Bøker av Bill Jones

This novel has been updated and re-released as Grandfather Time, on sale now. This is the original version, on sale for a limited time. Charlie Patterson is an exceptionally bright young man, with no close friends. When his great-grandfather becomes trapped within the world of dreams, the Stream, Charlie and his friends set out to free him. There they will encounter fur-covered dragons, deserts of colored glass, distorted history, and other strange beings. However, there is a growing darkness in the Stream, and it wants both Charlie and his great-grandfather.Charlie's entire summer has been filled with increasingly disturbing dreams. Most feature a strange, dark-haired girl, who watches, but does not speak. Her name is Robin LeBeaux, a lovely girl from New Mexico with a tragic past, and she is quite real. Despite Charlie's insistent logic, and Robin's enthusiastic illogic, they become fast friends. Together, guided by Robin's deceased sister, they discover a singular talent - the ability to walk into and influence others' dreams. Charlie and Robin are determined to find Charlie's great-grandfather, G'pa Joe, and bring him back, no matter the cost.

Trope-free science fiction! If you're looking for traditional sci-fi full of stupid, predictable video game plots, boring engineering dialogue, armed space scientists, or autocratic space armies aiming to enslave the universe, sorry, this ain't it! Welcome to the Aligned Worlds, innovative, progressive, pansexual science fiction for Gen Z and beyond. You've never met characters like these or been to worlds like theirs. Climb aboard via Books 1, 2, or 3. You won't regret the ride! An android named Riley embarks on a journey through space and time to prove his own personhood. He will find music, adventure, love, and murder.Rashon Riley, an android so advanced he has organic components, attempts to prove his consciousness through music. Along the way he discovers that a soul comes with a dark price. Riley wants to make his own way in the universe. His chosen field of battle is jazz, and his weapon, the double bass. He meets up with Monk, a four-thumbed pianist, and together, they start on a path only the jazz greats from Earth's music heydays have ever seen. There's more at stake than music, however. Riley's people back home are in trouble, and only by proving his own worth can he help them. Things really take a turn for the odd when a robot stranger shows up and takes Riley on a journey to 20th-century Earth, to where jazz was born and thrived.If a Robot Play the Blues Do It Still Be Funky? It do, dear readers. It do.If A Robot Play The Blues is a science fiction adventure like none other, starring a human-like android lead you'll never forget.

The exciting follow-on to the dystopian science fiction thriller, Hard As Roxx!BOTH BOOKS SERVE AS PREQUELS TO THE SCI-FI SERIES, THE ALIGNED WORLDSTrinity Sabo Grail has lived her life under many aliases, including Trint (in Hard As Roxx) and Chan (in If A Robot Play The Blues Do It Still Be Funky). Even her partners never knew the truth about her amazing life. Now she stars in her own epic tome, revealing her precarious existence thrust into a role as one of the most influential people in a world that's falling apart.After nearly a century's worth of increasingly deadly pandemics and a worsening global climate, the world into which Trinity was born bears little resemblance to today's earth. The United States is threatening to fragment into five or more pieces. Africa has become Africasia, a political hotbed on the brink of war. Most of Europe is buried in nine months of winter. Enter Trinity, born to a fabulously wealthy family and one of a few with both the inclination and the means of saving the planet.Within the wild adventure she calls her life, Trinity is, at various times, an academic, revolutionary, terrorist, political target, world leader, wife, mother, and is even proclaimed the New Moses as she attempts to lead captive robots and androids to a new promised land. By the time she survives her second political assassination, she knows the world needs a radical solution if there is any hope of saving the planet. That solution is Trinity ... or Trint or Chan ... or whoever she is that week.Follow along as Trinity takes you on journey you've never imagined, meeting characters you'll never forget, all culminating in her landing light-years from home among the Aligned Worlds. Filled with nail-biting suspense, Trinity's Redemption is sci-fi like you've never seen. One extraordinary woman and a few great friends can make all the difference.This is a tour-de-force that joins science fiction, romance, adventure, and political intrigue into an exciting, bittersweet narrative that will make you feel a great deal, even if all of it isn't joyous.

There is a rich history of achievements by Chartered Surveyors in Singapore going back as far as the 1880s. Their stories have largely gone untold. This book tells the stories of individual Chartered Surveyors in Singapore over the first hundred years since the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors was founded (1868 to 1968) and explains the role they played in the development of Singapore. The book also includes the stories of the pioneer Singaporean Chartered Surveyors from the 1940s onwards, many of whom studied overseas but returned to Singapore where they would play important roles in the real estate industry over future decades.

Nikola Tesla, inventor of alternating current motors, did the basic research for constructing electromagnetic field lift-and-drive aircraft/space craft. From 1891 to 1893, he gave a set of lectures and demonstrations to groups of electrical engineers. As part of each show, Tesla stood in the middle of the stage, using his 6' 6" height, with an assistant on either side, each 7 feet away. All 3 men wore thick cork or rubber shoe soles to avoid being electrically grounded. Each assistant held a wire, part of a high voltage, low current circuit. When Tesla raised his arms to each side, violet colored electricity jumped harmlessly across the gaps between the men. At high voltage and frequency in this arrangement, electricity flows over a surface, even the skin, rather than into it. This is a basic circuit which could be used by aircraft / spacecraft.

This introduction to the life and work of Bert Coombes should be valuable not just for its assessment of Coombes, but for the light that it sheds on the social and industrial context in which he lived. His writing articulated the social and economic injustice of contemporary capitalism.

A poignantly written and heartfelt memoir that recounts the author's hair raising - and occasionally hilarious - experience as a young Marine artilleryman in Vietnam. Gritty, unvarnished and often disturbing at times, the book provides a unique window into the lasting physical and emotional wounds of war.

Honest, frank and straight to the point, youth experts Josh McDowell and Bill Jones jump into the middle of over 230 questions common among teenagers. From 'How can I get along with my parents?' to 'How can I resist drugs when all my friends do it?' to 'How far can I go physically before it's wrong?'-no question is off limits, and no answer is impossible.

Our young and earnest hero, Algernon Swift, returns from his travels abroad and must once more face the trials of life, love and the English language. Back at home, Algernon tries to cope with the exorbitant passion of the exquisite Mavis (a woman with X on her mind) and his elderly uncle, Reverend Hawker, and his exasperating inability to mean one thing at a time. Well-meaning in a world of double meanings, can Algernon avoid becoming another of Mavis's Xs or, at least, plunging into an existential crisis of his own? Amidst perpetual solicitude, can Algernon find both solace and solitude? Punning on subjects as diverse as Henry VIII's wives, Pre-Raphaelite painters, mathematics and fairy tales, we are taken on a hilarious and punishing journey of jokes - both high-brow and homespun - as Algernon attempts to make sense of, and even delight in, the world of word-play. Written and illustrated by Bill Jones, The Life and Times of Algernon Swift contains some of the best - or indeed worst - puns and jokes you will ever read.

The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid GBP17 expenses. Soon he would be a record-breaker, one of the greatest long-distance runners the world has ever seen. This is his true story: The Ghost Runner.

A comprehensive reference book for anyone interested in Britiush politics, covering modern history, institutions, ideas, key terms and key political biographies. -- .

Short, yet comprehensive. Completely up to date. Great value for money textbook by two established scholars .

A short but comprehensive textbook for students of British politics which interprets changes over the last thirty years and analyses institutions within the context of British society and economics. -- .