Computers perform countless tasks ranging from the business critical to the recreational, but regardless of how differently they may look and behave, they're all amazingly similar in basic function. Once you understand how the microprocessor—or central processing unit (CPU)—works, you'll have a firm grasp of the fundamental concepts at the heart of all modern computing.Inside the Machine, from the co-founder of the highly respected Ars Technica website, explains how microp...

A comprehensive photographic identification guide to all of the native trees and shrubs of Great Britain and Ireland and many of the common non-native speciesTrees of Britain and Ireland is packed with practical information, photos and illustrations that will help you identify trees throughout the year. It covers all of Great Britain and Ireland’s native trees and shrubs as well as a range of ornamental and widely planted trees from other areas of the worl...

'Changes occur all the time. They can be identifiable and dramatic, or they can emerge imperceptibly, creeping up on you until one day you realise your foundations are less solid than you imagined. At this point in your life you need to find a new path.'Coping with transition can be hard at every stage of life, but it presents unique challenges as we come to the time of our lives when we are facing the end of full-on, full-time work.Changing Gear looks at ...

England's future capital, Britannia Prima, is in trouble. Already run by the corporations and plagued by crime, nothing could prepare it for the cataclysm which is unlocked in virtual reality. Join cyber-criminals, Reck and Star, as they become involved with alien technologies. Follow Ronelle, the first lifer in the virtual world of the Circuits, as he struggles to survive a catastrophic system crash. Find questions of consciousness and existence. Horrors of technology and art. A wild, psy...

As Humanity faces the uncertainty and conflict of the 7th century in its Galactic Expansion calendar, Pleo awakes on the pleasure planet Lascivia III. With a mind still lost to intoxication he struggles to remember why he's there, only to find a dark truth. Pleo is the last in a line which has waited five generations for the emergence of galactic tycoon Jeremiah Aldrich from cryogenic suspension and now it is time for him to die.

In the 146th year of the rule of the Machine, Novian Slaver is sentenced to become 'Citizen Class 5'. This final judgement is the result of a brutal life and one which has been served within a void of caring. A life awash with the System's tolerated vices, such as those of recreational drug use and violence. Join the struggle to find humanity within a class system which is devoid of justice. Embedded within the system's hierarchy and rules Novian soon finds himself powerless to e...

'Changes occur all the time. They can be identifiable and dramatic, or they can emerge imperceptibly, creeping up on you until one day you realise your foundations are less solid than you imagined. At this point in your life you need to find a new path.'Coping with transition can be hard at every stage of life, but it presents unique challenges as we come to the time of our lives when we are facing the end of full-on, full-time work.Changing Gear looks at ...

After a blind priest receives a vision from God, Father Spencer embarks upon a comedy of errors as he attempts to promote the arrival of the first new colour since the creation. Facing fashion designers, film producers and more, Father Spencer soon finds himself wondering if God's new colour really is coming soon.

Watch Over Me is the No. 1 bestselling novel from the million copy selling author Daniela Sacerdoti, set in the magical and atmospheric Glen Avich in the Scottish Highlands.Eilidh Lawson's life is in crisis. Years of failed fertility treatments, a cheating husband and an oppressive family have pushed her to the limits. At the end of her tether, she runs away to the one place she thinks she can find solace: her childhood ho...

This riveting suspense thriller explores the special bond between a brother and sister when Richard Baimbridge rushes back to his coastal hometown of Wilmington, NC, to assist with his sister's recovery after she's brutally attacked and crippled investigating the rape of a 13-year-old. Coming face to face with his tormented past and a dark family secret, he fights to stay above the flood of childhood trauma and, serving as his sister's legs, is drawn into the dark underside of this quiet c...

"Jam-packed with heart stopping suspense." -Book Fetish ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED... New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series of untraceable phone calls from "the Groom" hinting at her fate. Now the cold dark night has engulfed another young girl-but this time she is part of Dave's family. He and his wife, Susan, know fourteen-year-old Lisa has not run...

In the Colorado mountain town of Glenwood Springs not far from Aspen artist/photographer Gwyn Sanders discovers a cryptic letter her sister Kelly left behind. The victim of a deadly hit and run Kelly reveals she was sexually involved with her sisters boyfriend and is scared for her life. Both Gwyn and her remaining sister Linda have since married their boyfriends so either of their husbands could be guilty of murder. The sisters received a large inheritance before meeting these men and kno...