Breaking the Bank: An Extraordinary Colonial Crime by Carol Baxter

By Carol Baxter

It was once the biggest financial institution theft in Australian historical past. On Sunday 14 September 1828, thieves tunnelled via a sewage drain into the vault of Sydney's financial institution of Australia and stole 14 000 in notes and funds - the similar of $20 million in latest foreign money. This audacious staff of convicts not just defied the weekly exhortation 'thou shalt no longer steal!', they specific the financial institution owned by means of the colony's self-anointed the Aristocracy.

Delighted at this affront to their betters, Sydney's principally felony and ex-criminal inhabitants did all they can to undermine the experts' makes an attempt to seize the robbers and retrieve the spoils. whereas the determined financial institution administrators provided more and more huge rewards and the govt officials forged longing appears on the gallows, the robbers persisted to elude detection. Then in the future .

With a wealthy solid of characters who refused to abase themselves to the institution, this meticulously researched and fast moving background tells the tale of the bold financial institution of Australia theft and of the scheming robbers, grasping receivers and unlucky suspects whose lives have been irrevocably replaced via this outrageous crime.

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'. a piece that captures the reader. . . a great instance of ways an outstanding tale can remove darkness from the past.' - affiliate Professor Gregory Melleuish, Australian Literary Review

'. [told] with a very good eye for the advanced motivations, either political and private, of characters [Baxter] paints a vibrant photograph of Jane New's world.' - Dr Kirsten McKenzie, Sydney Morning Herald

'. [a] vibrant social history.' Canberra Times

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Casserole Crazy by Emily Farris

By Emily Farris

A quirky number of either vintage and strange casserole recipes that includes recipes from most sensible culinary artists.

Long the butt of foodies? jokes, the time has come to redeem and reclaim the standard casserole, in all its Funyun®-topped glory. Hearty, no-fuss, and (admit it!) old style scrumptious, the vintage casserole is made up of at the very least sturdy components, plus one complementary gooey component. consistently stirred?never layered! writer Farris has amassed one hundred twenty five diversifications in this subject matter that might have eaters sheepishly sneaking again to the buffet for seconds?and thirds. From Beefy Mac to five playstation Italian Casserole, vintage Tuna Noodle to Zucchini and Corn Bake, Farris and megastar cooking professionals have thrown their most sensible casserole recipes into the combo. and because it comprises vegetarian, vegan, and lactose- and glucose-free possible choices, every body can move casserole loopy.

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Swedish Desserts: 80 Traditional Recipes by Cecilia Vikbladh

By Cecilia Vikbladh

A superbly illustrated consultant to baking conventional Swedish desserts.

Whether it’s scrumptious Kransekake (Swedish almond cake with icing), crunchy Knapriga Sirapskakor (syrup cookies), or vintage Vaniljkringlor (vanilla biscuits), those muffins signify the best of Swedish conventional chocolates. Swedish pastry chef Cecilia Vikbladh deals 80 of her impossible to resist recipes, with mouthwatering colour pictures illustrating the ultimate effects. Comforting and numerous, those treats will fulfill any candy enamel. At-home bakers can now achieve extra perception into Swedish tradition via having fun with their so much coveted cakes. sixty eight black & white photos

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Top Down Innovation by Mary J Cronin (auth.)

By Mary J Cronin (auth.)

This short makes a speciality of recommendations for innovation. Top-Down Innovation discusses the boundaries to profitable organizational and product innovation, distills the major theories approximately how you can foster innovation, and offers six case stories of famous manufacturers that experience succeeded (and in a single case failed) in assembly innovation demanding situations. Synthesizing the teachings discovered from businesses that experience mastered innovation through the years, it presents a brand new standpoint at the function of market-leading businesses and most sensible administration in riding innovation. because the e-book of Clayton Christensen’s pioneering Innovator’s difficulty in 1997, the principles of innovation have themselves been remodeled. at the present time, innovation usually starts off on the CEO point with a imaginative and prescient that percolates through the association. not like conventional theories of expertise disruption, new marketplace entrants, and enterprise version innovation, this research concludes that imaginative and prescient and management on the most sensible is a decisive consider winning innovation initiatives.

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Mmurtl V1.0 by Richard A. Burgess

By Richard A. Burgess

Initially titled constructing your personal 32 Bit working process this ebook indicates you the way one guy outfitted a whole, 32 bit working procedure for the Intel processors from scratch, working on processors from the 80386, all of the means as much as the Pentium III. that allows you to understand what it takes to construct an working process, otherwise you are looking to construct your individual, you will want this booklet! it truly is indespensible, It covers all the significant parts that make up a contemporary micro-kernel working process. It incorporates a CD-ROM containing all the seriously commented code. (Intel 32 bit Assembler and C) to teach you how one was once equipped (from proposal to debugger). (For Intermediate to complicated Programming point)

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Introduction to Computing: Explorations in Language, Logic, by David Evans

By David Evans

Desktop technology stories how one can describe, are expecting houses of, and successfully enforce info techniques. This e-book introduces crucial principles in computing utilizing the Scheme and Python programming languages. It makes a speciality of tips to describe info techniques by way of defining strategies, tips to study the prices required to hold out a strategy, and the basic limits of what can and can't be computed robotically.

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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation by Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys

By Matt Pharr, Greg Humphreys

From videos to games, computer-rendered photographs are pervasive this present day. Physically dependent Rendering introduces the thoughts and thought of photorealistic rendering hand in hand with the resource code for a complicated renderer. through coupling the dialogue of rendering algorithms with their implementations, Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys may be able to exhibit a number of the information and subtleties of those algorithms. yet this ebook is going additional; it additionally describes the layout suggestions concerned with construction genuine systems-there is far extra to writing an excellent renderer than stringing jointly a collection of speedy algorithms. for instance, innovations for top quality antialiasing has to be thought of from the beginning, as they've got implications during the method. The rendering approach defined during this publication is itself hugely readable, written in a method referred to as literate programming that combines textual content describing the approach with the code that implements it. Literate programming provides a gradual creation to operating with courses of this measurement. This lucid pairing of textual content and code bargains the main entire and in-depth ebook on hand for knowing, designing, and development bodily lifelike rendering structures.

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My Pizza: The Easy No-Knead Way to Make Spectacular Pizza at by Jim Lahey

By Jim Lahey

Make home made pizza that exceeds your wildest expectations—yet couldn’t be simpler—with Jim Lahey’s groundbreaking no-knead dough and artistic toppings.
 
The mystery to remarkable pizza is an excellent crust—one that's crisp but chewy, and a bit charred round the edges. Jim Lahey, the baking genius in the back of manhattan City’s celebrated Sullivan highway Bakery and Co. pizza eating place, has built a super recipe that calls for no kneading and produces an impossible to resist crust in any domestic oven—gas or electric—in fewer than 5 mins. My Pizza stocks this innovative method and the inventive pies that placed Co. at the map, in addition to recipes for salads, soups, and truffles to make a meal complete.
           
The pizzas during this ebook aren’t your traditional, run-of-the-mill pies. actually, Jim’s distinct topping pairings—such as Corn and Tomato, Coppa and Fennel, and Potato and Leek—reinvigorate this American favourite. His whimsy is clear in his Pepperoni Pie, which doesn’t comprise the cured meat we've got all come to count on; in its place, riffing on “pepperoni” because the Italian plural for “pepper,” Jim bargains a pie with purple pepper puree, floor lamb, and pecorino cheese. To around out dinner, My Pizza additionally has recipes for starters and aspect salads—such as Cannellini Bean Toast, Pea Soup, and Bibb and Roasted Squash Salad—and candy finishes, from Milk Chocolate Sundae to Banoffee Pie.
           
With wonderful colour pictures and important pointers on apparatus and strategies, My Pizza unlocks the secrets and techniques of serious, effortless pizza for domestic chefs far and wide.

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Tortillas to the Rescue: Scrumptious Snacks, Mouth-Watering by Jessica Harlan

By Jessica Harlan

TASTY TORTILLAS, scrumptious POSSIBILITIES
Stuff, wrap, roll, bake, fry—there’s no restrict to what you are able to do with them. Tortillas to the Rescue is going method past the Mexican classics, displaying you the way to make dozens of tortilla creations:
• Philly Cheese Steak Tacos
• Caviar-Edamame Nachos
• Shrimp Po’ Boy Wrap
• red meat Tortilla Wontons
• Carne Asada and French Fry Burritos
• Smoked Salmon and Egg Stackers
• Mozzarella, Olive and Tomato Pizza-Dillas
• Crunchy Cilantro Slaw
• Spiced Sausage Lasagna
• Chocolate-Ricotta Cannoli

• Churros with Mexican Chocolate Dipping Sauce
Packed with step by step directions and beneficial information, Tortillas to the Rescue teaches you to take that pack of tortillas you have already got within the refrigerator and quick and simply flip them into whatever amazing.

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Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite by Gregory Bateson

By Gregory Bateson

"Naven" is the identify of a weird ritual practiced by means of Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of latest Guinea.Th e rite is played to congratulate participants of the tribe upon the crowning glory of striking accomplishments, between which murder ranks maximum. more often than not this tribe insists upon an severe distinction among the sexes, yet within the "naven" rite, tranvestitism and formality homosexuality are represented. The "naven" serves during this booklet as a cause round which the writer has built the most influential works of box anthropology ever written.

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