Extraordinary Life of Pikelet, The

Author: Calley Gibson
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143783238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
The memoirs of Australia's premiere rescue dog and foster bro extraordinaire, Pikelet Butterwiggle Stoll. Once a dog without a name on death row (albeit one with extremely good looks and pawfect cheekbones), Pikelet now lives a charmed life in inner-city Sydney with his beloved Ma and Pa, big little brother Patty Cakes and Spinster Sisters Betty and Blanche. How did he go from being a tiny no-name pup with developmental deformities to one of Australia's most recognisable fur faces, with a massive online 'pack' on social media? It all started when someone took a chance on him and saved him from his fate at the pound. Today, Pikelet and his family are proud advocates of pet rescue and 'Adopt, don't shop'. In the four years since Pikelet celebrated his own 'Gotcha Day', he has been foster brother to an extraordinary number of dogs and pups, as well as an unexpected pair of ducklings and one larger-than-life pig. Despite all the hashtags and selfies Pikelet knows how to keep it real, and he documents the highs and lows of pet rescue and foster care, which all pet owners and animal lovers will relate to.

Tim Winton

Author: Lyn McCredden
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742586069
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-331) and index.

Life on the Leash

Author: Victoria Schade
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982189975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
"Cora Bellamy is a woman who thrives on organization. She's successfully run her own dog training business for years, perfectly content with her beloved rescue pitbull as the main man in her life. She's given everything to her business, and her lack of social life (or slobber-free clothes) has been completely worth it. But all that changes when she meets Charlie Gill, the hottest client she's ever had. The only problem? Charlie's taken. Luckily, Cora has a new friend--the sweet, lovably geeky Eli Crawford. More loyal than a retriever, he's always there to help Cora with her problems, including her love life. That's why she's shocked to realize that even as things start heating up with Charlie, there might just be a more-than-friends spark between her and Eli, too. As Cora's life gets more tangled up than a dogwalker's leashes--and as she prepares to audition for a dog-training TV show that may irrevocably change her entire life--she has to figure things out before it all goes straight to the dogs."--

Breath

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374116347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Falling under the spell of an enigmatic extreme-sports surfer, a thrill-seeking pair of western Australian adolescents is initiated into a world of high-stakes adventures and dangerous boundary testing.

Planet Medicine: Origins, Revised Edition

Author: Richard Grossinger
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583947280
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 673

Book Description
Planet Medicine is a major work by an anthropologist who looks at medicine in a broad context. In this edition, additions to this classic text include a section on Reiki, a comparison of types of palpation used in healing, updates on craniosacral therapy, and a means of understanding how different alternative medicines actually work. Illustrated throughout, this is the standard on the history, philosophy, and anthropology of this subject.

#ChurchToo

Author: Emily Joy Allison
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
ISBN: 1506464823
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose the culture of sexual abuse and assault utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. Not a single denomination is unaffected. And the reasons are somewhat different than those you might find in the #MeToo stories coming out of Hollywood or Washington. While patriarchy and misogyny are problems everywhere, they take on a particularly pernicious form in Christian churches where those with power have been insisting, since many decades before #MeToo, that this sexually dysfunctional environment is, in fact, exactly how God wants it to be. #ChurchToo turns over the rocks of the church's sexual dysfunction, revealing just what makes sexualized violence in religious contexts both ubiquitous and uniquely traumatizing. It also lays the groundwork for not one but many paths of healing from a religious culture of sexual shame, secrecy, and control, and for survivors of abuse to live full, free, healthy lives.

Ransom

Author: David Malouf
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307378934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.

Alphaprints 123

Author: Sarah Powell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783410491
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 20

Book Description
• Finger and thumb prints are turned into an array of amazing animals with the addition of simple illustrations and photographs in this innovative 123 book• With imaginative, rhythmic, rhyming text which is fun for adults to read and children to listen to, Alphaprints 123 has been designed to develop children's counting and number recognition skills• Children can use the die-cut tabs to help turn the pages and find the different numbers from one through to ten

The Turning

Author: Tim Winton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743298772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
The author of Dirt Music and The Riders captures the urgency of memory and the way an entire life can be shaped by one event from the past in this capsule of connected stories set on the coast of Western Australia. Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds—changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.

The Little Typer

Author: Daniel P. Friedman
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262536439
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time. A program's type describes its behavior. Dependent types are a first-class part of a language, and are much more powerful than other kinds of types; using just one language for types and programs allows program descriptions to be as powerful as the programs they describe. The Little Typer explains dependent types, beginning with a very small language that looks very much like Scheme and extending it to cover both programming with dependent types and using dependent types for mathematical reasoning. Readers should be familiar with the basics of a Lisp-like programming language, as presented in the first four chapters of The Little Schemer. The first five chapters of The Little Typer provide the needed tools to understand dependent types; the remaining chapters use these tools to build a bridge between mathematics and programming. Readers will learn that tools they know from programming—pairs, lists, functions, and recursion—can also capture patterns of reasoning. The Little Typer does not attempt to teach either practical programming skills or a fully rigorous approach to types. Instead, it demonstrates the most beautiful aspects as simply as possible, one step at a time.