When ‘You Really Got Me’ exploded on Swinging London in 1964, the Kinks forever changed the course of rock ’n’ roll. Ray Davies and Joe Penhall’s Olivier Award-winning Sunny Afternoon (2014) covers the band’s formative years of 1964–7, when four working- class North London lads broke through to become one of the most unlikely and influential rock bands of the 1960s. Mixing the comic adventures of ‘Dave the Rave’ with the touching introspection of Ray’s sometimes fragile psyche, Jo...

"In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth. Soon thereafter, however, the harmonious communion that God intended for mankind to live within was interrupted by a sinister intervention from the enemy. As days turned into years, this ancient agenda of corruption continued to intertwine even more deeply with the human story affecting the very makeup of mankind. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. That the so...

With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, where his plays have won three Tony awards and his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.John Fleming offe...

Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for words and ideas in his early career, with his emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement in his later career.With its engaging alteration between past and present Arcadia offers a comedic and e...

Waves and Ripples in Water, Air, and Aether by Sir William Henry Bragg is a classic scientific treatise that explores the fascinating phenomena of wave motion in various mediums. Originally published in 1910, this book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the principles of wave theory, making it suitable for both students and general readers interested in physics and natural science. Bragg, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, skillfully guides readers through the fundamental ...

A story of big dreams and lost shoes, The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman examines how truth becomes fiction in a joyful and hilarious satire of Florida tourism. Josef Steinmetz is a young immigrant seeking fortune in 1880s South Florida. Earl Shank is a small-town postmaster with an entrepreneurial spirit. When fate delivers Josef like an errant letter into Earl's hands, their disastrous lives become the stuff of legend. Originally published in 1995, this 20th Anniversary electronic reprin...

Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming is a seminal work that delves into the early principles and practical applications of wireless telegraphy, a revolutionary technology at the turn of the 20th century. The book provides a comprehensive exploration of the scientific foundations laid by Heinrich Hertz, whose experiments with electromagnetic waves paved the way for wireless communication. Fleming meticulously explains the nature of Hertzian waves, their propagation, and...

Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 ? 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He is also famous for the left hand rule (for electric motors).Excerpt:The immense public interest which has been aroused of late years in the subject of telegraphy without connecting wires has undoubtedly been stimulated by the achievements of Mr. Marco...

We have all stood many times by the seashore, watching the waves, crested with white foam, roll in and break upon the rocks or beach. Every one has more than once cast a stone upon still water in a lake or pond, and noticed the expanding rings of ripples; and some have voyaged over stormy seas, whereon great ships are tossed by mighty billows with no more seeming effort than the rocking of a cradle. In all these things we have been spectators of a wave-motion, as it is called, taking place...

Super-spy Eric Swan is back in action!After weeks contemplating his future as a Q2 agent, Swan is drawn into the investigation of a tech billionaire who has curiously turned his attention to the world’s food supply.Jason Deele has the money and the resources to revolutionize an industry, but there’s a sinister element to his plan.Even more alarming, Deele has teamed with a scientist harboring her own dark agenda.Still questioning the authent...

Superspy Eric Swan has given his life for his country. More than once.But each time he does it, he wonders how much of his soul he’s sacrificing.Now he must battle a treacherous madman intent on poisoning the water supply. But, this Nobel-winning brainiac isn’t alone in his lust for revenge. Swan must outsmart a secret society of rogue scholars before they release their apocalyptic toxin. If he fails, millions of people will ultimately face a gruesome, agon...

Super-spy Eric Swan is back! This time he must face not only his most cunning enemy yet, but also stare down his most crippling fears.The brilliant scientist known as God Maker, the mother of the Q2 program, has been kidnapped.She's held by a psychotic former Q2 operative who went dark, but has now resurfaced with a sinister plan.Swan must track down God Maker and her captor, while fighting back the fear that he, too, is damaged beyond hope...