For years, the inter-planetary slave traders had stayed one flight ahead of the Military. Paradoxically, their acceptance of the honesty of science had led them to discover what most of their law abiding species had not: Highly evolved alien bodies worth a fortune in platinum lurked in many of the Federation's jungles.How advanced was the technology that kept this evil trade out of the Military's laser sights? What share did their political masters take from this lucrative enterpris...

Evolution had been paralleled on other planets; most humans would not accept this. Politics nurtured this ignorance which meant that many crimes were allowed to go unpunished. Denial of the existence of these other peoples was not only dangerous for all species, but held back the whole Galaxy. Human complacency was born of their reliance on technology which they assumed put them at the pinnacle of evolution!Humanity hadn't changed, now it had the means as well as the motivation to e...

Whether it was the blood spilt in the jungles or poisoned for an assault on the genes, the inter-species battles were over. While there were still bloody arguments yet to come, most ambitions would now be channelled into the political arena where humanity's prejudices could be aired under the cloak of its assumed superiority! But thanks to the continuing heroism of a few, bigotry and corruption would be fought all the way through the Senate and the courts to the next stage of evolutions de...

Henri Duday is Director of Research for CNRS at the University of Bordeaux. The Archaeology of the Dead is based on an intensive specialist course in burial archaeology given by Duday in Rome in November 2004. The primary aim of the project was to contribute to the development of common procedures for excavation, data collection and study of Roman cemeteries of the imperial period. Translated into English by Anna Maria Cipriani and John Pearce, this book looks at the way in which the analy...

The twenty-third Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) was held at King’s College, London in Spring 2013. During the three-day conference nearly papers were delivered, discussing issues from a wide range of geographical regions of the Roman Empire, and applying various theoretical and methodological approaches. Sessions included those looking at Roman–Barbarian interactions; identity and funerary monuments in ancient Italy; migration and social identity in the Roman Near East; th...

The study of funerary practice has become one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of Roman archaeology in recent decades. This volume draws on large-scale fieldwork from across Europe, methodological advances and conceptual innovations to explore new insights from analysis of the Roman dead, concerning both the rituals which saw them to their tombs and the communities who buried them. In particular the volume seeks to establish how the ritual sequence, from laying out the dea...

If your child isn't sleeping through the night, the chances are neither are you. But help is at hand from one of Britain's leading child psychiatrists.Now fully updated, THE NEW BABY AND TODDLER SLEEP PROGRAMME takes the agony out of bedtime and explains how a calm and peaceful sleep routine is possible with any child from a very early age. Regular sleep patterns are an essential part of normal childhood development and the earlier in their lives that sleep can be 'sorted' the easi...

A plucky dog; a lonely boy; a furious bull – can they all come together as the birthplace of a lifelong friendship for a stray and a boy?***Oh, For the Love of Dog! is a tale of a very special kind of mateship.Toby, our young hero, fails to cross the field that’s home to a very bored, always angry bull called Sumo. The lad only just evades the horns of the massive brute – then things start to look bad. Really bad!As Toby scrambles up a tree to avoid the danger, ...

Did you know that it is perfectly normal for a baby from 0-6 months to wake up every 20 minutes - often to cry? Do you worry about upsetting your 2 year-old, who refuses to go to sleep without another story? Did you know that every child will experience night-time fears at a different age? Do you need guidance on how to negotiate bed-times, or wonder how to get your child to bed at all? Regular sleep patterns - for children and adults - are an essential key to managing the rest of our live...

50 Roman Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme highlights some of the most important and interesting Roman objects recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) or reported as Treasure. It features a wide variety of objects, allowing for a balanced presentation of both well-preserved everyday objects and some of the most spectacular finds to have been recorded by the PAS. Iconic objects featured here include the Crosby Garrett helmet and the Ilam pan. Collectively, the fifty examp...

Lauren is a short introduction to the Eddie Grant Series. It tells of the time when Eddie was in college in Texas and met Lauren Adams, who became his first wife.Her death at the hands of a gang of international criminals was the incident that started the conspiracy that, years later, Eddie Grant unravelled with the help of Jen Wetzmuller and Aurélie Cabillaud. It is a prequel to Treasure of Saint-Lazare, Last Stop: Paris, and Finding Pegasus.

Humans by themselves could only fail. Society is splintered after allowing an evolving artificial intelligence, calling itself Makr run the planet's resources, saving humankind the trouble. Not all people have accepted the illusion of a perfectly run society or PerSoc. The lazy and frustrated ones did. Some even worship Makr as a god. Makr has armies of mobile cyberts constantly seeking out human malcontents to delete. Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might ...