Vibrating with endeavours for Britain's effort against the might of Nazi Germany, Clydebank was – in hindsight – an obvious target for the attentions of the Luftwaffe. When, on the evening of 13 March 1941, the authorities first detected that Clydebank was 'on beam' – targeted by the primitive radio-guidance system of the German bombers – no effort was made to raise the alarm or to direct the residents to shelter or flight. Within the hour, a vast timber-yard, three oil-stores, and two dis...

On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. A chaotic Admiralty had made no adequate arrangements for their safe journey home. Corners were cut, an elderly and recently requisitioned steam-yacht was sent from Stornoway, and that evening HMY Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh, grossly overloaded and with life-belts for less than a third of...

Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive and informative textbook provides readers with an overview of current consumer sales law and equips them with a view of how this fast-changing subject has, and will continue to develop through the inclusion of new reform proposals.This book analyzes the interaction of consumer sales law with politics, the appeal of consumer protection to politicians and the influence of the European Union and the EU Directives. It also discusses the rem...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Deleterium: Beyond ForeverSome loves are forged in fire. Others are born of starlight. But sometimes, a love story is written across lifetimes and a cosmic war.Meet Katherine, a woman of grace and resolve, whose world shatters when a shipwreck lands her on the mysterious Isle of Lewis in 1313. Imprisoned by a Scottish chieftain named Thom MacLeod, she finds herself tangled in a web of ancient prophecy, c...

Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Caítlin R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Mich...

100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.Including stories by:...

In the 1960s and 1970s, New Worlds magazine, edited by Michael Moorcock, became famous for its avant garde approach to SF, energising the genre's New Wave with exciting innovations in style, content, and presentation. Here J G Ballard and Brian Aldiss shared pages with Samuel R Delany and Norman Spinrad, Pamela Zoline with M John Harrison, Charles Platt with Harlan Ellison. Hilary Bailey with Thomas M. Disch.Now PS Publishing, with the enthusiastic endorsement and participation of ...

Dramatische Western aus einer beispiellos harten Zeit. Männer im Kampf um Recht und Rache in einer Epoche, deren Gesetz der Colt schrieb. Top-Autoren des Wildwest-Roman-Genres haben diese Geschichten in Szene gesetzt. Aufrechte Männer, hinterhältige Schurken und atemberaubend schöne Frauen spielen hier die Hauptrollen. Dieses Buch enthält die Western: Alfred Bekker: Dunkler Prediger Alfred Bekker: Gilmore der Einsame John Frederick: Die Rückkehr des Ranchers William MacLeod Raine: Das Tal ...

Cooperatives in the Global Economy presents a unique collection of research-based chapters contributed by leading social and economic thinkers that provide critical insights into how the cooperative business model meets the challenges of the complex global problems in today’s competitive economy. Apart from theoretical arguments in favor of the value-based cooperative business model, this book presents the performance indicators of various forms of cooperatives, their potentialities, and c...

We don't know what the future might hold. Until now.Offering a collection of terrifying stories of science fiction and speculative fiction horrors, OMINOUS REALITIES is a dark thrill ride to explore what might be in store for mankind.This wicked journey isn't limited by time or gravity. It takes you on an exploration of futuristic and post-Apocalyptic worlds, to experience societies where dark corporations rule, where humanity must consider terrifying alternatives, and to t...

There are some nightmares from which you can never wake.Dread: A Head Full of Bad Dreams, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editoral team of Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, is Volume One in the Best of Grey Matter Press series. Selected by readers and horror fans, the twenty short stories contained within the pages of Dread include some of the darkest hallucinatory revelations from the minds of the most accomplished award-winning authors of our time.T...

Handmade Horror Stories, Second EditionFrom quiet horrors to chilling nightmares, this anthology gives new meaning to being creative.Fine Art, Creative Trades, and Arts & Crafts seep into these poems and tales.Foreword by Suzanne Craig-WhytockPoetry by Carolyn Clink, and Lisa TimpfStories by: Miranda Dahlin, Michelle Tang, Mary Rajotte, Tiffany Michelle Brown, Fiona M Jones,C.M. Saunders, Stephen McQuiggan, Ali Seay, ...