Best Selling Books by Andrew Peters

Retired Chief Superintendent Williams (the semi-legendary "Williams Of The Yard") has sold the serialisation rights to his memoirs, and is dictating them to a reporter from a leading national newspaper. In this first (and very possibly last) volume, he takes us back to the ''60s and his days as a young detective in the Playground of the South Glamorgan Glitterati......Barry Island. In these three cases, bodies keep turning up in unusual locations. Will Williams'' budding detective skills be equal to the task of catching any of the murderers? Will his current gin intake permit him to remember any of the details? Transcribed from the original interviews, the only changes made have been to names, places, dates and facts. Oh, and cutting out all the heavy swearing.

Light is a phenomenon analyzed by science, celebrated in literature, and symbolized by religions. Light and nature in all these aspects form the source of meaning in these poems. The sublime reality that encompasses the spectacularly grandiose as well as the common can be realized through the beauty of life''s interconnected web. But questions that struggle with the relationship between human responsibility and survival have never been more prominent than now. Human understanding has never been so close to nature and never more destructive and exploitive of it. Human cultures have focused on human meaning in building civilizations, but survival seems now to require a more fundamental existential awareness of the totality of life.

Ten stories in monologue form, from authors as diverse as the Archangel Gabriel, a Detroit car worker, an embittered musician and a Welsh farmer. Subjects as diverse as vampirism, plotting murder, prophetic dreams, punishing bad manners and ingrowing toenails. Quirky short stories to make you think and make you laugh.

Las Vegas in the 60s. Mark Paris is pretty much an ex. Ex-boxer, ex-soldier, ex-mathematician, ex-husband. Now he passes the time winning small in casinos and offering assistance to people who can''t find it anywhere else. He calls himself The Professor, much to the amusement of local criminals and barmen, and the contempt of the police. An early phone-call from an acquaintance brings him his latest job, cleaning up after a sudden death, and at much the same time he''s invited to help an elegant businesswoman with big trouble on her hands. Can The Professor work out the right directions to head in, before his past catches up with him, or the people who wish him ill manage to cut his equation off permanently?

Skills in Australian Geography has been written by one of Australia''s leading geography educators. It provides students in NSW with everything they need to practice the skills required by the new Geography Stages 4 –5 syllabus and to prepare for the new School Certificate exam. Skills in Australian Geography is an attractive, stimulus-based text. It has been written to help teachers respond to the shift in emphasis from a content-based approach to a skills-based approach to geography. It contains topographic map extracts, thematic maps, aerial and oblique photographs, graphs, tables and a range of innovative support material including crosswords and wonderwords. The text is designed to ensure that students continue to enjoy geography as a mandatory subject as much as they did when it was an elective.

Invasive bigheaded carp (Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and Bighead Carp H. nobilis) are a major nuisance throughout the Midwest. Horizontally oriented (or side-looking) hydroacoustic split-beam sampling is used throughout the Mississippi River basin to quantify the density and size distribution of bigheaded carp. Accuracy of these estimates relies on target strength (TS) returns from individual fish, and orientation is generally known to affect TS. Specifically, fish swimming perpendicular to a transducer generate a stronger TS return than one swimming towards or away from it. This study conducted two experiments to determine the effect of orientation on TS return. The purpose of this study was to 1) determine the statistical relationship between the max TS return and TL of Silver Carp, 2) quantify the relationship between body orientation and the mean TS return for Silver Carp, 3) compare the relationship between body orientation and the mean TS return for Silver Carp and Smallmouth Buffalo and 4) compare echosounding the tethered and free-swimming Silver Carp. To address objectives 1-3 a study was conducted where tethered Silver Carp and Smallmouth Buffalo were echosounded at multiple orientations. Each fish was tested every 10 degrees from 0°-180° or 180°-360° (where 0° and 360° are the same). The fourth objective was addressed using a free-swimming study where Silver Carp were echosounded in a controlled environment for a week. The tethered study consisted of Silver Carp (range 436mm-715mm total length (TL)), and Smallmouth Buffalo (range 361mm-576mm TL) suspended in a 0.1ha research pond on a carousel at orientations from three categories (lateral, oblique and head/tail). The free-swimming study consisted of Silver Carp (range 425mm-790mm TL) in a 0.1ha research pond where the fish were able to behave normally, and data was collected for 7 days. Target strength returns were measured using a horizontally facing 200kHz split-beam transducer for both studies.Consistent with expectations, we found that tethered orientation affected the TS return (P =

A collection of stories all told in one voice. Narrators as varied as a country doctor, a junior devil, a reality TV star, a retired policeman.......and Douglas.What sets a middle-aged ex-teacher off on a new, sick hobby? Can you ever have too many detectives? Why are politicians feeling a little queasy? How can salad vegetables bring you fame and fortune? What''s the secret of an Arizona orphan? And really, what can we do about Wendy?Short stories to make you laugh, to make you think, to make you wonder.

Otis King, Memphis'' Number One Welsh Blues Detective faces his toughest, most dangerous and longest case.The death of a notorious figure on the Memphis music scene opens a can of juicy and spiteful worms which threaten to overwhelm the sardonic sleuth. People continue to turn up messily deceased, so Otis is forced to seek assistance from people he''d rather never see again.Who are the mysterious ice-cream men? Who''s the blonde in the veil? Who''s the blonde in the boots? Who''s the blonde in the bed? Will there be enough L''Oreal #10 for all of them? As usual Otis does his level best to keep out of trouble and concentrate on playing The Righteous Blues....but that can be difficult with a .38 bullethole in the forehead.