Today, forest health and the management of threats towards it are attracting more and more attention on a global scale. This book covers the most recent advances in the management of forest diseases, including the epidemiology and infection biology of forest pathogens, and forest protection based on integrated pest and disease management approaches. A comprehensive range of diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi and other organisms are discussed in detail, making this book essential r...

A collection of horror stories set in shadowy caverns, crypts, and other undesirable hollows.Contents:Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson (Weird Tales, June-July 1939)The story of dreadful creatures burrowing up into the New York subway.The Creeper in the Crypt by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, July 1937)An unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham.The Secret in the Tom...

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe - Great Astronomers: Johannes Kepler - Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton - Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus - Great Astronomers: Galileo Galilei - Great Astronomers: John Flamsteed -Great Astronomers: Edmond Halley - Great Astronomers: James Bradley - Great Astronomers: William Herschel - Great Astronomers: Pierre-Simon Laplace - Great Astronomers: William Parsons - Great Astronomers...

L’oubli a dévoré l’amour. Effacement de l’être aimé : voilà ce qu’il reste ici d’Albertine pour le Narrateur. Ce roman entame le solde de la Recherche. Proust y analyse les phénomènes de la rupture amoureuse et de l’épuisement de la relation sous le poids du temps. "Mademoiselle Albertine est partie" : le départ ouvre le travail du deuil. Aux tentatives de faire revenir l’être aimé, aux soupçons intermittents sur ce départ (pourquoi, avec qui ?) répond la résignation face à la mort redouté...

Dès le réveil, été comme hiver, le temps parisien entre par la fenêtre du Narrateur, frontière entre le monde et l’intime. "Ce fut surtout de ma chambre que je perçus la vie extérieure pendant cette période." Car, profitant d’une absence de sa mère, il a installé chez lui la femme aimée, Albertine, passagère clandestine qu’il tient cachée et surveille à chaque sortie, dans la crainte qu’elle lui préfère tel autre homme ou telle femme. Comment la retenir ? Faut-il dorer la cage du bel oisea...

What happens when an ordinary man gains the power to reshape reality itself? How dangerous can a seemingly harmless scientific breakthrough become? And what waits for humanity in the dark spaces between worlds, where survival is never guaranteed and the unknown is always watching?Lost Sci-Fi Books 321 Through 340 delivers another remarkable collection of Golden Age science fiction from some of the most imaginative writers ever to put words on paper. These twenty stories transport y...

Vintage Sci-Fi 11 - 26 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Voltaire, Philip K. Dick and moreRing Around the Sun by Isaac AsimovThe Veldt by Ray BradburyThe Masked World by Jack WilliamsonThe Small Bears by Gene L. HendersonAccept No Substitutes by Robert SheckleyTwo Weeks in August by Frank M. RobinsonDance of the Dead by Richard MathesonSavage Galahad by Bryce Walton...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 5 from the 1800s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 24 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, Voltaire, Alfred Bester, Clifford D. Simak, Richard Matheson, Murray Leinster, H. G. Wells, Fredric Brown, Donald A. Woll...

Edmond Halley,(1656–1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.Halley became a close friend of Isaac Newton. He encouraged Newton to publish his discoveries, his "Principia," but when the Royal Society had no money to pay for the publication, Halley paid for and accompli...

Suite et fin dans ce second volume des aventures de Wolf-Man, créé par Robert Kirkman & Jason Howard, pour une série qui évolue dans l'univers d'Invincible.Gary Hampton, alias Wolf-Man, a été jugé et condamné pour meurtre ! Enfermé dans la prison de Stronghold, il se retrouve face à face avec les ennemis qu'il a enfermés. Par ailleurs, le plan machiavélique de l'Ancien est révélé, et le sort final de Zacharie est scellé !

Weird Tales brings together 18 unforgettable lost science fiction and dark fantasy short stories, from Weird Tales Magazine—from the late 1800s through the golden decades of the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s.This collection plunges you into shadow-soaked ruins, forbidden knowledge, alien geometries, living houses, and terrors that refuse to remain buried. These are stories where science blurs into nightmare, curiosity becomes a fatal flaw, a...

Ce nouveau spin-off d'Invincible met en scène l'un des personnages les plus aimés par les fans de la saga : Battlebeast alias Le Fauve de Combat ! Cette trilogie se déroule entre les tomes 3 & 5 de l'intégrale en VF.Robert Kirkman himself, au scénario, et Ryan Ottley au dessin - les auteurs de la série mère - sont de retour ! Ils ne retenaient pas leurs coups sur Invincible, et maltraitaient régulièrement les personnages. Battlebeast est un récit haletant qui va encore plu...