Best Selling Books by Ian Ward

The inspirational success story of the first 100 years of Hutchinson Builders. What started out as a one-man band in 1912, when an English immigrant builder arrived with his family to start a new life in Australia, has grown into the country''s largest privately owned construction company. The Hutchies'' story straddles a century that witnessed two world wars, the great depression and tumultuous cycles of financial crises against the back drop of the rough and tumble world of construction. As well as tracking the survival and eventual growth of Hutchies into the dynamic and well respected company of today, the book outlines its evolution through successive generations of Jack Hutchinsons at the helm with a fifth generation poised to take on that role. That story is told by way of a historical account as well as captured through the republication and inclusion of every back issue of "Hutchies'' Truth", the company''s colourful, tabloid-style newsletter covering those years.

This long awaited title features a comprehensive description of all 10 subspecies.

Media Masters'' illustrated Chronology of The Pacific War now reveals vital history within a truly new, enticing and unique format. It pointedly reviews major battle by major battle, month-by-month, day-by-day. Aside from the meticulously researched conflict developments come detailed Battle Notes for expanded understanding. The entire presentation is illustrated by a quite staggering collection of arresting photographs, absorbing official maps and document replications from both Allied and Japanese archival sources. Media Masters'' illustrated chronology of The Pacific War indeed provides an exciting new means of examining history.

This book assesses the credibility of this arresting claim in the immediate context of contemporary British theatre by investigating the place and purpose of law in a range of modern dramatic settings and writings.

It has become increasingly evident that there is much to begained from a detailed understanding of the structure and properties of polymers in the oriented state. This book reftects the growth of interest in this area of polymer scienceand attempts to give the reader an up to date viewofthe present position. The individual chapters are for the most part self contained, and cover a very wide range of topics. It is intended that each of them should serve the dual purpose of an expository introduction to the subject and a topical review of recent research. It is inevitable that there will be differences of style and approach in the contributions from the different authors. No atternpt has been made to moderate these differences, as they serve to illustrate the diversity of approaches required to give the reader a balanced view of the subject. I should like to thank the contributors for their endeavours, and especially for their patience in accepting modifications and corrections which make for consistency in the book as a whole. 1 am particularly indebted to Professor Leslie Holliday who originally approached me with the proposition that such a book would be a worthwhile venture and to the publishers who have given me every assistance in making its progress as painless as possible.

One hundred years, five continents, two families, and two fabulous diamonds. Jinja, Uganda, 1939. Akhilesh Pendharkar has requested an elderly friend to deliver a sealed package. The old man is unexpectedly taken ill by the roadside and a young British teacher, Walter Adams, runs to his aid. Adams could not have known that his act of compassion would lead to him having to flee the town and escape across Lake Victoria, accused of robbery and murder. The incident is to haunt Adams for the rest of his life, following him from Africa to war-time Britain, to Singapore and Sri Lanka with the Royal Navy, to a new home in a small town in Massachusetts in the United States, and to the Caribbean.Seventy years later in London, England, a chance encounter between two younger members of Adams'' family exposes very different views of Walter Adams. But a dusty box of diaries hides the real story of Walter Adams and his extraordinary legacy. JAGANNATH draws on previously unpublished diaries and letters to create an authentic historical background against which the story of Adams and Pendharkar is set. This carefully researched book looks back to a time of flying boats, mighty battleships and the luxury of transatlantic liners, a world before cheap air travel made the world a much smaller place. In post-war England, a hero returns home to his family struggling to survive in a bombed-out city. In small-town Massachusetts, the bank manager is still a pillar of the community. And in Uganda, the Asian family of Akhilesh Pendharkar is expelled from the country, leaving behind their homes and their possessions.But JAGANNATH also looks to present injustices and future choices. Why do we exploit the poor to supply the diamonds which demonstrate our wealth? And is Britain justified in still holding on to the spoils of Empire?Family trees can be anything but dull."Strong and confident" ... "Incredibly well-written" ...THIS EDITION INCLUDES SOME SUGGESTED DISCUSSION POINTS FOR BOOK CLUBS

We investigate the properties of integrated dielectric filters for the purposes of on-chip routing of photons. We started with the use of high quality factor tunable photonic crystal nanobeam cavities and moving on to examine a new class of reflection based reverse designed filters that maintain the footprint of a waveguide while allowing for arbitrary amplitude and phase response.

My dissertation presents an alternative approach to religious influences in democratic discourse by putting contemporary political theory into dialogue with important developments in critical social thought, the academic study of religion and the philosophy of language. Through critical readings of Jurgen Habermas and John Rawls, I argue that political theorists must break from prevailing conceptions of the public sphere and public reason if they are to understand these influences. My approach instead emphasizes the many different roles religious languages play in sites of democratic action called ''publics.'' This alternative allows us to develop subtler analyses of the normative questions raised by religious difference in democratic discourse, and shifts the locus of normative attention from a secularist concern with religion to a democratic concern with domination.

The foundation of a plan to reorient the teaching of economics and make it more relevant to the 21st century, this book is intended to enhance the understanding of macro- and micro-economics by students of accounting, business law and taxation, finance, econometrics, marketing and management. Sprintprint title.

The English Constitution addresses two burning contemporary and complementary questions; one regarding the so-called English ''question'', the changing identities of England and English-ness, and a second regarding the changing shape of the Anglo-British constitution. It is suggested that there are both internal and external pressures that are driving the reformation of our constitutional order. There are internal pressures of decay, even corruption, and popular apathy, and there are external pressures brought to bear by the geopolitical challenges of the new world order and the new Europe. The present ''project'' of constitutional reform inaugurated by the present government is supposed to reflect these pressures. This book challenges this assumption, arguing that a far more radical re-constitution is required, involving: deeper institutional reforms (the most pressing being the abrogation of monarchy, and the established Church); geopolitical reforms to recast the devolutionary settlement and redefine English regionalism; and perhaps most importantly, conceptual reform, reform that will embrace the need to rebalance the constitution and to promote greater accountability and democracy. It is intended that the book will provide a stimulating text for both academics and students; advancing a series of original ideas on a subject of considerable contemporary interest. Along the way it discusses most of the major topics, institutions and debates which are ordinarily addressed in public law courses, and equivalents in non-law disciplines.

Provides economics students with a historical perspective of the Soviet economic system from 1917 to the present day. It includes chapters on Stalinism, the Liberman-Kosygin Reform, and the Gorbachev Model. The author is a senior lecturer in economics at Monash University.