Tom Mann: 8 books

Book cover of Launching out from Scotland

Launching out from Scotland

Journeys, Challenges and Encounters

by Tom Mann
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016

As a migrant to Australia from North East Scotland, Tom Mann portrays, in Launching Out from Scotland, a unique set of challenges and encounters in Australia and other countries, which include Algeria, the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, and China. The issues Tom confronts concern the cruelty and...
Book cover of Flawed Forensics

Flawed Forensics

The Splatt Case and Stewart Cockburn

by Tom Mann
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013

'A classic tale in the genre of real crime, dealing with one of the most important cases in the legal history of Australia ... on a par with the Lindy Chamberlain case.'Dr Bob Moles, leading campaigner and advocate in cases of miscarriages of justice. In 1978, Edward Splatt was wrongfully...
Book cover of A Shock to the Conscience
by Tom Mann
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005

Steve would never have guessed that his name would come up in a conversation in the Oval Office, nor was he aware the discussions involved a brutal Cold War standoff. He was rattled to the core over images of battle he witnessed in a small Spanish town but relieved to be headed home after a tumultuous...
Book cover of The Madhouse Effect

The Madhouse Effect

How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

by Michael Mann, Tom Toles
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and...
Book cover of Von Achtsamkeit bis Zuversicht

Von Achtsamkeit bis Zuversicht

ABC des guten Lebens

by Gerd B. Achenbach, Prof. Regina Ammicht Quinn, Gottfried Bachl
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2017

Was ist ein gutes Leben? Was macht mein Leben einfacher, ohne es einzuschränken? Was tut mir gut, aber gleichzeitig auch anderen? Es sind bestimmte Werte, die sich in einer Einstellung, aber auch im Verhalten, im Tun ausdrücken. Welche das sein könnten, zeigt dieses Buch mit Themen wie Achtsamkeit...
Book cover of At the Edge

At the Edge

Sci-Fi and Fantasy from Australia and New Zealand

by Jodi Cleghorn, Carlington Black, Martin Livings
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016

Step up, as close as you dare… …to a place at the edge of sanity, where cicadas scritch across balmy summer nights, at the edge of town, where the cell phone coverage is decidedly dodgy, at the edge of space, where a Mimbinus argut bounds among snowy rocks, at the edge...
Book cover of Still und starr ruht die Spree

Still und starr ruht die Spree

Berliner Weihnachtskrimis

by Christian Bartel, Tanja Dückers, Brigitte Hähnel
Language: German
Release Date: November 19, 2012

Mörderische und andere Gelüste in festlichen Stadtvierteln und zwielichtigen Häusern Für spannende Lektüre unterm Weihnachtsbaum sorgen in diesem Band 15 phantasievolle Weihnachtskrimis von überaus begabten Autorinnen und Autoren. Vielfältige Gelüste, nicht selten mörderische, verbergen sich...
Book cover of Lexikon Raumphilosophie
by Stephan Günzel, Franziska Kümmerling, Kurt Röttgers
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ›spatial turn‹ der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ›linguistic turn‹, der das Gesicht der Philosophie...
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