Bøger af Robert Menzies

A comprehensive guide to one of the most important sermons in the Bible. In this book, Tholuck and Menzies provide a detailed analysis of Christ's Sermon on the Mount, including the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, and other key teachings. This insightful guide is essential reading for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the Bible.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

In this highly respected work of biblical scholarship, Tholuck offers a detailed examination of the Sermon on the Mount as presented in the Gospel of Matthew. He provides a thorough analysis of each verse, drawing upon a wide range of textual and linguistic sources to illuminate the meaning and context of the text. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the teachings of Jesus.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This unusual book was first published in German in 1671, and has been popular with religious readers ever since. It is a series of meditations on everyday objects, such as a lamp, an anchor, or a sieve, which Christian Scriver uses as metaphors for spiritual truths. Each meditation includes a Bible verse, and a poem which encapsulates the idea. The book was intended for private devotion, and is still widely read by Christians of various denominations. But it is also a fascinating window into the religious imagination of early modern Europe.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Gordy and Isabelle are two long-married forty-year-olds who join a twenty-year university reunion group for a tour of Italy, organised by a charismatic but unusual Italian, Con. A pair of strangers joins the group: a beautiful but mysterious young women, Rachael, and drunken, slovenly middle-aged man, Harry. The two are immediately at each other's throats. As the group moves through the picturesque Tuscan countryside, Rachael suddenly disappears, leaving a note saying she'd returned to Australia. Her departure leaves many members of the group suspicious. One night in Caserta, Gordy spies Rachael outside a restaurant. She claims she left the group because she was afraid for her life. She will say no more, but asks Gordy to keep their conversation secret, 'for fear of his own life.' Gordy is immediately suspicious of Harry, but when Harry's mate Walter joins the group in place of Rachael, Gordy's fears are exacerbated. Walter appears to be just as shifty and shady as Harry. Gordy does a little detective work of his own and makes some frightening and alarming discoveries about other members of the group, including the group leader, Con. When one of the group members is brutally murdered, suspicion is cast on everybody as the story twists and turns at every corner of the narrow, winding Tuscan roadways

Dr Jarod Ulrich has been out of prison now for just on a year. He has been reunited with his wife of twenty-six years and life is pretty good - or so it seems. But Jarod still misses the thrill of the chase. He craves for more excitement in his life but doesn't want to disappoint his loyal, loving wife yet again. A chance phone-call from his old nemesis, Al Hancock has Jarod attending a meeting with Al and a group of very shady-looking characters. Al informs them of the existence of an invaluable gold nugget that has been kept concealed in the cellar of a house on the waterfront of Sydney Harbour for a hundred and fifty years. Al wants to include Jarod in his team of experts who plan to steal the nugget and sell it for tens of millions of dollars profit. Jarod does not want any part of the theft at first, deciding it is far too risky. He does not want to spend the rest of his life in prison. But Al in his customary deceitful and intimidating ways, forces Jarod to join the gang and go ahead with the theft. Jarod becomes caught up on the horns of terrible dilemma. He desperately wants to avoid going back to prison, but he is also afraid of losing his life at the hands of Al Hancock's henchmen. The theft goes ahead and proves successful. But its aftermath leads Jarod on a frenzied path of retribution, kidnapping, bloodshed and finally murder as he tries desperately to escape from the evil clutches of Al Hancock and his band of bloodthirsty thieves. Al's tentacles of vice gradually engulf Jarod and threaten to end his life on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There seems to be no hope left for survival...

Sean Bannister is a loner who lives by himself with his faithful old dog Bruce, on a lonely, isolated peninsula on the Gulf of Mexico. One night, during a violent storm, he catches sight of a lone sailor in a tiny wooden rowboat, skilfully manoeuvring his little vessel over the massive whitecaps and onto the beach below Sean's house. Once on the beach, the sailor takes two large plastic-wrapped parcels from his craft and drags them onto the sand and up into the rocky headland. Next morning Sean notices that the little boat is still anchored in the same place. He and Bruce wander down to the beach to investigate. After tracing some footprints in the sand they make a gruesome discovery that frightens Sean to the core. His discovery brings back some ghastly memories of five years ago when he was a hedonistic reporter in New York, working for the Daily Telegraph. From that moment on, Sean's sordid past seems to follow him wherever he goes. It leads him on a quest for justice and retribution that takes him into the homes of evil drug-dealers, corrupt senators and attorneys at law. Sean soon comes to the realisation that evil and corruption permeate society from bottom to top. And it is most prevalent in the ivory towers and lavish mansions of the rich and powerful. He learns, to his peril, that the richer and more powerful the criminals are, the more dangerous and deadly they will become. His quest for justice takes him on a journey down into Mexico and then back along the Gulf, through Baton Gouge, Houston and finally Galveston. Galveston, Sean discovers, is not a good place to die.

Loser and social misfit Kim Prune has changed his name to Benito Mussolini, aiming to become a world-famous serial killer. Ivan Jevenko, once a decorated journalist, is now a lonely fugitive. The drug baron he exposed was never caught. Ivan believes the man is trying to kill him after burning down his house and murdering Ivan's parents. Forced to learn some deadly self-defence techniques as a means of survival, Ivan has managed to kill two would-be assassins before they could get to him. He meets an attractive but damaged woman who appears to be alone and lonely, just like him. It becomes obvious after their first meeting that she knows a lot more about Ivan than is healthy for either of them. He is immediately on guard. He finds himself embroiled in a tumult of murder and retribution from Mussolini and the drug-running assassins and discovers more and more disturbing facts about Rebecca's past, suspecting that she is working with others to destroy him. He must use every ounce of his courage, guile and skill to survive and bring his enemies to justice. Or kill them before they kill him.

Dr James Ulrich is finally settled in retirement - or so he thinks.His wife June purchases a coffee shop and makes James manager - 'to help still his itchy feet, ' she claims.But the coffee shop comes with some encumbrances: June has gone into a business partnership with James' old nemesis, Shelley Hancock. And to add salt to the wound, she has employed her gaolbird brother Andrew, as a waiter.James is incensed by his wife's poor judgement. However, he agrees to manage the shop for a month on a trial basis.Strange and disturbing things start happening almost immediately. James' car is bombed, and he is shot at in the street. When he suspects that his attempted assassin is another one of his old nemeses, Roger Hamilton, James goes searching for Hamilton, only to be captured and taken prisoner by Hamilton's stepbrother, Slim.James soon discovers that he has been captured for reasons he could never have imagined: to help care for fifty illegally imported Burmese pythons that Hamilton has planned to kill for their skins and make himself a fortune. It soon becomes clear to James that there is a very strong criminal connection between the Hancocks, the Hamiltons, and the Burmese pythons.James is kept a prisoner whilst caring for the pythons, under the watchful eye of giant Negro known as Leroy. When Leroy starts feeding the pythons a taboo type of flesh, James is shocked and appalled. He is suddenly in fear of his own life. As the pythons grow older and larger they become more and more aggressive, and exceedingly dangerous to be around.James comes to love the pythons however, regarding them as his pets. He does everything in his power to try and prevent Slim and Leroy killing them for their skins.But the pythons have wills of their own. They decide who their friends and enemies are, and before long, human beings become hapless victims of the pythons' deadly death lock

Dr James Ulrich has just been released from prison after serving five tears for official corruption.He discovers to his dismay, that despite his excellent qualifications and vast experience, he cannot get a job because of his prison record.He finally accepts a position as a janitor in a run-down and corrupt tennis academy.James discovers that all the ghosts and demons from his sordid past have come back to haunt him as he tries desperately to forge a new life as a law-abiding citizen.

Jerry and his twin sister Tammy have both been born with the gift of clairvoyance. As children and adolescents they experiment with their gift, with some frightening consequences. Jerry develops an ardent fascination for the paranormal and learns a great deal about how to use his psychic powers. As he grows older he discovers he possesses some more paranormal abilities that he doesn't quite know how to handle. His preoccupation leads him into some very dark places as he discovers more and more about himself and the awesome powers he possesses. He goes to university and completes an Honours Degree in Psychology, then travels to London where he becomes a clinical psychologist. During this time he uses his clairvoyance and his knowledge of the occult to attempt a cure for schizophrenia, with some disastrous results. He returns to his hometown in country Australia where he begins to unleash forces that he'd never imagined existed...

Al Capone Andrews has a story to tell about four bored university students who come together one wet day to form a band, to be known as 'The Sublimated Urge'.The band struggles through the minefields of drug and alcohol abuse, carnal knowledge charges, brawls, bloodshed and even murder, before they realise the exquisite chemistry that exists between them for writing songs and performing them on stage.These four young men discover that writing poetry can be a catharsis for alleviating the pain and suffering they have all been through.From humble beginnings, the band eventually achieves stardom, but the costs along the way are destructive and irretrievable.

As a child growing up, Darlene Simpkins does not know who her father is. She grows up in poverty with a drunken, loose-moralled mother, who finds a wealthy young man, Harold Murdoch, to blame for her daughter's conception.Fifty years later Darlene is now Matron-in-Charge of a retirement home called Sunshine Gardens, where Harold, now a lonely old man, is a resident. He is being robbed, neglected and abused by the 'daughter' whose maintenance he financed for the first sixteen years of her life.Ted Nelson and a young care worker, Cindy, attempt to help Harold escape from Darlene's clutches, only to be confronted by forces they never even imagined existed.It soon becomes painfully obvious to them that Darlene is the personification of evil - more evil than any human being could possibly be.

It is the 1960s. Manfred is a seventeen-year-old teenager and a very unusual boy. Extremely bright, socially inept and with a passion for science and politics. Mannie is shocked to the core when he hears the news of the sudden inexplicable disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt on Christmas Day 1967. He does not believe the official reason for Holt's death and takes it upon himself to conduct his own investigation. He comes up with some startling and shocking discoveries.

Geoff is on the run. He finds himself somewhere on the Island of Phuket in Thailand, penniless, hungry and desperately in need of a bed and a bath. He comes across a young woman in the jungle who takes him in, feeds him, washes his clothes and lets him use her primitive shower. Before Geoff can leave however, her father appears unexpectedly and finds Geoff, a foreigner, dressed in his clothes. He draws odious conclusions about Geoff's motives with his daughter and tries to kill him. The daughter intervenes and shoots her father dead with his own gun. What follows is a frenzied cat and mouse chase between Geoff, the Thai police and a group of radical Muslim terrorists who are trying to murder Geoff in retribution for what he did to them back in Australia. Geoff's flight to survive takes him to a seedy area of Patong Beach and then back to Australia where his past comes back to haunt him in ways he could never have imagined.

Delma is a simple-living country girl who loves camels. She talks her boyfriend Martin into taking an ill-advised road trip in an old Bedford truck into Australia's Outback to search for feral camels, then try to capture some and bring them home to milk them.They head for the Strzelecki Desert in South Australia, one of the most remote places in Australia. It is when they stop at a lonely truck stop in the middle of the desert, that things go horribly wrong.The owners of the truck stop are two losers, known in the area as Jerk-Off Jeff and Gelignite Jessie. In an attempt to escape from these people's clutches, Martin breaks Jeff's nose and Delma shoots Jessie in the stomach, requiring a call to the Air Ambulance that takes her to hospital in Thargomindah. She remains there in a critical condition.Delma and Martin find a place in the desert to camp. They decide to continue their search for camels, despite the fact that a police chopper keeps hovering ominously above them. When the chopper eventually lands, Delma and Martin expect to be arrested. They are told however, that the two people they seriously injured have not pressed charges, something they cannot understand.They are invited to lunch at a sheep station not far from their campsite. The owners of the property, one of the largest in Australia, are very hospitable and offer to help them protect them from Jeff if comes after them, as they are sure he will. Their prediction proves to be true. Jeff comes after them with a vengeance and mayhem results. Strange things begin to happen and Del and Martin are unable to tell who their friends and enemies are. People and animals are murdered in a frenzy of revenge and bloodshed that takes them all back fifty years when rapes and murders took place in the old homestead and the perpetrators were never caught. Del and Martin find themselves caught up in a web of intrigue that seems to become more and more complex and obscure the longer they stay at the sheep station. But they soon discover they cannot leave. There are evil forces at work that will ensure they meet the same demise as the station-owners' predecessors.

Noni and Kenji grow up in poverty in the street slums of Phnom Penh.Their father walks out out on them when they are babies and their mother is killed in a factory accident. At twelve years of age Kenji has his leg blown off in a land mind explosion.In order to survive, Kenji becomes a street beggar and Noni becomes a prostitute at the age of fourteen.Thousands of kilometres away in Queensland Australia, Tina and Roy are brought up in very different circumstances under the loving care of a hard-working farmer and his wife. But their life is difficult too, struggling to survive at the mercy of the harsh western Queensland climate.In a strange twist of fate Tina and Kenji are brought together in Southampton, England where a psychotic murderer begins terrorising Tina. In her frantic bid to escape his clutches she discovers some amazing things about Kenji. But even Kenji cannot save her from the terrors and traumas that await her.

Dirk Daniels wakes up in a hospital bed after being in a coma for four weeks. He learns that he and his wife Michelle were in a car accident and Michelle was killed.He also learns that he is the chief suspect in her murder. He has no memory of the event or the months preceding it.In an attempt to escape his pursuers and regain his shattered memory he escapes to a lonely beach in Morocco, where he experiences for the first time the drug, 'Moroccan Gold' which opens up his mind in ways he never imagined...

This is a book for adults. It contains a plethora of wily one-liners, pithy paraprosdokians, some quirky quotes and a choice selection of aphoristic anecdotes. Amidst all this you will find some tantalising trivia, some nauseating names, and finally some wacky word-games. This is the sort of book that would be an excellent companion on a plane, a train, a ship or a trip to the lavatory

This is a true story about the life of best-selling author Robert (Bob) Menzies. It covers his years in Teachers' College when he met some lifelong friends who came to share many of his agonies and ecstasies later in life. It tells about all the loves in his life, many of them brief or imagined, and all of them (with the exception of his current one) ending in disaster. It moves on to his years of living in London and travelling the world, trying desperately to 'find himself'. Those years are punctuated by bad decisions, irresponsible actions, crazy drug and alcohol-filled nights, wayward women and memorable adventures. It covers all his travelling adventures through Great Britain, Europe, North Africa, the USA, Mexico and Canada. It is a story of self-discovery and intrepid adventure. It conveys the message that even the most reckless, most negligent people can survive - with a little help from their friends.

It is the 1960s and the world is changing - socially, morally and politically. Two brothers, raised on a dairy farm by their hard-working and loving parents, become confused and disillusioned by the sudden and unexpected disappearance of their father. As the small family's circumstances gradually decline, the boys' lives are made more miserable by a drunken abusive stepfather, a sadistic teacher and a school bully who graduates into an underworld thug. Forced to grow up quickly, the boys find themselves thrust into a world of violence, intrigue and retribution. But love and hope can conquer all.

Carla and Mickey meet in Broadleaf Gardens Psychiatric Hospital for the criminally insane. Mickey escapes from the hospital and goes to live with some friends of Carla's who were once themselves, patients at Broadleaf.Mickey is shocked by the strangeness and irrational behaviour of his new friends. When Carla eventually joins him, they find themselves in a whirlpool of crazy, outrageous and often dangerous behaviour, from which they believe there is no escape.In a frenzied effort to preserve his own sanity Mickey is forced to change from a meek and mild nineteen year-old mental patient to a seasoned, hard-nosed negotiator, protector and drug-dealer.Mickey and Carla embark on a desperate fight for survival in a sordid, mixed-up culture of lunacy, hallucination and imagined invasion.

Ingrid and her daughter Sally go to visit Ingrid's mother. She reveals to them some deep dark secrets of her past. She tells Ingrid that during World War II she was a spy for British Intelligence. Ingrid believes her mother is suffering from dementia and doesn't believe a word. So Jane then reveals her story, beginning with her time in France, working as a British spy and living in a chateau that is occupied by Nazi officers. She recounts stories of rape, torture, imprisonment and murder that make Ingrid's blood run cold.Ingrid however, is still unconvinced that her mother is telling the truth. So, in order to prove her story, Jane takes her daughter and granddaughter to meet some people who survived the war with her and who can verify her amazing tale.Eventually Ingrid, although horrified, becomes convinced that her mother is in fact telling the truth. Her mother explains that her silence has been to protect Ingrid and her daughter Sally from harm, because her past has now come back to haunt her. As Jane continues to reveal the sordid details of her clandestine involvement in the war, frightening things begin happening to her, to Ingrid and Sally, escalating into open conflict, kidnapping, bloodshed and murder, from which there appears to be no escape.

Jessie Brewster, a naïve, thirty-year-old farmer from the Australian bush, travels to the city for the first time in his life, where he quickly becomes educated in the ways of city living. Robbed of all his worldly possessions by a prostitute, he finds himself a job as a 'courier', which leads him into Sydney's sordid underworld around the docks.Jessie unwittingly finds himself in the company a rich, spoilt, obnoxious sixteen-year-old girl called Rose. Circumstances beyond their control put them in the centre of a terrifying cat and mouse chase through the coastal towns of New South Wales and Queensland. During their flight, Jessie discovers increasingly frightening and disturbing things about Rose. And Rose discovers things in Jessie that make her hate him with steadily increasing vengeance.The pair's flight takes them into some very murky places, where they come into conflict with the lowest of the low. Jessie needs to continually put his life on the line to protect Rose from injury and death. He receives no thanks, only ridicule and insults from this spoilt, over-indulged teenager.The story climaxes in a frenzy of bloodshed and murder, where more chilling things are revealed about Rose, her criminal family and the underworld figures who are pursuing the pair.When all seems to be lost for both Jessie and Rose, fate intervenes. Their desperate fight for survival ends in a gut-wrenching twist that neither of them can see coming.This is a story that explores the conflict of two human beings who are the complete antipathy of one other in every way imaginable, forced together through circumstance beyond their control. They experience the entire gamut of negative emotions during their ordeal: hatred, repulsion, distrust, deceit and aversion, as they try to survive the death-defying challenges that are placed before them. Through all the strife and disharmony they discover things about themselves that radically change the way they see each other.

The year is 1992, the year the IRA signed a ground-breaking peace agreement with the British government.Against this backdrop of a fragile peace in the making, Sebastian and his wife of six months, Nerida are embarking on a 'honeymoon' type holiday through Great Britain, prior to Sebastian collecting a substantial inheritance.Right from the moment they reach Heathrow, frightening and disturbing things begin to happen that suggest foul play at work.When one of their suitcases goes missing they discover it is one containing confidential documents pertaining to Sebastian's inheritance.From that moment on their journey becomes a nightmare of kidnapping, attempted murder, extortion and suspense as they travel the length and breadth of Great Britain, trying to evade their tormentors and find out why they are being exposed to such evil forces.Their journey eventually takes them across the English Channel to France where they come face-to-face with their attackers. Sebastian receives a revelation that is at once shocking and incomprehensible, causing him to question his own sanity and his desire to survive.

Nobody really knows what awaits us on the other side. Things may be very different indeed to what we've been led to believe.Andy wants so badly to know what happens in the After Life, that he devises a way to die for a short time and return to tell his story.With help from his mate Wombat, he arranges to have a 'death-experience' in the local pool.But things don't work out as planned and Andy embarks on the longest journey of all.His journey into the Spirit World gives the reader an exhilarating and sometime frightening glimpse of what it could be like.

Dr James Ulrich has been out of prison for just on a year. He has been reunited with June, his wife of 28 years and life is pretty good.A chance phone call from his old nemesis, Al Hancock, reveals the existence of an invaluable gold nugget that has been kept concealed in the cellar of a waterfront mansion in Sydney Harbour for over a century. Al plans to steal it and blackmails James into joining him in the venture.The aftermath of the theft leads James on a frenzied trail of retribution, kidnapping, bloodshed and murder as he desperately tries to escape the evil tentacles of Al Hancock. The trail takes him to Fiji and then to a lonely Pacific island where he finally comes face-to-face with the grim reaper.

Gordon is a loner who wakes up penniless on a deserted railway station somewhere in Outback Australia.In a lonely cafe he spies a woman whom he recognises from many years ago - as the girl he grew up with, whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years.He discovers that Doreen has a daughter named Shirley who was taken off her by the authorities ten years ago when she and her partner were both drug addicts.They rescue Shirley from an orphanage in Sydney. She is now a 'troubled teenager'.As a means of rehabilitation, Gordon and Doreen take Shirley back to their home town of Casterson to revive some old memories and perhaps aid Shirley's healing process.In Casterson they discover some shocking things about their own families. Gordon finds that many memories of his childhood have been repressed and altered in his own mind. He comes across some disturbing facts about himself, his brother, his mother and particularly his father, who he once believed was a man of impeccable values and standards.The more Gordon delves into his past, the more shocking are the things he uncovers, until he begins to seriously doubt his own sanity.What follows is a hauntingly painful trip down memory lane for Gordon, where many long-held myths are exploded in his face. This is compounded by the fact that Shirley's condition becomes increasingly more serious as she experiments with drugs, self-harm and attempted suicide.

When a gorgeous-looking guy called Nick comes onto the bank where Brenda works, she discovers he's rich and divorced. When he asks her out she thinks all her dreams have come true.But Nick turns our to be a social misfit, a drunk and a junkie with an attitude. He tells Brenda he's an alien. When Brenda says she believes in aliens Nicks attitude towards her suddenly changes. He asks her to become his minder in his multi-million-dollar apartment overlooking Sydney Harbour.From that moment on, bizarre events begin to happen in Brenda's life. She becomes enmeshed in a shroud of mystery and intrigue. She embarks on an adventure that most of us can only dream about. And all the while she is not sure whether her adventure is for real or whether it is one gigantic hallucination.When she finally discovers the truth, Brenda's life is changed forever.