Prepare to be scared! This fully illustrated, award-winning collection of ghost stories will send shivers down your spine. If you're fascinated by haunted houses, ghostly graveyards, historic haunts, institutional apparitions, or spirited saloons, this spooky and spine-tingling collection of supernatural stories from across the US will tantalize your paranormal palate. Some of these hot spots are open to the public (and we include their address and website information), while others are private residences with no visitors allowed. In this bone-chilling volume, witnesses tell terrifyingly true tales of cursed roads, ghoulish schools, eerie eateries, and more--so expect to be frightened out of your wits! Now in a modern square format, featuring more photographs and illustrations and a fresh new design.

When Bridge, Texas Holdem, and Spades lose their luster, must the jaded card player reach for the Wii? Or should the player rather reach again, the thousandth time, for the reliable old, dog-eared deck and learn the new game of Royal Porcio? Royal Porcio is a new card game recently introduced in a nationally syndicated games magazine.

Less than five kilometres from Australia's most northern islands in the Torres Strait lies the southern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The people living on the PNG side of the border along the South Fly coast live in abject poverty, with a near total absence of services and infrastructure. The disparity in income, housing and health outcomes when compared with their nearby neighbours and relatives in the Torres Strait Island, is extreme. The border is the focus of a range of interventions by the Australian and Queensland governments, including border protection, quarantine, marine resource management, and infectious disease control, including an alarming outbreak of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Restrictions are increasing on trading, fishing and access to Australian services. However, questions remain as to whether this focus is having unintended consequences, increasing the destitution and frustration on the PNG side, in turn exacerbating the security threat to Australia. And as the Australian border hardens, the Indonesian border beckons. This book presents the results of three years of research into the unique social and political geography of the borderland. The Torres Strait Treaty between Australia and PNG serves to construct a complex institutional layering, a tiered economy and a hierarchy of identities between those South Fly villagers who have rights under the Treaty to travel into Australia, and those who do not. This creates a politics of expectation and frustration that permeates everyday life along the South Fly coast, through which development projects must navigate.

How does Indigenous policy signed off in Canberra work, or not, when implemented in remote Aboriginal communities? The authors of Serious Whitefella Stuff are self-proclaimed policy wonks with significant andsuccessful on-the-ground experience of this ongoing challenge. What, they ask, is the right balance between respecting local traditions and making significant improvement in the areas of alcohol consumption, homeownership, and revitalising cultural practices?