\*\* WINNER: A.E. Van Vogt Award \*\*After nearly fifty years in suspended animation a crew of human space explorers return to Earth, only to discover a medical side effect that prevents them remaining on their home planet. Now, in a desperate bid for survival, they must return to space and attempt to colonize an alien world under an alien sun.About J. Brian ClarkeJ. Brian Clarke is best known for sixteen stories publishe...

In today's fast-paced world, achieving optimal health and fitness can feel like an elusive goal. "The Fitness Formula - Unlocking Your Body’s Potential" is here to transform that mindset, breaking down the science of fitness and practical strategies into an accessible, actionable guide for all levels. This book empowers you to redefine your approach to physical health, equipping you with the knowledge to achieve lasting strength, endurance, and well-being.Inside "The Fitness Formul...

Canadians were once church-goers. During the post-war boom of the 1950s, Canadian churches were vibrant institutions, with attendance rates even higher than in the United States, but the following decade witnessed emptying pews. What happened? In Leaving Christianity Brian Clarke and Stuart Macdonald quantitatively map the nature and extent of Canadians’ disengagement with organized religion and assess the implications for Canadian society and its religious institutions. Drawing on a wide ...

This book has achieved the unique distinction of winning both the Authors Club award for first best novel - one of the UK's major fiction prizes - and the BP Natural World Book Prize, Britain's top award for enviromental literature and a prize that had previously always gone to non - fiction work. The story explores the great enviromental issues facing 21st century man, including, ultimately, the issue of his own survival, by following in microscopic close-up what happens when a group of h...

Make your workouts count with the breakthrough system that synchronizes your energy levels with your training effort. Instead of fighting your body to finish a workout just because it’s written on the calendar, choose the most effective workout from 5K and 10K Training based on your body’s capacity to perform at any given time.Effort-based training maximizes training adaptation by matching the goal of each workout with its optimal training level: hard when energy is high a...

A lifetime’s fishing experiences written by one of the UK’s leading fly fishermen.Brian Clarke is one of Britain's best-known fly-fishermen – and one of the world's most widely-read angling authors. His monthly column for ‘The Times’ has become an institution. His widely-ranging, penetrating and often provocative articles for that newspaper and for ‘The Sunday Times’ have been required reading for serious fishermen for over 30 years.This collection of 71 articles and essays...

As the sole survivor of a doomed ship at sea, a young doctor becomes hopelessly marooned on an isolated tropical isle in the Indian Ocean. Struggling against starvation, cannibals, and solitude, he soon discovers that he is not truly alone on the island. After unwittingly releasing an ancient evil, the lone doctor is forced battle a hellish demon in order to save his very soul.

The Hunter Island Adventure is a fun-filled fantastic non-stop adventure that occurs (chronologically) roughly one year before the events of the best-selling novel, Pulp Heroes - More Than Mortal. This wild tale tells the story of what happens when four kidnapped women (friends and relatives of the main pulp hero characters in the Pulp Heroes trilogy) prove to be much more trouble than their captors expected.(The Pulp Heroes sagas are epic adventures spanning two centuries in time ...

Up from the center of the earth, a desperate cry for help is sent, before abruptly being cut off. The broken message describes an ancient evil that has arisen in the southern Kingdom of Kaambýrkö, a virtually unstoppable wave of death and destruction that threatens to destroy everything in its path, including the mythical realm of Ilk Shäka. The Inner World Adventure follows two daring adventurers, Pam Titan and Muriel Ironcastle, as they travel halfway around the world and to the...

In the wake of a discovery that rocks the archaeological world, three strangers meet for the first time in the mountains of central Switzerland. Under a cloak of secrecy, they've been gathered together by a ruthless billionaire whose goal is to harness unspeakable power by unearthing an artifact more ancient than civilization itself.Their mission soon finds them on the chase of a lifetime. From the Great Pyramids of Egypt through the wilds of Antarctica, they circle the globe on th...

More than a year has passed since the explosive events on Tubuai, and Sherwood Brighton's world has changed forever. Haunted by recent discoveries and the absence of key allies, Brighton is on the run, struggling to evade the long reach of Raff Lagati, an eccentric billionaire desperate to capture the powerful secrets in the elusive Book of Creation.Half a world away, a long-forgotten terror is rising in the highlands of South America. When two members of an archaeological expediti...

After six thousand years of captivity, the Grigori are free. With time running out, Ira Binyamin leaps into action, amassing a network of allies to wage all-out war against this new yet ancient threat. But as his mentor Aaron warned him long ago, to wage this war he must bear an awesome responsibility, one that will exact a crushing toll on his body, his conscience, and his very soul.Dispatched by his new masters on a mission to the northernmost reaches of the world, Sherwood Brigh...