Michael Thornton: 16 books
by Michael Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Despite quadruple heart bypass surgery, fear of failure, and concern also at being labelled a copycat for repeating the theme of the movie The Way—walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in memory of a lost son—64 year-old Melbourne writer Michael Thornton takes on the often gruelling 800km...
by Michael Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
From choirboy to cowboy . . . In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for...
Jackaroo
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
From choirboy to cowboy . . .
In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for...
Making Great Games
An Insider's Guide to Designing and Developing the World's Greatest Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Join videogame industry veteran Michael Thornton Wyman on a series of detailed, behind-the-scenes tours with the teams that have made some of the most popular and critically acclaimed videogames of the modern era. Drawing on insider's perspectives from a wide variety of teams, learn about the creation...
by Michael Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014
Reflections in shards of broken glass is a collection of poems that will take you on a ride through all of your emotions. Break your heart with heart wrenching poems of loss. Awaken the ghost that lie in all of us of the horror that was the tragedy of 9/11.
Fire in the Carolinas
The Revival Legacy of G. B. Cashwell and A. B. Crumpler
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Rekindling the fire doused by racial and denominational division
They were two spiritual giants instrumental in transforming a nation and shifting Christianity on a global scale... yet today they are largely forgotten.
Central figures in the emerging Pentecostal church, within a short time of the...
To Walk With My Brother
A Story of Courage, Humor and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Wayne Thornton was six years old in 1953 when a shocking case of medical incompetence during a routine office visit left him a paraplegic for life. From that day forward—in an era long before the Americans with Disabilities Act, access ramps to public buildings, or a national culture that even recognized...
Threesome Initiation
A collection of five erotic stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
An Xcite Books collection of five erotic stories with themes including ménage, voyeurism, f/f and food play
Threesome Initiation by Michael Bracken
Straight-laced Elaine is nothing like her wild-and-crazy best friend Marsha, so she’s appalled when Marsha and Marsha’s handsome boyfriend...
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering
Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...
The Institutional Logics Perspective
A New Approach to Culture, Structure, and Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years,...
The Wee Adventures of Shabu Shabu - Book 1 - The Jade Legend
The Jade Legend
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The Wee Adventures of Shabu Shabu is an 8-part children's series that entertains and inspires innovation and intellectual curiosity. Readers are drawn in by the captivating character of Shabu Shabu, striking images of her exciting world, and the stimulating adventures she has with her friends.
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by Zimbell House Publishing, Jeannie Alderdice, Jon Alston
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In this collection of twenty-two short stories by twenty emerging writers, Zimbell House has brought together a unique experience all relating to a lost door.
From whimsical to tragic, from science-fiction to tales of fairies, these writers have stretched their imaginations to deliver stories set to intrigue you.
Social Class and Stratification
Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
The second edition of this strong collection brings together classical statements on social stratification with current and original scholarship, providing a foundation for theoretical debate on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality. Designed for students in courses on social stratification,...
Staging Social Justice
Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
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Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a...
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