New Releases by Tim Jones

One man''s definition of his gender manifests itself against a backdrop of relationships, family, and society. Satirically challenges the illusions and fantasies of contemporary culture with smart, playful, and surprisingly intimate verse. A blunt and honest account about all the things men never discuss, including taboo subjects.

They Could No Longer Contain Themselves contains--but just barely--five chapbooks of flash fiction, including the winner of the third annual Rose Metal Press short short chapbook contest, and four of the finalists from the fourth. Dropped toddlers, attempted drownings, juvenile promiscuity, road trips, and inappropriate therapy sessions compose the multi-voiced family portrait in Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake by Elizabeth J. Colen. Yoga stalkers, guns and gold, babies with iron stomachs, drunkards with t-shirt cannons, and warlocks are the stuff of Do Not Touch Me Not Now Not Ever by John Jodzio. Dominatrixes and fetishists, face paint and goo, fierce parental love and perverse longings cohabitate in Evan''s House and the Other Boys Who Live There by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Leukemia, meteorites, Wal-Mart, bocce ball, Charlie Brown''s clinical depression, the language of talking crows and of Che Guevara''s omelets fill the eggs in How Some People Like Their Eggs by Sean Lovelace. And smallstories about pretty girls who sit quietly and behave themselves (or not) populate the pages of Paper and Tassels by Mary Miller. The uncontainability of each of these remarkable collections suggests the exuberance of the flash fiction form itself, including the way in which, despite its small size, it pushes past its own borders and into the territory of something larger and impossible to confine.

This new edition of Mathewson''s work is intended to be useful to those wishing to recreate the training regime of one particular fencing master from the reign of George III. This particular manual is of relevance and use because it seems to have been written with the intention of offering instruction at varying levels starting with the complete beginner and is therefore, unlike many earlier manuals and indeed some contemporary ones, suitable for those modern fencing masters who have recruits to teach. One envisages it as being of value to three categories of people, as well as hopefully being of interest to those with a more general interest in the history of fencing. Firstly to those within the Western Martial Arts community who may wish to study a different master''s works from the earlier ones that seem to be the most commonly followed. Secondly I hope it will be of value to those re-enactors who portray the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century enabling them to produce a more authentic representation of sword work of that period and for displays away from the battlefield I particularly draw their attention to the drill en masse as presented in appendix 1 which would make an interesting display in those circumstances where fighting may not be appropriate. Finally, this work may be of some value to those staging theatrical events in that it gives these a grounding of correct sword moves and postures. Indeed to all the foregoing the particular value of this work is that it draws attention to the differences between sword drill as taught and practised in the Napoleonic period and the modern versions of it that are based, as is modern sport sabre, on the late Victorian sabre drill as exemplified by Alfred Hutton''s works.

Funny, moving, insightful, these stories are, above all, delightfully different. A well-known poet pursues his elusive muse; a Kiwi makes himself indispensable in OZ; a revolutionary fast-food franchise revs up Russia''s economy; a racing-car driver is airborne; a Frenchman called Foucault puts in the hard yards at an antipodean dairy farm - all while water laps at our feet, our homes, our lives . . . With Tim Jones'' stories you should expect the unexpected. This remarkably refreshing collection uses a lively mix of genres, taking readers on flights of fancy, transports of delight and even occasional trips of nostalgia. Some of the stories are unique ways of looking at the everyday and ordinary, others take us out of this world.

This book offers students and AI programmers a new perspective on the study of artificial intelligence concepts. The essential topics and theory of AI are presented, but it also includes practical information on data input & reduction as well as data output (i.e., algorithm usage). Because traditional AI concepts such as pattern recognition, numerical optimization and data mining are now simply types of algorithms, a different approach is needed. This “sensor / algorithm / effecter” approach grounds the algorithms with an environment, helps students and AI practitioners to better understand them, and subsequently, how to apply them. The book has numerous up to date applications in game programming, intelligent agents, neural networks, artificial immune systems, and more. A CD-ROM with simulations, code, and figures accompanies the book.

One of Flash’s most common uses is still animation for cartoons, games, advertising etc, and this book takes a fresh look at the topic, breaking it down pre-production, production, and post production, and looking at each section in detail. It moves on to cover topics such as storyboarding, character libraries and camera mechanics like no book on Flash has done before. It’s been written by members of the Emmy award winning ANIMAX team, who have created work for clients such as Disney, AOL, Fox, WWE, ESPN, and Sesame workshop.

Innovation leaders are the companies that CEOs want to head up and other organisations try to emulate. Based on an analysis of the performance of the top 1,000 companies across 20 sectors, this work profiles the organisations that are making the most impact.

"A Dreamers Diary, Dethroning the Underachiever" is a compilation of poems that are designed to insight the mind, encourage the heart, inspire the will, and raise the spirit. These four pillars are the foundation of what is known as motivational poetry. This special kind of poetry invites readers to participate in the process of healing and growing by learning how to shape what they think and feel rather than just express it. A reader can go from searching for significance to reaching for greatness by discovering his ability to overcome his obstacles, endure his struggles, and outlast his troubles. This book addresses low self esteem, inaccurate identity, and misguided direction, as well as depression, oppression, and suppression and does so with an emphasis on the need to dream. A Dreamers Diary is an excellent resource material for teachers, counselors, coaches, facilitators, students, or anyone seeking to elevate their thinking to match their true ability and is an excellent read for lovers of poetry or those who simply need encouragement.

THE ETERNAL WARRIOR by Tim Jones...In the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lin Carter, and Michael Moorcock comes the latest and greatest Adventure Hero...They are chosen amongst men. Each time they are cast afresh into the endless void of life, the memories of why and how fade as rapidly as the new experiences unfold, building up a picture of their many existences, a canvas washed clean with each new life and painted afresh each time. One such is Richard Anthony...THE ETERNAL WARRIOR by Tim Jones, the acclaimed author of The Legend Of Kesrik, and many more exciting novels ...Cover Art by William and Chris Carney.

ALL BLACKS'' KITCHEN GARDENS is Tim Jones'' second collection of poetry from HeadworX, following BOAT PEOPLE in 2002. It includes his poem "The Translator", which was selected for inclusion in Best New Zealand Poems 2004, and poems which have been published in the Listener, North & South, New Zealand Books, JAAM, and a number of other venues, including US and Australian magazines. The poems in the book range all the way from Southland to Iraq, from a backyard telescope to Mars, from the Rapture to rugby league. Along the way, there''s love, sex, children, and Motorhead. These poems are full of surprises.

The covert, clandestine operations of the Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), from the jungles of Malaya, Borneo and Brunei to the deserts and mountains of the Middle East have always been the focus of intense fascination, stoked by the regiment''s ''closed'' organization and secretive activities. Yet no period of activity has remained more secret than the vital years in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. Official histories have it that the SAS was disbanded in October 1945 and it took the Malaya emergency to resurrect it. However, Tim Jones''s fascinating history pieces together the evidence to show that while the Malaya emergency undoubtedly re-established the SAS as a unique source of counter-guerilla expertise, the regiment never disbanded, and was covertly involved in the Greek Civil War 1945-49 on the anti-communist side. Here the SAS fought its most important and difficult battle - the battle for survival - when salvation depended on a few dedicated visionaries and persistent champions. The author draws upon a mass of unpublished evidence and also reveals hitherto unknown plans for SAS forces in Libya and Iraq, as well as covert activities in Palestine, Korea and Malaya. Revealing important military secrets and shedding new light on post-war history, this book will be essential reading for enthusiasts of twentieth-century and military history.

The wide range of applications available in GNU/Linux includes not only pure applications, but also tools and utilities for the GNU/Linux environment. GNU/Linux Application Programming, Second Edition takes a holistic approach to teaching developers the ins-and-outs of GNU/Linux user-space programming using APIs, tools, communication, and scripting. The book is split into 5 parts, covering introduction/architecture, major tools (such as GCC, make, etc.), application development topics (such as important libraries and interfaces such as POSIX), shells and scripting, and testing, performance, and debugging. The book introduces programmers to the environment from the lowest layers (kernel, device drivers, modules) to the user layer (applications, libraries, tools), using an evolutionary approach that builds on knowledge to cover the more complex aspects of the operating system.

This completely updated edition provides programmers with the concepts and examples to master artificial intelligence. Topics covered include neural networks, natural language processing, intelligent agents, genetic algorithms, rules-based systems, learning algorithms, migratory software, and more. The CD-ROM includes complete, fully commented source code.

Ever woken up in the morning and wished you didn''t have to go to work, but your head is just empty of good excuses that your boss will actually believe? Well fear not, as The Little Book of Throwing a Sickie is here to help. From the sincere to the sobbing, the outlandish to the extreme, this tomb of wisdom on the art of deceiving the boss will help you find an excuse for getting the day off. So if you''ve had a heavy night and fancy a lie-in, want to put off that deadline or skip that meeting, this book will become an indispensable tool.

Fast track route to successfully taking new ideas to market Covers the key areas of innovation, from generating new concepts and selecting the best opportunities to managing a new product launch and ensuring effective delivery Examples and lessons from some of the world''s most successful businesses, including ABB, eBay, 3M and Zara, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Edward de Bono, John Kao, Robert Cooper, Gary Hamel and Clayton Christiansen Includes a comprehensive resources guide

Focuses on the Ministry of Supply Factory, Rhydymwyn, near Mold, North Wales (aka Valley Works) and its important contribution to WWII and the part it might have played had events dictated.

New Product Development presents a unique cross-discipline approach to new product development and goes further than most ''product design'' books by drawing together the various strands that make up ''total design'' now the accepted way to develop new products. The successful development of new products has become a complex process involving contributions from a range of different disciplines. Rarely is one individual responsible for the inception, creation and realisation of a new product, for today the inherent complexity of products, markets and the processes through which they are developed dictates that a number of functions, each with their own roles, work together to create the product. This book presents a cross-discipline discussion of new product development, its organisation, its management, the key stages and key functions involved. Through the use of six major case studies and numerous mini-cases, the author demonstrates how a number of manufacturing companies have successfully illustrated separate elements into the new product development process. Extensive use of photographs Includes case studies of Rover, Flymo, Logitech and Polaroid Provides a balanced overview of an often misunderstood process