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Every winter between 1836 to 1879 small wooden boats left the bays of southwest Western Australia to hunt for migrating Humpback and Right whales. In the early years of European settlement these small shore whaling parties and the whale oil they produced were an important part of the colonial economy, yet over time their significance diminished until they virtually vanished from the documentary record.Using archival research and archaeological...

Includes the playscript of Workshop Negative by Cont Mhlanga.

This volume features the play Babalawo, Mystery-Master by Agbo Sikuade.

This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional researchers, offering an overview of both new and practiced methods of social measurement for quantitative survey research. It will provide readers looking to investigate 'hot' social science topics with a way of learning how key measurement techniques can be utilized in that topic in a practical way.

It is now about 100 years since the chloroplast has been recognized as the site of photosynthesis in plant cells. The last 20 years have seen a striking increase in interest in the structure and function of the chloroplast. Hastened on by powerful new tools such as the electron microscope and the newer methods of isolation and analysis of chloroplasts, there is presently considerable experimental work on the properties of this organelle. In su...

This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the "acoustic era" of recording technology. The book has cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording sessions, including audio sources for extant material, and appendices on field recordings, Caribbean, Mexican and South American recordings, piano rolls performed by black artists, and a filmography detai...

This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories, docu...

Contains many sorts of disgusting poems about hairs in your food, snot and bogey pie, exploding spots, blood-sucking leeches, slobbery saliva, not to mention things that get caught in your teacher's beard-and between their toes. The poets include Jack Prelutsky, Wendy Cope, Paul Cookson, and Roger Stevens.

A collection of scary poems. This book includes ghosts, haunted houses, spiders, dracula, monsters and more - by poets such as Charles Causley, Richard Edwards, Eric Finney, and Philip Gross.

This book is an important resource for students, academic and professional researchers, offering an overview of both new and practiced methods of social measurement for quantitative survey research. It will provide readers looking to investigate 'hot' social science topics with a way of learning how key measurement techniques can be utilized in that topic in a practical way.

This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories, docu...