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This excellent collection of short stories by Matthew Ward is humorous, poignant, and contains much local color, of the Australian kind. Readers will be happy to read these unusual and witty stories, with their unique characters, placed in strange situations that seem altogether real, as written by the expert hand of Mr. Ward. Brian Childs writes, "Matthew Ward has a distinct gift for crafting original stories, that are absurdly funny and entirely plausible, where the reader never knows what might happen next."

For ten years, planets around stars similar to the Sun have been discovered, confirmed, and their properties studied. Planets have been found in a variety of environments previously thought impossible. The results have revolutionized the way in which scientists understand planet and star formation and evolution, and provide context for the roles of the Earth and our own solar system. Over half of star systems contain more than one stellar component. Despite this, binary stars have often been avoided by programs searching for planets. Discovery of giant planets in compact binary systems would indirectly probe the timescales of planet formation, an important quantity in determining by which processes planets form. A new observing method has been developed to perform very high precision differntial astrometry on bright binary stars with separations in the range of 0.1 - 1.0 arcseconds. Typical measurement precisions over an hour of integration are on the order of 10 micro-arcseconds (as), enabling one to look for perturbations to the Keplerian orbit that would indicate the presence of additional components to the system. This method is used as the basis for a new program to find extrasolar planets. The Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems (PHASES) is a search for giant planets orbiting either star in 50 binary systems. The goal of this search is to detect or rule out planets in the systems observed and thus place limits on any enhancements of planet formation in binaries. It is also used to measure fundamental properties of the stars comprising the binary, such as masses and distances, useful for constraining stellar models at the 10-3 level.

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Something is watching all of Talamir... And it's not a person. Would you feel trapped if you lived in a thirty-mile-wide, inescapable crater? What if a creature flowed underground, expanding, and continually draining the life from you? The people of Talamir have lived this way for two thousand years, and no one knows it. But Drystn has the Talent. He can perform magic by moving spior between focal points. The government drafts him into a secret group for this impossible fight. The magic system that created the world may end up destroying it. If you love other world fantasy and thrilling adventures, you'll love Talamir. Pick up this new release from Matthew Ward with one click now.

"Rico, the second volume of poetry from Christopher Ward, was composed in May 2010 during a two week visit to the enchanted isle of Puerto Rico. From casual observations, including the hazards of walking San Juan's bustling streets and the island's heat and humidity, to the unusual: carrying on drunken conversations with lizards and dead birds, the works of Rico offer an entertaining look into the mind and surroundings of author Christopher Ward"--Page 4 of cover.

In Australia there are a number of iconic buildings and structures, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and a number of churches and town halls. Australian sheds are equally iconic and represent a way of life unique to this country. Our sheds have many forms ranging from hay sheds, farm sheds, chook sheds, backyard sheds. Then there are woolsheds, (also known as shearing sheds) where sheep are fleeced. And, of course, there is that big shed in Canberra, Parliament House, from where the population is fleeced.

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You know us. We are your cousin Alice, who tells the story of Nanna's funeral; of how all the cars followed Uncle George in the wrong direction, while a priest stood by the grave, waiting to conduct the burial. We are your dad, who you visit on warm summer nights, and he talks about the old days; when he met mum; when he worked in the cane fields. We are the migrant family next door, who laugh till they cry, telling of how, when they arrived in the fifties, they went to the milk bar for a gelati. The owner just kept saying "Gilleti" and offering them razor blades. We are the Vietnamese mother who tells you one day how she came to Australia. She quietly talks of three weeks at sea in a small boat, crammed in with twenty others, knees to chest, cold, wet and hungry. We are anyone who has lived in Australia. Often, our stories will be your stories; but some will be strange, different; some will be funny and others will bring tears. We are the story tellers who started with memories that turned into stories. We wrote them down, and learned the frustration when the words wouldn't come; and experienced that magical moment when the words took over, and the story wrote itself. These are our stories; our country's living history. John McBride (2010)

500 espèces d'arbres du monde entier sont présentées dans ce guide d'identification, à la fois beau et pratique. Plus de 1 500 magnifiques photographies et illustrations, toutes commentées, permettent une identification rapide et sûre. Le texte, clair et précis, présente pour chaque arbre (feuillu ou conifère) une description détaillée de ses feuilles, de son écorce, de ses fleurs et de ses fruits.