DescriptionHealthful sleep has been empirically proven to be the single most important factor in predicting longevity, more influential than diet, exercise, or heredity. And yet we are a sleep-sick society, ignorant of the facts of sleep - and the price of sleep dep…
DescriptionFour more classic episodes of high jinks on the high seas with the crew of HMS Troutbridge. "Back from the Antarctic" (2 July 1967), "The Naval Review" (30 July 1967), and "Troutbridge's Silver Jubilee" (10 September 1967). Sub Lt. Phillips at Dartmouth (…
DescriptionHere, closely observed from an insider's viewpoint, are the significant matters of 1999 - from the Clinton impeachment and the war in Kosovo to the mass-marketing of Viagra. Here are the people (both on and off camera) who made the news, from Slobodan Mil…
DescriptionThe Inspector Banks novel In a Dry Season was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won an Anthony Award. Cold Is the Grave won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award. It takes the aging, solitary inspector from his co…
DescriptionJoshua Slocum was believed to be the first man to sail single-handed around the world. After a distinguished career, where he worked his way up from cabin boy to captain, Joshua Slocum wrecked his ship off the coast of Brazil. Turning this catastrophe to…
DescriptionIt is 2021 in the bleak post-nuclear zone of Northern California, where Rick Deckard is the bounty hunter assigned to hunt down an escaped group of Nexus 6s - the most fearsome androids ever created, "replicants" virtually indistinguishable from human beings. But Deckard finds that the tables are turned when he's being hunted by the rogue androids, and becoming dangerously entangled with their prototype, the seductive Rachel Rosen. The terrifying vision of the future in the film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, originated in this classic novel by one of the most influential science fiction writers of all time.
