An Issue of Primary Care Clinics ...

Brooke Salzman

Brooke Salzman, Lauren Collins, Emily R Hajjar. Prim Care Clinics Office Pract, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2012 ISSN: 0095-4543 doi: 10.1016/j.pop.2012.04.002 Preface Chronic Disease Management: The Changing Landscape of Primary Care ...
Gipsy Moth IV: A legend sails again

Gipsy Moth IV: A legend sails again

Paul Gelder

The dramatic story of Gipsy Moth IV from her epic first circumnavigation to her restoration, wreck and triumphant return.
Yachting Monthly's Confessions: Yachtsmen Own Up to Their ...

Yachting Monthly's Confessions: Yachtsmen Own Up to Their ...

Paul Gelder

This is a wonderful cherry-picked collection of humiliating misadventures from the enduringly popular Confessional column of Yachting Monthly magazine.
The Nietzschean Self: Moral Psychology, Agency, and the ...

The Nietzschean Self: Moral Psychology, Agency, and the ...

Paul Katsafanas

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1–32. Gemes, Ken (2001), “Post-Modernism's Use and Abuse of Nietzsche,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 52: 337–60. Gemes, Ken (2006), “'We Remain of Necessity Strangers to Ourselves': ...
Total Loss: Dramatic First-Hand Accounts of Yacht Losses at Sea

Total Loss: Dramatic First-Hand Accounts of Yacht Losses at Sea

Paul Gelder

Every year, hundreds of yachts are lost at sea. For those who wish to avoid a similar fate, or learn how best to cope with emergencies, this book is a compelling, thought-provoking bunkside read.
Ken Griffey Jr.

Ken Griffey Jr.

A. R. Schaefer

I didn't want to live. —Ken Griffey Jr., The Seattle Times, 1992 dipped to .230. He missed his friends and his family. He called home almost every day. Alberta came to Washington to visit Ken. His mother's visit helped make Ken feel less lonely.
Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly Took a 40ft Boat ...

Crash Test Boat: How Yachting Monthly Took a 40ft Boat ...

Paul Gelder

Crash Test Boat is unique in its field, with no other title on the market aimed at explicitly revealing at first hand what happens when a boat encounters a major disaster.
Peter Jackson: from gore to Mordor

Peter Jackson: from gore to Mordor

Paul A. Woods

Braindead review by Karl Quinn, from Cinema Papers, May 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Karl Quinn. Reprinted by permission of the author. 'Antipodal Splattermcister' by Ken Miller, from Film Extremes issue 2, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Ken ...
Ken Sprayson: The Frame Man

Ken Sprayson: The Frame Man

Ken Sprayson

This is Ken Sprayson's personal account of his life from his early days through his long service with Reynolds to his time as a consultant on welding and fabricating in tubing.
The English dialect dictionary

The English dialect dictionary

J. Wright

BODGE, 531.1 Ken. Sur. Sus. [bodg] 1. A flat oblong scuttle or basket, of wood or iron, used for carrying garden produce, coal, refuse, &c. Ken. A so called trug ( P.M.); (W.H.E.); Ken.I The bodgc now An ill omen. [Not known holds an indefinite  ...
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Ken Robinson

How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica. FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING THINKERS || CREAT WITY AND INNOVATION T H E E L E MENT A NEW view OF |-|UMAN CAPAC IT Y - * KEN ...
100 Things Maryland Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

100 Things Maryland Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Don Markus

Authors: Paul McMullen and Ken Rosenthal Arizona Republic, May 6, 2016, “ Alex Len Saves A Friend From Drowning in the Dominican Republic.” Author: Paul Caro Baltimore Sun, Tuesday, April 2, 2002, “UM front line pulls inside job on ...
Stagecraft Fundamentals: A Guide and Reference for ...

Stagecraft Fundamentals: A Guide and Reference for ...

Rita Kogler Carver

Avolites. © Avolites. © High End Systems. © Sea Changer. © City Theatrical, Inc. Image courtesy of Ken Billington. Image courtesy of Ken Billington. Image courtesy of Ken Billington. Image courtesy of Ken Billington. Image courtesy of D. M. ...
Corpus, Culture, Discourse

Corpus, Culture, Discourse

Tamsin Sanderson

Hyland, Ken. 1999a. “Disciplinary Discourse: Writer Stance in Research Articles”. In Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices, Christopher Candlin and Ken Hyland ( eds), 99-121. Essex : Longman. Hyland, Ken. 1999b. “Academic Attribution: ...
People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an ...

People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an ...

Kathleen Schmitt Kline

FISH TALE: KEN CORBETT AND HAZE DIEMELQHI— CAT AND MOUSE KEN CORBETT Ken Corbett grew up in Chilton, Wisconsin, on the east side of Lake Winnebago, and he got his start as a warden in Clintonville, along the Embarrass  ...
Academic Discourse Across Disciplines

Academic Discourse Across Disciplines

Marina Bondi

Hyland, Ken 1997. Scientific Claims and Community Values: Articulating an Academic Culture. Language and Communication 16, 19-32. Hyland, Ken 1998a . Hedging in Scientific Research Articles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Hyland, Ken ...

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