Chaser Quarterly, Issue 5

Author: James Schloeffel
Publisher: Black Incorporated
ISBN: 9781863958929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
"The Chaser Quarterly 5 is a special bumper two-books-in-one, providing the perfect summer reading for anyone who's smart phone has run out of batteries. In this issue, The Chaser looks forward to the trends and events of 2017. We take a look at the places most likely to be riven by conflict and despair, and give you pro tips on how to ignore the plight of a planet slowly descending into chaos. With The Chaser Quarterly, you won't be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. This issue also includes The Shovel Annual 2017 - a review of the year past, as we embark on 2017 in what promises to be the most satirical year in human history. The perfect gift for any discerning reader of fine satire."

Chaser Quarterly

Author: The Chaser
Publisher: Black Incorporated
ISBN: 9781863959872
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
It's back, better than ever. Featuring a full wrap of all the news, sport, entertainment and Trump jokes from a year that will forever be remembered as "Oh my God, remember 2017?" The Chaser Annual 2017also features original writing by some of Australia's top comedy writers, with overviews of the year ahead in global politics and finance. Plus Cassie Sainsbury provides a comprehensive guide to making a quick buck sponsored by Sony Headphones. The perfect gift for fans of The Chaser, as well as people who like reading slightly out of date topical comedy.

Chaser Quarterly Issue 6, Autumn 2017 The

Author: The Chaser
Publisher: Black Incorporated
ISBN: 9781863959117
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
"Forget Baby Love. The Chaser has written the definitive guide to parenting in the modern age. Jam packed with 100 pages of spurious information. Including- - Why you shouldn't become a parent in the first place? - How to get pregnant- turning sex into something dull and lifeless - Pregnancy Wine Guide - 9 months of bliss- one woman's infuriatingly unrepresentative experience of pregnancy - Who needs sleep- The first six months - The Toddler Years- A guide to making money on Instagram by exploiting the cuteness of your child - Pre-school- An illustrated guide to making your partner do most of the work - Primary School age- The Best (Drug-Free) Years of Their Life - High School- How to Apply for Special Consideration - Will They Ever Move Out? A Guide to Your Child's 20s and 30s. - Middle-Age- Why everything wrong with their lives is your fault Also includes a bonus do-it-yourself Last Will and Testament, to let you cut your children out of their inheritance in 3 easy steps!"

The Chaser's Australia

Author: The Chaser
Publisher: Black Incorporated
ISBN: 9781863958752
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
The Chaser's Australia is a comprehensive guide to the culture, history, politics, religion, fashion, media and the few remaining footy heroes not currently facing criminal charges, that have made Australia one of the Top 196 countries in the world today. Featuring fewer facts than an Andrew Bolt column, and more offensive claims than a George Pell's testimony, this definitive volume is the perfect companion volume to a proper book about Australia. The Chaser's Australia is a special bumper issue of The Chaser Quarterly. It is written by Chaser writers Mark Humphries (The Roast, The Feed) and Evan Williams (The Roast, The Feed, The New Yorker) with contributions from Chris Taylor and Charles Firth (The Chaser), James Schloeffel (The Shovel) and Rohan Arneil (the intern). It is the perfect Fathers Day gift for dads who are fans of The Chaser and who are also able to read. And perfect for reading when the battery of your smartphone goes flat. The book is the most comprehensive guide to Australia ever compiled, and is divided into six hilarious sections- Politics, History, The Nation, Sport & Religion, Culture & Media and People. "Our religion section covers all the major denominations- AFL, NRL, Soccer, Cricket, even lawn bowls," said Editor-In-Chief, Charles Firth.

The Field Quarterly Magazine and Review

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description

Early Cinema

Author: Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838715479
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for millions of people. Only recently have film scholars and historians begun to study these early years of cinema in their own right and not simply as first steps towards the classical narrative cinema we now associate with Hollywood. The essays in this collection trace the fascinating history of how the cinema developed its forms of storytelling and representation and how it evolved into a complex industry with Hollywood rapidly acquiring a dominant role. These issues can be seen to arise from new readings of the so-called pioneers - Melies, Lumiere, Porter, and Griffith - while also suggesting new perspectives on major European filmmakers of the 1910s and 20s. Editor Thomas Elsaesser complements the contributions from leading British, American, and European scholars with introductory essays of his own that provide a comprehensive overview of the field. The volume is the most authoritative survey to date of a key area of contemporary film research, invaluable to historians as well as to students of cinema.

Aubrey McKee

Author: Alex Pugsley
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771963123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
I am from Halifax, salt-water city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters. “People from Halifax are all famous,” my sister Faith has said. “Because everyone in Halifax knows each other’s business.” From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints, from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which they’ve been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice.

Shimmer

Author: Alex Pugsley
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771964707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other’s lives. Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesn’t seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars try to decide if the affair they’re having might mean they like each other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes, posts a question on a guitar website, he ends up meeting Jessica as well, a woman with her own difficult music. And when the snide and sharp-tongued Twyla agrees to try therapy, not even she would have imagined the results.

Command Of The Air

Author: General Giulio Douhet
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782898522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 620

Book Description
In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.

Growing Up Queer in Australia

Author: Benjamin Law
Publisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743821085
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
‘No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of the parts of myself that were unpalatable to queers who grew up in the city.’ ‘My queerness was born in a hot dry land that was never ceded.’ ‘Even now, I sometimes think that I don’t know my own desire.’ Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australia assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity. Spanning diverse places, eras, ethnicities and experiences, these are the stories of growing up queer in Australia. ‘For better or worse, sooner or later, life conspires to reveal you to yourself, and this is growing up.’ With contributions from David Marr, Fiona Wright, Nayuka Gorrie, Steve Dow, Holly Throsby, Sally Rugg, Tony Ayres, Nic Holas, Rebecca Shaw and many more.