Best Selling Books by Matthew Ward

"Don''t worry... You''re not going to die. Not yet." Ambassador Edric Saran is having an uncommonly rough year. Living as an exile in Tressia, the city of his ancestral enemies, he''s surrounded by a bodyguard he doesn''t trust, and expected to do a job that no one - least of all Edric himself - takes very seriously. When Edric becomes the chief suspect in a murder, he and a young noblewoman join forces in order to bring the real killer to account. But they soon realise the murder was only one strand in a tangled web of mortal and immortal scheming. Hunted by the law, and pursued by vengeful servants of half-forgotten gods, Edric soon learns that there''s more at stake than clearing his name. Will he discover the truth before the Shadow of the Raven descends upon the world, and the war between the living and the dead begins?

This thesis develops a theory of arithmetic Fourier-Mukai transforms in order to obtain results about equivalences between the derived category of Calabi-Yau varieties over non-algebraically closed fields. We obtain answers to classical questions from number theory and arithmetic geometry using these results. The main results of this thesis come in three types. The first concerns classifying moduli of vector bundles on genus one curves. Fourier-Mukai equivalences of genus one curves allow us to produce examples of non-isomorphic moduli spaces when a genus one curve has large period. The next result extends the result of Lieblich-Olsson which says that derived equivalent K3 surfaces are moduli spaces of sheaves over algebraically closed fields. We get the same result over arbitrary fields of characteristic different from 2. The last class of results are about finding properties that are preserved under derived equivalence for Calabi-Yau threefolds. Examples of such arithmetic invariants include local Zeta functions, modularity, L-series, and the a-number. We then prove a Serre-Tate theory for liftable, ordinary Calabi-Yau threefolds in positive characteristic in order to show that the derived equivalence induces an isomorphism of their deformation functors that sends the canonical lift of one to the canonical lift of the other.

Thomas Hobbes is now regarded as one of England''s greatest political philosophers. This book considers his reception in Ireland, where, it is suggested, the ''Leviathan'' was released. In doing so, the book demonstrates the variety and sophistication of political thought in Ireland.

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''Tai Chi for Health in 10 Easy Lessons'' is a practical guide for beginners in the ancient art of Tai Chi. It takes the student through the first ten moves of the Cheng Man Ching style short form be means of easy to follow illustrated instructions and it incorporates some of the most important principles of Tai Chi practice. There is also plenty of information on the health benefits of performing Tai Chi and additional notes for students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the Tai Chi form.The author has over 20 years'' experience in Tai Chi and this book is primarily designed as a reference book to accompany his taught classes, although it may also be used by anyone wishing to study on their own.

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In Australia there are a number of iconic buildings and structures, including the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and a number of churches and town halls. Australian sheds are equally iconic and represent a way of life unique to this country. Our sheds have many forms ranging from hay sheds, farm sheds, chook sheds, backyard sheds. Then there are woolsheds, (also known as shearing sheds) where sheep are fleeced. And, of course, there is that big shed in Canberra, Parliament House, from where the population is fleeced.

You know us. We are your cousin Alice, who tells the story of Nanna''s funeral; of how all the cars followed Uncle George in the wrong direction, while a priest stood by the grave, waiting to conduct the burial. We are your dad, who you visit on warm summer nights, and he talks about the old days; when he met mum; when he worked in the cane fields. We are the migrant family next door, who laugh till they cry, telling of how, when they arrived in the fifties, they went to the milk bar for a gelati. The owner just kept saying "Gilleti" and offering them razor blades. We are the Vietnamese mother who tells you one day how she came to Australia. She quietly talks of three weeks at sea in a small boat, crammed in with twenty others, knees to chest, cold, wet and hungry. We are anyone who has lived in Australia. Often, our stories will be your stories; but some will be strange, different; some will be funny and others will bring tears. We are the story tellers who started with memories that turned into stories. We wrote them down, and learned the frustration when the words wouldn''t come; and experienced that magical moment when the words took over, and the story wrote itself. These are our stories; our country''s living history. John McBride (2010)