Clarke: 1777 books

War films have existed since the birth of cinema, typically gung-ho tales of macho derring-do. But war films are not always about bravado and bravery, they also detail the horrors of war, the sadness, the brotherhood of soldiers and comedy that can be found in the bleakest of situations, as well as...

Ninety percent of the world’s megafauna (its larger creatures) have disappeared since humans migrated from Africa and fanned out across the rest of the world. Within a very short time the megafauna – mammoths, mastodons, woolly rhinoceros and the huge carnivores that preyed upon them were extinct....

Introducing the reader to definitions of the founding concepts in film studies, this guide covers such ideas as authorship and genre, technological impacts and the rise of digital cinema, social influences and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema’s emergence as a major art form that reflects and...

Ear, Nose and Throat at a Glance provides a highly-illustrated, accessible introduction to this practical but complex topic, which is increasingly encountered in every-day outpatient settings, as well as surgical departments. Each double-page spread diagrammatically summarises the basic science...

The new edition of Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat Lecture Notes provides an updated and comprehensive overview of one of the fastest growing specialties in medicine. New features include: • A revamped layout and structure comprising four sections: The ear, hearing and balance, The nose...

The story of a young Irishman called Stieffawn Grady who discovers that members of his family have been working in Nanjing as ratcatchers for two hundred years. His father, Stan, convinces him to go into the family business. It turns out that there is a lot more to their work than catching rats. There is something psychopathic and magical about the family.

Fantasies aren’t supposed to come true. What happens when they do? Workaholic, Carrie Marks, leads an uneventful, predictable life. Her weekdays are spent coaxing difficult customers into compliance and sorting out problems. The limited leisure time she has is filled with fantasy videos and...

Casey Everson has it all - a good job in a balmy southern city. But when she decides to trade it all in for a chance for a life of love and liberation in the wild Alaskan outback, she quickly learns that frontier principles are much what they were centuries before women's liberation. Garrett...

Extra Illicit Sonnets chronicles a love affair between a man and a woman of different complexions, cultures, continents, and generations, Sonia Fuentes of Andorra and Luca Xifona of Canada. She is Spanish in heritage; and he is Maltese. She is a Boomer and he is of Generation Y-Not. The poetry consists...

Zylan Cain has been living on the same island for 543 years, with a boy everyone believes is Peter Pan. She believes he killed her parents the night he brought her to the island, so she avoided him as much as she could. Recently though, she and the girls decided to get even with the boys. In doing...

A tale of Theseus the Athenian. From a world of light and life he will enter the realms of hell.Theseus’ childhood years saw him raised in sunlit innocence as a boy of the country, yet well taught in the hard skills of a warrior. On reaching manhood it is revealed to him that his true father...

The journey is fraught with many dangers; the chances of success are slim. But the servants of the Earth spirit know that they are the only hope for the planets ascension. To succeed, they must find the sacred Golden Spiral and the Earths light codes before the scheming Destroyer does. The quest will...

A vain assassin takes an assignment with dire consequences. An aristocratic lady fleeing her past is besieged by pirates. And a manticore princess sets out on a life-changing adventure. The Manticore's Vow collects three stories set in the world of Magic of Blood and Sea, all exploring the...

A thin and long strip of land in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is a case study in successful transformation following a war-stained history. Things have never been easy for this country of ninety million during its 2,700-year long history. Despite Chinese occupations, a French colonization, internal rebellions...