To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives.In the ruthless pursuit of his goals he would sacrifice anything - even another climber's life. His friends and family know and fear it. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised when he becomes obsessed with being the first to scale it.Together with his climbing partner, Bill Taylor, they set off into a region of Tibet highly restricte...

The brand new gripping thriller from the author of The Secret Chamber.Two kilometres beneath the frozen ice caps of Antarctica lies a lake, unfrozen and perfectly preserved for twenty million years. Luca Matthews has been tasked by MI6 officer Kieran Bates to lead a team of scientists to the site to discover what secrets lie trapped below.But Bates has a secret of his own, and his actions are not going unnoticed. When mining investigator ‘Bear’ Mak...

People have been disappearing in what the explorer Stanley called the black heart of Africa - the impenetrable forests of northern Congo. But when a brilliant young English doctor vanishes, alarm bells really start to ring. Intelligence chief Jack Milton sends a message to his godson Luca Matthews (The Forbidden Temple hero) in the Himalayas asking him to go to Africa and find Joshua. Reluctantly Luca obeys, but he is no longer the man he once was, traumatised by his part in the d...

Eine Reise ins Herz der FinsternisDer britische Arzt Joshua Milton ist spurlos verschwunden. Letzte Station: Kongo. Zutiefst beunruhigt macht sich sein Freund Luca auf die Suche, unterstützt von der Geologin Beatrice Makuru. Eine gefährliche Expedition: Das Gebiet ist Sperrzone, das Land verwaist, von der Bevölkerung fehlt jede Spur.Die beiden merken bald, dass auch sie dort unerwünscht sind. Ihre Verfolger dicht auf den Fersen, kämpfen sie sich durch den tiefen Dschungel. Ei...

Inmitten von Bergen, umhüllt von Wolken, hütet Tibet seinen größten Schatz.Ein Kloster, hoch oben im Himalaya. Keiner kennt den Weg dorthin.Zwei junge britische Bergsteiger, bereit für das Abenteuer ihres Lebens.Ein kleiner Junge auf der Flucht. Die Hoffnung eines ganzen Volkes ruht auf ihm.Ihnen auf den Fersen chinesische Soldaten. General Zhu weiß, wie man jemanden zum Reden bringt.Ein tödliches Katz-und-Maus-Spiel. Der Einsatz ist das Schicksal Tibets....

Conspiracies, secrets and high-octane adventure in the Congo. Another gripping thriller from the author of The Forbidden Temple.When a brilliant young English doctor vanishes in the impenetrable forests of northern Congo, Intelligence chief Jack Milton sends a message to his godson Luca Matthews in the Himalayas, asking him to go to Africa and find Joshua. Reluctantly Luca obeys, but he is no longer the man he once was. Meanwhile in Africa, brilliant flying pilot Beatrice (Bear) Ma...

To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised when he becomes obsessed with being the first to scale it, unaware of the mortal danger and secret world he is about to uncover...

Geometry with Trigonometry Second Edition is a second course in plane Euclidean geometry, second in the sense that many of its basic concepts will have been dealt with at school, less precisely. It gets underway with a large section of pure geometry in Chapters 2 to 5 inclusive, in which many familiar results are efficiently proved, although the logical frame work is not traditional. In Chapter 6 there is a convenient introduction of coordinate geometry in which the only use of angles is t...

The first part of the book reviews the way flavour is detected and measured. The first two chapters discuss our understanding of how humans perceive and then process information about taste compounds. Chapter three reviews current practice in the sensory analysis of food flavour. Chapter four discusses choosing from the wide range of instrumental techniques which have been developed to identify aroma compounds. The final chapter in Part One discusses the complex issues in matching instrume...

Flavor: From Food to Behaviors, Wellbeing and Health is the first single-volume resource focused on the different mechanisms of flavor perception from food ingestion, to sensory image integration and the physiological effects that may explain food behaviors. The information contained is highly multidisciplinary, starting with chemistry and biochemistry, and then continuing with psychology, neurobiology, and sociology. The book gives coherence between results obtained in these fields to bet...