Christmastown, 1859. Everyone on the goldfields wants to get rich. But when Nelly and her pa, Paddy, finally strike gold, bushrangers are ready to pounce. Nelly and her gang must rescue Pa from the bushrangers and retrieve the gold.
Piccolo is waiting at the dock for his friend Stella to arrive home from her holiday cruise on the glittering Sea Princess. What arrives instead is a smoky, stinky steamer. Piccolo is the only one who can see that the scruffy sailors are actually demons. Even worse, they're heading for the zoo with their cargo of stolen African wildlife. What if they discover the fallen angel Elspeth, imprisoned at the zoo in the form of a baboon? Piccolo has to stop them!
Boots are disappearing one at a time on Lucy and Jack s farm. When their dad has to wear one riding boot and one gum boot the kids think it s funny. But when one of Lucy s best riding boots go missing, they decide to unravel the mystery of who, or what, is the Boot Thief.They pick up on clues, set a trap and follow the scent to catch the thief. They discover that the thief wants the boots for a most unexpected purpose
Stinky is a little dog who makes big smells. But she is loved dearly by her owners anyway, which is why she can't understand when they go away to the Grand Hotel by the sea for a weekend without her. Stinky's cunning determination to be included on the family trip makes for some hilarious - and very smelly - adventures, which will have readers giggling with disgusted delight!
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Design and make your own toys, using wind power, jet propulsion, electricity, and solar energy. Make a cablecar, a motorboat, or a jetmobile by following simple instructions.
When we meet this old, worn-out car, Pete Paddock Basher, he lives out on a farm, under a tree, with magpies tap dancing on his roof, rats nesting on his back seat, and kids driving him across the paddock to meet the school bus every morning! But when two bumbling robbers need a getaway car, poor old Pete gets nabbed and so begins The Adventures of Pete Paddock Basher. Each of these six slapstick stories sees Pete end up in loads of unexpected, hilarious situations. Read about his kidnapping by Krankshaft Kev for the Krazy Kars Demolition Darby; laugh along when Pete is abducted by aliens; clown around with Pete when he joins the circus; and meet a whole array of vibrant characters along the way.
Young Piccolo Grande lives alone in his fine old family home, following the mysterious disappearance of his parents years before. But one fateful afternoon his neat and ordered life is turned upside down and inside out when noisy, round and red-faced Annabelle bursts into his life. She claims to be his great aunt but Piccolo recognises her for the angel she is - a Guardian Angel, sent to mind Piccolo. but where Annabelle goes, disaster soon follows, and in two shakes of a feather it is the boy who is minding the angel...
This title was first published in 2000. Applying the new perspectival method of interpreting Kant he expounded in earlier works, Palmquist examines a broad range of Kant's philosophical writings to present a fresh view of his thought on theology, religion, and religious experience.
Event Studies is the only book devoted to developing knowledge and theory about planned events. It focuses on event planning and management, outcomes, the experience of events and the meanings attached to them, the dynamic processes shaping events and why people attend them. This title draws from a large number of foundation disciplines and closely related professional fields to foster interdisciplinary theory focused on planned events. This revised edition has been updated to reflect and examine a number of substantial and important new ideas. New to the fourth edition: new sections on the evolution of design theory, management, planning and marketing theory applied to events, sensory stimulation, leadership, and the nature of crises and security issues; new content on critical event studies and what this means for research and practice, the life-cycle model for event programming, and an action plan for how events can be a positive force in sustainable cities; new and additional case studies from a wide range of international events, and reviews of the evolving theory of contemporary research in events studies are included throughout. This will be an invaluable resource for all undergraduate students of events studies throughout their degree programmes.
Palmquist’s Commentary provides the first definitive clarification on Kant’s Philosophy of Religion in English; it includes the full text of Pluhar’s translation, interspersed with explanations, providing both a detailed overview and an original interpretation of Kant’s work. Offers definitive, sentence-level commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason Presents a thoroughly revised version of Pluhar’s translation of the full text of Kant’s Religion, including detailed notes comparing the translation with the others still in use today Identifies most of the several hundred changes Kant made to the second (1794) edition and unearths evidence that many major changes were responses to criticisms of the first edition Provides both a detailed overview and original interpretation of Kant’s work on the philosophy of religion Demonstrates that Kant’s arguments in Religion are not only cogent, but have clear and profound practical applications to the way religion is actually practiced in the world today Includes a glossary aimed at justifying new translations of key technical terms in Religion, many of which have previously neglected religious and theological implications
In an original synthesis of communication theory and their own research and experience as intervention agents, the authors of Moral Conflict describe a dialectical tension between the expression and suppression of conflict that can be transcended in ways that lead to personal growth and productive patterns of social action. Several projects are described as practical examples of these ways of working.
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