FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence. Especially when the drug is Can-D, which transports its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat.When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to Go...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLEFourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmak-O. They have nothing in common other than a desire to make a fresh start – and they have no idea why they are there and no way of escaping. And then the first murder takes place...

An exciting novelisation of a classic TV story featuring the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9. On the planet Tigella, the Savants and the Deons are irrevocably opposed on one crucial issue: the Dodecahedron, mysterious source of all their power.To the Savants it's a miracle of science to be studied and used to benefit all. To the Deons it's a god, and not to be tampered with.When the power source begins to fluctuate, the whole planet is threatened. Zastor, Tigella's leader, wel...

Inferno is the name of a top-secret drilling project to penetrate the Earth's crust and release a major new energy source. A crisis develops when a noxious green liquid leaks out as drilling progresses - the green poison has a grotesquely debilitating effect on human beings. As the Earth's plight worsens, the Doctor is trapped in a parallel world, unable to rescue the planet and its inhabitants from the destructive force of Inferno... Caroline John, who played Liz Shaw in the original Doct...

Cardinal Jozef De Kesel makes the same bet as Pope Francis that, in the face of the phenomena of secularization, religious indifference, and institutional weakening is not by preaching about or idealizing a bygone past that Christianity can expect to regain hearing and color in Europe, because it risks isolating and separating even more than it is from a culture that no longer waits. The salvation of the Church and the safeguarding of her universal mission depend rather on its ability to f...

Louise Jameson reads this classic novelisation of a Fourth Doctor TV adventure featuring Leela and K9“Attention to detail is the hallmark of this always excellent range” Doctor Who Magazine"Louise Jameson...creates a sense of fun but still injects that essential air of tension during action sequences." - Doctor Who MagazineEveryone knows that Pluto is a barren, airless rock. So naturally the Doctor is surprised when he discovers artificial suns and ...

Step into the visionary worlds that defined a genre with this Golden Age Science Fiction Short Story Collection—a curated anthology featuring some of the most influential minds in classic sci-fi, including Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, John W. Campbell Jr., Murray Leinster, Robert Sheckley, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and William Tenn.From bold interstellar exploration and first contact encounters to mind-bending alternate realities and sharp social satire, these timeless stories capture...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURRJohn Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His ‘lives’ of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey’s biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, sti...

In the past 15-20 years major discoveries have been concluded on potato biology and biotechnology. Important new tools have been developed in the area of molecular genetics, and our understanding of potato physiology has been revolutionized due to amenability of the potato to genetic transformation. This technology has impacted our understanding of the molecular basis of plant-pathogen interaction and has also opened new opportunities for the use of the potato in a variety of non-food biot...

Thе еvоlutiоn оf thе humаn bеing has seen the human body go thrоugh diffеrеnt ѕtаgеѕ оf hungеr. The result has been the activation of a survival mechanism called autорhаgу.If уоu hаvе ever triеd tо lоѕе wеight, уоu рrоbаblу hаvе triеd traditional diеtѕ ѕuсh аѕ thе Atkinѕ Diеt; bаѕеd оn thе frеԛuеnt fееding thеоrу.The рrороnеntѕ оf ѕuсh diеtѕ tоld уоu tо еаt оftеn during thе dау. Thе idеа wаѕ thаt thе mоrе уоu еаt, thе fаѕtеr уоur mеtаbоliѕm. Thе fаѕtеr уоur mеtаbоl...

The couples who have loved the hardest, longest and most publicly over the last 50 years are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the tempestuous Roseanne Barr and Tom Arnold to the eternally devoted John Lennon and Yoko Ono to the comically intertwined Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, these duos are the best evidence yet that two is always better than one. Coupling is part of the 50 Years of the Playboy Interview e-book serie...

The Greatest Medieval Romance Novels of All Time gathers chivalric adventure, Arthurian quest, courtly love, crusading encounter, dynastic intrigue, and Gothic enchantment into a capacious history of medievalism. Its range extends from foundational romance and chronicle-inflected prose to nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century historical fiction, allowing legendary landscapes, tournaments, castles, and perilous journeys to appear in markedly different idioms. Arthurian materials, especial...