Bradt’s new cycling guide to Surrey – part of a growing series designed for the saddle bag – offers 21 routes, each including comprehensive directions plus contextual exploration of history, wildlife and culture, written by avid cyclist and historian Ross Hamilton. Each route links to OS Explorer maps and, where relevant, National Cycle Network routes, while QR codes connect with downloadable GPX maps via the komoot app, enabling navigation by smartphone. With a dedicated bike-hire section...

Everything is flying, and the modern world depends on it.The Earth spins, the Moon orbits, and the Sun pulls us through the galaxy. But humans haven't just watched from below; we've learned to understand that motion-and put it to work.In Everything Is Flying, Ross Hamilton reveals how human ingenuity transformed curiosity about the sky into the systems that power modern civilization. More than just the history of space exploration, this is the time...

• Covers the secret history of an ancient race of giants that inhabited the Americas long before European contact• Presents accounts of these beings from Native American sources, legends, and oral traditions, correlated with archeological reports• Examines the Smithsonian’s role in covering up records of the skeletal remains of giants in the Americas, looking particularly at John Wesley Powell and Aleš HrdličkaWriter and researcher Ross Hamilton uses Indigenous voic...

Great financing is the holy grail of real estate--with the power to make or break the deal. Learn how to get the money you need for the property you need.Whether you are brokering your first deal or your fiftieth, finding the right financing for that specific situation can be the most important challenge you face. However, you can find nearly unlimited supplies of funding for all your real estate deals if you know where to lookThe Inside Guide to Fundin...

From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies, this book tells the engaging history of accident as an idea.An accidental glance at a newspaper notice causes Rousseau to collapse under the force of a vision. A car accidentally hits Giacometti, and he experiences an epiphany. Darwin introduces accident to the basic process of life, and Freud looks to accident as the expression of unconscious desire. Accident, Ross Hamilton claims, is th...

• Covers the secret history of an ancient race of giants that inhabited the Americas long before European contact• Presents accounts of these beings from Native American sources, legends, and oral traditions, correlated with archeological reports• Examines the Smithsonian’s role in covering up records of the skeletal remains of giants in the Americas, looking particularly at John Wesley Powell and Aleš HrdličkaWriter and researcher Ross Hamilton uses Indigenous voic...

Captain Vorhees and Petty Officer Harris are facing court martial - for saving their ship! But why?? And how??

Could it be true - that Dallas found her heroic true love during a demonic attack on the world? Just how far will Dallas and Xerxeschribbledtichaduk go?

Life for Mike Lobar as a private eye isn't always what it seems. And this case of Ray-mond's missing boyfriend takes Lobar into a world he hadn't dreamed even existed.

A short, possibly bit weird, encounter with the late Albert Einstein...This little story was published in the anthology, 100 Stories for Queensland in early 2011. And with nothing else to do with it, I decided to give it away here as well.

Hank Beveridge and Lieutenant Newton Shapiro are a couple of nice guys whose worlds just happen to collide. Hank's getting up in years and Newton has his first independent field command. On Third World, women of marrying age are scarce as hen's teeth. Hank's still looking though. Newton has a job to do, no matter who gets hurt. The Empire is a long ways away, but the locals are at least peaceable.

This collection features 10 stories from Scott Seldon's Galactic Confederation Universe. Smuggler Tramp Darvon makes a run through a dangerous stellar nursery. Smuggler Hazdon Brenker is tricked into doing a job by a girl out for revenge. Customs Marine Sgt. Rolfel is tested to see if he has what it takes to be promoted to commander and then he and his best friend take a leisure cruise that turns out to be more business than pleasure. Trader Alluren Beldaras makes a normal delivery, but en...