Bøger af Michael Davies

A comic pseudo-history of the von Schnitzelgruber family in Australia who bred haggises for sport and trained kangaroos to draw the stage coaches that crossed Australia from Perth to Sydney. Other members of the family are described and the problems inflicted on Australia when haggises escaped and went feral.

Strange and frightening things happen at the school. First, Sasha is kidnapped off the school bus during an outing, but then mysteriously freed and left by the road within hours. Then Wendy is kidnapped from the school building at night, but she is not freed. Instead, a ransom note is sent to the school, demanding the silver locket that she normally wears. What is the secret of Wendy's locket? Who is behind the kidnappings and why is Alex's father, a colonel in the Australian Army Military Intelligence involved in the case? Sasha, Wendy, Alex and Sally must all show great courage and determination to help solve the case and avoid the serious dangers presented by the mysterious people behind the events.

About 80% of the world believes they have a novel in them. Most are probably right but they have no idea how to write one, develop plots, characters and atmosphere or how to structure a book of any genre, whether it be a thriller, a romance, a sci-fi epic or anything else. This book uses the problem-solving techniques of the top-level international business consultant to show you how to develop plots from almost anything and how to create characters that leap out of the pages with a life of their own. After that, it's the mechanics of writing that can stall the prospective novelist. What are the essential ingredients of each novel? How does a thriller differ from a sci-fi adventure? How do you write for kids and young adults? The author has written and published more than twenty-five books of his own and published more than that of other writers' works. He has taught writing classes with local groups and with the prestigious Camp Creative in Bellingen, NSW for the last two years and both groups have produced authors who have finally learned how to get that novel written that has been in their minds for many years. He uses the same workshop techniques to work with schoolchildren and develop a complete novel by getting the students to develop their own stories, characters and twists. This is the pathway to getting over that final hurdle at last and sit at the computer, typewriter or notebook and get that novel written.

Garry Barton is a top-level consultant working for an old-established, conservative firm of accountants in Chicago. But Garry incurs huge resentment when he advises his firm that they are sadly out of date with their business technology and at risk of failing. Rather than listen to uncomfortable news, the partners fire Garry. He joins up with a young, modern, aggressive firm of accountants and begins to take business away from his old employers. As they see their livelihoods threatened, they panic and attempt to scare Garry off with hired thugs. But as the failures mount up and their business begins to collapse, they panic until there is only one, bloody solution left and Garry must be killed.

Mustapha al Yaffi had murdered Scott's parents and sister, apparently by accident when the internationally feared assassin had targeted some diplomats in a hotel. But when Scott retires from the Royal Air Force as a helicopter pilot, he is offered the chance to join the Mongoose Section, a British anti-terrorist group charged with protecting VIPs and hunting down just the sort of assassins as al-Yaffi. Scott leaps at the opportunity. But as he seeks out the terrorist all over the globe, his world is turned upside down as everything he thought he knew about his friends, his target, his origins, even the real nature of his family turn out to be nothing that he could ever have imagined. In the end, he is faced with a decision that nobody should ever have to make.

A massive conspiracy has been brewing in the USA since the end of WWII when two young American servicemen came home from the ruins of Berlin with stolen Nazi treasure and embarked on the creation of the "New America." Over fifty years they became the two richest men in the country and formed their secret committee consisting of some of the most powerful men in the nation, sufficiently well funded and connected to military, industrial, religious and political powers to establish control over the USA. A coup is planned after they have destabilised America by a series of murderous riots that kill tens of thousands. Only a small group of highly trained operatives learns about the conspiracy and is frantically working to destroy it as the day of the coup approaches. But not everything is as it seems, and neither the agents nor even the members of the Council for the New America know the real objectives of the Council's founders. The dreams of those two old men are far more complex, far more ambitious and far more lethal than any of them could possibly have envisaged.

Watch the trailer at TheWorldOfPangea.com Set against an extensive mythological backdrop, Path of The Warrior begins as a coming of age story and quickly explodes into an epic conflict between light and darkness. This first novel in the Pangea trilogy promises to take you beyond this earthly realm and into another where mortals and immortals struggle for the fate of their world. FROM THE BACK COVER: What Can One Man Do Against The Gods? "Where the sacred rivers meet, Beneath the shelter of the Keeper of all things. There lies the hall of the beginning, The ruler of the world before the Kings." Pangea is shaken. The past has become the present. Ancient myth has awakened, and legends walk amongst the living. Idris has always known the path of the warrior was his to choose. Now, as war strikes at the heart of Pangea, he must wrestle as a mortal thrust into the wars of immortals. It will take more than his training to face the chaos as darkness strikes deep into the life of his people, and Idris's own inner demons threaten to destroy him before the battle even truly begins.

Over a hundred years has passed since the Yshan Empire was invaded by an alien race and the Imperial Fleet driven into exile in a distant galaxy. Now the old Empire is ruled by the aliens and their puppet, the one-time Princess Sophie and her descendants. The startling reappearance of "The First," the original rulers of the Yshan planet who passed the torch to the Yshan people over 5,000 years ago now gives hope that the Empire can be retaken. But first, the descendants of the original players from over a century ago, Prince Kyle, Josh Bradshaw and Charlie Foster must go to Earth on a strange mission to restore the Emperor Garamax and somehow find a new Star that will empower them to defeat the aliens and retake the Yshan Empire.

A collection of short stories by a writers' group in the Mind-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, covering murder-mystery topics, relationship issues and life in rural Australia. The writers have all come to the writing world in middle life after professional existences in other fields

Start winning in life A famous football manager paints a white line from his apartment to his team's training ground. A woman faces trees in her local park and pulls some unbelievable shapes. People who have never exercised in their lives keep heading back to the gym. In this book from Entrepreneur and Author Michael Davies, the author looks at why people develop habits to succeed and what you can do to win at life. * Learn how you can eat more healthily and live longer* Learn how to exercise and keep returning to the gym where your friends quit* Learn how to save money for long-term goals* Learn how to win at life* Learn secret visualisation techniques that you can use to be even more successful* Learn mindfulness techniques that you are not taught in class

Medical English: A Grammar Guide is an updated version of The Medical English Grammar Guide. This compact book is aimed at medical students, doctors and nurses who are of basic and intermediate level and who need an understanding of grammar with examples that you can use in the workplace.

A collection of short stories and illustrations submitted by children as part of the annual "Tell Me a Story" competition inschools in the Manning and Great Lakes regions of New South Wales, Australia.

A collection of short stories and illustrations produced by students in schools on the Mid-North Coast of NSW resulting from a competition now in its sixth year and in the fourth year of publication. Each year, the number of entries has increased and the popularity of the event grows.

Two young men learn how to hack into hospital systems and then into pacemakers implanted in patients' bodies. They use this skill to blackmail wealthy people with the fear of stopping their hearts and demonstrate that they can do exactly that. In a few cases, they kill the victim who resists paying up. They are persuaded by a man with Mafia connections to work with organised crime and extract state and military secrets from senior personnel in the security forces and military. This becomes a matter for the security forces in the UK, USA and Australia where the attacks have taken place.

After an accidental meeting on the playing field, Kaiden and Hazel begin to find some strange similarities between them. They have the same birthday, they were born in the same hospital and they have the same extraordinary blue eyes. As they dig deeper into library files and their parents' documentation, they discover some extraordinary truths about themselves, something so astonishing they could never have believed it had it not been recorded in all the official paperwork. But something had happened to them - when danger threatens, they discover that they have an amazing talent, something nobody has ever had before. After two astonishing adventures, they begin to learn the truth of their origins. But their adventures have only begun!

A collection of short stories, some odd memories and mental meanderings, a couple of stories by old geezers and some stories written by young people who are the future writers.

It begins with a series of brutal killings in Sydney, all committed in the same way against similar victims. A serial killer is at work. Another series, different victims, different "modus operandi" occurs in North Sydney, then a third is discovered in Melbourne. The Sydney Homicide Squad is baffled and frustrated as the killings continue with not a single clue being discovered to indicate the killers. Finally, the Squad leader, Detective Inspector David Hunter is able to bring his old friend and colleague out of retirement to work with him. Jack Savage, the best criminal profiler in the country had retreated to grow alpaca and grandchildren in his rural property, but when David's sister is the next victim of one of the killers, he comes down to Sydney. It gets worse. David discovers that similar serial killings are occurring in Canada, the USA, the UK and Europe, possibly more. And then he gets the break that tells him what's going on. The only way he can get to the heart of this horror is to go undercover and begin a deadly game, not knowing if he is hunter or prey or whether he will live to see the next day.

Your search for the perfect Business English coursebook is over. This book is designed to help students to speak, write and understand Business English with confidence. The Business English Grammar Guide is a helpful book designed to explain English grammar points to students of Business English. It contains helpful examples that you can use a in a real-world environment and includes idioms and slang terms to sound like a native speaker of Business English. The Business English Grammar Guide is aimed at non-native speakers of English of intermediate level and above.

Business English Skills for Professionals is an introduction to the language of business English. Learn how to negotiate, network and write a high-quality letter as well as building on your grammar, vocabulary and punctuation.

"From the hosts of the popular NBC Sports show Men in Blazers and one of the biggest soccer podcasts in the world, Roger Bennett and Michael Davies will profile the greatest male and female soccer players of all time. With the same signature humor as they brought to their New York Times Bestseller Encyclopedia Blazertannica, Bennett and Davis will feature a mini biography, fun facts and an illustrated or photographic portrait of both new and legendary soccer players, from Pelâe, Maradona, and Messi to Mia Hamm, Marta, and Megan Rapinoe. In their one-of-a-kind laugh out loud style and schtick, the guys will tell the stories of triumph, skill, and tenacity, experienced by household names like David Beckham and Alex Morgan, along with lesser-known icons such as Garrincha, the Brazilian star of the 1960's who was born with one leg six inches shorter than the other and Briana Scurry, who trail-blazed a path for young, black, soccer-playing women. Collectively, these stories will create a comprehensive history of soccer-its evolution and growth-as told by the lives of the legends of the game and the way their play transformed the world of soccer itself"--

A series of murders is happening in a small town in New South Wales. At first, some are not even recognised as murders but appear to be accidents and a suicide. But in all cases, there is not a single clue as to the perpetrators. The Detective in charge of the case is baffled. And why are the killings all occurring on the ninth of the month? As she begins to identify the deaths as murders, she is faced with a crisis that could threaten her sanity and even her life.

Jiangan co-ordinates slow diaphragmatic breathing with graduated stretching and strengthening exercises to promote circulation and stimulate the cardiovascular system. This book offers a concise practical guide to Jiangan exercises, providing detailed instructions and illustrations while also exploring the Chinese philosophy behind the art.