Animals, Monsters, or People? The 'simple' line between our reality when awake and our nightmares when asleep can be very thin. In our fiction we are the innocent victims of monsters intent upon taking everything from us, including our lives. In a world where corporations and governments work together to find 'new frontiers' to strip for a profit, who decides if a creature from another world is an animal, a monster, or a person? What happens when we are the monsters another species has very good reason to fear? Note: Word Count is 144,958 words, as Page Count can vary by size format (Trade versus Pocket Book) and typography.

In A World Where Security Had Become Paramount Over Freedom...She was designed to be a soulless killer, but an eccentric man with vision started her on a very different path which would lead either to her becoming human or to her death. Would placing herself in harm's way to protect a willful child be her salvation or destruction?

Photographic collection of Polish folk art in Australia. Based on a touring exhibition by Townsville's Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. Essays discuss folk art in Poland, the re-interpretation of folk art in Australia by Polish settlers, and the relationship between folk art and Polish identity. Includes profiles of featured artists.

A critical examination of James Lovelock's controversial Gaia hypothesis One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of the planetary environment in order to keep it stable and favorable for life. First proposed in the 1970s, Lovelock's hypothesis remains highly controversial and continues to provoke fierce debate. On Gaia undertakes the first in-depth investigation of the arguments put forward by Lovelock and others—and concludes that the evidence doesn't stack up in support of Gaia. Toby Tyrrell draws on the latest findings in fields as diverse as climate science, oceanography, atmospheric science, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. He takes readers to obscure corners of the natural world, from southern Africa where ancient rocks reveal that icebergs were once present near the equator, to mimics of cleaner fish on Indonesian reefs, to blind fish deep in Mexican caves. Tyrrell weaves these and many other intriguing observations into a comprehensive analysis of the major assertions and lines of argument underpinning Gaia, and finds that it is not a credible picture of how life and Earth interact. On Gaia reflects on the scientific evidence indicating that life and environment mutually affect each other, and proposes that feedbacks on Earth do not provide robust protection against the environment becoming uninhabitable—or against poor stewardship by us.