Why are humans so fond of water?Why is our skin colour so variable?Why aren’t we hairy like our close ape relatives?A savannah scenario of human evolution has been widely accepted primarily due to fossil evidence; and fossils do not offer insight into these questions. Other alternative evolutionary scenarios might, but these models have been rejected. This book explores a controversial idea – that human evolution was intimately associated with watery habitats as muc...

The updated bestselling guide to human metabolism and metabolic regulationThe revised and comprehensively updated new edition of Human Metabolism (formerly Metabolic Regulation – A Human Perspective) offers a current and integrated review of metabolism and metabolic regulation. The authors explain difficult concepts in clear and concise terms in order to provide an accessible and essential guide to the topic. This comprehensive text covers a wide ...

Ten tales of off-centre lust set mostly in Hong Kong. Told sometimes from the female perspective and sometimes from the male, these tales are ostensibly the fantasies of the ex-pat academic Stephen Mason, whose last few turbulent months are described in the companion novel ‘Servant and Mistress’. Featuring a range of offbeat scenarios and characters including a rich Hong Kong socialite who invites her male guests to very special meals and a man whose sexual jealousy drives him to share his...

A story of lust and love set in Hong Kong and Japan. An ex-pat academic, Stephen Mason, decides to turn his back on monogamous relationships and investigate his submissive side by writing masochistic fantasies in short story form, and acting them out with willing female partners. Like many controlled investigations, however, it goes awry when he falls in love with the one partner he can never have.A big, readable story of obsessive love and off-centre sex.

Ten tales of off-centre lust set mostly in Hong Kong. Told sometimes from the female perspective and sometimes from the male, these tales are ostensibly the fantasies of the ex-pat academic Stephen Mason, whose last few turbulent months are described in the companion novel ‘Servant and Mistress’. Featuring a range of offbeat scenarios and characters including a rich Hong Kong socialite who invites her male guests to very special meals and a man whose sexual jealousy drives him to share his...

‘Servant and Mistress’ is an intensely erotic novel and a darkly romantic tale of doomed and obsessive love.Stephen Mason, an ex-pat Englishman, decides to turn his back on monogamous relationships and explore his submissive side in post-handover Hong Kong at the start of the century. Acting out his masochistic fantasies with several willing female partners, including the mysterious Aioko, an erotic, dominating woman who is also the lost little girl of Stephen’s fantasies. But his ...

‘Servant and Mistress’ is an intensely erotic novel and a darkly romantic tale of doomed and obsessive love.Stephen Mason, an ex-pat Englishman, decides to turn his back on monogamous relationships and explore his submissive side in post-handover Hong Kong at the start of the century. Acting out his masochistic fantasies with several willing female partners, including the mysterious Aioko, an erotic, dominating woman who is also the lost little girl of Stephen’s fantasies. But his ...

Ten tales of off-centre lust set mostly in Hong Kong. Told sometimes from the female perspective and sometimes from the male, these tales are ostensibly the fantasies of the ex-pat academic Stephen Mason, whose last few turbulent months are described in the companion novel ‘Servant and Mistress’. Featuring a range of offbeat scenarios and characters including a rich Hong Kong socialite who invites her male guests to very special meals and a man whose sexual jealousy drives him to share his...

Applying Occupational Psychology in the Fire Service: Emotion, Risk and Decision-Making provides readers with an overview of the latest research informing the policies, procedures and practices of those working on the ground in the UK Fire Service. Using best-practice principles and cutting-edge theory, the current text demonstrates how occupational psychology can be applied to fire services around the globe to improve individual, management, and organisational decisions. The auth...

This second edition of an award winning title has been thoroughly updated by a team of world leading head and neck surgeons, oncologists and allied healthcare professionals. Principles and Practice of Head & Neck Surgery and Oncology, 2nd edition is a comprehensive evidence-based account of the current scientific knowledge about head and neck t