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De Sortibus (Hardcover)
Thomas Aquinas; Translated by Peter Carey; Foreword by Andrew Davison
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If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with
the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of
Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of faraway Efica, you will
only have heard rumours about the juggling, the somersaulting, the
Burro Plasse tunnel, and the motel on the border... Here, for the
first time, is the truth about Tristan Smith. This fully annotated
edition follows Tristan's career from his birth in the Republic of
Efica in the year 371 to the present day.
Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student
parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been
raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns
to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his
grandmother refuses to tell him anything. When a woman named Dial
comes to collect Che, it seems his wish has come true: his mother
has come back for him. But soon, they too are on the run, and Che
is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems.
ICCEDI is an international seminar that is held every two years
organized by the Law and Citizenship Department, Faculty of Social
Science Universitas Negeri Malang. The activities aim to discuss
the theoretical and practical citizenship education that becomes
needed for democracy in Indonesia and other countries with a view
to build academic networks by gathering academics from various
research institutes and universities. Citizenship education is an
urgent need for the nation in order to build a civilized democracy
for several reasons. Citizenship education is important for those
who are politically illiterate and do not know how to work the
democracy of its institutions. Another problem is the increasing
political apathy, indicated by the limited involvement of citizens
in the political process. These conditions show how citizenship
education becomes the means needed by a democratic country like
Indonesia. The book addresses a number of important issues, such as
law issues, philosophy of moral values, political government,
socio-cultural and Pancasila, and civic education. Finally, it
offers a conceptual framework for future democracy. This book will
be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners,
governance, and other related stakeholders.
The day that Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare parts
department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy was also the day
that the Tax Inspector, Maria Takis, arrived to begin her
long-overdue audit of the family business. But this is no ordinary
investigation. Maria is eight months' pregnant, Granny Catchprice
is at war with her offspring, and Benny, her grandson, wants to
become an angel...
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be
raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too
young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and
will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false."
In True History of the Kelly Gang," " the legendary Ned Kelly
speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of
paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees
from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous
criminal, a thief and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly
class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying
the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by
his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her
lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26
had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria,
taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally
captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by
the skill of a great novelist."
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London,1837. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has
returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he
want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the
comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And
why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates,
celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow burglar - in this
case of people's minds, of their histories and inner phantoms? A
thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains
and illicit love against the backdrop of Victorian London.
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his
'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother' Hugh, Theft: A Love
Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for
language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan
via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud,
friendship and redemption.
Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet
named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about
pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most
avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication
the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet of raw
power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and
entirely the product of Chubb's imagination. Not only does the
magazine fall for the hoax, but the local authorities also sue its
editor for publishing obscenity. At the trial someone uncannily
resembling the faked photograph of the invented McCorkle, leaps to
his feet. At this moment a horrified Chubb is confronted by the
malevolent being he has himself manufactured...
'Bliss' is the story of a man who, recovering from death, is
convinced that he is in Hell. For the first time in his life, Harry
Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to
explore and notate the true nature of the underworld.
A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian Book of the Year When
Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the
Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system,
hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: the system is run by
an American corporation, so some 5,000 US prisons are also
infected. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten to
pour out, Was this intrusion a mistake, or has Gaby declared
cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as 'Australia's
last serving left-wing journalist' - has no doubt. Her act was part
of the covert conflict between Australia and America that dates
back decades. While Gaby goes to ground, Felix begins his pursuit
of her in order to write her story; to save her, and himself, and
maybe his country.
Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar
Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and
beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in
Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one
obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game
of love. Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern
Classics edition.
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive.
Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way from Home is a thrilling high-speed story, illuminating a country's relationship with its own ancient culture, and the love made and hurt caused along the way.
This stunning memoir-cum-travelogue from twice Booker winning
author Peter Carey re-evaluates Japan through its attempts to
understand the violent and disturbing cartoons which are so
inherently concerned with Japan's rich and historic heritage.
Accompanied by his son, Charley, father and son attempt to
demystify the meanings hidden within magna and anime as they move
towards a greater understanding of what they call their own 'real
Japan.' Brilliantly reviewed in hardback with more publicity to
come One of the warmest and most accessible travelogues of recent
times A wonderful exploration of Japanese culture in the vein of
Lost in Translation The hardback has gone on to sell extremely well
with critics praising the beautiful packaging as well as the
wonderful writing
London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum,
learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years - but
as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private. Her
employer at the museum, aware of Catherine's grief, gives her a
special project - to piece together both the mechanics and the
story of an extraordinary automaton, commissioned in the nineteenth
century by Henry Brandling to amuse his dying son. Linked by the
mysterious automaton, Catherine and Henry's stories intertwine
across time to explore the mysteries of life and death, the miracle
and catastrophe of human invention and the body's astonishing
chemistry of love and feeling.
Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included
the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History
of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories
and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man
in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not
previously published in book form. The stories, persuasive and
precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of
humour, a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet
delighting in paradox.
An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the
139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king
of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman,
seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian
continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish
encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes
and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.
Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the
French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who
always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on
different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by
their travels in America. When Olivier sets sail for America,
ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck
from one more revolution - Parrot is sent with him, as spy,
protector, foe and foil. As the narrative shifts between the
perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, and their picaresque travels
together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of
art - Peter Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in
theory and in practice, with dazzling wit and inventiveness.
THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TO BE RELEASED IN
CINEMAS 28TH FEBRUARY 2020 'Extraordinary . . . So mesmerising and
moving.' Mail on Sunday 'Vastly entertaining.' New York Times To
the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank
robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is
their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter
Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel of adventure and heroism brings
the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.
Now in its sixth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a
complete guide to the practical application of data protection law
in the UK. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of
significant developments in the practice of data protection, and
takes account of new legislation since the last edition. The sixth
edition includes coverage of the Data Protection Act 2018, Data
Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc.)
(EU Exit) Regulations 2019, and the European Union (Withdrawal
Agreement) Act 2020, and contains relevant analysis of the effect
of Brexit on UK data protection law. Data Protection: A Practical
Guide to UK Law is essential reading for all those working with
data protection issues, including in compliance departments in both
the public and private sectors, as well as in-house and private
practice lawyers, company secretaries, HR Officers, marketing
executives and IT specialists.
The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and
chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous
near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life.
Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and
allegory in which, as in dreams, something odd and menacing takes
control. Here are societies in which people gamble for new bodies
in a genetic lottery or watch apprehensively as first buildings,
then parts of the landscape, and eventually their neighbours, begin
to dematerialise and vanish. Here is what happens when a miniature
replica of a small town and its inhabitants assumes a more
compelling reality than its original or when a group of fat men,
ostracised by a revolutionary government, plot its overthrow.
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De Sortibus (Paperback)
Thomas Aquinas; Translated by Peter Carey; Foreword by Andrew Davison
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