Killing Sydney
Title | Killing Sydney PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Farrelly |
Publisher | Picador Australia |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2021-01-27 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1760981192 |
'Presents serious issues in a way which neither patronises or mystifies the lay reader.' Paul Keating on Three Houses A blueprint for the future of our city in a radically changing world. Columnist Elizabeth Farrelly brings her unique perspective as architectural writer and former city councillor to a burning question for our times: how will we live in the future? Can our communities survive pandemic, environmental disaster, overcrowding, government greed and big business? Using her own adopted city of Sydney, she creates a roadmap for urban living and analyses the history of cities themselves to study why and how we live together, now and into the future. Killing Sydney is part-lovesong, part-warning: little by little, our politics are becoming debased and our environment degraded. The tipping point is close. Can the home we love survive? Praise for Killing Sydney 'If you believe that Elizabeth Farrelly is expressing your long held concerns about the state of our governmens, our cities and our environment in her Sydney Morning Herald Saturday articles, then I encourage you to get Killing Sydney and have a month of Saturdays in the one book. That's what I'll do because I most often strongly agree!' Councillor Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney 'This is an important book for all Aussies! Written with passion, beautiful prose, and insightful knowledge. Read and weep. More than ever we need to push pause on development and so called "progress". Go Elizabeth!' Di Morrissey AM 'Great cities need great champions. Sydney needs Elizabeth Farrelly.' Adam Spencer
Beyond the Killing Fields
Title | Beyond the Killing Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney Hillel Schanberg |
Publisher | Potomac Books, Inc. |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1597976105 |
The first collection of Sydney Schanberg's work to be published.
Dressed to Kill, Second Edition
Title | Dressed to Kill, Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney Ross Singer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Brassieres |
ISBN | 9780757004629 |
Updated edition of: Dressed to kill: the link between breast cancer and bras. Avery Pub. Group, 1995.
The Death and Life of Dith Pran
Title | The Death and Life of Dith Pran PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney H. Schanberg |
Publisher | RosettaBooks |
Pages | 123 |
Release | 2013-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0795334737 |
The US journalist’s account of his colleague’s struggle to survive the Cambodian genocide—the basis for the Oscar–winning film The Killing Fields. On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phnom Penh—the capital of Cambodia—and began a brutal genocide that left millions dead. Dith Pran, a Cambodian working as an assistant to American reporter Sydney H. Schanberg, was a witness to these events. While his employer managed to escape across the border, Dith Pran fled into the Cambodian countryside—and into the heart of the massacre. The basis for the acclaimed movie The Killing Fields, this is the compelling account of the days before the fall of Phnom Penh. It’s the story of one man’s struggle for survival in a country that had become a death camp for millions of its citizens—and another man’s failed efforts to keep his friend and colleague safe. Written within a year of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, it is a work of both historical and literary significance. Sydney H. Schanberg contributed a moving new foreword to this first eBook edition.
Vicious
Title | Vicious PDF eBook |
Author | V. E. Schwab |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466822171 |
V. E. Schwab's New York Times bestseller Vicious is a masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers. Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end? In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question. "A dynamic and original twist on what it means to be a hero and a villain. A killer from page one...highly recommended!" —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Marvel Universe vs The Avengers and Patient Zero One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fantasy Books of 2013 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Killing Fields
Title | The Killing Fields PDF eBook |
Author | Sydney Schanberg |
Publisher | Coronet |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1984-01-01 |
Genre | Cambodia |
ISBN | 9780340367933 |
The Killing Season Uncut
Title | The Killing Season Uncut PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Ferguson |
Publisher | Melbourne Univ. Publishing |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2016-04-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0522869963 |
Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in their droves, their fascination with the Rudd–Gillard struggle as unfinished as the saga itself. Rudd and Gillard dominate the drama as they strain to claim the narrative of Labor's years in power. The journey to screen for each of their interviews is telling in itself. Kevin Rudd gives his painful account of the period and recalled in vivid detail the events of losing the prime ministership. Julia Gillard is frank and unsparing of her colleagues. More than a hundred people were interviewed for The Killing Season—ministers, backbenchers, staffers, party officials, pollsters and public servants—recording their vivid accounts of the public and private events that made the Rudd and Gillard governments and then brought them undone. It is a damning portrait of a party at war with itself: the personal rivalries and the bitter defeats that have come to define the Rudd–Gillard era. "The making of The Killing Season matched the drama on screen and that’s a story we wanted to tell. And now we have a place for the episodes of rich material we could have put into a 5-part series." — Sarah Ferguson