New Releases by Gary Russell

Founded by Queen Victoria in 1879, the Torchwood Institute has been defending Great Britain from the alien hordes for 130 years. Though London''s Torchwood One was destroyed during the Battle of Canary Wharf, the small team at Torchwood Three have continued to monitor the space-time Rift that runs through Cardiff, saving the world and battling for the future of the human race. Now you can discover every fact and figure, explore every crack in time and encounter every creature that Torchwood have dealt with. Included here are details of: The secret of the Children of Earth Operatives from Alice Guppy to Gwen Cooper Extraterrestrial visitors from Arcateenians to Weevils The life and deaths of Captain Jack Harkness and much more. Illustrated throughout with photos and artwork from all three series, this A-Z provides everything you need to know about Torchwood.

Exciting action-packed new original fiction for younger Doctor Who fans, starring the Eleventh Doctor with his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Monstrous Missions contains two fast-paced, fun-filled adventures! The Doctor and his friends join a group of explorers on a Victorian tramp steamer in Terrible Lizards. The explorers are searching for the Fountain of Youth, but neither they nor the treasure they seek are quite what they seem! People are mysteriously disappearing on Moonbase Laika. They return with strange bite marks and no idea where they have been. Can the Doctor and his friends get to the bottom of what''s going on in Snakes on a Base!

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Fla., Nov. 11, 2011-Aor. 14, 2012.,

Le légendaire DOCTOR WHO débarque en comics avec de toutes nouvelles aventures inédites. Rassemblant les ingrédients qui font le succès de la série télévisée, le lecteur est transporté à l’intérieur du TARDIS, le vaisseau en forme de cabine téléphonique de police britannique, pour sillonner l’espace et le temps en compagnie du 10ème Docteur, au travers des aventures les plus folles. Alors que le Docteur est à la recherche du meilleur milkshake de la galaxie, en compagnie de Martha Jones, sa compagne, notre héros va tomber au milieu d’un désordre inter-planétaire provoqué par des aliens qui vont avoir besoin de lui pour remettre de l’ordre dans tout ça.

Completely revised and updated, the Doctor Who Encyclopedia is the ultimate fan''s guide to all things Doctor Who. Packed with photos, concept drawings, illustrations and artwork, and including the Christopher Ecclestone, David Tennant and Matt Smith incarnations of the Doctor, learn every fact and discover every figure from every episode.The Doctor Who Enyclopedia is the perfect companion for all Doctor Who fans.

The Doctor is dead!...Or is he? Sarah Jane and the gang head to a UNIT base under Mount Snowdon to investigate. Strange alien undertakers, the Shansheeth, are guarding the body, and the shifty Colonel Karim seems to be up to no good. Find out what''s really going on in this exclusive new adventure, featuring the Eleventh Doctor! The second of two exciting new novelisations based on a story from The Sarah Jane Adventures, starring Elisabeth Sladen and airing on BBC One this Autumn - featuring some very special guest stars! Perfect for reluctant readers.

''Why are you here? I mean - who are you, exactly?'' An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time... And - as the Doctor, Amy and Rory realise - another place. Another planet. But if Enola Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilisation, how come she isn''t famous? Why has Rory never heard of her? Added to that, since Amy''s been travelling with him for a while now, why does she now think the Doctor is from Mars? As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be literal fabrications - and very deadly indeed. Who can the Doctor believe when no one is what they seem? And how can he defeat an enemy who can bend matter itself to their will? For the Doctor, Amy and Rory - and all of humanity - the buried secrets of the past are very much a threat to the present... A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.

There''s a part of the city that no one much goes to, a collection of rundown old houses and gloomy streets. No one stays there long, and no one can explain why - something''s not quite right there. Now the Council is renovating the district, and a new company is overseeing the work. There will be street parties and events to show off the newly gentrified neighbourhood: clowns and face-painters for the kids, magicians for the adults - the street entertainers of Cardiff, out in force. None of this is Torchwood''s problem. Until Toshiko recognises the sponsor of the street parties: Bilis Manger. Now there is something for Torchwood to investigate. But Captain Jack Harkness has never been able to get into the area; it makes him physically ill to go near it. Without Jack''s help, Torchwood must face the darker side of urban Cardiff alone... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoki Mori and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.

Join Sarah Jane on an adventure investigating mysterious happenings with the help of Maria, Luke, Clyde and, of course, ''Mr Smith''.

Join Sarah Jane on an adventure investigating mysterious happenings with the help of Maria, Luke, Clyde and, of course, ''Mr Smith''.

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Separate from the Government Outside the police Beyond the United Nations... Founded by Queen Victoria in 1879, the Torchwood Institute has long battled against alien threats to the British Empire - work done in secret, under the cover of darkness. But once in a while, an outsider will find something out about this covert organisation, and Torchwood Archives offers a rare glimpse into what was almost one of Torchwood''s most serious breaches of security: an expose that never saw the light of day. Until now. These previously unpublished writings of investigative journalist Warren Martyn provide in-depth background on Torchwood personnel, case files on alien enemies of the Crown and descriptions of extra-terrestrial technology collected over the years, uncovering more about the world of Torchwood than ever previously known. Discovered by Ianto Jones just before publication, the book was kept in Torchwood as a reference for personnel - and a warning against future security breaches.

When Luke and Clyde go missing after a trip to a laser-tag arena, Sarah Jane and Maria go to talk to Mark Grantham, the shifty owner. After some investigation, they realise he is working with Kudlak, an alien warrior, to recruit soldiers to fight a war on the planet Udvoni. Can Sarah Jane and Maria stop him?

When world-famous ecologist John Carpenter is murdered, Elkhorn''s Willapa County Sheriff and resident Deadhead Gavin Pruitt attempts to solve the crime while keeping the peace between loggers and environmentalists.

Consumers have distinctive price responses that reflect the manner in which they process price information. Many retailers assume that consumers make purchase decisions by simply trading off product preferences with product prices. In contrast, reference price theory argues that consumers use psychologically encoded prices when making a choice. Because the market-level reaction to price depends on the way that consumers use price information, it is important for retailers to understand the extent to which consumers in a particular trading area rely on reference prices. Given this information, retailers are better able to develop optimal pricing policies. In this research, we develop a procedure which classifies individual households into one of three price response segments: a no reference price segment (NRP), a memory-based reference price segment (MBR), and a stimulus-based reference price segment (SBR). NRP consumers take prices as given; they do not compare prices to a reference value. In contrast, MBR and SBR consumers compare current price to a reference value to determine whether a price level is reasonable. MBR consumers base their reference on past prices, while SBR consumers base their reference on the current price of a focal brand. Based upon past research, we assume that this focal brand is the last brand used by the consumer. Both types of reference price mechanisms assume that some aspect of past choice behavior (prices or product selection) impacts the current decision. For this reason, past marketing activity affects current purchase behavior whenever consumers rely on reference prices. We classify consumers into reference price segments using purchase histories of consumers in the toilet tissue product category. Significantly, our results clearly show that reference price consumers (MBR and SBR) constitute the vast majority of the market. In choosing a brand, both MBR and SBR consumers exhibit a characteristic known as loss aversion: they have a strong negative reaction to prices above the reference price and a weaker positive reaction to prices below the reference price. We find that MBR consumers, who recall prices from memory, are considerably more price and promotion responsive than SBR consumers, who rely entirely on price information available at the point of purchase. Our analysis shows that MBR consumers (relative to SBR consumers) pay lower prices, switch brands more frequently, and buy more often under promotional conditions. We believe that this difference occurs because MBR consumers continually monitor the pricing environment and buy when pricing conditions are favorable. Our work implies that MBR and SBR consumers will react differently to retail pricing policies. For example, we would expect that frequent promotions created by a HI-LO retailer would create an alternating pattern of positive and negative impacts for MBR consumers (due to perceived gains and losses over time). However, the impact of these HI-LO promotions on the SBR consumer depends on the depth of the discount: only those promotions that generate prices below the price level of the focal brand will have an effect. In contrast, an EDLP retailer minimizes the gain/loss mechanism of MBR consumers due to infrequent promotions. However, by choosing the price levels of the product category assortment carefully, the same EDLP retailer can ensure that all SBR consumers have a variety of products with reasonable prices, regardless of the identity of the focal brand. In choosing a retail pricing strategy (such as HI-LO versus EDLP), the retailer must take into account the intensity of retail competition, the extent to which the retailer has power in the distribution channel, and the purchase behavior characteristics of consumers in the trading area. However, all else being equal, we would expect the retailer facing a market dominated by MBR consumers would wish to alternate promotions on different brands over time and to publicize this information through advertising. This would ensure that consumers always find a brand whose price falls below its reference value. In contrast, a retailer facing a market dominated by SBR consumers can expect that a heavily promoted brand in one week will become the focal brand in future weeks. Thus, brands priced below the usual price level of this focal brand will benefit from past promotional activity, while brands priced above this focal brand will be hurt. For this reason, the retailer facing SBR consumers should confine promotions to the higher priced items in the category. By providing an analytical tool for understanding the reference price characteristics of the consumer population, our work allows the retailer to forecast the likely impact of changes in pricing policy.

The definitive guide to the design of the movie, with over 600 illustrations, including many new pieces exclusive to this edition. With complete access to artwork created over a five-year period, this authoritative and insightful book illustrates the creative development of The Return of the King. Fully revised and updated, this official book contains over 600 images, from the earliest pencil sketches and conceptual drawings to magnificent paintings, sculptures and digital imagery that shaped the look of the film, with many new pieces appearing for the first time. Contributing artists include John Howe and Alan Lee, artists who have inspired Peter Jackson''s vision of Middle-earth and worked with him to bring the trilogy to the big screen. Peter Jackson himself provides the Afterword in which he discuss the importance of the conceptual art to the film. The book covers most aspects of the eagerly awaited finale to the enormously successful trilogy, from locations and costumes to weaponry and creatures. The artists who created all of these diverse elements explain how they contributed to the development of the film. Printed on high-quality art paper this lavish book is ideal for Tolki

This full-color book features images from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy depicting pivotal scenes and characters that were previously embargoed and have never appeared in book form. The work of Alan Lee and John Howe, the two artists most closely associated with Tolkien''s world, is featured, along with that of many other talented artists and designers.

What if...the Valeyard had won? The thing about meddling with time is that one moment something is real, the next, it''s been erased. Probability become just a possibility. Established truth becomes a theoretical falsehood. Like dominoes, as one timeline falls, the others come cascading down around it. You can engineer new timelines, new possibilities but before long, the distinction between what is, what was, what might be and what never can be becomes blurred.

The is a guide to the design of the movie, illustrating its creative development. It contains over 500 images, from the earliest pencil sketches and conceptual drawings to the paintings that shaped the look of the film. Most aspects of the film are covered, from locations and costumes to weaponry and creatures. As well as the wealth of artwork there are also photographs showing the realisation of the creative process and some stills from the film.

An adventure featuring the fifth Doctor Who, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric, and delving into the past of the first Doctor. The story explores the relationship between the universe and one of the Doctor''s oldest protagonists, the Celestial Toymaker.