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...

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.

‘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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Ramil Rattanathorn takes a temporary banquet-waiter job at a debt-ridden Bangkok hotel to find out whether the business is worth saving. The Sorasak family sees a poorly paid worker getting close to their estranged heir and calls him a gold digger. They do not know Ram co-founded the investment manager behind the fund holding most of the hotel's debt.Kavee Sorasak treats Ram with a kindness the rest of his family denies the staff. As their attraction deepens, Ram's undercover assig...

Thanachon "Chon" Saranon meant to have his first sex toy delivered discreetly to his Bangkok condo. Instead, an old saved address sends it across the hall to his best friend, Pete—who opens the box and breaks the charging dock before spotting Chon's name on the label.They've shared Friday dinners and spare keys for eleven years, but this is new territory. Pete writes instructions for a living, Chon designs consumer hardware, and the product manual is so confusing that their custome...

Rookie actors Han Jiho and Ren Yu have a contract to play the perfect couple while promoting their new BL drama. The interviews, live streams, and staged intimacy are all part of the job. Their feelings are not.To build chemistry, their management company moves them into neighboring rooms at Starling House. Then a glitch in the agency network starts sending private rehearsal notes, voice memos, and unsent drafts to the wrong phone. Ren glimpses the fear behind Jiho's polished smile...

Han Yuwon has spent three years passing as a beta. In Seoryun City, an unregistered omega can be traded through contracts disguised as protection, so he keeps his scent blocked and his papers forged. Then Kang Seojun raids his workplace and recognizes him at once.Seojun, the feared heir of House Kang, offers Yuwon ninety days of legal cover as his temporary partner. The contract sets boundaries Yuwon can negotiate, but accepting it puts him under the protection of an alpha house—an...