SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 1.The year is 2012. In CERN, the huge research facility near Geneva, Switzerland, a crucial experiment is reaching its final stage. Its objective: to send a manned space probe to a distant planet, in order to find a cure for Earth's dwindling mineral resources. But then, something unforeseen happens. Lost in an unknown place, the crew of the SURVIVOR is revived from a deep-freeze sleep. Three of its members have no recollecti...

More cock and bull stories from New Zealand's favourite country Vets Peter Anderson (aka the Flying Vet) and Peter Jerram (aka the Sailing Vet) are back with more lough-out-loud and entertaining yarns about the animals, and owners, they've come across during their more than thirty years in practice together. Join them as they cut straight through the cow-shit, sharing the ups and downs of a rural vet's life - a must for all animal lovers in New Zealand.

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 4.The crew of the space ship SURVIVOR is lost in a subterranean factory complex marked by rust and decay. A group of rebels offers to take them to their hidden quarters. Among the crew, there is Maria dos Santos, who grew up in the Peruvian Andes. By her ability to influence the feelings of others she has saved her native village from guerrilla fighters. She also has healing powers, which is why the sick from many nearby vill...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 5.Commander Ryan Nash and his friend Jabo have become separated from their friends. Jabo, who has been transformed into a cyborg, half men and half machine, implores Ryan to kill him. For he is afraid of losing his fight against the program in his head and turning into a killing machine. But then Ryan and Jabo are attacked by a real monster: the "Long", a man-eating behemoth. During their headlong flight through the corridors...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 7.The mysterious Russian called Nubroski explains to Commander Ryan Nash that a Chinese space ship has followed in the wake of the SURVIVOR but cannot get back again. It lies deeply submerged under tons of water but still has a fully charged energy module. Ryan and his friend, Jabo, force Nubroski to show them the way to his ship. For Ryan is capable of breathing under water. This special gift helped him when he first met the...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 9.Dr Gabriel Proctor, chief scientist of the SURVIVOR mission, has joined forces with the rebels of the submarine world. He has tried to contact the "Free", another political group, who are apparently living on the surface. But the Free for some inexplicable reason name him a traitor, and afterwards nobody seems to trust him anymore. Proctor is determined to try and escape from the rebel quarter and convince the Free of his i...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 10.Ai, who had been seriously injured, has been left in the headquarters of the rebels by her fellow members of the SURVIVOR team. Healed from her wounds in a mysterious way, she manages to escape from the medical station. But the Overseers are quick to take pursuit. During her flight, Ai passes through a giant hall used for growing plants. The garden is lit by artificial suns and has grown into a dense jungle. In her fight a...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 12.The final countdown of the first season. All roads lead back to the stranded space ship SURVIVOR. But the longest road was taken by Dr Peter Kasanov. As a child, he was liberated by the Soviet Army from a concentration camp. Under Stalin, his parents, brilliant physicists, took part in a research project working on travels through the dimensions. When the experiment went wrong, the boy genius Peter took up the baton. Now h...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 3.The crew of the space ship SURVIVOR is stranded in a strange world. One of them, the black Frenchman Jacques D'Abo, has been seriously injured in a fight, losing his arm. Jabo, as he is called, grew up in a suburb of Paris. He has the special ability that his wounds heal all by themselves, which in his youth helped him to survive in a brutal milieu. But this gift cannot replace a missing limb. There is only one hope for Jab...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 2.Ryan Nash and the crew of the space ship SURVIVOR have set out to explore a distant planet. Instead they find themselves in a huge subterranean industrial complex. A factory where Chinese workers are ruled by "Overseers", a caste of machine-men who were human once. Only one crew member understands their common language: Ai Rogers, a young woman half English and half Chinese. After the handover of Hong Kong to China she grew...

SURVIVOR: A digital serial novel in 12 episodes. Episode 8.Maria, Proctor and Ai, crew members of the space ship SURVIVOR, are prisoners of the rebel forces. When the rebels are attacked the three companions manage to escape. Soon they come to realize that the factory plant they are trapped in is actually not a subterranean complex but lies at the bottom of the sea. Recaptured by the rebels, they are taken by submarine to their headquarters, where Maria hopes to be able to cure the...

The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of 'dangerous' parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state could provide superior guardianship to 'unfit' parents. In the late nineteenth century, the juvenile-court movement led the way in forging a new and more efficient system of child removal that severely curtailed the p...