Paul Waters Knihy

Drusus ist vierzehn, als sein Vater unter dem neuen Kaiser Constans einer Intrige zum Opfer fällt. Religiöse Fanatiker reißen den Familienbesitz an sich. Sein geliebter Lehrer stirbt. Drusus steht vor dem Nichts. Zudem ist er ein Anhänger der alten römischen Religion, während überall das Christentum auf dem Vormarsch ist. Mitten in bürgerkriegsähnlichen Unruhen muss Drusus sich entscheiden, wem er vertrauen kann, wen er lieben darf und gegen wen er kämpfen muss. Ein bemerkenswerter, brillant geschriebener Roman in der Tradition von Mary Renault und Robert Ranke-Graves.

When maverick police sergeant Jolly Macken is banished to the sleepy 1950s Irish border village of Blackwatertown, he vows to find the killer of his brother - even if the murderer is inside the police. But a lot can happen in a week. Over seven days Macken falls in love, uncovers dark family secrets, accidentally starts a war and is hailed a hero and branded a traitor. When Blackwatertown explodes into violence, who can he trust? And is betrayal the only way to survive?

After a trip to San Francisco that led to an odyssey in search of a lost unicorn, time-traveling hippie heroes Chester, Michael, and T.A. return to New York City where they're confronted with duplicates of themselves — and everyone else! To once again save the planet from an evil scheme by invaders from space, they'll have to take on the Hallucitron, a mind-blowing invention that produces illusions more powerful than those created by any drug. Originally published in 1970 as “a freaked-out science-fiction fantasy — blasting the outer limits of your mind!” The Probability Pad is the third book in the Greenwich Village Trilogy, a shared-world scenario written by three different authors, all of whom appear in the books as characters. Dover Publications returns this psychedelic adventure to print for the first time in nearly 40 years, along with its predecessors, The Butterfly Kid and The Unicorn Girl. This edition features a new Foreword by Barbara Hambly, former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

A classic in the making of historical fiction

A consuming story of love, loss and redemption set in the classical world of Rome and Greece, Of Merchants & Heroes is the story of a young man's pursuit of his father's murderer and and of the values and qualities he develops that will make him a man . . . a man capable of a deep, noble and enduring love. At the end of the third century BC, as Republican Rome's long war with Carthage was at last drawing to a close, it was already threatened by a new enemy, Philip, the tyrant king of Macedon in the east. Thus begins Rome's long involvement with Greek civilization, from which it is to learn so much . . . Into this turbulent world emerges our Roman hero, Marcus, whose father is brutally murdered by pirates on a journey from Italy to Corfu on a visit to his uncle. Fate takes him to some of the great cities of the Greco-Roman world at a time of major turbulence, where he learns much and finds love unexpectedly. This is a remarkable, beautifully written debut that explores political and philosophical questions that are timeless – democracy and tyranny, war and self-defence, right and duty – as well as questions of love, loyalty and betrayal.

The story revolves around two unlikely companions, Paul and Simon, who initially have a strained relationship. After a few drinks, they unexpectedly decide to embark on the daunting 900-mile cycling challenge from Land's End to John o' Groats, despite being novice cyclists. Their journey promises to be filled with humor, personal growth, and the evolution of their friendship as they tackle the physical and emotional hurdles of the adventure together.

Marsupial Breeding.- Breeding and Genetic Management of Captive Marsupial Populations.- Marsupial Chromosomes and Gene Maps.- The Conserved Marsupial Karyotype: Chromosome Painting and Evolution.- Marsupial Centomeres and Telomeres: Dynamic Chromosome Domains.- Marsupial Linkage Maps.- Physical and Comparative Gene Maps in Marsupials.- Marsupial Genome Sequencing.- Marsupial Sequencing Projects and Bioinformatics Challenges.- Insight into Evolution of Gene Regulation Networks from the Opossum Genome.- Marsupial Sex Chromosomes.- Organization and Evolution of the Marsupial X Chromosome.- Gene Content of the Mammalian X Chromosome.- Marsupial Sex Chromosome Behaviour During Male Meiosis.- Compact but Complex - The Marsupial Y Chromosome.- Marsupial Epigenetics.- The Evolution of Genomic Imprinting - A Marsupial Perspective.- Marsupial Genetics Reveals Insights into Evolution of Mammalian X Chromosome Inactivation.- Marsupial Reproductive and Developmental Genetics.- Molecular Regulation of Marsupial Reproduction and Development.- Marsupial Milk - Identifying Signals for Regulating Mammary Function and Development of the Young.- Marsupial Immune Genes.- The Marsupial Major Histocompatibility Complex.- Marsupial Immunoglobulin and T Cell Receptor Genomics.- Use of Genomic Information to Gain Insights into Immune Function in Marsupials: A Review of Divergent Immune Genes.- Marsupial Genes and Gene Evolution.- Visual Pigments and Colour Vision in Marsupials and Monotremes.- The Evolutionary History of Globin Genes: Insights from Marsupials and Monotremes.- The Olfactory Receptor Gene Family of Marsupials.- Marsupial Conservation Genetics.- Marsupial Population and Conservation Genetics.- Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD): Using Genetics and Genomics to Investigate Infectious Disease in an Endangered Marsupial.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 355 nach Christus. Das römische Reich hat längst den Höhepunkt seiner Macht überschritten. In einer Welt ehrgeiziger Beamter und machthungriger Priester ist Drusus, der immer noch an die alten Götter glaubt, in Ungnade gefallen. Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Marcellus nimmt er den Kampf gegen den korrupten Staat auf. Ihr einziger Verbündeter ist der junge Julian - Philosoph, Statthalter in Germanien und Neffe des blutrünstigen Kaisers Constantius. Mit einem Heer treuer Verbündeter plant er die Rebellion.