Geoff Robinson

When man answers his door, everything he thought he knew is proved wrong. He is told his daughter, the daughter he has mourned for nearly forty years, is alive. The Way the Wind Blows moves between the coalfields of County Durham and the battlefields of France and Flanders, spanning four decades from the 1890s to 1933. At its centre is John Little, a stretcher bearer, a survivor and a father, who is drawn from real family history of the author. John’s life is shaped by a deception he did not know was happening and a love that believed the lie was justified. This is a novel about motherhood and loss, about betrayal and the stories families tell themselves to survive. About whether the truth, when it finally arrives, can heal what silence broke. Based on the author’s own family history, written with the authority of deep roots in the northeast mining community, The Way the Wind Blows is historical fiction with the intimacy of a secret finally told.

Teos koostuu Jessie Bullivantin taiteellista tuotantoa kommentoivista suosituskirjeistä, joita ovat Jessien pyynnöstä kirjoittaneet eri aikoina ja eri yhteyksissä lukuisat yhteistyökumppanit. Teos nostaa esiin kysymyksiä aineettoman taiteen olemassaolosta ja arkistoinnista, taiteellisen työn määrittelijästä ja tekijästä sekä valtasuhteista taiteessa muodostuvien merkitysten ympärillä. Korvaamalla taiteen dokumentoinnissa pääsääntöisesti käytettävät valokuvat suosituskirjeillä teos hämärtää taiteen ja sen esityksen väisiä rajoja. ENGLISHAttached is a collection of texts that document a diverse range of artworks made by Jessie Bullivant (AU/FI) over the past decade. By replacing the default photographic documentation with written accounts, the artist raises questions about how immaterial artworks are preserved, accessed and ultimately remembered, allowing space for nuances often lost in photographic documentation. As an incomplete survey of the artist's work, the book blurs the boundaries between art and its documentation, between a conventional monograph and an experimental artist's book. It gives an exciting glimpse into a committed artistic practice tackling a variety of issues from representation, power and access to subtle social interactions.

In the last three decades the Australian Left has shaped national life. The collapse of the socialist project in the eighties enabled the rebirth of the Australian Left as a force of government. The Left of the Labor Party has moved from the fringes to a central position in the party while the Greens have built an electoral basis outside Labor. Questions of legal liberalism, indigenous rights and sexual identity have become central in Left politics, but mostly not economics. This New Left has grappled with the remnant past radicalisms, such as Marxism and radical feminism, but also new challenges: religious fundamentalism, right-wing populism, the crisis in many Indigenous communities, the global economic crisis and the rise of the Greens as a challenge to Labor. This New Left has been underpinned by the rise of intellectual celebrities and practices such as human rights law, together with a left-wing way of everyday life.

FULL COLOR. 2nd Edition. 124 pages. A new way to understand relativity. Covers relativity from the simplest everyday situations, by easy stages, to more complex topics. There are lots of 'real-life' examples, illustrations and diagrams. All math is kept simple and fully explained. Some surprises await on relativity matters usually considered difficult to understand, but which are, in fact, Relatively Simple. Theoretical analysis includes: Basic Relativity; Starlight Aberration; Simultaneity; Ring Lasers; Galaxy Rotation and Pioneer 10 anomalous acceleration. For downloads (inc. free update of 1st Edition) and other works: search for Geoff Robinson at Lulu.com or direct via tinyurl.com/relativelysimple or bit.ly/relativelysimple