Nick James

In 2095 when a fifteen-year-old slacker discovers that he has the power to control Pearls, fragments of space debris that are a dying Earth's most important energy source, government forces work to capture him.

The Pearl Wars

Skyship Academy

Corridor Man Volumes 1-3

Corridor Man Volumes 1, 2, 3,4 5

Living in Victorian London is difficult at the best of times. So, instead of following in his father's footsteps, Albert decides on adventure. However, fate has other plans. One drunken night on his way home, he responds to the blood-curdling scream of a woman. He rushes her attacker and in the ensuing fight, he is bitten. Alberts world is changed forever. With that one savage bite, he is turned into a monster that people had believed was just a creation of an authors mind. That night Albert becomes a Vampire. Days turn into months, then years to decades as he struggles with the loss of his soul and humanity. He thought he was alone but as his friends and loved ones pass into memory, his own kind begin to make their presence known.

The Victorian Vampire

They stand and walk among us, unnoticed. Those who know of their existence call them the Men of Shadows or the Order. Only the heads of the group know their end goals, as they manipulate the lines of power in government and industry, all under the purview of their leaders, who they call the Masters. In the city of New York, Doctor Weaver, OB-GYN and Chief Medical Examiner Sanchez are investigating an unexplained increase in miscarriages, occasionally also resulting in the death of the mother. As they pull on that thread of evidence, it unravels to reveal a much bigger and more heinous plan. The doctors do not realize that they are being observed by members of an unknown group, whose tentacles are everywhere. Who can they trust? As they pursue the truth, FBI Agents Marcus Martinez and Avery Saunders are brought into the fold, along with some of the NYPD's not-so-finest, as they stumble over evidence of this shadowy group whose reach could encompass the world.

They Stand Among Us

How to Make a Fortune - Without Losing Your Friends!

Live Big. Think Large. ACT Sensibly

Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other once, and that was in Heat, Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller. De Niro is Neil McCauley, a skilled professional thief at the centre of a tight-knit criminal team; Pacino is Vincent Hanna, the haunted, driven cop determined to hunt him down. Boasting a series of meticulously orchestrated setpieces that underline Mann's sense of scale and architecture, Heat is also a rhapsody to Los Angeles as Hanna closes in on his prey. For Nick James, the pleasures and virtues of Heat are mixed and complex. Its precise compositions and minimalist style are entangled with a particular kind of extravagant bombast. And while its vision of male teamwork is richly compelling it comes close to glorifying machismo. But these complexities only add to the interest of this hugely ambitious and accomplished film, which confirmed Mann's place in the front rank of American film-makers.

Heat

Lake Victoria Cichlids

Gerald North

Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets. Most comets are first discovered by amateur astronomers because so there are many amateurs looking for them, and techniques and instruments have improved dramatically in the past few years. This comprehensive book (with an accompanying CD-ROM) is at once a "primer" for comet hunters and a text for advanced amateurs and will thus appeal to a wide audience of amateur astronomers

Observing Comets

Instructs amateur astronomers in observing and monitoring variable stars and other objects of variable brightness.

Observing Variable Stars, Novae and Supernovae

Since comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with the planet Jupiter with stupendous force in 1994 there has been an upsurge of amateur interest in comets. Most comets are first discovered by amateur astronomers because there are so many amateurs looking for them, and techniques and instruments have improved dramatically in the past few years. After a short but detailed introduction to the comets themselves Nick James and Gerald North describe comet hunting, photographing and imaging comets, and digital image processing. The use of computers for orbital calculations and even helping to discover new comets is given a full chapter, as are advanced techniques including comet photometry and spectroscopy. This comprehensive book has an accompanying CD-ROM and is at once a "primer" for comet hunters and a reference text for more advanced amateur astronomers.

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