The Japanese Way of Justice
The Japanese Way of Justice

Author: David Ted Johnson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 019511986X

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The major achievements of Japanese criminal justice are thus inextricably intertwined with its most notable defects, and efforts to fix the defects threaten to undermine the accomplishments."--BOOK JACKET.

Blue Cordon
Blue Cordon

Author: Dee Carter

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1473220076

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When Lieutenant Thomas Savage of the Polar Warfare Research Section found the frozen corpse of a woman from another age, little did he know what fearful realms her supernatural influence would lead him into. By taking the Blue Cordon from her mummified body he opened the way to a journey through Fear and the Land of Eternal Dark . . .

The Nirvana Effect
The Nirvana Effect

Author: Brian Pinkerton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1787584895

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“Fans of stories centered on the conflict between the virtual and the real will find plenty to enjoy.” — Publishers Weekly No one goes out anymore. Society is sheltered indoors. The economy is in ruins. People spend their lives addicted to a breakthrough virtual reality technology, desperate for escapism in a troubled world. The Nirvana Effect has taken over. Aaron and Clarissa are members of a subculture of realists who resist the lure of a fake utopia. They watch in horror as the technology spreads across the country with willing participants who easily forgo their freedoms for false pleasures. When the young couple discovers a plot to enforce compliance for mind control, the battle for free will begins. What started as a playful diversion turns deadly. The future of the human race is at stake. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Time and Space
Time and Space

Author: John Glasby

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 147321050X

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There were many reasons why the Time Kings sent their warrior hordes back through the endless corridors of Time. The ancient spaceships had been destroyed by the wrath of a people smarting under the aftermath of the Galactic War. But though the lanes of space were deserted to them, the Time Kings possessed a weapon more deadly than any other - the Amphichron. Sweeping through the grey ages, the warriors destroyed and pillaged the peaceful eras of the past.

Teluma's Light
Teluma's Light

Author: David Rossin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-03-22

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1445285258

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Teluma's Light is a fantasy adventure for children aged 12 years and above. Deep within Balcombe Wood there is something lost waiting to be found and Hannah, whose parents died tragically in a train crash, is destined to find it. Before long, she and her cousin Jamie are drawn into the magical world of the Oreign on a quest to rescue Princess Germander. Through their many adventures, they become aware of the sinister reason for her kidnapping. The future of the world is threatened by the evil power of Blathnag and they are the ones who must prevent Teluma's Light from being extinguished forever.

Cyclone Country
Cyclone Country

Author: Chrystopher J. Spicer

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-09-09

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1476640505

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The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story, and of people and spirituality. This book explores the connections between people, place and environment through the image of cyclones within fiction and poetry from the Australian state of Queensland, the northern coast of which is characterized by these devastating storms. Analyzing a range of works including Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm, and Vance Palmer's Cyclone it explains the cyclone in the Queensland literary imagination as an example of a cultural response to weather in a unique regional place. It also situates the cyclones that appear in Queensland literature within the broader global context of literary cyclones.

Carpentaria
Carpentaria

Author: Alexis Wright

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2024-02-06

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0811238040

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Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.