Dominic: 570 books

This outstanding thesis by Dominic Bowman provides a thorough investigation of long-standing questions as to whether amplitude modulation is astrophysical, whether it offers insights into pulsating stars, and whether simple beating of modes with stable amplitudes is unrecognised because of a lack...

When fifteen-year-old Tyler has to escape Earth, he can only do so using the dangerous method known as hitching. He will defy death, which he is more or less ready for. But he will also face a hideous threat to sentient life in the entire Galaxy, and attempt against all odds to save the Milky Way itself. In fear for all life, he will find friendship and learn wisdom on the road of suns.

Since the beginning of time, man has been described as a thinking animal, an animal able to think for himself on any subject, at any time, able to make decisions, able to make things better for himself. Unfortunately, for every step he’s taken forward, he has stepped backwards almost as many times.To...

Ojo Makanjuola left his Village of Esa-Odo as a raw Village boy to the Army recruitment depot in Kaduna. After nine horrifying months in the 'Land of no going back' he became a Soldier and was posted to 82 Division of the Nigerian Army. The first accumulated allowances and salaries he received would have changed his life and that of his lonely mother forever as he had it all planned out.

I was in a positive frame of mind as I lay on my back on the wheeled maintenance trolley, nonchalantly surveying my surrounds for the hundredth time when the door at the far end of the room opened, complaining on its hinges. To my surprise, it admitted not the familiar corporation of the Minister but an unexpected site in the form of the most exquisite pair of legs I'd seen in a long while.

After a short while my periphery vision perceived a strikingly beautiful woman place a handbag on the chair diagonally across from me. Her presence surprised me somewhat, until I saw a small overnight bag tucked under the chair that I hadn't noticed before. I felt a little wave of elation!

LES FICTIONS : « Le Sourire d'Arkimède », d'Eve Patenaude ; « Lupusdias », d'Enola Deil ; « Il a un papillon », de Dave Côté ; « Et vous en avez accusé un autre que moi », de Ghislain St-Germain Forcier ; « Ô Laurentie ! (II) », de Jean-Pierre Laigle ; « La Cordillère...

For national security reasons, China has banned Microsoft Windows. Amid disastrous policies, the ensuing turmoil degenerates into a war situation, revealing a stark reality: the world balance of power is shifting towards China; the US is losing its dominance. The novel sets the stage for the showdown...

Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed...

Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of...

As a Driving Instructor, I've decided there are those who have a natural instinct to learn and master the art of driving a car. And there are some amongst us who just drive us mad...but, unexpectedly, in the nicest way possible...

The Golden Lands, one of the three worlds of Terra, is supposed to be a place of peace, light, and happiness. But the Golden Lands hasn't exactly been such a place for John Hedekira, a jaded, hot-headed teenager.Locked in a fight to the death in the subworld of Kiilda, John’s only option is...

An immortal on a mission. A man trapped in a labyrinth. Can she control the maze before their world crumbles? Maggie has grown weary of outliving everything she knows and loves. Numb to her job as a supernatural detective, she vows her next mission will be her last. But when the case takes...

Following her down a hall festooned with trophies, awards and other paraphernalia, I was led to an intimate drawing room decorated with heavy furniture, and small bar; gilt framed pictures of ancestral portraits stared down on Persian rugs partially covering an uneven, flag stoned floor. A fire was burning the remnants of swamp gum logs, the sap hissing and bubbling from bark.