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The Day of the Gecko: A Les Norton Novel 9

Author : Robert G. Barrett
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743549008
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Day of the Gecko: A Les Norton Novel 9 written by Robert G. Barrett and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON When Les Norton moved into his old flame Side Valve Susie's flat in Bondi for a few days while she was out of town, everything should have been a piece of cake-except Price and Eddie had other ideas. Waverley Council were demolishing Bondi baths and there were two bodies buried under the handball court. The man to get them out? Major Garrick Lewis, aka The Gecko.With Norton for company, The Gecko literally took Bondi in his stride; and everything that went with it-Mossad hit squads, the KGB, ASIO, yobbo builders looking for trouble, loose women looking for action. For once, Les was flat out keeping up.

Guns 'n' Rosé

Author : Robert G. Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Guns 'n' Rosé written by Robert G. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON Norton needed a holiday-anywhere-as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige-Les could have his house at Terrigal. All he had to do was look after George Brennan's nephew for a week while he was there. Sounded okay to Norton, and it was better than spending his own money.Jimmy Rosewater was young, cool and the original brown-eyed handsome man. He loved good wine, going to restaurants, going line-dancing, and the ladies loved him. This suited Les nicely. But, Jimmy was also supposed to be in jail. Before he knows it, Norton is fighting off the usual yobbos looking for trouble, sex-crazed feral aunties and getting shot at by feral bikies. That was during the quieter moments...and all the time Les has a feeling Jimmy's up to something...

Blindsight

Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429955198
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Norton and the Bear

Author : Gabriel Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922610447
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Norton and the Bear written by Gabriel Evans and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norton wants to be unique. The Bear wants to be just like him. This is definitely going to be a problem. This hilarious read-aloud, which was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year, explores every child's least favorite form of admiration: copying. It helps readers deal with the sensitive topics of conformity, individuality, and belonging in an accessible, kid-friendly way.

Postcolonial Postmortems

Author : Christine Matzke
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042020148
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Postmortems written by Christine Matzke and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the 'postcolonial' bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why 'postmortems'? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the 'postmortem' of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim's remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts. This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the 'postcolonial postmortems' of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje.

Maximum Security

Author : Robert G Barrett
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460700538
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Maximum Security written by Robert G Barrett and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate Les Norton collection no.1 MAXIMUM SECURItY is a collection of three of Robert G Barrett's Les Norton stories: MUD CRAB BOOGIE Extreme Water Polo is the water polo of the 90s. And when Les Norton catches the semi-final on tV he is amazed to see that the man behind Extreme Polo is his old mate, Neville 'Nigzy' Nigson. So when Neville calls out of the blue and asks Les to drive the Murrumbidgee Mud Crabs up to Sydney for the final, Les takes him on. But things are never as simple as they seem and Les finds himself drawn into an hilarious adventure involving the Mud Crabs. GOODOO GOODOO Les Norton is off to Far North Queensland! What should have been a quick gig on a radio station followed by a white-water rafting holiday in North Queensland becomes a four-wheel drive trip to Cooktown with Norton looking for two missing SCUBA divers. the army, the air force and half the Queensland water police couldn't find Jade Biscayne and Horden Genting. What chance does Les have? Along the way Les finds the Rainbow Princess, out chasing UFOs and predicting the future. He also finds man-eating crocodiles, heat and humidity, and everywhere he goes ratbags have it in for him. then, in a place of indescribable beauty, Norton uncovers unimaginable terror... tHE WIND AND tHE MONKEY A week's holiday in Shoal Bay courtesy of Price Galese? Sweet. Help Eddie Salita pop a bent copper named Fishcake Fyshbyrne while you're up there? No worries. Solve a mystery on Virgin Island with a sweet little girl named Digger? You beauty! Les Norton, the lovable larrikin from the sunshine state, is back and is heading north, with a little bit of work and a hell of a lot of play in mind. But he had better watch out for hungry sharks and local louts with no manners; and gung-ho federal police with no bloody idea! As the saying goes, he don't go looking for trouble, trouble comes looking for him.

High Noon in Nimbin

Author : Robert G. Barrett
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 073228757X
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book High Noon in Nimbin written by Robert G. Barrett and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Norton, amiable Kings Cross bouncer, attends the waxhead wedding of the year at Blueys Beach -- but it turns into the ethnic brawl of the decade. And this is just the beginning of an action-packed adventure in Nimbin, which includes bodies, blood, booty and babes, and many activities of somewhat questionable legality -- including the disposal of several bodies.

The Godson: A Les Norton Novel 4

Author : Robert G. Barrett
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743549016
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Godson: A Les Norton Novel 4 written by Robert G. Barrett and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON Les Norton thought they were going to be the easiest two weeks of his life. Playing minder for a young member of the Royal Family called Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-set snack. So what if he was a millionaire Hooray Henry and his godfather was the Attorney General? Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble... So what if he was on the run for the IRA? They'd never find him in Australia... The Godson moves at breakneck speed from the corridors of power in Canberra to the grimy tenements of Belfast, to climax in a nerve-shattering, blood-spattered shootout on a survivalist fortress in the Tweed Valley. If you thought Australia's favourite son could get up to some outrageous capers in his previous adventures, until you've read The Godson, you ain't read nothin' yet!

Linkages in the Landscape

Author : Andrew F. Bennett
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 2831707447
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Linkages in the Landscape written by Andrew F. Bennett and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2003 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife management and conservation. Habitat "corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important element within a conservation strategy. Examples are given of corridors both as pathways and as habitats in their own right. Includes detailed reviews of principles relevant to the design and management of corridors, their place in regional approaches to conservation planning, and recommendations for research and management.

The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya

Author : Robert G. Barrett
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330271653
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya written by Robert G. Barrett and published by Pan. This book was released on 1987 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no two ways about Les Norton–the carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney's top illegal casino. He's tough and he's mean. He's got a granite jaw , fists like hams, and they say the last time he took a tenner from his wallet Henry Lawson blinked at the light.Lethal but loyal, he's always good for a laugh. In this, the third collection of Les Norton adventures, Les gets his boss off the hook. But not without the help of the boy from Binjiwunyawunya.Les then finds himself in a spot of bother in Long Bay Gaol then in a lot more bother on a St. Kilda tram in Melbourne.

Exhaustion

Author : Anna K. Schaffner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538855
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Exhaustion written by Anna K. Schaffner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.

Crime Scene Cessnock

Author : Robert G Barrett
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1460703820
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Crime Scene Cessnock written by Robert G Barrett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les is back and on the detox ...All it took was a summer's day and a flat tyre on his push-bike, and Les is out on bail and on the run from a gun-happy street gang intent on a drive-by. So, with Warren's help, Les Norton defendant, becomes Len Gordon film director, safely ensconced at the ultra-swish Opal Springs Health Resort till Eddie can sort things out back in Sydney.Unfortunately, the first thing Les finds on arrival is motivational guru Alexander Holden dead at the front gate. then, before you can say 'soya beans with tahini and lime dressing', the cops arrive and Les is up to his neck in a land of a thousand acronyms, fighting off steroid-happy body builders, sex-crazed socialites, violent greyhound owners - and, worst of all, caffeine withdrawals - while at the same time matching wits with the four acrimonious writers-in-residence. Was Alexander Holden murdered? Or was it an accident? Find out in the gripping climax and food fight when all is revealed - in the library.Robert G. Barrett's latest Les Norton adventure, Crime Scene Cessnock, set in New South Wales's beautiful Pokolbin Valley, is a whodunnit with a difference, and proves once again why Barrett is, to quote the Australian newspaper, 'the king of popular fiction'.

Ecophysiology of Spiders

Author : Wolfgang Nentwig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642715524
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Ecophysiology of Spiders written by Wolfgang Nentwig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently another book on insect physiology was published. It was restricted to a few focal points as are many of these new insect physiology books, but there was considerable depth in its specialized point of view. We were dis cussing the structure of this book and of insect physiology books, in general, when Prof. Remmert asked me " . . . and what about books on spider physio logy?" Silence. Then I started to explain "oh yes, there is a congress pro ceedings volume on this topic and there is a group with excellent publica tions on another topic . . . ", but I felt that this answer was weak. One can no longer buy the proceedings volume in a bookshop and to read a series of publications on a given topic one must search in a library for a dozen journals. Why is there not a single book on spider physiology comparable with the many books on insect physiology? Are spiders a scientific ivory tower, far from public interest and commercial importance? I do not think so, although spiders are one of the many "forgotten" animal groups which always grew in the shadow of the insects. There are research groups working on spider physiology, there are fascinating phenomena in this animal group and there are plenty of exciting results. Spiders may have been always underresearch ed, but research is progressing. In the last few years, new books have been published, e. g.

And de Fun Don't Done

Author : Robert G. Barrett
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330274470
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book And de Fun Don't Done written by Robert G. Barrett and published by Pan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They don't call him Lucky Les for nothing. A ticket in a raffle and Norton was off to see to US of A–Siestasota, Florida, where it turned out hot, red hot, and it wasn't just the weather.Night club brawls, mafia hitmen, too many girls called Lori, gun crazed Americans and the whole lot washed along in a sea of margaritas. Even for Les Norton it was just too hot to handle. So it was off to 'greener' pastures–the Caribbean–for reggae, rum and Rastafarians, not to mention Sultry Delta, sweet-lipped Esme, and Millwood Downie, schoolteacher, historian and would-be stand-up comic, who helps Les trace his family tree and possibly uncover the biggest earn ever.The world is finally Norton's oyster. All he has to do is get the shell open.

Edible Insects

Author : Arnold van Huis
Publisher : Bright Sparks
ISBN 13 : 9789251075951
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Edible Insects written by Arnold van Huis and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edible insects have always been a part of human diets, but in some societies there remains a degree of disdain and disgust for their consumption. Although the majority of consumed insects are gathered in forest habitats, mass-rearing systems are being developed in many countries. Insects offer a significant opportunity to merge traditional knowledge and modern science to improve human food security worldwide. This publication describes the contribution of insects to food security and examines future prospects for raising insects at a commercial scale to improve food and feed production, diversify diets, and support livelihoods in both developing and developed countries. It shows the many traditional and potential new uses of insects for direct human consumption and the opportunities for and constraints to farming them for food and feed. It examines the body of research on issues such as insect nutrition and food safety, the use of insects as animal feed, and the processing and preservation of insects and their products. It highlights the need to develop a regulatory framework to govern the use of insects for food security. And it presents case studies and examples from around the world. Edible insects are a promising alternative to the conventional production of meat, either for direct human consumption or for indirect use as feedstock. To fully realise this potential, much work needs to be done by a wide range of stakeholders. This publication will boost awareness of the many valuable roles that insects play in sustaining nature and human life, and it will stimulate debate on the expansion of the use of insects as food and feed.

And De Fun Don't Done: A Les Norton Novel 7

Author : Robert G. Barrett
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743548966
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book And De Fun Don't Done: A Les Norton Novel 7 written by Robert G. Barrett and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON They don't call him Lucky Les for nothing. A ticket in a raffle and Norton was off to see to US of A-Siestasota, Florida, where it turned out hot, red hot, and it wasn't just the weather.Night club brawls, mafia hitmen, too many girls called Lori, gun crazed Americans and the whole lot washed along in a sea of margaritas. Even for Les Norton it was just too hot to handle. So it was off to 'greener' pastures-the Caribbean-for reggae, rum and Rastafarians, not to mention Sultry Delta, sweet-lipped Esme, and Millwood Downie, schoolteacher, historian and would-be stand-up comic, who helps Les trace his family tree and possibly uncover the biggest earn ever. The world is finally Norton's oyster. All he has to do is get the shell open.

Davo's Little Something

Author : Robert G. Barrett
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1743548990
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Davo's Little Something written by Robert G. Barrett and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was Sydney in the early Eighties-the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic, street gangs, gay bashings and murders. When a gang of skinheads bash Davo's old school- friend to death simply because he was gay, and leave Davo almost dead in an intensive care unit, they unleash a crazed killer onto the city streets. Before the summer had ended, over thirty corpses had turned up in the morgue, leaving two bewildered detectives to find out where they were coming from. Davo's Little Something is not for the squeamish. Although written with lashings of black humour the action is chillingly brutal-a story of a serial killer bent on avenging himself on the street tribes of Sydney...