New Releases by David Ellis

David Ellis’s Line of Vision won the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Marty Kalish is a young man suffocating in the heat of an affair with a married woman named Rachel. When Rachel’s husband disappears one night, Marty is one of the first to be questioned. With few likely suspects, the police arrest him for murder. We know Marty was outside their home that night. We know he has a motive. We know he’s guilty of something. But is it murder? Everything we have learned—about Marty as a man, his affair with Rachel, and the night in question—comes from Marty himself. But as the trial unfolds to a jaw-dropping conclusion, we learn that there is more to the truth than one man’s narrow line of vision.

The basic thesis of essentialism is that the laws are nature are imminent in existing things, rather than imposed from without. Largely discarded since the days of Aristotle, essentialism has lately been making inroads as a metaphysics of science. Ellis (history and philosophy of science, U. of Melbourne, Australia) summarizes the positions of his brand of the philosophy in a manner that is less rigorously scholastic than his earlier effort Scientific Essentialism (Cambridge U. Press, 2001) and more tailored for a lay audience. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The speed of change affecting the world of the public sector manager shows no sign of slowing down. The third edition of Public Sector Financial Management keeps pace with these changes. The text emphasises the dynamic nature of change and the increasing role of markets and competition in the public sector, examines current practices, and, where appropriate lessons to be learned from the private sector. Completely revised and up-dated this new edition explains how modern financial management techniques are applied to the public sector. The authors adopt a practical approach, using real world examples and useful case studies. Their clear and lucid style makes this book an invaluable aid to learning.

Providing far-reaching coverage of the sights, hotels and restaurants in New York City, this guide also features: background history; colour maps of the neighbourhoods and transportation system; and information on the museums, architecture and nightlife.

"Civilization II: Test of Time" is the ultimate strategy game! This latest addition to the Civilization II family of games features three entirely new games -- Extended Civilization II, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Nine all-new worlds have been added to the Civilization experience. The worlds are linked and multi-layered to provide awesome challenges, strategies, and dangers. "Civilization II: Test of Time" -- Prima''s Official Strategy Guide will help you interact with elves and astronauts, goblins and Centaurans, magic and science. Conquer any world you choose.

Combining the classic style of the original X-COM with a Wing Commander-style space simulation, Interceptor takes the series to the next level--fighting the Sectoids in outer space. Complete mission briefings and maps are featured in this guide, which was written by the lead designer of the game.

"In this first major study of the artist, David Ellis has examined the artist''s sources and influences - some obvious, some hidden and not easily specified - over a career of almost fifty years. He makes a point of continually placing the artist in context of his time, showing how he responds to and diverges from the influences around him. In doing so he presents a lively individual analysis of aspects of Australian art from the 1940s to the present as well as relating these to the special case of Robert Grieve."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

If-and the thing is wildly possible-the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in p. 18) "Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes." In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History-I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened. The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to. They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal to the Bellman about it-he would only refer to his Naval Code, and read out in pathetic tones Admiralty Instructions which none of them had ever xbeen able to understand-so it generally ended in its being fastened on, anyhow, across the rudder. The helmsman1 used to stand by with tears in his eyes: he knew it was all wrong, but alas! Rule 42 of the Code, "No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm," had been completed by the Bellman himself with the words "and the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one." So remonstrance was impossible, and no steering could be done till the next varnishing day. During these bewildering intervals the ship usually sailed backwards. Contents: FIT I - The Landing, FIT II - The Bellman''s Speech, FIT III - The Baker''s Tale, FIT IV - The Hunting, FIT V - The Beaver''s Lesson, FIT VI - The Barrister''s Dream, FIT VII - The Banker''s Fate, FIT VIII - The Vanishing

David Ellis attempts to clarify what is at once the most intriguing and baffling aspect of Wordsworth''s great autobiographical poem.

Describes models to coordinate student characteristics with educational environment, and describes how teachers can be trained to provide such environment.