This is a detailed examination, from creation to cancellation, of 58 science fiction television series produced between 1990 and 2004, from the popular The X-Files to the many worlds of Star Trek (from The Next Generation onward), as well as Andromeda, Babylon 5, Firefly, Quantum Leap, Stargate Atlantis and SG-I, among others. A chapter on each series includes essential production information; a history of the series; critical commentary; and amusing, often provocative interviews with more than 150 of the creators, actors, writers and directors. The book also offers updates on each series'...

The bestselling music guide - now updated and with a FREE DVD

Have you always wanted to learn to play guitar? Who wouldn't? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. . . Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage to "Johnny B. Goode." . .B.B. King making his "Lucille" cry the blues. No doubt about it--guitars are cool.

Guitar For Dummies gives you everything a beginning or intermediate guitarist needs: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it, this book has it all--and you don't even need to know how to read music....

In his ground-breaking book, Reinventing Communication, Mark Phillips shows how even the most mature organization can fail to deliver successful projects - and worse, how this can lead to an organization's demise. With clear examples, Mark reveals the underlying principles at work and introduces a revolutionary new technique for harnessing the power of communication to ensure long term success. For organizations of all sizes, this book changes the way we think about management and leadership. Mark makes his case by looking at teams and individuals that set out to deliver ambitious...

Malone lives in a world where psionic powers exist. He must cope with these as well as an FBI Director who leaves Malone continually confused about his assignments. Now, Malone is investigating a series of incidents in which people make mistakes, some minor, and some major huge that lead to disasters. It looks as though a secret cabal of psis may be behind events but are they? What will he find when he faces the Supermind?
Supermind The Impossibles is the third in a series including Brain Twister and The Impossibles written by the duo of Laurence Mark Janifer and Randall Philip Garrett under...

FBI Agent Kenneth Malone is back with another case; first, late-model cars began driving themselves away, then, valuables began vanishing from locked rooms. The issue he faces is that the thief seems to have the ability to make himself invisible.
The Impossibles is the second in a series including Brain Twister and Supermind written by the duo of Laurence Mark Janifer and Randall Philip Garrett under the pseudonym Mark Phillips.

In nineteen-fourteen, it was enemy aliens.
In nineteen-thirty, it was Wobblies.
In nineteen-fifty-seven, it was fellow-travelers.
And, in nineteen seventy-one, Kenneth J. Malone rolled wearily out of bed wondering what the hell it was going to be now.
One thing, he told himself, was absolutely certain: it was going to be terrible. It always was.
Brain Twister, a 1962 Hugo Award Nominee, is the first in a series including The Impossibles and Supermind written by the duo of Laurence Mark Janifer and Randall Philip Garrett under the pseudonym Mark Phillips.

In his ground-breaking book, Reinventing Communication, Mark Phillips shows how even the most mature organization can fail to deliver successful projects - and worse, how this can lead to an organization's demise. With clear examples, Mark reveals the underlying principles at work and introduces a revolutionary new technique for harnessing the power of communication to ensure long term success. For organizations of all sizes, this book changes the way we think about management and leadership. Mark makes his case by looking at teams and individuals that set out to deliver ambitious...