Musings of a Vegetarian Traveller is the opening story in this collection of tales told by a woman whose appetite for life and travel took her on innumerable journeys. One of the most notable—her journey from meat eater to vegetarian—provides a deeply personal and sometimes very funny look into the worlds she encountered. But as Maureen says, "The story of my transformation from a meat eating to vegetarian is not about food, but rather, it is about the interesting, diverting, amusing, distressing, provocative, and irritating things that have happened to me as a vegetarian traveller". For adventurers and armchair travellers …

I am a 47-year-old respectable, ordinary woman. I sold my home in Belfast at the height of the housing market boom. After taking advice from someone I thought to be financially astute, I invested most of the proceeds from the sale. This resulted in me being almost broke and homeless to boot. Consequently, I found myself moving into a hostel in Belfast. My story, in journal form, gives an insight into how this affected my life. I fell into depression, was prescribed anti-depressants, drank to excess on an almost daily basis, but eventually, slowly, began the fight to succeed. The …

The Fire Demon is part one of a four-part epic game that takes you far across the countries of Chantire and Krill on a mission for which you have trained your whole life. But the mission is far more mysterious and intriguing than you realize. Evil is everywhere, and a strange atmosphere prevails throughout the lands, a sense of being present at the borders of life and death, good and evil. The choices you make from the start will determine every outcome, as your mission hinges on every action. You must seek and kill the Fire Demon to save your …

In the 1950s, Cleveland, Ohio was the number one music city in the world. It was in Cleveland that DJ Alan Freed first coined the term "ock and roll" and it was in Cleveland that the teenage Henry M. Niedzwiecki, aka The Ol’ Doowopper, grew up with a ringside seat to the birth of rock and roll or doo-wop music. Growing Up Rocking is more than just a collection of photographs and artifacts that the author has taken and amassed over the decades; it is his life story told through rock and roll music. He invites readers to relive with …

This stunning astronomy book explores Dwarf Planets and Asteroids: Minor Bodies of the Solar System. Written by a retired astronomer, the book provides a survey of dwarf planets and asteroids, giving details of the discovery, naming, orbits, and physical characteristics of hundreds of examples of known asteroids found by astronomers in the past two centuries. It also includes different groups and classes of asteroids. Those bodies that have been visited by spacecraft are singled out for extra attention, including close-up photos where available. About 200 asteroids have been found to have moons of their own, and the story of their …

Who but "Penfold Dax" could write a collection of poetry titled An extraordinarily quirky anthology of the uncanny and rum: The random musings and observations from a schizophrenic mind? According to Penfold: "I started writing poetry a few years ago as a tool to help me manage the effects of schizophrenia. This method of utilizing occupational practices to aid my coping abilities is called occupational therapy and it is widely used in the field of mental health care. At first I started writing just for personal reasons, and I only saw it as a personal hobby to aid my own …

Programmed Sheep is an adult comedy built on my observation that humans all behave like sheep. Therefore, we are treated as such by government, politicians, employers, and the police, who all control our lives. We are being programmed to think like they want us to think, taking away our free will, freedom of speech, and even our own identity. I think most of the problems of the world are a direct result of interference in our lives by people using propaganda and lies to control the way we do think, which in turn makes us unhappy "lost sheep." And if …

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century – The Rebirth of Armageddon seeks to address the physical, mental, psychological challenges, and social dynamics that teenagers, parents, and society at large are faced with every day, resulting from their daily encounters with the Internet and overindulgence in the world of cybersex. The cybersex phenomenon avails ample opportunity for young people to navigate their way through various viral sites, social networking sites, and chat rooms without their parents’ consent. These expose them to numerous perils, leaving them vulnerable, as well as providing a great hiding place for pedophiles and psychopathic sexual predators. …