David Baker

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...

It's 1938 and women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the "divorce capital of the world," Reno, Nevada. There's one catch: they have to wait six-weeks to become "residents." Many of these wealthy, soon-to-be divorcees flock to the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that caters to their every need. Twenty-four-year-old Ward spent one year at Yale before his family lost everything in the Great Depression; now he's earning an honest...

Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.

Odd Thomas journeys through California and Nevada after a vision about the murders of three children, an effort throughout which he befriends a series of eccentric helpers who become allies in a battle against a sociopath and a network of killers.

To escape the haunting memories of his lost soul mate, Odd has retreated to a monastery in the High Sierra where icy winds and deep snow besiege the remote abbey. Odd isn¡t the only guest: John Heineman is a world-famous physicist who left the secular world because he found the nature of reality, so very weird. Added to this, shadowy harbingers of extreme violence are prowling the halls. Only Odd can see them. Only he knows what their presence means....

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landings, The Apollo Missions is illustrated with documents, blueprints and photographs of the missions as they happened. Analysing the Apollo Space Program, it looks back at a key period in the development of space technology. From early attempts to send a manned vessel into space to Neil Armstrong's historic first steps on the moon, David Baker reveals what happened behind the scenes....

What are humans doing to explore the "final frontier"? From satellites to the space shuttle, humans have planned and constructed the tools and machinery necessary to quench our curiosity about outer space. This title investigates the technology we use to explore the universe and beyond.

Examines the history of the CIA and the FBI from their establishment during the twentieth century to their roles in fighting terrorism in the early twenty-first century.