This 'On The Magnet' is a new improved English translation of the widely censored or banned Latin 1600 'De Magnete' by William Gilbert which was the first real science book to be published. This version is rather easier to read than its two earlier translations, and significantly helps to clarify Gilbert's 'attraction' physics which Newton put as one of two basic valid mathematized physics options and which he is believed to have privately favoured. It is basically a novel signal-response or remote-control physics that may still have real relevance today.

Supertanker Circumnavigation is the story of a young merchant navy deck officer cadet's first trip to sea on a tramp tanker, which turned into a circumnavigation via the Panama and Suez canals.

Supertanker Port of Call Asia: The violent, sexually charged, world of a seamen's town in Southeast Asia.

London in the nineteen eighties: Gordon Gecko wanabes; small time criminals; homesick tax exiles; teenage mothers; bargemen; dilapidated Victorian architecture; Stalinist council estates; and a pensive tube train driver.

A retired supertanker captain experiences difficulties with his teenage Mexican girlfriend, an Englishman befriends a mysterious and sinister Irishman in Havana, a criminal returns to the streets of Brighton. Stories of society's outsiders fill these pages.