Aliens mating with earthlings? It's true. And now three of their otherworldly offspring have stolen a spaceship and are zooming toward Earth in search of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. Parking their saucer in Sydney, Australia, they shapeshift into luscious earthgirl form. When the alien who calls herself Baby Baby abducts Jake and straps him into the saucer's sexual experimentation chamber, the global warming begins. Next the Babes decide to form a band and soon they've skyrocketed to rock 'n' roll stardom. But trouble is on its way in the small gray shape of Captain Qwerk, who has set...
Aliens mating with earthlings? It's true. And now three of their otherworldly offspring have stolen a spaceship and are zooming toward Earth in search...
Reaktion's new CityScopes series consists of concise, illustrated guides that provide a social and urban history from a city's beginnings to the present day. Written by authors with unique and intimate knowledge of each city, these books offer fascinating vignettes on the quintessential and the quirky. In the first book of the series, Linda Jaivin explores a city at the heart of one of the world's oldest civilizations and the capital of its newest superpower--Beijing. In China's central city, Jaivin finds thousands of years of history dating back to our ancestors, a story that includes...
Reaktion's new CityScopes series consists of concise, illustrated guides that provide a social and urban history from a city's beginnings to the prese...
Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world lost in translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture.
Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world lost in translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as ...
