Following the Armistice of 1918 the British Air Industry & the newly founded RAF held a low place in national priorities The RAF was rapidly run down with the infant airlines being given the least possible help & this neglect continued during the 1920s The RAF's role was questioned & civilian air travel remained a dream for most & the province of the well-heeled few But the breakdown of the Geneva Disarmament Talks led to renewed interest in the National Air Force & the rise of the European dictators brought calls for rapid modernisation & interceptor aircraft together with the development of further European civilian air routes Here Peter Reese charts the dramatic changes that swept aviation across the dynamic interwar period revealing the transformative last-minute preparations for defence in a world where much depended on the contributions of some outstanding individuals ...

In a future overrun by out-of-control machines & monsters a handful of human survivors try to fight their way back to a normal life But what is normal in a world where both monsters & machines need human blood? & which are the real bad guys? Find out in this horrific new story by 30 Days of Night co-creator Steve Niles & menton 3 the demented artist behind Monocyte! ...

Three complete novels from a Golden Age master of science fiction in one volume Empire of the Atom The Wizard of Linn & Mission to the Stars Empire of the Atom & The Wizard of Linn Global war smashed civilization—or so the legends told—but not all of its machines A caste of “scientists” arose who knew how to repair & operate the ancient machines but not how they worked & worshipped at the altars of the atomic gods who were said to make the machines run Society was a strange mix of the modern & the medieval with armies riding on horseback into huge spaceships then flying to human colonies on other planets to wage war with swords & arrows Then came the mutant Clane who would have been put to death for his deformities had he not been born into the ruling family Though his body was twisted his mind was brilliant & he not only recovered the lost science behind the ancient machines but found the truth behind the legends of civilization’s downfall Alien invaders not human war had reduced humanity to barbarism as a prelude for a later return in force to colonize the Solar System & that return would happen soon unless Clane could find a way to stop it For the first time the entire Clane saga told in the two novels Empire of the Atom & The Wizard of Linn is complete in one volume Mission to the Stars Van Vogt’s sweeping novel of interstellar adventure is also included along with the two short novels in the “ Ezwal” series chronicling the struggle of one man to convince a feral but intelligent species to join with humanity in the battle against a mutual enemy—but first he must convince the lone Ezwal who is trapped with him in a deadly jungle to co-operate or neither will survive About AE Van Vogt "A E Van Vogt&s early stories broke like claps of thunder through the science fiction field”— Jack Williamson "I can still recall the impact of his early stories”— Arthur C Clarke " Nobody came close to matching van Vogt for headlong breakneck pacing”— Gardner Dozois ...

Written by a social worker popular educator & member of the transgender community this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life & its unique experiences of discrimination Chapters introduce transgenderism & its psychological physical & social processes They describe the coming out process & its effect on family & friends the relationship between sexual orientation & gender & the differences between transsexualism & lesser-known types of transgenderism The volume covers the characteristics of Gender Identity Disorder Gender Dysphoria & the development of the transgender movement Each chapter explains how transgender individuals handle their gender identity how others view it within the context of non-transgender society & how the transitioning of genders is made possible Featuring men who become women women who become men & those who live in between & beyond traditional classifications this book is written for students professionals friends & family members ...

The rate of technological development today is exploding Such diverse technologies as computing communications genetics biology & nanotechnology are rapidly pushing humanity to a new singularity a point at which all the rules change & everything we assume about what it means to be human may no longer apply Leading science fiction writers such as Wil Mc Carthy Esther Friesner James P Hogan Hugo-winner David D Levine Dave Freer Wen Spencer Mark L Van Name & others explore this strangest of new frontiers From a criminal given a last chance at life in a very new kind of existence to a man struggling to claim his own humanity from battles in the depths of very strange spaces to an amazing new version of keeping up with the Joneses the stories in Transhuman take you where no human has gone before—but where many of us might one day go About the Author Mark L Van Name whom John Ringo has said is “going to be the guy to beat in the race to the top of SFdom” has worked in the high-tech industry for over 30 years & today runs a technology assessment company in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina A former Executive Vice President for Ziff Davis Media & a national technology columnist he&s published over a thousand computer-related articles & multiple science fiction stories in a variety of magazines & anthologies including the Year&s Best Science Fiction multiple original Baen anthologies & Jim Baen&s Universe His novel One Jump Ahead the first in the Jon & Lobo series appeared in June 2007 & the second book in the series Slanted Jack is due June 2008 TKF Weisskopf Toni Weisskopf is the Publisher of Baen Books With Josepha Sherman she compiled & annotated the definitive volume of subversive children’s folklore Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts published by August House now in its third printing Long active in science fiction fandom she has won both the Phoenix & Rebel Awards given by the Deep South Con Weisskopf is a graduate of Oberlin College with a degree in anthropology ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This is not a perfect getaway To move four million dollars of stolen money past a police roadblock the perpetrators of a deadly bank heist use a suburban family as unwitting couriers Now the criminals want their money back & will stop at nothing Actors James Caviezel James Frain Diora Baird Sterling Knight Harold Perrineau Elisabeth Röhm & Jake Cherry Director Antonio Negret Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ...

Transit Maps of the World is the first comprehensive collection of every rapid-transit system on earth Using glorious colourful graphics Mark Ovenden traces the history of urban transport systems including rare & historic maps diagrams & photographs Transit Maps could not be more relevant to our modern existence It uncovers the way many of us are able live & work day to day It is an inspiring compendium for graphic designers & transport enthusiasts alike ...

Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation It extends theoretical understandings of the concept & highlights its promises & challenges Using a Transformative Action Research design six empirically grounded ethnographic case studies describe how translanguaging is used in lesson designs & in the spontaneous moves made by teachers & students during specific teaching moments The cases shed light on two questions How when & why is translanguaging taken up or resisted by students & teachers? What does its use mean for them? Although grounded in a US context & specifically in classrooms in New York State Translanguaging with Multilingual Students links findings & theories to different global contexts to offer important lessons for educators worldwide ...

This volume is a selection of papers presented at the international conference on Translation & Censorship From the 18th Century to the Present Day held in Lisbon in November 2006 Although censorship in Spain under Franco dictatorship has already been thoroughly studied the Portuguese situation under Salazar & Caetano has been so far almost ignored by the academic research This is then an attempt to start filling this gap At the same time new case studies about the Spanish context are presented thus contributing to a critical view of two Iberian dictatorial regimes However other geographical & time contexts are also included former dictatorships such as Brazil & Communist Czechoslovakia; present day countries with very strict censoring apparatus such as China or more subtle censorial mechanisms as Turkey & Ukraine Specific situations of past centuries are given some attention the reception of Ovid in Portugal the translation of English narrative fiction into Spanish in the 18th century the translation of children literature in Victorian England & the emergence of the picaresque novel in Portugal in the 19th century Other forms of censorship namely self-censorship are studied in this volume as well " The book fits in one of the most innovative fields of research in translation studies ie the study of social & political constraints on translation processes & translation functions More specifically the concept of censorship is crucial to the understanding of these constraints especially in spatio-temporal settings where translation exhibits conflicts between what is acceptable for & what is prohibited by a given culture For that reason detailed descriptive research is needed in as many situations as possible It gives an excellent view on the complex mechanisms of censorship with regard to translation within a large number of modern European & non European cultures In addition to articles devoted to cases dealing with China Brazil Great-Britain Turkey Ukraine or Czechoslovakia Spain & Portugal occupy a prominent role As a whole the volume marks an important step forward in our growing understanding of the role of socio-political factors for the development & changes of translation policies I highly recommend the publication" Prof dr Lieven D'hulst Professor of Translation Studies at KULeuven (Belgium) ...

Translation practice & workflows have witnessed significant changes during the last decade New market demands to handle digital content as well as technological advances are leading this transition The development & integration of machine translation systems have given post-editing practices a reason to be in the context of professional translation services Translators may still work from a source text but more often than not they are presented with already translated text involving different degrees of translation automation This scenario radically changes the cognitive demands of translation Technological development has inevitably influenced the translation research agenda as well It has provided new means of penetrating deeper into the cognitive processes that make translation possible & has endorsed new concepts & theories to understand the translation process Computational analysis of eye movements & keystroke behaviour provides us with new insights into translational reading processes of literality effects of directionality similarities between inter- & intralingual translation as well as the effects of post-editing on cognitive processes & on the quality of the final outcome All of these themes are explored in-depth in the articles in this volume which presents new & valuable insights to anyone interested in what is currently happening in empirical process-oriented translation research ...