"It's very straightforward," stated the culture-officer, with an edge of self-satisfaction. "If we can't survive long enough for the natives to reach the required level of civilisation naturally, why then we'll simply accelerate their development so they get there much sooner, when we are still alive and wholly capable!"When their ship crashes, the post-human crew of the Hermes launch a desperate bid to accelerate the technological development of the primitive natives, so that when...

Discover the life lessons behind the legend of Lionel Messi.Lionel Messi and the Art of Living offers a fresh perspective on the iconic footballer's journey, exploring his highs and lows, successes and failures, and his relentless pursuit of excellence. This book isn't just about soccer; it's about how Messi's experiences resonate with our own lives.Gain inspiration and motivation from Messi's story, and learn how ...

Six piercing novellas and novelettes of philosophical science fiction, lovingly crafted by a prize-winning author to provoke and arouse.A sentient anti-meme sends emails to fight its rival in 'Meme'.A stranded starship crew engineers the development of a primitive alien race in 'Rescue Stories', runner-up in the BSFA 50th anniversary short fiction competition.Draw aside the social memeplex veils of man-made climate change in the controversial 'Truth', featured on th...

Children's and young people’s right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and taken up internationally, as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet much of this has focused on collecting children’s voices, rather than achieving change, and has met its limits. This book provides an analysis of children’s participation in formal, collective and action research processes in six different international settings. It offers a deeper understanding of what helps a...

For thirty years, McKinsey's Valuation has taught leaders how to measure value. This book shows how to create it. Strategy & Value is the executive's companion to Valuation. It's a guide to the strategic decisions that promote exceptional, lasting value creation―from the firm that has advised more CEOs on strategy than any other.Strategy should be getting better. Leaders have never had more frameworks, tools, and data to work with. Yet only one in five ex...

X Marks the Spot is a slender anthology produced to celebrate the first ten years of NewCon Press. It includes original fiction from Adam Roberts, Rozanne Rabinowitz, and Paul Melhuish, a poem by Donna Scott, aand a collaborative short story written by Ian Whates, Ian Watson, Hal Duncan, Chaz Brenchley, Sarah Singleton, Andrew Hook and others which has been out of print for nearly eight years, and a sectio...

'Truth' is a Sci-Fi / Cli-Fi (climate fiction) novelette that featured in the 2012 end-of-year Cli-Fi review post at Judith Curry's blog 'Climate Etc.' (Judith was at the time Professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology; she has now left academia but still runs the blog). The latter review was shared with Michael Crichton's 'State of Fear', Rex Fleming's first novel 'Exposure', Ian McEwan's 'Solar', Barbara Kingsolver's 'Fight ...

Suicide or murder? DI Ford is sure there’s a killer to catch, but time is running out.A young female soldier is found on Salisbury Plain, her throat cut and a bloody knife in her dead hand. Everyone assumes that she killed herself. But something doesn’t feel right to DI Ford; the whole scene seems staged. Convinced of foul play, and despite fierce opposition from the army brass and his own superiors, Ford launches a murder investigation.Years on from his wi...

Detective Ford has a cold-blooded killer to catch. But can he escape his own dark secrets?Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in Salisbury. There are few clues, and no apparent motive, but Ford can sense that there’s a serial killer at work. After all, he knows from brutal personal experience how killers cover their tracks…It’s been six years since Ford ...

A country manor. Two murders. Multiple suspects. Can DI Ford solve the case before his own dark past is exposed?After a dog walker discovers human remains in a badger sett in the idyllic Salisbury countryside, DI Ford is called in to lead the ensuing murder investigation. When a second victim turns up in a nearby pond, Ford is determined to find the connection.Both victims met their fate near the sprawling Alverchalke Estate, ancestral home of a decorated w...

In what first appeared to be a freak mishap, but was actually pre-ordained by a fan with a hidden agenda, Adam West has become a master of time and space, leaping from Wonderland to ancient Luxor. Now, television's original caped crusader has finally found his way back to Earth. The only problem is that the year is 2512!

For the average Joe, fishing may be considered a pretty tedious affair…Long hours spent on the bank by some muddy pond in the middle of nowhere, hunched over a rod, waiting for a bite.Early starts, foul weather, wriggling worms and writhing maggots are enough to turn most people off straight away. But for the staunch angler, this sweeping assumption couldn’t be further from the truth…From wild conspiracies and wacky theories to absurd angling drama, the sport of fis...