Bøger af Andrew Peters

As in previous collections, Andrew Peters' fifth volume derives meaning from memories and reflections of nature and literature. Here is poetry that paints scenes and images that appreciate every moment of living.

Retired Chief Superintendent Williams (the semi-legendary "Williams Of The Yard") has sold the serialisation rights to his memoirs, and is dictating them to a reporter from a leading national newspaper. In this first (and very possibly last) volume, he takes us back to the '60s and his days as a young detective in the Playground of the South Glamorgan Glitterati......Barry Island. In these three cases, bodies keep turning up in unusual locations. Will Williams' budding detective skills be equal to the task of catching any of the murderers? Will his current gin intake permit him to remember any of the details? Transcribed from the original interviews, the only changes made have been to names, places, dates and facts. Oh, and cutting out all the heavy swearing.

This collection of poetry covers a segment of the spectrum of living. Simple joys, celebrations of the spirit, lasting amazement, deep sorrows, sweet despair, and elegiac remembrance all are explored in experiential appreciation. The book is divided into sections titled Infrared, which explores the very act of questioning, Visible, which appreciates living in the now, and Ultraviolet, which realizes elegiac sorrows and the wonders of living.

Skills in Australian Geography is an up-to-date, practical geography text designed for students in years 9-10. This second edition contains topographic map extracts, exercises and supporting explanatory text. Accompanying each map extract is a set of questions that help students come to grips with the key geographic skills required.

Light is a phenomenon analyzed by science, celebrated in literature, and symbolized by religions. Light and nature in all these aspects form the source of meaning in these poems. The sublime reality that encompasses the spectacularly grandiose as well as the common can be realized through the beauty of life's interconnected web. But questions that struggle with the relationship between human responsibility and survival have never been more prominent than now. Human understanding has never been so close to nature and never more destructive and exploitive of it. Human cultures have focused on human meaning in building civilizations, but survival seems now to require a more fundamental existential awareness of the totality of life.

These poems written mostly in free verse celebrate the natural world and encourage awareness. Light is a major thread running through the book both as a natural phenomena and as a resonant archetype. But light isn't light without darkness, and so there is darkness here, too, questions of direction and purpose that don't assume answers.

How were skateboards invented? What tricks do skateboarders do and what competitions can they enter? Find out all about this sport, packed with exciting photos and written by Andrew Peters.