Quester's Endgame


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Quester


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A new interpretation of the Tarot, with a Native American theme, which includes 79 cards and detailed descriptions of each on easy-to-use spreads.




Psychic Abilities


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While most of us have extensive physical and mental training, our psychic abilities stall at the four-year-old mark. This guide teaches how psychic abilities are part of the human being's standard-issue kit. Exercises relax and awaken inner consciousness and draw on the life force within the body.




EBOOK Consumer Behaviour


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This is the seventh edition of the successful Australian adaptation of Consumer Behaviour by Quester et al (formerly Neal et al). Pascale Quester has taken the lead for this edition, along with Simone Pettigrew, and together these two greatly respected authors established a highly credible author team. They have produced a well-organised book that starts with the decision-making process before clearly articulating the various influences upon it.This edition covers contemporary topics such as social and mobile consumer behaviour, environmentally friendly products, ethics and the impact of the Internet on consumer protection and privacy. Each chapter is enhanced by a suite of fresh new vignettes, case studies and advertisements, both global and local. Currency and accuracy are once again a key strength of this text with all new case studies, adverts, data and research. The cases also reflect the increasingly global nature of consumer behaviour with contributions from academics across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East. This rich print and digital package guides students' exploration into the field of consumer behaviour through a student-friendly layout and design.




The Collected Works


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This edition includes: The Ego Machine Where the World is Quiet I, the Vampire The Salem Horror The Shadow on the Screen The Secret of Kralitz Chameleon Man




Transcendence


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In "Transcendence," thinkers from John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Kevin Hart, to Thomas Carlson, Slavoj Zizek, and Jean-Luc Marion have come together to create the definitive analysis of this key concept in modern theological and philosophical thought.










Robotic Sailing 2014


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An autonomous sailboat robot is a boat that only uses the wind on its sail as the propelling force, without remote control or human assistance to achieve its mission. Robotic sailing offers the potential of long range and long term autonomous wind propelled, solar or wave-powered carbon neutral devices. Robotic sailing devices could contribute to monitoring of environmental, ecological, meteorological, hydrographic and oceanographic data. These devices can also be used in traffic monitoring, border surveillance, security, assistance and rescue. The dependency on changing winds and sea conditions presents a considerable challenge for short and long term route and stability planning, collision avoidance and boat control. Building a robust and seaworthy sailing robot presents a truly complex and multi-disciplinary challenge for boat designers, naval architects, systems/electrical engineers and computer scientists. Over the last decade, several events such as Sailbot, World Robotic Sailing Championship and the International Robotic Sailing Conference (WRSC/IRSC) and Microtransat have sparked an explosion in the number of groups working on autonomous sailing robots. Many of the challenges in building truly autonomous sailing robots still remain unsolved. These proceedings present the work of researchers on current and future challenges in autonomous sailboat development, presented at the WRSC/IRSC 2014 in Galway, Ireland, 8th – 12th September 2014.




Masters of the Post


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The origins of the Post Office go back to the early years of the Tudor monarchy: Brian Tuke, a former King's Bailiff in Sandwich, was acknowledged as the first 'Master of the Posts' by Cardinal Wolsey in 1512, and went on to build up a network of 'postmasters' across England for Henry VIII. Over the following five hundred years the Royal Mail expanded to an unimaginable degree to become the largest employer in the country, and the face of the British state for most people in their everyday lives. But it also faced the demands of an increasingly commercial marketplace. With the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the possibility of privatising the Royal Mail has prompted passionate arguments - and has added immeasurably to the difficulties of running it. In charting the whole of this extraordinary story, Duncan Campbell-Smith recounts a series of remarkable tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He brings to life many of the dominant personalities in the Royal Mail's history - from Rowland Hill, who imposed a uniform penny post and set the great Victorian expansion on its way, to Tony Benn who championed the modernisation of the service in the 1960s and Tom Jackson who led the postal workers' biggest union through fifteen frequently stormy years up to 1982. This is the first complete history of the Royal Mail up to the present day, based on its comprehensive archives, and including the first detailed account of the past half-century of Britain's postal history, made possible by privileged access to confidential records. Today's debate over the future of the Royal Mail is shown to be just the ;atest chapter in a centuries-old conflict between its roles raising revenue and serving the public. Will its employees remain, like Brian Tuke's postmasters, servants of the Crown? This book could hardly appear at a more timely moment.