New Releases by Peter Moore

Peter Moore left the city behind in 1952 to become part of a dying breed—a long distance drover. In My Droving Days we follow his progress through the 1950s as he rubs shoulders with the larger-than-life characters—and their dogs and horses—who trekked along the outback stock routes of western Queensland and New South Wales. Meet the world''s worst cattle dog and the station hand, Charlie, who blows a laden outside toilet (and its contents) sky high; thrill to the high drama of a night rush (stampede); catch a poddy dodger in the act and live to tell the ta≤ literally get caught by a beast''s horns; take on a brown snake while collecting wild duck eggs; or shoot a few kangaroos to feed the 27 dogs in the team. My Droving Days captures the real taste of the outback and the vanishing world of the overlanders, bulldust and all.

In the peaceful Worcestershire village of Oddingley farmers are returning from Midsummer Day festivities, shadows are lengthening on the June grass, and the Reverend George Parker is making his daily excursion to fetch his cows from pasture. It was a day like any other, but the events of this day would resonate for years to come, and the name of the village would be blackened for centuries. The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in 1806, shot and beaten to death, his body left smouldering in his own glebe field, rocked the country''s media from Edinburgh to London in its time and the legend is still discussed in local pubs to this day. The investigation lasted twenty-four years over numerous trials and inquests, responsibility passing from one fervent judge or coroner to the next, each more determined to solve this gruesome crime. Unravelling the story of the murder, Peter Moore takes us back to the day when George Parker first arrived in Oddingley, to the feuding over church tithes, the machinations of powerful local farmers, the hidden evidence and fevered prison confessions, so we can almost smell the stench of fear and threat in the air. With a cast of characters straight out of the pages of Dickens or Hardy, and an atmosphere ripe with suspicion as Britain lives through the Napoleonic Wars, Damn His Blood is a gripping true story of moral corruption, greed and ruthlessness brought vividly to life.

A flickbook of two of the most famous dances on the planet - Moonwalk and Thriller.

It is a hoarse whisper over a crackling cell phone - "Angel" - and then the connection is lost. Angel is convinced that the voice belongs to his beautiful and enigmatic neighbor, Angela -- and that she is terrified for her life. He paces the floor, waiting for the phone to ring again, calls the police, searches her apartment, but there is no trace of her anywhere, not for days. So begins a haunted man''s quest to uncover what happened to the woman he has fallen in love with. Only now does he realize that he knows nearly nothing about her. Angel has his secrets, too. He is the son of one of Hollywood''s most successful movie producers, but he has turned away from that bright and power-ridden world. Instead, he leads a cloistered existence, nursing an unfinished screenplay as Ridley Scott''s Blade Runner loops ceaselessly in his darkened apartment. But now, for the first time in years, because of Angela''s sudden disappearance, Angel is propelled into action. Following the few clues he has gathered about her, he trails Angela through the hard glitter of Los Angeles days and nights. With every new piece of knowledge arrives another question and an even more chilling possibility: Did he merely imagine Angela? Is someone deliberately leading him? Is the phantom he is pursuing the very fear he has been running from? In the murky underworld beneath the bright surface of Los Angeles, everything he knew about her -- and himself -- begins to unravel. In this city of secrets that aren''t meant to be told and people who aren''t meant to be found, Angel may soon discover that the most dangerous lies of all are the ones you tell yourself.

Dali ! Son nom devrait s’écrire avec un point d’exclamation. Tout en lui était immense : son humour, sa comédie, ses excès, son talent, sa vie. C’est ainsi que nous le montre, dans ces souvenirs inédits, le capitaine Moore, qui a été son ami et son homme de confiance pendant plus de vingt-cinq ans. De Cadaqués à New York, de l’hôtel Meurice de Paris au Palace de Madrid, en compagnie de Luis Buñuel comme de Marie Laure de Noailles ou d’Amanda Lear – et toujours avec Gala, sa muse, sa protectrice et sa louve –, voici les secrets avoués et inavouables d’un des plus grands peintres du XXe siècle. Préface de Catherine Moore.

Racy, loud and an incorrigible show-off, he was the epitome of Italian machismo. He showed Peter, his less flamboyant companion, another side of Italy tourists rarely see. His name was Marcello and like Sophia from Vroom With a View he was a Vespa. Two years after riding from Milan to Rome in search of la dolce vita, Peter Moore''s life has changed dramatically. He has married Sally and she is pregnant with their first child. With fatherhood only five months away Peter reacted the way some men facing nappies and travel systems do, he panicked. But man, Peter sure found an understanding wife. Sally gave him the opportunity to go off, just this once more, to be irresponsible. For Peter this was a wild, final, two-stroke powered fling - with permission - through some of the most beautiful coastal scenery in the world on a Vespa with white go-fast stripes that brought a smile to peoples'' faces everywhere it went. From the wild, untouched corners of Sardinia and Sicily to the faded fifties glamour of the Amalfi coast, it is a journey that reveals Italy''s obsession with the sea - and getting a great tan. Like Vroom With a View this is another laugh-out-loud whilst grinding your teeth with jealousy travel memoir and they can sell its go-fast stripes off.

Travel writer Peter Moore recently invited the new love of his life, a.k.a. the girl next door, to join him on a romantic sojourn through Central America. The trip would take them into an area of the world emerging from decades of civil war, an area racked with poverty, disease and natural disasters. Over the next six months they battled hurricanes, mosquitoes, uncooperative border officials and over-sexed Mexican commuters, and along the way they learnt rather more about each other than they really wanted to. 2001.

The progress of the whole of humanity has often rested on a theory, a law or even a simple formula. From finding a basic understanding of our place in the Universe to harnessing the very forces of nature to our own ends, this book stands as a testament to the ingenuity of the human mind and in particular the achievements of our brightest and best. From the Classical thinkers to modern astronomical theories and from the ground-breaking advances in medicine to the cutting-edge concepts in computing and game theory, the Little Book of Big Ideas: Science discusses those scientists, breakthroughs and theories that have advanced knowledge, society and human life. Understand the early concepts of mathematics from Pythagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia and Euclid. Review the great leaps forward in understanding physics and chemistry from Newton, Faraday, Rutherford and Einstein. Trace the development of modern medicine and our knowledge of the human body with a review of Fleming, Sanger and McClintock. Consider how we came to understand our Universe with the insight and genius of Ptolemy, Galileo, Hubble and Hawking.

Named after a sign the author saw on a lavatory door in China, this alternative travel guide offers similar logic-defying advice to travellers, including impractical hints and the worst places to stay, in a cautionary spirit, but also in the belief that it often makes for the most fun travel experiences.

This hip, hilarious travelogue, which takes the author on the Sixties hippie trail — from the UK to Australia without flying — will strike a chord with all those travelers who have stood where Moore stood, and entertain and alarm lovers of off-the-beaten-track travel adventures with his characteristically quirky descriptions of places and people.

Everyone believes that sophomore honors student Ethan Lederer is a top-notch scholar and a great guy, but a new student helps Ethan to discover and disclose that he is just acting a role, even as she reveals her own mental instability.

Just when things start coming together for Kirk Tobak, it looks like it all might fall apart. He just starts to like his new class, his new girlfriend and his new job--then his mom up and leaves for California, leaving Kirk alone. Can he make it on his own now?

Question: What do you do when you''re dumped by the Girl Next Door? Answer: Throw yourself into another madcap adventure and travel from Cape Town to Cairo... A week after breaking up with the GND (his travelling companion through Central America) Peter Moore heads off to Africa to lose himself for a while. In the grand tradition of 19th-century scoundrelas, explorers and romantics, Africa strikes him as the ideal place to find solitude and anonymity in the face of a personal crisis. What follows is Peter''s journey from one end of the Dark Continent to the other. Travelling the fabled Cape Town to Cairo route by any means of transport he can blag (or if he must, pay) his way onto, it''s an epic trek that sees our intrepid Antipodean experience everything from the southernmost city in Africa to the Pyramids, vast game parks and thundering falls, cosmopolitan cities and tiny villages as he journeys through the very heart of Africa. And travelling on his own, it''s inevitable that Peter falls in with a motley cast of characters and has a myriad misadventures: including coming face to face with a wild Hyena with very bad breath, crossing the treacherous Sani Pass, the highest in Africa, narrowly escaping a riot by hiding in a coffin shop, saving oil-covered Penguins in South Africa, acting as an extra in a WW2 epic, not to mention dodging 20,000 single woman trying to catch the eye of the king of Swaziland during the annual Reed Dance. And then there was the time when he was kicked out of Robert Mugabe''s birthday bash at gunpoint...

This thesis is a case analysis of the nature of delays in emergency room admissions and the effects on ambulance dispatching and availability as it occurred in Southern California.

Raveling is a brilliant thriller about two brothers, their mother, and the sad fact of their little sister''s unsolved disappearance twenty years earlier. One of the brothers, Pilot, has come back home to take care of his aging mother, but his own mental state has not been stable since his sister vanished. He is determined at last to find out the truth -- but for every step he takes nearer the facts of that long-ago night, the less he trusts reality. And by the time he finds one incontrovertible piece of evidence, even Pilot cannot be sure what it really means.

Pilot''s parents and elder brother, Eric, all believe that his little sister Fiona was murdered many years ago. At the age of 29, Pilot is in therapy for schizophrenia and he continues to see Fiona. Through a maze of confusion, betrayal, madness and memories, Pilot struggles towards the truth.

"Opened to the public in 1910, McKim, Mead & White''s Pennsylvania Station gave the traveller, visitor, and commuter alike an experience of grandeur never before seen in the United States. With its dramatic vaulted glass ceiling over its expansive main concourse, Pennsylvania Station was a monument not only to train travel but an architectural icon of New York City and one of the grandest public buildings of the 20th century. In 1962 the decision was made to demolish the station as train travel gave way to the speed of the airplane. No one could have foreseen that the destruction of Pennsylvania Station would prove to be one of the key moments in the birth of the historic-preservation movement. Visiting the station between 1962 and 1966, Peter Moore documented the station''s demise in photographs that combine elegant images of architectural form and detail. There are haunting pictures of glass and masonry stripped away from steel girders as the building is progressively destroyed. The commuters and the public seem to be unaware of what is happening directly overhead in photographs that convey a poignancy for a building lost forever."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Humorous poetry from the television program hosted by a beloved Minnesota news anchor. In the 1950s, Dave Moore, a young actor born and raised in Minneapolis, accepted a newscaster position with the local CBS affiliate, WCCO-TV-a job Walter Cronkite turned down. For the next three decades, until his death in 1998, he delivered the evening news with integrity, conviction, humor, and flair, making him a fixture in Minnesota living rooms. At the end of his weekly news-in-review program, Moore on Sunday (or, as he liked to call it, “Moron Sunday”), Moore often signed off by reciting a poem. These poems, composed by Moore’s son Peter and collected here for the first time, offer a fresh and funny take on the common and not-so-common stuff of our everyday lives. Reminiscent of Ogden Nash and Tom Lehrer, with a dash of Dr. Seuss, Peter Moore’s verse captures the essence of his father’s wit, common sense, honesty, and warmth.

At the end of his weekly news-in-review program, Moore on Sunday beloved WCCO-TV newsanchor Dave Moore often signed off by reciting a poem. These poems, composed by Moore''s son Peter and collected here for the first time, offer a fresh and funny take on the common and not-so-common stuff of our everyday lives. Reminiscent of Ogden Nash and Tom Lehrer, with a dash of Dr. Seuss, Peter Moore''s verse captures the essence of his father''s wit, common sense, honesty, and warmth.

Is economic freedom a necessary condition for political freedom? What can the government do about unemployment? Why would governments limit international trade? Students use questions such as these to help them make essential connections between economics and civics/government.