First Published in 2002. Environmental Physics is a comprehensive introduction to the physical concepts underlying environmental science. The importance and relevance of physics is emphasised by its application to real environmental problems with a wide range of case studies. Applications included cover energy use and production, global climate, the physics of living things, radioactivity, environmental remote sensing, noise pollution and the physics of the Earth. The book makes the subjec...

Environmental Physics is a comprehensive introduction to the physical concepts underlying environmental science. The importance and relevance of physics is emphasised by its application to real environmental problems with a wide range of case studies. Applications included cover energy use and production, global climate, the physics of living things, radioactivity, environmental remote sensing, noise pollution and the physics of the Earth. The book makes the subject accessible to those wit...

In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London. The murderer was never caught, yet film and television depicts a killer with a recognisable costume, motive and persona. This book examines the origins of the screen presentation of the four key elements associated with the murders – Jack the Ripper, the victims, the detective and Whitechapel. Nineteenth-century history, art and literature, psychoanalytical theories of ...

I back towards the exit. "I'm not staying here for a week.""Then you die," he says bitterly. The harsh line of his mouth assures me he means it. "I'm not above killing you to protect myself and everyone else around here."Georgina never expected to find this much heat in the Washington snow…Winding up injured and naked in a stranger's basement is far from what she had in mind when she moved to the States. But this handsome stranger isn't pleased to ...

This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you.Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she’s left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her solitude through her summer school algebra class, her wandering in the city, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults—particularly men—fail her again and again, with devastating consequences.Dreamli...

Old flames burn the brightest in the dark...Georgina is on the trail of her troubled brother, but memories of the previous year still taunt her dreams. Trying to make it as a lone werewolf is harder than she'd thought possible. Especially with the claim of her former lover hanging over her & the contempt of male werewolves everywhere.Will she finally prove them wrong once & for all?Book Three of the Alpha Wolf series.

Book three of the Indigo Skies series...---One of the wheels was spinning somewhere in the noise. My voice wheezed, whispering into the line. "Maloney... Eonsen here… It's a compound. Dark road with no lights."I could hear the vampire coming. My gaze bled across to Graeme. Maloney was our only hope now.I checked the gun's ammo with my good hand."Nothing else around here. Please…" My windpipe felt like it was be...

Book one of the Indigo Skies series...---In one slick move, Violet pivoted, pulling the gun from her ruined jeans & aiming it perfectly between the pack alpha's eyes. His yellow stare widened, freezing as quickly as the two men behind her."Underestimate me again & it will be at your peril," Violet spat.---A detective with a secret. Werewolf hitmen. An unintentional time traveller.& nobody to trust…I...

“But Zander found a cure,” Kitty’s voice replied, a squeak in the void.A snort sounded. “Zander’s never coming back. He only cares about himself. He won’t be back for us.” An angry pause. “She’s going to die & become one of them. We’ll have to kill her.”“Then what was the point in saving me,” I murmured, weakly opening my eyes.Hunted. Haunted. Heartbroken.Far from improving, Cadence Laurence’s problems have only gotten worse with t...

If I die… If I turn into a wolf now… I won't find Nathan. & I'm not going to fail him after everything.I'm a strong woman. I can do this.Texas is the one place she never expected the temperature to plummet…Georgina won't give up without a fight. She's vowed to rescue her werewolf lover no matter the danger, but when she finds him are the flames between them still burning strong or has captivity turned him to another?And what other secrets w...

This is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you.Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her solitude through her summer school algebra class, her wandering in the city, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults—particularly men—fail her again and again, with devastating consequences.Dreamli...

Straight from the journal of Rebecca Clare Smith (author of the Indigo Skies series & the Survival trilogy), this anthology brings you poetic ruminations on the exquisite form of the universe. Be that through the medium of love, loss, nature, or the small thoughts that catch us in the earliest of hours.Raw and untouched, these works have been crafted in the soul. Within these pages they are trapped in the hope that they, too, can speak to you.