Chelsea thought she knew what being a rock star was like … until she became one. After losing a TV talent show, she slid back into small-town anonymity. But one phone call changed everything Now she’s the lead singer of the band Melbourne, performing...

This is the story of a Japanese woman named Satoko Kitahara. Despite family opposition, she was baptised after graduating from University in 1951. Shocked by the poverty of post-war Tokyo ragpickers (dustbin sifters) she abandoned her rich home to be...

The convergence of life sciences and micro/nanotechnologies is one of the fastest growing modern R and D areas with an enormous potential societal impact. Microfluidics or Lab-on-Chip (LOC) devices, also dubbed BioMEMS, are a fascinating example of t...

This is an enlarged edition of the popular Wordpower dictionary for Polish learners of English. It has been updated to include over 2,000 new words, expressions and senses, and has a new section of expressions and vocabulary for a wide range of topic...

All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, the Red Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in their dark dirty winter huts. The Kaffirs of South Africa tell them, and the modern Greeks, just as...

The Editor takes this opportunity to repeat what he has often said before, that he is not the author of the stories in the Fairy Books; that he did not invent them 'out of his own head'. He is accustomed to being asked, by ladies, 'Have you written a...