Some stories are too good to be true ... In the year 1861, there were three campfires burning outside the gold mining town of Mull Creek, in the British colony of Victoria. At the first is Jesus Whitetree, an escaped orphan with no knowledge of his new world, not even his age or real name. He only knows he wants to find gold. Gold makes everything good. At the second fire is the Jack Pink Gang. Jack is a little-known bushranger who is a violent criminal by day and a nervous wreck by night. His mother - a notorious criminal known throughout the colony as Mother Pink - engages the services of a bush poet to get Jack's name in the newspapers and make him feared and famous. And at the third fire is Mary, a young Aboriginal girl, and police constable Harry Logan. Harry has a good heart, but he also has Mary in chains. Despite her hard life and current circumstances, Mary remains smart, cheeky and troublesome to the struggling policeman. With the announcement of the first Melbourne Cup, all three parties descend upon Melbourne town. And the thrilling horserace offers something different for each of them - a new beginning, a chance to be written into history, or a prize bigger than they could imagine. But only one can take the gold. GOOD AS GOLD is a reimagining of the very first 'race that stops a nation', and a heartwarming story about triumph and the things that mean more than gold.

Good As Gold: An Australian Yarn Of Robbery, Races And The Lust For Gold

Literature & Fiction

Smith, Justin

Genre Fiction

Michael Joseph Australia

In the 1990s, the voluntary and charity sector is being forced to become an increasingly important provider of health and social welfare in Britain. How can it respond to this pressure, who is running it and how should it be managed? As well as offering a full overview of the voluntary sector, the editor and contributors examine its hitory and importance within welfare provision and its current position and responsibilities. They also offer practical guidance for and analysis of the issues facing the voluntary sector today, including its legal framework in the UK and EC, fundraising, management and accountability.

An Introduction to the Voluntary Sector

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Justin Smith is an African-American male in his late 20's. He is a former college football player who earned his degree and established a small marketing business. He had an off and on relationship with a woman for several years and at one point provided her with fraudulent transcripts which she used to obtain a Bachelor's degree. During an argument, she hit him in the head with a baseball bat. He tried to escape by driving off in her vehicle. She hopped in the passenger seat and then inexplicably jumped out of the vehicle while it was still moving. He was later arrested on the charge of attempted murder and had to spend seven months in the Los Angeles County Jail. While incarcerated, he had to fight gang bangers in order to defend himself. His chance of acquittal was two out of a hundred, but thanks to the work of compassionate public defender Ann Haigwood, Justin was found not guilty. This is a true story. His trial took place in October, 2010. What happened to Justin could happen to anyone. It is a call for everyone to stop and think before they act, and hopefully avoid making choices that could ruin their lives.

Stop and Think! She Could Send You to Prison

Biographies & Memoirs

Greenburg, John

Armour, Jock

True Crime

Barnburner Publications

Dig into Windows Communication Foundation internals—and uncover the power of service-oriented design. This practical guide delivers in-depth insights and plenty of code samples to help you master the intricacies of developing and implementing connected applications. Discover how to: <ul>
<li>Use service-oriented concepts to build a reliable messaging infrastructure</li> <li>Build support for ever-evolving messaging transports, protocols, and functionality </li> <li>Develop and listen on multiple endpoints </li> <li>Add messaging functionality with message exchange patterns, topologies, and choreographies</li> <li>Serialize, deserialize, encode, and decode Message objects</li> <li>Generate industry-standard documents with service, data, and message contracts</li> <li>Build stacks of channel factory and listener objects with binding types</li> <li>Develop channel layer constructs and manage them over their lifetime </li> <li>Create custom channels with the Windows Communication Foundation API</li> </ul>
PLUS—Get Microsoft Visual C# code samples on the Web

Inside Windows Communication Foundation (Pro Developer)

Computers & Technology

Web Development & Design

Microsoft Press

British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure

This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the cross-cultural relationship between British cinema and other media, including popular music and television. The analysis covers mainstream and experimental film cultures, identifying their production contexts and the economic, legislative and censorship constraints on British cinema throughout the decade.The essays in Part I contextualise the study and illustrate the diversity of 1970s moving image culture. In Part II, Sue Harper and Justin Smith examine how gender relations and social space were addressed in film. They show how a shared visual manner and performance style characterises this fragmented cinema, and how irony and anxiety suffuse the whole film culture. This volume charts the shifting boundaries of permission in 1970s film culture and changes in audience taste. This book is the culmination of an AHRC-funded project at the University of Portsmouth, For more information about 1970s British Cinema, Film and Video: Mainstream and Counter-Culture (2006-2009) please visit the project website at www.1970sproject.co.uk.

Humor & Entertainment

Harper,Sue

Movies

Edinburgh University Press

This volume draws a map of British film culture in the 1970s and provides a wide-ranging history of the period. It examines the cross-cultural relationship between British cinema and other media, including popular music and television. The analysis covers mainstream and experimental film cultures, identifying their production contexts and the economic, legislative and censorship constraints on British cinema throughout the decade.The essays in Part I contextualise the study and illustrate the diversity of 1970s moving image culture. In Part II, Sue Harper and Justin Smith examine how gender relations and social space were addressed in film. They show how a shared visual manner and performance style characterises this fragmented cinema, and how irony and anxiety suffuse the whole film culture. This volume charts the shifting boundaries of permission in 1970s film culture and changes in audience taste. This book is the culmination of an AHRC-funded project at the University of Portsmouth, For more information about 1970s British Cinema, Film and Video: Mainstream and Counter-Culture (2006-2009) please visit the project website at www.1970sproject.co.uk.

In a pastor’s world, there are few words that bring as wide of an array of emotions as these two. For some, it is the enigma that cannot be solved; for others, it is the dead horse that people keep trying to ride. Sunday school is one of the few mainstays that has weathered decades of change in the way that churches are conducted, yet for many pastors, it has become something to stand off from and let others deal with, with the hope that it does not come back to bite the pastor unexpectantly. When Sunday school is functioning well, it is one of the most powerful vehicles a church has to help it carry out the Great Commission and to engage members in doing Christ’s work. While many churches have moved away from the name “Sunday school,” the heart of the ministry remains the same: it is a group that is open, ongoing, and employs a plan to study the Bible. Gene Mims (2003) describes these open groups as person-centered (meaning they focus on bringing people into a transforming relationship with God), lay-led, and Bible-based, concluding that open groups fulfill the Great Commission by making disciples of all men. Though they are often called classes because of the Sunday school name, Mims called this a misnomer, explaining, “They are classes in the sense that the Bible is studied, but they are much more. They are kingdom entities built on the five functions of the church. They are living organisms built for the people who attend” (p.135).But this sounds nothing like what most pastors hear from the Sunday school or small groups that take place in their churches. Any pastor would get behind a strategy that would help him assimilate newcomers into a group of believers, study the Scriptures each week, connect believers together to care for one another, and mobilize believers to share their faith and take the gospel throughout the world. Sunday school was designed to be that strategy, but in our day, it has fallen into disrepair. In many churches today, Sunday school sits like an old rusty car, shining in places with a bit of its past glory, but by and large a lawn ornament. To make matters worse, pastors are often given the keys to this car with no instructions on how to start it, how to make it run, or even how to drive it. The goal of this book is to give you, as a pastor and leader, an owner’s manual of sorts to help you dust off the wear and tear of Sunday school in your church and prepare you to not only get it started again, but to hear it hum and purr again as a vehicle to carry Christ’s disciples in their Great Commission work.One of the struggles for pastors is that there are simply not many resources available today to guide a pastor in leading Sunday school. While the market is filled with works on how to lead an individual group or on the importance of groups, little attention has been given to practical steps that pastors can take to help Sunday school in their churches. But this is not the market’s fault, but rather, a reflection of the emphasis given to Sunday school; it is often neglected in seminaries and Bible colleges tasked with training pastors and is rarely used in churches as beginning training for prospective pastors. Steve Parr (2010) laments over his experience of talking with a large group of master of divinity graduates, those who have been trained for the task of pastoring, who had been given no academic training at all concerning how to lead Sunday school, leading him to conclude, “if the pastor does not have the tools and the knowledge, neither will the members. The result is that many pastors go into a church that has the basic Sunday school structure… but the Sunday school is lifeless and cold” (p. 21).Further, with the many other tasks that occupy a pastor’s schedule and thinking, Sunday school is often placed on the back burner. In trying to understand why pastors were not more involved in Sunday school, Rainer (1999) found that pastors focused their atten

Set Your Heart: A Pastor's Guide to Leading Sunday School Out of Exile

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

ED&D Books

The Wool and Woollen Tariff of March 3, 1883 ..

Hayes, John Lord

Garland, A. M

History

BiblioLife

Are you an executive looking to physically expand your business? Justin Smith is a commercial real estate broker who has helped his clients close more than 500 real estate transactions worth roughly half a billion dollars in consideration. In Industrial Intelligence, he shares the benefit of his experience to help you make your own expansion a success from beginning to end. From your initial needs assessment through your ultimate property transition, Smith outlines the playbook he uses with his own clients. Strategic relocation planning, building programming, ideal project teams and timelines, negotiation tactics, tenant improvements...everything you need to know to avoid disruption, delay, and costly mistakes. &#65279; Whether you're relocating or expanding, buying or leasing, Industrial Intelligence will teach you how to find the right industrial building in the best location, leveraging that commercial property as a strategic advantage in growing your business.

Industrial Intelligence: The Executive’s Guide for Making Informed Commercial Real Estate Decisions

Business & Money

Industries

Lioncrest Publishing

Preparing Your Campus for Veterans' Success

This book is intended for everyone in higher education – whether in the classroom, student affairs, administration, admissions, health services or faculty development – who is, or expects to be teaching, advising, or serving student veterans. This book is the outcome of a partnership between the Center for Teaching and Learning and the office of Disabilities Services at the University of South Dakota that led to the development of the Fides program whose goal was to establish high-quality, evidence-based development opportunities specifically designed to enable key university constituencies―the faculty, staff, and administration―to understand their role in providing extraordinary learning experiences for veterans. The program was funded through a congressionally directed FIPSE grant. Materials from Fides have been featured by prominent educational organizations, and are being used by the National Center for PTSD, colleges, universities, and boards of regents across the US. This book provides the background and guidelines you need to leverage the strengths that student veterans bring to your institution, to ease the challenges they face in transitioning into higher education, to facilitate their learning, and to ensure their successful graduation. Student veterans bring many strengths to your campus – maturity, significant life experiences, and cross-cultural awareness. They are highly motivated to serve others and value education. Student veterans may however face significant challenges. Student veterans have typically been out of high school for some time, where they may have earned average grades. Many are married with children and more than a few are single parents. They are approximately 20% less likely than non-veterans to attain a bachelor degree and slightly more likely to drop out of higher education without attaining a degree of any sort. Deployments extend their time to degree, and multiple deployments can significantly delay graduation. The challenges associated with transitioning from the military into higher education are heightened when a student has a disability – physical, psychological, or emotional. Common disabilities that are emerging from Iraq and Afghanistan include amputations, hearing loss, traumatic brain injury, and post-traumatic stress disorder. To enable student veterans to succeed, institutions need to develop holistic initiatives to mediate student veterans’ transition and persistence, and develop appropriate programs and services that recognize their skills, family responsibilities, and distinct needs. This book outlines best practices for student affairs; describes innovative approaches to administrative services and support; suggests streamlining policies and procedures to make the campus “veteran friendly”; proposes ideas for academic programs; looks at the implications for course structure and design; considers the classroom environment; and explores how classroom policies impact student veterans. One chapter examines the issue of student veteran success specifically from the point of view of two-year institutions. The authors stress the importance of collaborative approaches across divisions and functions providing all stakeholders on campus with a comprehensive view of how they can support each to ensure the success of their student veterans.

Education & Teaching

Kelley, Bruce

Fox, Ernetta

Higher & Continuing Education

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