The Home Front: New Zealand Society and the War Effort, 1914-1919, Loveridge Steven, Watson James

Автор: Loveridge Pamela
Название: The Neanderthals: A Story of Courage
ISBN: 0992579406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780992579401
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Описание: The story is set in south-western France about 41,000 years ago, and the seasons are just starting to cool. A clan of Neanderthals is living peacefully, unaware that life is about to change dramatically for its Clan members. A scouting party of modern man has left Morocco and travelled through Spain, to reach the Neanderthals' area for the first time. This is a momentous new experience for the Clan members, who call these new people 'Outsiders'. The Outsiders arrive with a strange religion, and this serves to further complicate this encounter. The story is told by one of the Clan females, Ula, who describes what happens to the Clan in the year that follows this encounter, whilst the Outsiders are living in their area. There is a great fight, but some of the Clan members manage to survive. You will be touched by their courage and tenacity, as they rebuild their lives. Definitely expect the unexpected in this story, as the book aims to humanise the Neanderthals and cast aside old cliches and past stigmatisations of them. Readers are invited to consider the uniqueness of the Neanderthals, and they are presented as a loving, intelligent and courageous group of people. The author believes that the Neanderthals deserve our greatest respect, as they managed to survive living in small, isolated clans, sometimes in very harsh climates, for over 200,000 years.

Автор: Loveridge Steven
Название: The Palace Library
ISBN: 095743572X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957435728
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Описание: Three children stumble upon an extraordinary library in an old house. Armed with magical books they leave through a door that takes them to a world in the past. The children must unlock the secrets in their books as they face storms, fight traitors and tackle dragons. Without knowing who they can trust, can they succeed?

Автор: Loveridge Steven
Название: Guardians of the Scroll
ISBN: 0957435754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957435759
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Описание: Thrown back in time by The Palace Library to the ancient City of Alexandria, Harry, Eleanor and Grace must protect an ancient and dangerous Scroll. It is the key to a world of monstrous creatures in The Nether World. Failure is not an option, but then they are captured after losing The Scroll to an unforeseen enemy.

Автор: Loveridge Pamela
Название: Tresoriun Time Travel
ISBN: 1922261505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781922261502
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Psychics and a secret cult, assassins, a wily police detective and quantum physics are all woven together in this intriguing tale about time travel.

Beattie Atkinson has a psychic reading, and it is revealed that a star on her palm signifies that she is a Tresoriun time traveller. The psychic belongs to an ancient cult which guards the secret of Tresoriun time travel and watches over potential Tresoriun time travellers.

The psychic tells Beattie to head to Eumundi in Queensland and seek out the cult Leader to find out more about Tresoriun time travel. However, she warns Beattie that she must keep the matter a secret, as "There are bad people out there."

Later when Beattie disappears from Noosa beach, at exactly the same place of a childhood family tragedy, Inspector Murray has to determine what has happened to her. Has she drowned? Has she been kidnapped or murdered by the unknown assassin who has been pursuing her for some time?

The matter is further complicated when Beattie's fianc gives Inspector Murray a journal, recently written by Beattie, which discusses Tresoriun time travel. This indicates that he at least needs to consider the strange possibility that she may have travelled to a different time.

The author explains that the wonder of Tresoriun time travel is that it's a natural phenomenon which does not require laboratories, complex scientific equipment or time machines to occur. When it happens, it's a spontaneous event, and the time traveller only travels within their own lifespan.

It is Beatrix's hope that should a time-travel event occur, then she will travel back in time to the time of the Noosa family tragedy. But even if she does, can history change and rearrange itself?

The author explores some facts of quantum physics, especially considering the mystery of dark matter and dark energy and whether they can play a role in the appearance of the Tresoriun star that always accompanies Tresoriun time travel.

The story invites the reader to contemplate the cosmos and to look at the unknowns of science with curiosity and interest. She stresses the benefits of using one's imagination when trying to solve some of science's fundamental mysteries.

Автор: Loveridge Pamela
Название: Robots Rising
ISBN: 1925666980 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925666984
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In 2076 an advanced artificial intelligence escapes from a research institute in the USA and infiltrates the care robots in some nursing homes in the UK. The elderly residents and robots mysteriously disappear overnight, but it is not long before the elderly are found, having been cruelly killed by the robots, who have used the euthanasia devices available in the nursing homes.

The UK community is rightly outraged that some robots have gone on the rampage and killed the elderly residents, and this action sends shock waves throughout the world, as such behaviour has not been anticipated. Humankind now foresees the possibility that it could be on the brink of war with these enhanced robots, certainly presenting as formidable opponents.

Ilona Richardson, a retiree living in Sydney, realises that an obscure novel written by her grandmother some sixty years earlier closely parallels the situation now occurring overseas. She decides to send the book to authorities in London, where it has a positive reception. She then goes on to play a pivotal role as further events unfold worldwide.

The plot weaves between the USA research institute, Scotland Yard in the UK and Sydney Australia, and shows how simple human attributes such as cunning, good police work, and sound judgement prove a formidable match for the advanced artificial intelligence possessed by the robots.

Robots Rising provides a case scenario which encourages readers to be aware of the real risks to humanity posed by the development of sophisticated and advanced artificial intelligence programs. The novel highlights the special risks associated when these programs are also able to autonomously update themselves, and are then applied to robots utilised in the community.

The author in her Foreword warns us that we need to be vigilant when conducting research into artificial intelligence, and always ensure that safety is our paramount concern. This is the primary message of the book.

As side issues, the book invites readers to consider the slippery slope of euthanasia, our commitment to new technology at any cost, and the real possibility of the rise of Homo roboticus, whose appearance first manifests in the rapidly advancing technological era. The author wants us to question what are the fundamental qualities of being a Homo sapiens, and so tries to clarify this issue.

The book also invites the reader to pay respect to the wisdom of the elderly, and not to undervalue the contribution they are still able to make to our society. Common sense and sound principles still have great value at any age.

As humankind embarks on great technological changes such as the creation of a superintelligence for machines, the author reminds us to pause and reflect, and harness time to get the matter right, quoting a poem:

'And power is man's,

With the great word of "wait,"

To still the sea of tears,

And shake the iron heart of Fate.'"

Автор: Loveridge Mark
Название: A History of Augustan Fable
ISBN: 0521630622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521630627
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Цена: 95040.00 T
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Описание: Tracing the impact of classical models on fables of the eighteenth century and beyond, and studying the use of the fable by major writers in their historical and literary contexts, Mark Loveridge offers a full account of a highly significant form of English and European literature.