*Thoroughly revised and adapted to cover all the key areas of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. *Accessible and engagingly written, this book offers a wealth of practical ideas for use in the classroom and is an essential text for graduate and practicing teachers alike. *Since first published in 2010 this book has become a fixture in many university and school-based teacher training programmes. It is a well-regarded and popular text which sells consistently well.

*Thoroughly revised and adapted to cover all the key areas of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. *Accessible and engagingly written, this book offers a wealth of practical ideas for use in the classroom and is an essential text for graduate and practicing teachers alike. *Since first published in 2010 this book has become a fixture in many university and school-based teacher training programmes. It is a well-regarded and popular text which sells consistently well.

From her home in the hills of Umbria, Kitty relates the tale of her remarkable childhood to her loving companions, Delphine and George. This uplifting epic is about human compassion and the kindness of strangers. Born in the dust bowl of mid-America, Kitty finds herself alone after her world is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1935. Traumatised and wandering, she seeks refuge from Stella, a teacher in a school bereft of pupils. However, the religious and social pressures of the age force the pair on a journey both actual and psychological which lead them from rural Colorado to New York and eventually to live in a communal household in Cambridge, England. It is here she meets Peter, a theosophist, pacifist and vegetarian, who cares not only for her but for other refugees escaping war-torn Europe. Following a major crisis, a distraught Kitty leaves Cambridge and goes to London to become an artist. An unexpected invitation to return to the States reopens deeply repressed memories of painful times past. Will Kitty's ghosts be finally laid to rest?

A man seeking immortality makes a bad deal with a witch. Aliens offer humanity limitless technology that will cost us our souls. A man's pregnant wife and dead sister-in-law hold the key to human survival and extinction. A woman comes to suspect her husband is a previously unknown type of vampire. One scientist's startling fossil find ends the creation vs. evolution dispute. The Fryer burns down churches, but when people are killed, he finds that there's Hell to pay. A scientist experimenting on forgotten people finds that one of them has not been forgotten, and is wanted by violent people in high places. A wizard kidnaps the Emperor's daughter to offer her to an Eidolon in exchange for the power to bring back his murdered family. A man returns from the dead to find himself in a strange land partly of his own making, and a mission to complete. The Speed of Darkness is Michael Mina's first collection of twelve previously published short stories ranging from science fiction to fantasy to horror. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and have won awards. He is currently working on his first novel.