"An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning." —Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles TimesIn the winter of 1938, a fishing boat by chance dragged from the Indian Ocean a fish thought extinct for 70 million years. It was a coelacanth, which thrived concurrently with dinosaurs and pterodactyls—an animal of major importance to those who study the history of vertebrate life.Living Fossil describes the life and habitat of the c...

*** A BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *** *** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME *** 'A fascinating, beautiful, heartwarming novel. It kept me gripped from the very first chapter' -- BETH O'LEARYIn Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the couple's home ...

'A modern Gothic novel unlike any other**, about love and loss echoing through the ages. Sad, sweet, funny and hopeful'** --- Emilia Hart (author of Weyward)From acclaimed author Keith Stuart, author of A Boy Made of Blocks and The Frequency of Us, comes a daring and unique story of heartbreak and hope.A single sentence was all it took to define Cammy's life. They came as her beloved artist aunt was dying, a tee...

'A modern Gothic novel unlike any other**, about love and loss echoing through the ages. Sad, sweet, funny and hopeful'** - Emilia Hart, bestselling author of Weyward and The Sirens'Did your mother ever tell you about the curse?'Spoken by her dying aunt, these were the words that would come to define Cammy's life.As a teenager, Cammy dismissed the warning that the women in her family were doomed to lose th...

The faith divide in our country is a wide and treacherous as it has ever been. Christians in this country (and elsewhere) are deeply divided over our shared language, but we are also at war with each other regarding our sacred text, the Bible. It is a "war of interpretations." Our interpretive lens informs our perception of God, who God is, and what God wants.The purpose of this book is to exposit an alternate understanding of God drawn from my friendship with David, a gay man dyin...

The information age has opened a new front of adversarial statecraft. The past decades have seen the rise and refinement of conflict enacted in the world of information, with tactics including seeding disinformation, the theft of sensitive data, confusing or obscuring public opinion to forward specific goals, and beyond. Deterrence in the 21st Century asks how, and if it is indeed possible, to deter an enemy in the realm of information warfare.Setting the stage with an ove...

WISDEN comes to life as we relive the finest, the strangest and the most dramatic moments of cricketing history in this entertaining portrait of the English game. Take your seat on the boundary as we enjoy some of the most colourful and intriguing English cricket matches in the history of the game, as King George VI takes a hat trick in the grounds of Windsor castle, a cricket-loving vicar escapes death on the high seas, Denis Compton scores 18 centuries in one glorious summer and while a ...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has ende...

With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies.‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atm...

A laugh-out-loud tale of love, life lessons, and an odd little man named Mungo Thunk.Bathroom scales were not an appropriate gift for his fiancée’s birthday … apparently.Ever since he ate seven pickled gherkins for lunch at school, and subsequently shat himself during a maths lesson, Adam Maxwell has been cursed by a lack of common sense.Now in his early thirties, that lack of common sense is about to throw Adam’s life into turmoil after one particularly ill-judged ...

Stigma is one of the major barriers to care for people with mental health and related disorders. Stigma includes negative beliefs about and hostile perceptions towards others, shame and self-stigma, discriminatory practices in hiring, promotion and recognition of people who suffer from mental health challenges, and structural and organizational policies and processes that result in inequalities for people who have mental health challenges. Stigma has been recognized as a significant factor...

Collects Annihilation #1-6 & Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus #1-2. Nova! Drax! Super-Skrull! Ronan! Quasar! Thanos! Annihilus! Silver Surfer! Galactus! With the power of Galactus behind him, is Annihilus unstoppable? The universe’s one hope may be Thanos the mad Titan as sacrifices are made, ancient evil strikes, and new heroes rise!