Bøger af Barry Jones

A collection of short stories highlighting the author's youth growing up in North Wales. Other collected items include a series of strange paranormal stories and stories involving Rock Castle, an 18th century house in Middle Tennessee.

"Rusted Rails" based in 1928, resurrects the now abandoned coal-mining town of Wilder, Tennessee. Life in these towns held little promise for the future. One family, that of David and Jenny Hughes, sought to keep their son out of the mines. Their plan was, however, jeopardized by David's untimely death and by Jenny's discovery that she was carrying her late husband's unborn child. With few options, Jenny chose abortion. And so begins a gritty tale that tells of Jenny's rescue from the dire consequences of her decision

What use is life if we can't laugh about it? Storyteller and author Barry Jones uses his new collection of short stories and essays to point out the absurdities of everyday life. Some stories are true, some are fiction, and some are a blend that makes readers question just how much magic really exists in the caves of Wales or old homes of Tennessee. It is from the middle Tennessee area that Jones draws inspiration for his most charming series of stories: children's ghost tales based on historical events. These legends have been told on late-night tours of famous haunts and are guaranteed to enthrall children and adults alike. In addition to the bizarre and the terrifying, the third part of the collection is based upon Jones's real-life adventures. Jones chronicles his youth in Wales, the trials-some literal-of university life, and his journey across the pond to Tennessee. Jones never loses his humor, but he does add ruminations on the serious events of his life and his worries over the future. More Words upon a Tombstone starts hilariously and ends poignantly, and it takes readers on an unforgettable journey in between.

This fast-paced thriller ensnares intelligence agents, drug cartel overlords and politicians in a twisted web of deceit and deception. Camila Sanchez, an Argentinian garbage sifter, finds a partially shredded confidential CIA document among her overnight collection of refuse. This document describes a program to hack into the Argentine Intelligence agencies' databases, including e-mails, and to glean details of their relationship with the powerful Mexican Gulf cartel. Camila considers this find as treasure and sells the information to the Argentine Intelligence Secretariat. Armed with this knowledge, the Argentines begin to feed misinformation to the CIA. Crusading antidrug activists are falsely portrayed as being secretly in the pay of the cartel leading to numerous arrest warrants. Information and misinformation flows freely on the corrupted e-mail system but one Gulf Cartel directive surprises both the Argentines and the Americans-ACTIVATE ROSARIO 5. Rosario 5 proves to be a highly effective sex stimulant that threatens to overwhelm the youth of America and Argentina. "Paradise Parties" mimicking the San Francisco sexual orgies of the past, become commonplace and pervasive. Both societies are deeply threatened. A cooperative effort between the two countries to eradicate the curse ensues.

Jones, Barry Owen (1932- ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972-77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977-98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the 'post-industrial' society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of 'the Third Age' and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the *Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983-90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987-90 and Customs 1988-90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991-95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992-2000, 2005-06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860- (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 'living national treasures' in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services 'as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

First published as The penalty is death: capital punishment in the twentieth century, by Sun Books in association with the Anti-Hanging Council of Victoria, in 1968.

A follow-up to the author's prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society.

This is a concise guide to the problems faced in managing children with disabilities from culturally different backgrounds. It examines how to vary the care of children with disabilities from different cultural or religious backgrounds without compromising the quality of the care given.