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'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse... And then the clock strikes thirteen and you wake to hear a thud downstairs. Investigating, you discover that your home has been invaded by two red-cloaked, and bearded, strangers. Before you know what is happening, Krampus the Christmas Devil has abducted Santa Claus, and it's up to you to save Saint Nick before Christmas Day dawns and the cruel, birch-wielding, goat-leggéd one usurps the generous gift-giver's position, taking his place forever. He knows if you've been good or bad, so be good for goodness sake... Throughout the course of the adventure, YOU decide which path to take, which risks to brave, and even which of the strange creatures you will meet along the way to engage in battle. Success is by no means certain and you may well fail to complete the adventure at your first attempt. However, with experience, skill, and maybe even a little luck, each new attempt should bring you closer to your ultimate goal. But whether you succeed in your quest will be down to the choices YOU make.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, May 5 - July 15, 2012

A tinge of sadness in this June 2017 edition of Meanjin- it includes the last Commonplace column filed by John Clarke before his death in April. Published with the kind permission of his family it is a beautifully turned and now poignant piece. Clarke's longtime home, the ABC, is the subject of the major essay in this Meanjin edition. Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at the broadcaster's past and present a and a future very much in contest. Katharine Murphy 'who'd be a politician'; Terry Barnes argues for the rise of the 'sensible centre'; and Shannon Burns writes in defence of the white working class. There's new fiction from A.S. Patric and Stephanie Bishop and as always a fine selection of new Australian poetry, including work from Judith Beveridge, Anthony Lawrence, Ben Walter and Owen Bullock.

Are you tired of being called shy, humble or an introvert? Do people judge you before you even open your mouth? Do you want to take control of your emotional destiny, and become charismatic? Are you struggling with stress, social anxiety, and talking to strangers? Do you feel a step behind when it comes to social skills? Fellow introverts, "shy" people and the unpopular - you need to read I'm Not Quiet- as soon as possible! In this book, you'll learn how to smash the chains that have limited your social connections for far too long. You cannot underestimate the power of mastering your introversion. Learn how to blast through every roadblock keeping you from achieving your goals. From "not popular" to "socially awkward" to "public anxiety" to "I just can't seem to talk to people," I'm Not Shy takes laser aim at all the excuses and breaks the process of overcoming social anxiety into small, simple steps that anyone can take to become wealthier, better connected, more talented, and happier. It doesn't matter if you're living in your mom's basement, or about to head out to university, or you aren't even sure where to start; get ready to smash your emotional chains and gain the confidence to lean into your natural personality type. Packed with advice you can put to use right away; you'll learn how to develop conversational skills, talk to strangers, and feel comfortable in new social situations. What pragmatic and actionable skills will you learn? How to leverage your introversion The simple technique for getting strangers to talk to you The secret to eliminating stress every time you talk to a stranger The foolproof method for creating bulletproof self-esteem The most common mistakes even smart introverts make and how to avoid them. The singular best way to create the unstoppable habit of success How to meet and connect with strangers, without feeling awkward, even if they are unbelievably attractive Also the following insights: The 4 critical mistakes you must avoid to prevent people from pre-judging you Six different ways you can use the power of introversion to accelerate your social skills A step-by-step guide for finding your unique personality type and using it to build an amazing life How to reach your potential so that you get that raise PLUS, examples to jumpstart the process Here's what this book ISN'T this isn't about selling you some other course, multilevel marketing or talking to the checkout lady at the grocery store and calling that a win. This is about building a consistent, unique and authentic LIFE that gets you excited to get out of bed every single morning.

This study, conducted in an international college in Thailand, aimed to understand the transfer of learning from an undergraduate academic literacy programme to the disciplines. In so doing, it adopted a cultural matrix to investigate the interrelationship among students' perceptions of transfer of learning, their personal beliefs about knowledge, knowing and learning, and their secondary school backgrounds. A three-part questionnaire, supplemented by purposive semi-structured interviews, was used to collect data from all consenting students from the final course in a four-trimester programme. The first part of the questionnaire employed the Epistemic Beliefs Inventory (EBI) in gauging students' beliefs about knowing and learning, the second part comprised the Measure of Academic Literacy, which measure students' perceptions of transfer of learning from the literacy programme to the disciplines, and the questionnaire surveyed students' demographic details, with regard to their secondary school context. Data were then analysed to establish the interrelationship between these data sets. Open-ended questions to the MALT section of the questionnaire were analysed, and, in order to illustrate and further understand the data analysis from the questionnaire, trained interviewers conducted semi-structured interviews. Initial, factorial analysis of the EBI indicated a factor structure that differed from that of the US origins of the instrument, suggesting a relationship between culture and beliefs. While analysis indicated a significant low-moderate relationship between students' beliefs about knowledge and learning and the transfer of learning, no such association was detected between the beliefs and students' secondary school background. The students' multicultural backgrounds, coupled with ambivalent beliefs, may provide an explanation for this. The findings, thus, give partial support for the application of the cultural matrix to transfer of learning.The study makes an original contribution by applying the cultural matrix to learning in a previously unexplored way. In so doing, it aims to generate a general theory of transfer of learning while fostering a culturally pluralistic understanding of learners' beliefs about knowledge and learning and the implications for such transfer. It also advocates an approach that supplements existing classroom-specific pedagogical methods with school-wide cultural management initiatives in order to better effect transfer of learning.

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In a strange new wilderness, what does it take to survive and thrive? This inside guide to the world of Minecraft gives readers tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructions to help them create their own forest fortresses. Fun and accessible, this book is broken down into three projects at different difficulty levels: beginner, intermediate, and master. Readers will gain confidence as they construct a comfy camp, a magnificent mushroom mansion, and a towering treetop lodge. Each project provides a time-to-completion estimate, visuals of each step, and a handy materials list so readers can stock up on all the supplies they'll need. Creative tips encourage readers to unleash their imaginations to make their Minecraft masterpieces unique.

In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to Magna Britannia, a steam driven world full of fantastical creations and shady villains. Here dashing dandies and mustachioed villains battle for supremacy while below the city strange things stir in the flooded tunnels of the old London Underground. The Whitby Mermaid has been stolen from Cruickshank’s Cabinet of Curiosities and consulting detective Gabriel Wraith is on the case. And he’s not the only one, for wherever there is a mystery to be solved, Ulysses Quicksilver is never far away. What does the theft of the mermaid have to do with the mysterious House of Monkeys? And what of the enigmatic criminal known as the Magpie? Ulysses embarks upon an adventure that takes him to Whitby where the mermaid was supposedly caught. But there are worse things awaiting him there than mermaids. The moors of Ghestdale are haunted by the savage Barghest beast, while in the abandoned mines beneath the Umbridge estate, abominations lurk in the darkness. And Ulysses Quicksilver is about to discover that the worst horrors are those spawned by Man’s own selfish nature.

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Rising from the Abyss, it hungers! Around the world in eighty days in style! This proud claim, made by the Carcharodon Shipping Company, is about to be put to the test as its newest and most magnificent submersible cruise-liner, the Neptune, sets sail on its maiden voyage. Among those onboard is Ulysses Quicksilver, dandy adventurer and hero of Magna Britannia, enjoying a well-deserved sojourn after the traumatic events of Queen Victoria's 160th jubilee celebrations. But only days out from the undersea city of Pacifica, disaster strikes. A brutal murder is committed and then an act of sabotage sends the Neptune plunging into the abyssal depths. Trapped at the bottom of the sea, for the survivors, their problems are only just beginning. Far below a decades' old secret awaits them. The Leviathan has awoken. Rising from the abyss it hungers and when it hunts none shall escape its primeval fury!

The 3 Bunnies Holiday book is a short volume of stories of the Wise Bunny, The Young Bunny, and The Uncoordinated Bunny. These three characters find adventure and mischief most everywhere they go. These timeless stories have brought joy to our family as we developed them over the years. Here is our gift to you. We would like to share them with you and your family.

There are vast literatures in multiple subfields of political science pertaining to the ways in which democratic citizens think about politics. There are still more literatures pertaining to the ways in which these thoughts about politics do or do not translate into political actions. This dissertation makes three novel contributions spanning these themes. The first is purely theoretical, applying the principles of Robert Brandom's inferentialist philosophy of semantics to the concept of ideological belief systems to argue for changes to the way we think about and measure the organization of political beliefs in the mass public. Specifically, it argues that scholars of ideology should take seriously the relationships democratic citizens perceive between attitudes without strong assumptions regarding how they ought to go together based on major party conflict. The second examines the articulation of these ideological belief systems among political pundits, who through the combination of lacking of formal political power but being professionally involved in politics are arguably the most ideological class of democratic citizen. After sampling political pundits on Twitter and scaling them in two-dimensional preference space, I examine patterns in belief system polarization as the ability to correctly recover a pundit's scaled preferences based on the text contained in their tweets. Finally, the third chapter examines floating policy voters, who change their presidential voting behavior from one election to the next on the basis of policy issues they consider important to their vote, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. While the overall number voters who could conceivably cast floating policy votes was relatively small, these voters were significantly more likely than others to either vote for a different major party candidate than they did in 2012 or not vote at all.

Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and known today only from a single page---over the next century were perennial best sellers for many printers, and they provide the modern observer with a unique way to study the history and inner workings of the print medium. The very popularity of these works, often published as affordable booklets, raised fears of social unrest. Printers therefore had to meet customer demand while at the same time channeling readers' reactions along approved paths. Authors were packaged---and packaged themselves---in word and image to respond to the tension, while leading figures of early modern culture such as Paracelsus, Martin Luther, and Sebastian Brant used printed prophecies for their own purposes in a rapidly changing society. Based on a wide reading of many sources, Printing and Prophecy contributes to the study of early modern literature, including how print changed the relationship among authors, readers, and texts. The prophetic and astrological texts the book examines document changes in early modern society that are particularly relevant to German studies and are key texts for understanding the development of science, religion, and popular culture in the early modern period. By combining the methods of cultural studies and book history, this volume brings a new perspective to the study of Gutenberg and later printers.

Ulysses Quicksilver: agent of the throne, dandy and hero. Heart-broken, battered, mutilated and shot, he's been driven backwards and forwards in time, and his latest adventure is taking him across Steampunk Paris ... Time's Arrow: Black Swan continues to offer readers a unique opportunity to decide the course of this latest Pax Britannia adventure will take in the next part!In the tradition of Charles Dickens himself, Abaddon Books will be publishing Time's Arrow in three ebook instalments. At the end of parts one and two readers will be able to vote on how the adventure progresses via the Abaddon Books website at abaddonbooks.com. The entire text will then be published in a paperback edition. This is book two, Time's Arrow: Black Swan, In which our hero -- wanted by the French Police for murder -- battles his way across Paris, from the Louvre to Notre Dame, in order to prove his innocence. But does Ulysses try to contact Department Q for help or does he go in search of the mysterious M. Lumière? And who else will come to his aid in his hour of need?

Interaktivní sci-fi román inspirovaný japonskou legendou o 47 róninech. Píše se rok 2121 a apokalypsa dosáhla svého vrcholu již před nějakou dobou. Mezi troskami starého světa bojují zbytky lidské rasy o přežití proti obřím, supervyvinutým kaidžú. Nejúčinnější zbraní lidstva proti těmto nestvůrám jsou kolosální mechové vytvoření v rámci programu Strážce. Jsi velitel Óiši, pilot mecha třídy Samuraj a velitel jednotky Fénix sídlící na základně Akó ve Filipínském moři. Příšerná zrada odsoudí tvé spolubojovníky k smrti a bude záležet jen na tobě, zda se ti podaří pronásledovat zrádce a vykonat pomstu. Jenže když si Zemi podmanili mohutní kaidžú, jak velkou naději na úspěch můžeš mít? Nakladatelská anotace.

Although nearly forgotten today, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was the most popular work of its kind in Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century. While the author Wilhelm Friess was a convenient fiction, his text had a long and remarkable history as it moved from the papal court in fourteenth-century Avignon, to Antwerp under Habsburg oppression, to Nuremberg as it was still reeling from Lutheran failures in the Schmalkaldic War, and then back to Antwerp at the outbreak of the Dutch revolt.Dutch scholars have recognized that Frans Fraet was executed for printing a prognostication by Willem de Vriese, but this prognostication was thought to be lost. A few scholars of sixteenth-century German apocalypticism have briefly noted the prophecies of Wilhelm Friess but have not studied them in depth. The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess is the first to connect de Vriese and Friess, as well as recognize the prophecy of Wilhelm Friess as an adaptation of a French version of theVademecum of Johannes de Rupescissa, making these pamphlets by far the most widespread source for Rupescissa s apocalyptic thought in Reformation Germany. The book explains the connection between the first and second prophecies of Wilhelm Friess and discovers the Calvinist context of the second prophecy and its connection to Johann Fischart, one of the most important German writers of the time.Jonathan Green provides a study of how textual history interacts with print history in early modern pamphlets and proposes a model of how early modern prophecies were created and transmitted. The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess makes important contributions to the study of early modern German and Dutch literature, apocalypticism and confessionalization during the Reformation, and the history of printing in the sixteenth century."