The laboratory synthesis of penicillin, with its intractable beta-lactam structure or "enchanted ring," proved to be one of the most difficult problems ever undertaken by organic chemists. In this book, John Sheehan the man who succeeded in synthesizing penicillin after others had given up, recounts the discovery and development of this remarkable drug.

Philothée O'Neddy, one of the most flamboyant and outspoken members of the defiantly and insistently eccentric group of French writers known as the Jeunes France, whose members included Théophile Gautier, Petrus Borel and Gérard de Nerval, produced little fiction during his lifetime, but that he did produce was of the highest order. His longest prose work, Histoire d'un anneau enchanté, roman de chevalerie (1841), here translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford as The Enchanted Ring: A Romance of Chivalry is one of the most remarkable products of the French Romantic imagination. Although the proto-Baudelairean aspects of the author's collection of poetry Feu et flamme have helped to maintain that volume's reputation at a higher level, Histoire d'un anneau enchanté, roman de chevalerie has an equal claim to be considered its author's masterpiece, with its marked unconventionality and admirable zest, which maintain its readability very well into the twenty-first century.

Through the clouds at the top of the Faraway Tree lie the Lands of the Enchanted World. When Talon the evil troll tries to steal the magical Talismans that link the lands to the Tree, the Enchanted World is suddenly in danger. Can Silky and her fairy friends rescue all these Talismans before it's too late?

A young girl becomes enchanted by the specter of a famous actor haunting her house, only to discover what he really is when she grows up.

Pinx faces her greatest challenge yet in the Land of Giants as she and her friends try to avoid Talon the Troll and recover the Ring of Midnight.