Shaun: 510 books

But there had been a war. Everyone was certain of it, though it had been a long time since. This is Australia: an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback. A young writer arrives in New South Wales to research local settlements that are slowly vanishing into oblivion - but he didn't...

Automate your workflow with the power of Node.js! If your job is loaded with manual work, then why not write scripts that can deal with it for you? With this book, you will learn how to deal with many tasks such as zipping files, emailing colleagues, and deploying your work at the press of...

Until recently James Beatson was one of the millions of forgotten soldiers of the Great War. But after 90 years his diary has been rediscovered, perfectly preserved, and his story can now be told. It is a moving, intensely personal and beautifully written narrative by an extraordinary young man who...

Do we have free will? Answering this question using logic drives us into paradox. Instead, the author takes us to a world where people know they really do have free will. As a result their science takes a different direction, leading them to an evolutionary theory totally different from ours. In this...

Scott has been living a lie most of his life. He has a secret part of himself that he has not shared with anyone, not even his wife. Scott's life is changed the day that his wife catches him dressing in her clothes. The crossdressing is only the tip of the iceberg that is Scott's secret. Scott has...

A former Oxford college professor returns to his old home town for a pleasant day out, only to twice cross paths with a strange girl in identical circumstances. When a third meeting occurs he pursues her, and is swept into a mystery of alternate worlds and walking human copies.

A collection of twenty three short stories gathered together in one place for the first time, previously published both on-line and in print from 2011 to 2013. They're all there (except for the one that got away).These stories are influenced by a life spent reading horror, science fiction...

Australia's pre-eminent comic Renaissance man turns his genius to novel writing. Having conquered television, radio, theatre and film, Shaun Micallef smashes his mighty fist onto the keyboard of his soul and produces a novel of such breathtaking brilliance that if Patrick White were alive today he'd...

The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ... the Fonterra botulism scare ... the Christchurch earthquakes in all these recent crises the role played by scientists has been under the spotlight.What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis to the government, to their employer, or to the wider public desperate...

Since the first of the trilogy was published in 2008, The Hunger Games has become a publishing phenomenon with over 25 million books in print. The adventure of Katniss Everdeen have enthralled readers around the world as they followed the story of the young woman caught up in a rebellion that she...

"The idea of multilateralism is not something that can be forced on states, nor does it come naturally to them." —Tom Keating Seeking Order in Anarchy offers insights into both the theoretical foundations and the real-world outcomes of multilateralism in world affairs. Recognizing that...

The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice. This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...

After falling for a seaside sparrow, our protagonist must make a choice, between the love of their life, their Ocean, or a mesmerising, interesting and adventurous new character in their life. All while exploring relationships with the coastal environment and those we share it with. To Love a Sparrow gifts the reader with beautiful oceanic and nautical imagery.

Theo Daniels has spent his life learning the art of death. Military. CIA. Black Ops. For the last five years, he used his skills to help people, to do good in the world. Then his world was shattered. Now Daniels travels the world seeking revenge. He has become the Killing Machine. ...