Banjawarn

Author : Josh Kemp
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781760802240

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Banjawarn by Josh Kemp Pdf

Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to score off old friends from his shearing days on Banjawarn Station. His journey takes an unexpected detour when he discovers an abandoned ten-year-old girl and decides to return her to her estranged father in Leonora, instead of alerting authorities. Together they begin the road trip from hell through the scorched heart of the state’s northern goldfields. Love, friendship and hope are often found in the strangest places, but forgiveness is never simple, and the past lies buried just beneath the blood red topsoil. The only question is whether Hoyle should uncover it, or run as fast as his legs can take him. Banjawarn is an unsettling debut from Josh Kemp, winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Echoing Cormac McCarthy’s haunting border trilogy and narrative vernacular that recalls the sparse lyricism of Randolph Stow and Tim Winton, this is a darkly funny novel that earns its place amongst the stable of Australian gothic fiction.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Terrorism
ISBN : PURD:32754066521711

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Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : Daniel Alfred Metraux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015047537009

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Aum Shinrikyo and Japanese Youth by Daniel Alfred Metraux Pdf

Aum Shinrikyo and Japanese Youth offers insights into Japanese spirituality by analyzing the motivations of those who joined the Aum Shinrikyo religious sect. This group attracted worldwide attention after its poison gas attack on the Tokyo subways in March, 1995. Daniel A. Metraux explores the reasons that thousands of Japanese people, many of them youths, joined the sect. He questions why they joined it, what they expected of their membership, and why they stayed involved or left. Metraux finds that most of the members got involved for religious and social reasons and did not partake in the terrorist and criminal activities of the leaders of Aum Shinrikyo. In addition, the author examines how the Aum situation reflects a growing sense of alienation from the traditional Japanese religion and culture among some of the young and middle-aged Japanese people, providing important information about the present status of the Japanese people.

Author : Tyler Mahoney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632281500

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Gold Digger by Tyler Mahoney Pdf

If you haven't seen a Discovery Channel gold-hunting show, you might picture a gold prospector as a relic of the Wild West: a TNT-toting, bearded old man wildly swinging a pick on the hunt for nuggets, guided by old maps, superstition, legends and instinct. It's still predominantly a man's world, and still often fanatical, but these days the golden dream attracts people from all walks of life—and 25-year-old Tyler Mahoney (Australian star of the Discovery Channel's Gold Rush series) is leading the way. Hailing from Kalgoorlie, Tyler is a fourth-generation gold miner and has seen up close how gold fever makes normally reasonable people do the most irrational things. From mysterious corpses in the desert to huge heists, backstabbings to life-changing finds, Tyler unearths hair-raising stories and legends from Australia's gold prospecting past and present, while sharing her experience forging her way in a traditionally male domain. She writes candidly about the push and pull of the gold world in her own life, as well as her struggles with bipolar disorder —a mental-health challenge that in some ways parallels the feast-or-famine nature of prospecting itself. With humor, grit and an infectious zest for life, "gold digger" Tyler Mahoney stakes her claim.

Author : Jo Thornely
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780733640513

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Zealot by Jo Thornely Pdf

'a smart, daring and refreshing book.' - Weekend Australian 'deliciously sinister' - Herald Sun Why would anyone join a cult? Maybe they're unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they're disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of this confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or maybe they just want to give themselves the best possible chance of having sex with aliens. Whatever the reason, once people are in, it's usually very difficult for them to leave. Cults have ways of making their followers do loopy, dangerous stuff to prove their loyalty, and in return they get a chance to feel secure within the cult's embrace, with an added bonus of being utterly terrified of the outside world. From the tragic JONESTOWN Kool-Aid drinkers to the Australian cult THE FAMILY to the fiery Waco climax of THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS, this book is a wide-sweeping look at cults around the world, from the host of the popular podcast ZEALOT. 'a piss-taker of rare boldness.' - Weekend Australian

Author : Rosalie Bertell
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Military weapons
ISBN : 1551641828

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Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell Pdf

As weaponry and warfare have become more complex and sophisticated, so the long-term effects have become more deadly. In Planet Earth Rosalie Bertell proposes that the key to understanding the impact of future wars lies in a close analysis of the past. She shows how the quest for military power has destabilized the delicate natural balance of the earth's ecosystem, causing widespread devastation in environmental, economic and social terms and calls for a new approach to security, which rises above national agendas to seek global solutions to a global problem.

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Magpie
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781780333304

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World Famous Cults and Fanatics by Colin Wilson Pdf

Dangerous madmen or divinely inspired prophets? From murdering religious sects like the Assassins and the Thugs, to the orgies of the little known Khlysty and the self-mutilations of the Skloptzi; including modern day killers like the vicious Manson Family and the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan - this book shows how cults and fanatics had such a powerful effect on the world.

Author : Sara A. Daly,John Parachini,William Rosenau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015061001684

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Aum Shinrikyo, Al Qaeda, and the Kinshasa Reactor by Sara A. Daly,John Parachini,William Rosenau Pdf

Explores attempts by terrorists to acquire nuclear materials and fabricate nuclear systems and suggests that strict controls on nuclear weapons, materials, and expertise will reduce opportunities for terrorists to acquire them.

Author : Lawrence Winkler
Publisher : Bellatrix
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780991694181

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Samurai Road by Lawrence Winkler Pdf

Most remote islands of the imagination conjure up paradise. Japan is an archipelago of puzzlement. From the sands that forged their swords and serenity, they traveled a Samurai Road of temples and shrines, feudal fortresses, and flowing mountain streams of wasabi. On sashimi and soy sauce, and green tea over rice, they lived a thousand years of pathos, under cherry blossoms and ephemeral moonlight, in Zen gardens and futon dreams. It was all so perfect.

Author : Daniel Alfred Metraux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015049994257

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Aum Shinrikyo's Impact on Japanese Society by Daniel Alfred Metraux Pdf

Analyzes the vast impact that Aum has had on Japanese society, including its appeal to Japanese youth. In-depth study of the question of civil liberties now that many Japanese wish to ban sects. Also details political questions raised by the Aum crisis, Aum's revivalist mission to Russia, and attempts by Aum and other New Religions in Japan to gain money and fame by pushing an "Armageddon" theme.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015032056189

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Records of the Western Australian Museum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Japan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112739334

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Japan Studies Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : David E. Kaplan,Andrew Marshall
Publisher : Crown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038549930

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The Cult at the End of the World by David E. Kaplan,Andrew Marshall Pdf

The brave new age of postmillennium terror is awakening and its harbinger is Aum Supreme Truth: a Japan-based global web of wired, technically expert New Age zealots armed with biologial weapons, driven by an apocalyptic vision of unprecedented destruction. With compelling immediacy, this book tells the terrifying story the cult reponsible for the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, offering a revealing profile of its founder and leader, Shoko Asahara.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Wool industry
ISBN : UCAL:B3356012

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Dalgety's Annual Wool Review for Australia and New Zealand by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : IND:30000070102144

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Fortean Times by Anonim Pdf

The journal of strange phenomena.