Most Popular Books by David Ellis

Combining the classic style of the original X-COM with a Wing Commander-style space simulation, Interceptor takes the series to the next level--fighting the Sectoids in outer space. Complete mission briefings and maps are featured in this guide, which was written by the lead designer of the game.

Assimilate the Next Generation of Starfleet Strategies.Starfleet Command III puts you in control of the most powerful starships of the 24th century. Warp into the Next Generation as you take command of Federation, Klingon, and Romulan starships in your continuing mission to defend -- or conquer -- the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. This detailed guide will help you rise through the ranks and take on bigger and bolder challenges --including a new menace that threatens not only the safety of empire but the fragile peace of the known galaxy.Written with the full support of Activision, this exclusive guide is packed with the strategies, tactics, and analysis you need to become an expert commander. Inside you''ll find:- In-depth analysis of each empire and its ships and weapons- Detailed stats for everything in the game, including non-playable races- Expert customization tips so that your starship is primed for battle- Advanced tactical training to ensure combat success- Comprehensive walkthroughs for the Klingon, Romulan, and Federation campaign missions- Multiplayer tactics for succeeding in skirmishes and Dynaverse 3 games

"Civilization II: Test of Time" is the ultimate strategy game! This latest addition to the Civilization II family of games features three entirely new games -- Extended Civilization II, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. Nine all-new worlds have been added to the Civilization experience. The worlds are linked and multi-layered to provide awesome challenges, strategies, and dangers. "Civilization II: Test of Time" -- Prima''s Official Strategy Guide will help you interact with elves and astronauts, goblins and Centaurans, magic and science. Conquer any world you choose.

Many people have become resigned to the idea that heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer''s or another degenerative disease will kill them. This thought-provoking and topical book shows that these illnesses were not our fate in pre-history and they need not be our destiny in the future. It explains how we can prevent and reverse many chronic diseases by eating the diet that drove human evolution, a diet based on meat, animal fat and offal. Studies looking at brain scans of elderly people find that certain people have a greater degree of brain shrinkage over the years. An Oxford University study found that older people with the lowest levels of vitamin B12 had the most brain shrinkage over time. And at the other end of the age spectrum, breast-fed babies of vegan mothers sometimes show brain atrophy. Luckily, brain atrophy in babies can be reversed with vitamin B12 if the atrophy is picked up in time. In all these cases brain atrophy is owing to nutrient deficiencies. Nutrients that are vital but aren''t found in any plant food. This groundbreaking book reveals why plant-based eating is not only harming human health, it is also harming the planet. The authors explain why a pasture-reared meat diet is more ethical and humane than a vegetarian or vegan diet. They show how crop farming is causing climate change, soil destruction, animal suffering and ecological disaster. The flawed logic that we should replace meat with plant-based food means that environmental destruction will continue, along with the socio-economic costs of diet-related disease. In contrast, regeneratively-grazed cows mitigate climate change, enrich soils, support wildlife and provide nutritious food. The authors firmly anchor the health benefits of an all-meat diet with farming and the environment. This book comes at a time of health and environmental crises, when the public has never been more interested in these issues, yet equally never more confused. With qualifications in medicine, nutrition, geology and agriculture, the authors bring together a unique combination of expertise in health, diet, earth sciences and the impact of farming systems on the environment.

A complete treatment of all aspects of dark matter physics This book provides an incisive, self-contained introduction to one of the most intriguing subjects in modern physics, presenting the evidence we have from astrophysics for the existence of dark matter, the theories for what it could be, and the cutting-edge experimental and observational methods for testing them. It begins with a survey of the astrophysical phenomena, from rotation curves to lensing and cosmological structure formation. It goes on to offer the most comprehensive overview available of all three major theories, discussing weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), axions, and primordial black holes. The book explains the constraints on each theory, such as direct detection and indirect astrophysical limits, and enables students to build physical intuition using hands-on exercises and supplemental material. The only book to treat extensively WIMPs, axions, and primordial black holes Provides balanced coverage of the evidence, theory, and testing for dark matter from astrophysics, particle physics, and experimental physics Includes original problems and short quizzes throughout Accompanied by Jupyter notebooks that give sample calculations and methods to reproduce key results and graphs An ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and an essential reference for researchers

"In this first major study of the artist, David Ellis has examined the artist''s sources and influences - some obvious, some hidden and not easily specified - over a career of almost fifty years. He makes a point of continually placing the artist in context of his time, showing how he responds to and diverges from the influences around him. In doing so he presents a lively individual analysis of aspects of Australian art from the 1940s to the present as well as relating these to the special case of Robert Grieve."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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In 1931, in Munich, Germany, Adolf Hitler murders his beautiful twenty-three-year-old lover--and half-niece--Geli Raubal. So begins the most suspenseful novel in years. A determined detective, Thomas Bauer, obsessively pursues Hitler--putting Bauer''s Jewish wife and children in grave danger. A courageous journalist, Fritz Gerlich, writes story after story detailing the murder--making Gerlich a target for Hitler''s Gestapo. An American professor, Eleanor Robbins, picks up the trail of evidence from present-day Neo-Nazis guarding the Führer''s long-held secrets to the death. The suspense builds to a shocking ending inside the bunker below the Reich Chancellery. History got it wrong. James Patterson gets it right.