Bøker av John Humphreys

In the very near future, friendly aliens called Cubes arrive on Earth. They promise spectacular technology in exchange for a detailed study of human society. Very quickly, armed groups of citizens pledge to fight what they see as an invasion. British detective, Josephine Murray, has reason to fear the aliens but is tasked by the UK government to protect them. She learns of startling and subversive aspects of the Cubes and becomes a still small voice of reason when literally all hell breaks loose. Battling betrayal and ominous shifts in the international balance of power, Detective Murray works with security services across the globe to keep the role as 'alien protector' while tracking morally ambiguous terrorists and unexpected enemies. John Humphreys is a British biochemist and conservation writer. He resides in Pennsylvania with his wife Nancy Gifford, musician and composer, and has three children and six grandchildren, Hybrid is his first novel.

A guide to scanning and transmission microscopes and to the analytical techniques based on them. It covers the techniques of electron energy loss spectroscopy and energy dispersive X-ray analysis. It compares electron microscopic techniques to many of the competing physical investigative techniques available.

Sometime in the 1980s, Norbert Singer, the then Director of Thames Polytechnic, became interested in the idea of becoming involved in nurse educa tion. In those days, there were three qualified nurses in the Polytechnic: all in the School of Post Compulsory Education and Training, and all involved in the training of nurse tutors.