Peter Markham is a schoolteacher who has been abandoned by his female partner because she, rightly, considers him dull.He tries to change himself, seeking adventure by joining a course at a gliding club. Disappointed, he leaves the airfield in anger when a wild teenage girl forces him to stop, begging for help in retrieving her older stepsister, Julia, who has landed her glider in a hayfield a hundred kilometres away.He allows himself to be manipulated by Mitch, the younger...

Climate change has destroyed land-based civilization. Forewarned, all major coastal cities saved themselves from destruction by building gigantic and highly sophisticated rafts, self supporting, self governing and and totally independent. Life in the cities at sea is very comfortable although strictly disciplined and controlled. Among other things, natural gestation and birth are not permitted, fertilisation is done in the laboratory, embryos are incubated and decanted in their time....

Cities at Sea is a story set a couple of thousand years from now. Land-based civilization collapsed long ago as a result of climate change, flooding and impoverishment of soils, wars, and other causes. Knowing that about three quarters of the globe is covered by the sea, all the major coastal cities of the globe saved themselves by moving onto the oceans, developing gigantic, highly sophisticated, entirely self-sufficient rafts on which they now navigate at will. Life is easy in the raft c...

Michael, a lonely and reclusive young man, lives and works via computers and the internet, in an isolated house near a large Australian city. During a violent storm he stumbles across a young girl dying in the road outside his gate. Jenny has been brutally and repeatedly assaulted. He takes her in, tries to revive her, gets her to hospital and in the following days, months and years encourages her to rebuild her shattered life. As she painfully recovers and grows, he too is forced almost a...

Michael Ingram has a lonely existence as a twenty-eight-year-old consulting engineer. Almost all his work is done with computers and transmitted to clients electronically. His hobby is cabinet making, but he alone sees and uses the products of his workshop.He finds solace in with Jacquie, a sex worker who visits weekly. After one of Jacquies visits, they discover a teenage girl, victim of a brutal assault, dying in the road. Michael gets her to hospital. Jacquie warns him not to ge...

Martin Simons, a passionate model pilot and multiple book author about the basics of model flying and aerodynamics, describes in an entertaining way why and how models fly in his book "Modellflug-ABC". With his clear and easy to understand language, he succeeds in summarizing even complex topics. For both beginners and advanced pilots, "Model Aviation ABC" is a valuable aid to understanding when and why models fly well, and how to use this knowledge to expand and refine your own flying ski...

Allowing clients to work on their own problems and at their own pace, this excellent title recognises that solving personal problems is a skill to be learnt just like any other. It teaches the reader the necessary skills and then guides the use of those skills through organised action plans and practical self help programmes. It is excellent for helping to build confidence in relationships, communicating with others and understanding personal choice. It helps the user overcome guilt, anger...

This book is for the passengers and aviation buffs who use Londons main airports. It includes a brief history, plans and photographs for each of the five airports, together with directions and information about gates, security, passport control, shopping, restaurants, car parks and other transport connections. Details of Air Traffic Control in London airspace is explained with the inclusion of aerial photographs taken during approach to landing so passengers may locate places of interest w...

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics is a groundbreaking collection that centers the imaginative intellectual perspectives, voices, and experiences of Black American feminist anthropologists. Twenty-five years ago, as the Foreword states, this book dared to put three words together in the title—Black. Feminist. Anthropology— “that have not always kept company with each other—and in the minds of many both in and outside of the academy, they should r...

This is a summary of what Contractors Exposed is and what the potential is for need and acceptance by not only the United States, by also the entire world. The book and the support of seminars, videos, and the internet provides for a powerful marketing tool for profit. First the book contains information found no where else. No other book has the principles provided here. It is concise, easy to read, and is written to be enjoyable by all people, whether they are rich or poor, whether they ...

Dove Sinclair thought she had escaped her darkest days, hiding her pain behind the lights and shadows of Eros. But her life takes a dangerous turn when she becomes entangled with Knox Draxler—a man as ruthless as he is brilliant, ruling an empire built on weapons and death.Knox is captivated by Dove's defiance and haunted by her scars, determined to claim her no matter the cost. As his obsession deepens, it sets off a chain of betrayal and bloodshe...

In the latest riveting thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it’s up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet.The Titan Project—an international research station off the co...