Box set of classic '50s sci-fi trash for collectors. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) sees the citizens of a small Californian town begin to complain that their fellow townsfolk are not what they used to be. Local doctor Miles Bennel (Kevin Mc Carthy) discovers the reason behind their sudden personality shifts & it involves aliens, pods & silver-painted stuff. ' Thing From Another World' (1951) is B-Movie heaven as a UFO crashes into earth & its pilot wreaks havoc. When an unknown spacecraft smashes into the wilderness of the artic, an air force crew is dispatched from Alaska to investigate. The crew frantically begin to recover the craft, which is encased in ice, but use a little too much gelignite & blow the thing to smithereens. Nearby a body is found & immediately covered with a blanket. An electric blanket. As the sled dogs start to turn up drained of blood, it is soon apparent that this is one extra-terrestrial popsicle that should have been left in the freezer...' The Incredible Shrinking Man' (1957) is a slice of philosophical sci-fi written by groundbreaking novelist Richard Matheson. Scott Carey (Grant Williams) is enjoying a boating trip when his yacht passes through a mysterious cloud of radioactive mist that makes him gradually shrink. Soon he's doing battle with spiders, ants & even his own cat. In ' This Island Earth' (1955), eminent scientists & intellectuals are being kidnapped & taken to a mysterious research station. Once there they realize that their captors are not in fact humans but visiting aliens who desperately need the Earthmen's help. ' Creature From the Black Lagoon' (1954) sees an expedition to the Amazon River discover a ' Gill Man': half man & half amphibian. Gill man is held for scientific posterity but while in captivity he falls in love with the chief scientist's (Richard Carlson) female assistant (Julie Adams), & kidnaps her before making his escape. In ' It Came From Outer Space' (1953), an astronomer is intrigued when he sees a meteor in the night skies over Arizona. When the object lands in the desert Putnam becomes convinced that it is no natural phenomenon. The locals are distrustful, seeing the astronomer as a kook, & refuse to listen to his theories but the locals, it transpires, may not be human flesh & blood.' Tarantula' (1955), is the tale of a scientist try to develop a growth serum that will make beef cattle etc grow at a greatly accelerated rate but when a test tarantula in the lab gets a taste all hell breaks loose. When it gets a taste of human flesh it's up to square-jawed doctor Matt Hastings (John Agar) & Reemer's assistant Stephanie (Mara Corday) to track it down & destroy it. ...

Scottish cooking is enjoying a renaissance as restaurants & cookery writers look to the past & traditional recipes for inspiration. Catherine Brown's book is a resource for these recipes, with glimpses into traditional eating habits & Scottish seasonal festivities. ...

For Unix users & system administrators, this book contains shell scripts that help the reader easily crunch data & automate repetitive tasks, offering a way to quickly harness the full power of any Unix system. It provides tips, tricks, & organized knowledge needed to create scripts, as well as warnings of the traps in shell scripts. ...

Thousands of years before any of our modern methods of transport were invented man traveled by boat on the water. This book chronicles our nautical heritage for the last one hundred or so years & features everything from tall ships to small ships, working boats & lifeboats. ...