"Water is patient... water just waits. Water always wins!"November 21st 2059, and Bowie Base One - the first human colony on Mars - is destined for destruction in a nuclear explosion. This tragedy is a fixed point in history. The Laws of Time dictate that it cannot - must never - be changed.The Doctor arrives just as a viral life-form escapes from the Martian ice into the base's water supply. A single drop can transform a human into a terrifying monster with the po...

'If you're going to be anyone in Cardiff, you're going to be at SkyPoint!'SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It's the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it's where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. Gwen's more concerned by the money behind the tower block - Besnik Lucca, a name she knows from her days in uniform.When Torchwood discover that residents have been go...

Hipness has been an indelible part of America's intellectual and cultural landscape since the 1940s. But the question What is hip? remains a kind of cultural koan, equally intriguing and elusive. In Dig, Phil Ford argues that while hipsters have always used clothing, hairstyle, gesture, and slang to mark their distance from consensus culture, music has consistently been the primary means of resistance, the royal road to hip. Hipness suggests a particular kind of alienatio...

When a Cardiff hospital is inundated with patients that have fallen into coma-like trances, Torchwood move in to investigate. They find that the trances were triggered by phone calls, all of which were made from a number that hadn't been active for over 30 years. Determined to find out who's been calling the unfortunate victims, Jack rings the mysterious number - two, zero, five, nine - nothing. It's a dead line. Until it calls Jack back, he answers - and falls into a deep trance... With t...

Changes abound for the McPhersons: lifestyle and life-altering changes. Adventure nurtured by danger becomes commonplace for the former Midwest family. Their new Cayman Island home has provided them with life abundantand more challenges than they bargained for. From Alaska to Malta, England to Texas, the Caribbean Sea to the deserts of the Western United States, the McPhersons, led by Alex, take us for ride after ride, with sweeping adventure and discovery around every corner.

Maureen O'Brien reads this new novelisation of a BBC TV adventure featuring the Tenth Doctor, as played on screen by David Tennant.The first human colony on Mars is destined for destruction in a nuclear explosion. This tragedy is a fixed point in history. The laws of time dictate that it cannot - must never - be changed. But as the Doctor's darkest hour comes calling, he resolves to break the rules as he never has before...Maureen O'Brien, who played Vicki in the BBC TV ser...

Ford has offered rhymespoetry and song lyricsand reasonshort points to consider, plus a thought-provoking essayin this collection of works to stir emotions within those who crack the cover. Nothing is intended to be pretentious; it is just a sharing of actual and fictional moments in time where emotion continues to live. Fords travels and broad-minded thinking become apparent with the turning of each page. Find a moment, sit down with this book, and let it take you to these places.

Gamble with the Sun is a collection of short stories and stage and screen plays. Fords earlier works of the Changes trilogy, The Root Cause Analysis of a Balanced Leader, and Cool Blue Emotion: Rhymes and Reason, show us the broad spectrum of Fords imagination. Gamble with the Sun takes us there again. As each story unfolds, Ford takes us on a ride to unexpected surprises and across a myriad of emotions. Youll enjoy the ride all the while asking whats next?

The unexamined life is not worth living. Ford and Blisko share Socrates quote in their offering of The Root Cause Analysis of A Balanced Leader. I believe the timing is right, in our business world, for this treatise which guides the Leader through a Root Cause Analysis process designed for discovery the discovery of the readers Balanced Leader within. The illustrated process models Ford and Blisko have designed are both enlightening and practical. They work to highlight the need and provi...

Five thrilling novelisations of TV stories set on exotic planets, from Marinus to Mars and beyond.In The Keys of Marinus the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara are enlisted to find five crucial items vital to peace on Marinus.in The Nightmare of Eden a distress call brings the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9 to the scene of a freak accident in space, where they uncover a dangerous web of intrigue.The Caves of Androzani form the backdrop to the Fifth...

Veteran Radio Personality (NPR, Sirius XM Radio) Joe Bev presents his favorite conversations with such highly diverse people as Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, John Houseman, June Foray, Diana Canova, Fred Frees, Bob Bergen, Phil Proctor, Joe Alaskey, Steve Mendoza, Noel Blanc, David Ossman, Janet Waldo, Fred Grandinetti, and others!Bonus Track! Joe Bevilacqua hosts an hour with Bernie Sanders, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Sarah Silverman, ...

Whitey Ford, a Hall of Fame pitcher with the Yankees for 16 seasons, gives unique insight and takes on the challenge of selecting the five best players at each position in the franchise's history, which includes 26 World Series championships and 36 American League pennants—a legacy no other team comes close to achieving. Featured players include Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Johnny Mize, and Enos Slaughter.