A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers. Just as the process is difficult and distressing for the immigrants, it is likewise a significant cause of stress for the regions in which they settle. Long homogeneous communities experience overnight changes in their populations and in the demands placed on schools, housing, law enforcement,...

La persona que decida dedicar su vida a la ciencia no debería contar con una cosa: fama póstuma. La mayoría de los textos científicos son ignorados desde el principio, algunos son discutidos por un tiempo para luego ser archivados, pero solo un reducido número de autores logra generar una nueva orientación de la discusión científica. No obstante, incluso en este último caso sus concepciones pocas veces perduran más de una generación; luego sufren también ese destino que no consiste en habe...

A man's past catches up with him in the form of a vengeful and wrongfully dismissed former employee; another man finds himself travelling between two parallel dimensions... And two entirely different marital situation; a wife tells a husband she loves him but he is no longer enough and she needs more; while yet another French wife turns the life of her faithless husband on its head by embarking upon a lesbian affair with their Indian accountant.This volume contains:“His Fem...

A collection of full-cast dramatisations and original radio plays from master storyteller Ted Allbeury – plus bonus programmesDescribed by Len Deighton as ‘a classic writer of espionage fiction’, Ted Allbeury based his many acclaimed spy novels on his own real-life experiences. In World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with Special Operations Executive, and subsequently ran agents across the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. He b...