Robert Menzies

Diana is amoral, unconventional, promiscuous and more than a little crazy. She turns up unannounced at her sister Mel's home after eleven years in the wilderness. She was once engaged to be married to Mel's husband Corey and to Mel's dismay, the flame still burns strongly between her husband and her wayward sister. Mel discovers something frightening about her sister: she has become an intrepid confidence trickster. She and her partner Randy embark on a series of cons that nets them lots of money but when one of their schemes backfires they find themselves in serious trouble and running for their lives. Their bohemian and lawless lifestyle leads them into some very dark places. Eventually they find themselves enmeshed in blackmail, extortion and finally, murder.

Arthur is a worn-out war veteran who now sits on his veranda smoking and coughing his heart out and watching the world go by. He watches as a group of seasonal workers steal goods from his mate Phil's General Store across the road. He informs Phil of the thefts and Phil then employs a friend of Arthur's, a fourteen-year-old girl called Jilly, to keep an eye on the store. The gang kidnaps Jilly from the store and take her to a bush hideout where they beat her, terrorise her and sexually molest her. Arthur mounts his worn-out old mare Blacky, and goes after the criminals, unconcerned for his own welfare. He doesn't care if he dies saving Jilly. His lone crusade leads to a great deal of bloodshed and anguish for himself, Jilly and her family. His mission becomes clouded with more and more difficulties and unexpected twists and turns, finally reaching a bloody and unexpected climax.

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.

With this study, Menzies sets a new standard for pneumatology. Beginning with an overview of the pneumatological perspectives of intertestamental Judaism (including literature from the Diaspora, Palestinian, Qumran and rabbinic sources), the first section concludes that for the most part these sources 'consistently identify experience of the Spirit with prophetic inspiration'. The next section aims to uncover Luke's distinctive pneumatology, employing a redaction critical method of analysis in order to illustrate Luke's similarly consistent portrayal of the Spirit as the source of prophetic inspiration, rather than as the source of Christian existence. The final section goes on to explore how this conclusion impacts on contemporary theological reflection and spiritual life. Robert P. Menzies is Lecturer in New Testament at Asia Pacific Theological Seminary, Baguio City, Philippines.

A wide range of perspectives on how Canadian criminal law, civil law, and policing strategies treat ecological transgressions are included in this introduction to the serious consequences of environmental crime, often perceived as an upper-class, "soft" crime.