David Mason graduated from the Australian National University with a law degree and an honours degree. Like those around him, he could easily have settled for a life of share portfolios, good suits, new cars and big houses. But David wanted more – he wanted a challenge, an adventure, something beyond the ordinary that would test him physically and mentally. He looked around to see what he could do. Working in an open-cut mine . . . done that. Running a marathon . . . hmm, not hard enough. ...

American intelligence experts uncover a successful plot by a British businessman and a government minister to assassinate Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

David Mason was a science-fiction writer, who published in pulp fiction magazines.In this collection, you will find three short stories by this author, full of innovation, adventure and mystery.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s the drug Thalidomide (marketed in the UK by Distillers Company without sufficient testing) was a sedative and medication prescribed for morning sickness. The Thalidomide tragedy is the story of one of the worst disasters ever inflicted by medicine which led to thousands of babies worldwide being born with a range of birth defects.‘The ugly story of a good fight’Fifty years after its first publication in 1976 Routledge is now reissuing T...

An American President anxious about his re-election needs publicity. An American Indian Tribe is found who have not signed a treaty with the Government. He can't travel to the other side of the country; the Army won't help,he promotes a Midshipman to form an escort of Sailors, led by a clerk from the Dept., for Indian affairs who turns out to be the Widow of an Army Colonel......a tough cookie. A truly unusual and fascinating story.

Pru'ut is a small hot planet, covered with fern forests and swamps, and inhabited by one of the innumerable primate-human species of the universe. It was also inhabited, for a while, by one Terran, James Grady. The natives called their world Pru'ut, Grady called it The Mud Hole. He was the sole human on the planet, and his job was to pay the natives to collect the native plants and have them picked up 3 times a year. The company turned them into an array of wonderful drugs for the rest of ...

"Witty and heartfelt essays, shaken and stirred."—Kirkus Reviews"David Mason believes in literature as a weather event—even an extreme one. He reads to be changed—drenched, burned, blown away. He has no wish to have his standing position confirmed, and is alert to the ways in which his subjects are changed, both by their writing and its reception. These essays move comfortably from the lines of a Nobel Prize-winning poet to...

From Connecticut in 1902 to the UK, then back to the US. "California here I come" was the dream that kept her going through the depression and WW2. A Fascinating life story.

Este libro te lleva en un viaje espectacular con alimentos y verduras, específicamente.Si aún no tienes una aventura amorosa con tus amigos amigos, ya es hora de que aprendas a aprovechar los muchos beneficios que ofrece. El veganismo no es una moda, es un estilo de vida, y está obteniendo la mejor guía a lo largo de todo el viaje con este libro.En esta guía y libro de cocina veganos para principiantes, aprenderá cómo comenzar y hacer la transición a una die...

These interesting short stories are specifically for youngsters with a sensed of humour. Ideal for holidays or bedtime reading. Nobody will ever become bored when reading this book, the tales are so funny, you do have to laugh.

Not your average spy story, here we have professionals, amateurs and incompetents competing. As the locations change, so the tale begins to warm up, then it boils.

FORMER COLORADO POET LAUREATEFrom the volcanic landscapes of the Pacific Rim to the mythic echoes of Greece and India, Cold Fire is a radiant meditation on memory, nature, and the enduring sparks of love and creation.David Mason’s poetry circles the globe. The urgent and beautiful poems of his new book, Cold Fire, have settings in Australia, India, Greece, Turkey and the American West. A t...