This book offers a concise, chronological history of bus and coach travel, exploring the significant contribution this form of travel has made to the development of Britain’s tourism industry. Through eight chapters the book explores the way that bus and coach travel has evolved, from early horse-drawn carriages to the latest electric buses, taking readers on a journey of technological innovation, public and private sector ownership and competition between rail, air and road transport. Alo...

Interludes often focus on events and characters far from the The 33's action-packed front lines.The motto of the Five-By-Five is Narum Regnum, Principium et Finis — The Backbone of the Kingdom, The First and the Last. It's a fitting phrase for this global network of specialists who support The 33, an unlikely team of world-saving misfits.Rags and Skids are Five-Bys. The jaded mechanics work in the basement of the Farmhouse, The 33's strange headqua...

Needles: Part 1 is the fifth episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.The Mojave Desert: bleak, merciless, murderous. Few people know this better than the residents of Needles, a windswept town on the California border. Strange things happen out there in those ancient sands ... and one townie has just paid the ultimate price for his curiosity.The 33, a team of world-saving misfits, has been dispatched to ...

Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they're at a desperate crossroad, even if they won't admit it. They're searching throu...

First appearing in 1972, National Express coaches have become a familiar site on the UK’s roads, and are very much a part of popular culture, celebrated in songs and on television. With many former National Express vehicles finding their way to preservation, this book explores the history of this very British brand and celebrates the history and heritage of a British institution. The book covers the operations of the business, the evolution of the National Express brand and the development...

Pramantha: Part 1 is the first episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.After cutting a deal with a mysterious recruiter, Addison Creel is thrust into a world he barely understands. He's been called to join The 33 — a group of thirty-three misfits tasked with protecting humanity from ruthless criminals, malicious technologies, black magicians and hostile supernatural beings.Addison's first day on the job ...

In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence the ways that men and women allocate tasks and responsibilities at home?In Gender Equality, Volume VI in the Real Utopias series, social scientists Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers propose a set of policies-paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early chi...

Pramantha: Part 2 is the second episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.Addison Creel used to run with a dangerous crowd. He's in worse company now.Recruited by an elite team of world-saving misfits called The 33, Addison is now on the road, en route to investigate a malevolent force terrorizing a high-tech commune in the Washington woods.On the way, he'll learn a great deal about his new comrade...

Pramantha: Part 3 is the third episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.Pramantha — An idyllic research & development commune with a deadly secret. Technologists here are forging the future of communications and entertainment ... but something here is driving its residents insane.Addison Creel, John Swords III, Bliss, Mad_Ana and Azael — members of the world-saving group, The 33 — are now here, investigat...

Pramantha: Part 4 is the fourth episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.Zebulon Pike isn't just the world's richest man — he's a powerful codeshaman, able to control computer code with his mind. He's also responsible for the most deadly act of terrorism America has ever known ... and forgotten.The maniac has enslaved a dangerous supernatural force, bound it to groundbreaking technology, and will soon unl...

Needles: Part 2 is the sixth episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.Aella Yates. Code name: Bliss. She's an expert in more than twenty forms of hand-to-hand combat. She has a 300-year-old katana sword from the future that shoots bullets. Her past is a blood-soaked secret. She's the greatest warrior The 33 has ever known.And now she's in charge ... and The 33 is about to die.Things are going terribly wrong in Nee...

The second in a series of story groupings based upon a pre-existing work of art, in this case a Richard Anderson painting. The first such group, The Palencar Project, was published by Tor.com in 2012.Ken Liu is among the most prominent new award-winning Science Fiction writers of the last decade, and in "Reborn" his vision of a really uncanny alien invasion set in Boston, MA, is a stunner, with echoing reverberations, of love, identity, resistance and revo...