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Iraqi Icicle 2nd edition

Author : Bernie Dowling

Publisher : Bent Banana Books

Page : 373 pages

File Size : 48,44 MB

Release : 2014-10-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0987278452

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A dead actress, a dead gambler, a dead professor, a dead fisherman … With murder following his every step, determined under-achiever Steele Hill is tangled in layers of intrigue and deviousness. Pulled from his cosy world of the racetrack, the rock-music pub and the gambling den, everybody the wise-cracking Hill meets is in danger, as he is sucked into the undertow of forces beyond his understanding. One ally is a reclusive teenage maths whiz, channeling Hendrix, and tapping into military software and magic mushrooms. The fix is in and the bodies are piling up. Leaping off the shoulders of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Iraqi Icicle is a wild and hilarious ride through the dark and murky worlds of gambling, drugs, politics and rock’n’roll.



Naughty Nineties

Author : Bernie Dowling

Publisher : Bent Banana Books

Page : 97 pages

File Size : 26,2 MB

Release : 2014-12-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 098056848X

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Steele Hill proves a boy from Oz can survive the 1990s. Maybe. Rock music tragic Hill pushes through humor, mystery, suspense, lust and urban rhythms in a decade autopsied by Quentin Tarantino and the comedy of Eric Bana. Murder, crime, laughs and survival engulf a clutch of colorful characters in seven stories of a little man in a Big City. “Readers will appreciate the author's ability to render colorful characters and understated witty prose.” PW review of Iraqi Icicle.



7 Shouts

Author : Bernie Dowling

Publisher : Bent Banana Books

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 18,56 MB

Release : 2014-12-17

Category : Humor

ISBN : 0992593425

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How did U.S. President Barack Obama get so familiar with Australian slang and culture? Perhaps he read Bernie Dowling’s 7 Shouts. President Obama is in the book along with sports Australians really .love, the Melbourne Cup horse race, of course, but also fish throwing and cockroach races. 7 Shouts is a comic cosmic journey to the humorous heart of the Australian soul. There’s science in the Russell Crowe First Law and art as Dowling tries to convince Delta Goodrem to go on a blind date with a disadvantaged teenager. There’s farm animals such as french poodles Fi Fi and Fa Fa which enter the sheep-dog trials. 7 Shouts is based on seven years of Dowling’s award winning newspaper column, updated to 2014. 7 Shouts is a classic contemporary doco of a world gone mad, but still a heap of fun.



Serendipity

Author : Bernie Dowling

Publisher : Bent Banana Books

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 28,67 MB

Release : 2014-10-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0987278487

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Serendipity is a collection of contemporary urban short stories and poetry from the Writers Anthology Group of authors from Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each short story is illustrated by photographers and other visual artists. The stories range in style from humor to suspense drama, mystery, thrillers and mementos. A buyer of the anthology can apply for free advice on creating your own anthology through a writers'collective. Visit www.bentbanabooks.com



Sweet and Sour

Author : Bernie Dowling

Publisher : Bernie Dowling

Page : 227 pages

File Size : 46,85 MB

Release :

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN :

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Sweet and Sour is the third anthology from the writers of Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each story is illustrated by an artist of the region. The stories cover styles from humor, mystery and thrillers as their authors cleverly unveil layers of the modern world.



O Lorde

Author : Bernie Dowling

Publisher : Bent Banana Books

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 46,67 MB

Release : 2014-12-18

Category : Music

ISBN : 0992593433

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New Zealand teenager Ella Yelich-O’Connor went from obscurity to fame and fortune as Lorde in less than 18 months. Ella was not a conventional child. “I went to a lot of David Lynch films, I read a lot of strange books, I loved to go to the museum all day. I was that kid.” Ella liked reading short stories and one of her favorite authors was American Kurt Vonnegut. Journalist Bernie Dowling has compiled quotes from Lorde and Vonnegut to tell her story in their own words Also included is Dowling’s entertaining account of the rise of Lorde. ‘I was in a cab home in NYC and Royals came on and I laughed and the driver asked why and I told him it was my song and he said ‘Mine, too.’



Alpha and Omega

Author : Bernie Dowling

Publisher : Bent Banana Books

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 14,16 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 098727841X

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A good short toyvhes the reader's soul abd lingers in memory. Alpha abd Omega is a collection of contemporary hort stories from the Writers Anthology Group of authors from the Moreton Bay Region of Australia. Each short story is illustrated by photographers and other visual artists. The stories range in style from humor to suspense, drama, mystery, thrillers and mementos. This year's volume follows the popular anthology Serendipity A buyer of the anthology can apply for free advice on creating your own anthology through a writers' collective. Visit www.bentbanabooks.com



Vision

Author : Bernie Dowling

Publisher : Bent Banana Books

Page : 78 pages

File Size : 35,38 MB

Release : 2013-12-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0980568471

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Psychic detective Trudy Harper flees Australia to England after the murder of her police partner. She has surrendered her badge but she cannot set aside her troublesome psychic gifts. In more psychic mysteries, Trudy finds anguish, horror and suspense amid scenes of ordinary domesticity. Trudy is called upon to use her police procedural skills administer justice across two worlds and the "in-between". Her own romantic happiness, her loved ones and her physical safety are in jeopardy as the psychic detective finds you can fly but you cannot flee your inner world or the supernatural one.



Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health

Author : Geneviève M. Carr

Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 12,1 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9789295039513

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Book Description

This document is intended to provide an overview of the major components of surface and ground water quality and how these relate to ecosystem and human health. Local, regional and global assessments of water quality monitoring data are used to illustrate key features of aquatic environments, and to demonstrate how human activities on the landscape can influence water quality in both positive and negative ways. Clear and concise background knowledge on water quality can serve to support other water assessments.



The Sonification Handbook

Author : Thomas Hermann

Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,27 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Auditory perception

ISBN : 9783832528195

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This book is a comprehensive introductory presentation of the key research areas in the interdisciplinary fields of sonification and auditory display. Chapters are written by leading experts, providing a wide-ranging coverage of the central issues, and can be read from start to finish, or dipped into as required. Sonification conveys information by using non-speech sounds. To listen to data as sound and noise can be a surprising new experience with diverse applications ranging from novel interfaces for visually impaired people to data analysis problems in many scientific fields. This book gives a solid introduction to the field of auditory display, the techniques for sonification, suitable technologies for developing sonification algorithms, and the most promising application areas. The book is accompanied by an online repository of sound examples.