Angela Murphy has just started as a detective on the mean streets of Glasgow, when the mutilated corpse of a young prostitute is discovered in a squalid apartment. Called to investigate the grisly murder, Angela is both shocked and surprised. To her boss, Frank Martin, there's something horribly familiar about the scene. He has seen it before. With limited resources and lacking experience, Angela is desperate to prove herself. But is it really the work of a copycat killer, and will Angela's enthusiasm and determination be enough to bring the killer to justice before another life is lost?

"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.

Mike Joslin throws a powerful 'hat' into the ring in a philosophical and scientific challenge to existing beliefs on the nature of the Universe. He suggests that the scientific community has been struggling in a 'straitjacket' of its own making, by persisting in the belief that the Universe is expanding, against tangible evidence that it isn't. He suggests that an eternal and infinite Cosmos surrounds us and maintains a constant ratio of equilibrium between matter and energy and that 'free' energy is totally invisible in a state of Singularity. The overall status quo allows 'microstate' variations everywhere but Mike is worried at how far we have already strayed from the Cosmic 'norm'. He emphasises the wonder of Nature and argues for showing it more respect: it isn't providential but has a rhythm we should abide by. We have already had several 'wake-up' calls due to global warming. Our beautiful planet needs actions now, not political obfuscation. Mike claims the all material entities constantly exchange energy and thus we are all partly 'entangled' with everything that is and ever was - a good reason to believe that 'what goes around comes around"e;!

Each issue to contain material in each of seven subject fields: botany, forestry research, environmental sciences, phytochemistry, tropical medicine, zoology and technology.