Nick Grainger, a young college student working on an archaeological dig in Egypt, accidentally activates a gate to a different universe. He, along with three of his companions, are thrown into the ancient alien gateway system between parallel worlds. Lost in the multiverse, they must search for a way home. On their journey, their gateway opens into strange new worlds, similar to their Earth, but in different times and in places, where life has been changed by one simple event in the course of evolution. It is on one such Earth, they arrive in Egypt, not as it was in the days of the ancients. Now, it is a place where a technologically advanced race of gods rule. Nick is claimed as a host for the god of death and the afterlife, Anubis. He and his friends flee through the gate, but Nick harbors a dark secret. Anubis still inhabits his body. As the group travels through the multiverse, they begin a search for a possible way home, located in the fabled Atlantis.

Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide range of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field of investigation, taking in historical movements such as musique concrète and elektronische Musik, and contemporary trends such as electronic dance music and electronica. The first edition of this book won the 2009 Nicolas Bessaraboff Prize as it brought together researchers at the forefront of the sonic explorations empowered by electronic technology to provide accessible and insightful overviews of core topics and uncover some hitherto less publicised corners of worldwide movements. This updated and expanded second edition includes four entirely new chapters, as well as new original statements from globally renowned artists of the electronic music scene, and celebrates a diverse array of technologies, practices and music.

Thirty-five years in the making, and destined to be the last word in fanta-film references! This incredible 1,017-page resource provides vital credits on over 9,000 films (1896-1999) of horror, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, heavy melodrama, and film noir. Comprehensive cast lists include: directors, writers, cinematographers, and composers. Also includes plot synopses, critiques, re-title/translation information, running times, photographs, and several cross-referenced indexes (by artist, year, song, etc.). Paperback.

G.W. Mullins author of the best-selling novel "Jason And Alexander - A Gay Paranormal Romance Story" returns with a new gay novel release that sends you on a suspenseful thrilling roller-coaster ride. Mullins' fourth gay novel mixes humor, time travel and the paranormal into a neat package. "Time After Time" reminds us that a somewhat quiet life is not such a bad thing. The main character in this book, Steven, makes the mistake of trying to get away from it all. In doing so he heads to Arizona for a vacation only to become ripped back in time after he puts on a ring once owned by a man who could have been his doppelganger. Steven must figure out the mystery of what happened to his lookalike or fall victim to the one who murdered him. Mullins has constructed a wicked story of ghosts, time travel and erotica. The story leaves you guessing until the end and waiting to see if Steven can survive long enough to make it home again.

An anatomy of failed-state Britain, by the author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley skewered New Labour’s architectural legacy in all its witless swagger. Now, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, he sets out to describe what the Coalition’s altogether different approach to economic mismanagement and civic irresponsibility is doing to the places where the British live. In a journey that begins and ends in the capital, Hatherley takes us from Plymouth and Brighton to Belfast and Aberdeen, by way of the eerie urbanism of the Welsh valleys and the much-mocked splendour of modernist Coventry. Everywhere outside the unreal Southeast, the building has stopped in towns and cities, which languish as they wait for the next bout of self-defeating austerity. Hatherley writes with unrivalled aggression about the disarray of modern Britain, and yet this remains a book about possibilities remembered, about unlikely successes in the midst of seemingly inexorable failure. For as well as trash, ancient and modern, Hatherley finds signs of the hopeful country Britain once was and hints of what it might become.

This book presents the latest science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change.

The author covers the development of the electronic musical instrument from Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium at the turn of the last century to the MIDI synthesizers of the 1990s. --book cover.