The author describes an approach to the analysis of emotion that can be used independently of conventional emotion theories: that expression, feeling, and motivation can be considered in a scientific manner. As a central theme he argues that biological and, in particular, evolutionary considerations are useful in understanding the basic components of emotion, and he applies this idea to a wide variety of the phenomena of emotion. The resultant review should be useful as an undergraduate text in which the explanations are aimed at the nonspecialist. The specific conclusions should be of...

It is 1939 and the eve of war. Tom Haldane's life is at a crossroads but the prospect of joining up promises some answers for him. When he joins the crew of the Aida, a convoy rescue ship, little does he know that the next five years will turn into a gripping odyssey, a journey that is by turns terrifying, comic, poignant and romantic. Throughout the war Haldane is also tormented by the memory of a fortune teller's prediction he heard at the outbreak of war, a prophecy that is proving increasingly accurate. Based on the real story of the Zamalek and her crew, one of the few rescue ships that...