The Darien Gap. A 10,000 square mile rain forest between Colombia and Panama. The most unexplored and dangerous jungle on Earth. Each year, thousands risk their lives in a hellish trek northwards through the Gap, for a chance at something better.They face unrelenting heat, humidity, venomous animals and insects, poisonous plants, starvation, thirst, disease. The most dangerous creatures are the ones the travelers hire, to guide them through this primeval place.Migrants are ...

La Petite Mort is a club like you have never seen. A highly secretive, exclusive bubble of hedonism in which anything is possible. Enter this world by the eyes of a curious rookie, and navigate this sensual and enticing atmosphere where anything is possible. The curiosity gets the best of him as he leaves all inhibitions behind and falls into the trap of a gorgeous seductress; a club regular who wastes no time in showing him what La Petite Mort is really about. In his BERLINABLE debut, J.A...

Michael is left shattered and empty after his wife leaves him suddenly. His sorrow and resentment build up, and on a whim, he decides to take his beloved boat at sea to wander freely through the waters. After days of solitude and heartbreak, strange things start happening. Could it be just his imagination or is he really hearing a dazing song attracting him to the ocean? Suddenly, Michael finds himself lost in international waters, cut off from all communication at land. But things take a ...

Against his friends' advice, Simon moves into a creepy but atmospheric old house rumored to have been the scene of several gruesome murders many years ago. The haunting stories can't possibly be real, he doesn't believe in any such thing. The lights seem to have a mind of their own, but the wiring is ancient, it's to be expected in an old place like this. One night, Simon hears suspicious sounds from downstairs, and gets a nasty shock when he creeps down with only an umbrella for protectio...

This book contains basics of taking the right decisions in any situations you come across. Basic knowledge of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology are required. This book holds the data about education and career selection. This book helps you in understanding the system and promotes development. It helps to eliminate the sufferings of all humankind to a limit. It helps in the drastic boost in the field of technology and equipments. It helps in building unity of the objective among...

Everyone gives you the cold shoulder in the Free Cities, but if you're lucky enough to find a night out, you might end up scoring at Telephone Bar. The Haight looks sinister like its morning occupants. Its shop windows bear witness to the aftermath of another loveless evening. They reflect Cinderella's lost slipper twice removed so that the unlucky barefoot gals going home shoeless and single at the end of the night have an additional reminder that they are, in fact, all alone.It i...

In New York, the human world is known as Cell, and is inhabited by both Cells (humans) and products (artificially intelligent androids). As bi-product of the consumer movement known as Consumption, a red light district in what is left of present day Brooklyn, fairy tales must live and love fast. All android product are set to expire at the age of twenty seven, whereby they are dismantled and recycled. The coldest winter in Cell history that was when Kaiden locked onto her. Products are not...

This updated text explains how advances in mammalian and plant genetics contribute to better therapeutics agents and more wholesome foods. It addresses such topics as new pharmaceutical agents, agribiotechnology, safety evaluation of biotechnology-derived drugs, food safety, nutritional science, and regulatory and environmental aspects of genetically-modified organisms. New to this edition are chapters on biotherapeutics and herbicide-resistant crops. It should be of interest to biotechnol...

This collection of essays displays a number of different approaches to the most significant early eighteenth-century periodicals. The range is considerable: the critique of ideology and polemical strategy, the political history of the press, the rhetoric of the genre, and the material circumstances of periodical production all find a place. The periodical profoundly shaped the English reading public's ways of perceiving the social and political institutions of their own age.

This book is reflecting upon core theories in evolutionary biology – in a historical as well as contemporary context. It exposes the main areas of interest for discussion, but more importantly draws together hypotheses and future research directions.The Modern Synthesis (MS), sometimes referred to as Standard Evolutionary Theory (SET), in evolutionary biology has been well documented and discussed, but was also critically scrutinized over the last decade. Researchers from diverse d...

Published in 1986, Dolphin Cognition and Behavior is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.

Epilepsy has long been one of the most stigmatised health conditions. People's beliefs about it are doubtless partly due to what a fit looks like and its aftermath- the frothing at the mouth, shouting, bleeding, bumps, bruising and injuries - all of which can be difficult to look at.After nearly thirty years of living with seizures, Fran Thomas provides a much-needed handbook for epileptics and non-epileptics alike. It includes everything you need to survive when you are having fit...