All six episodes from the first series of the cult favourite Channel 4 sitcom which centres on a house of three Catholic priests (Fathers Ted, Dougal and Jack), situated on a remote Irish island. In 'Good Luck, Father Ted', Ted has a chance of appearing on television but is thwarted by Dougal, Jack and the arrival of the worst fair in the world. In 'Entertaining Father Stone', Ted decides that he has had enough of Father Stone's visits to Craggy Island, but a bolt of lightning changes his mind. Whilst in 'The Passion of St Tibulus', Ted and Dougal demonstrate outside the local cinema that is showing a film banned by the Pope, but the film becomes more successful despite their protestations. The priests do their 'Three Stages of Elvis' act in the All Priests Look-a-Like Competition in 'Competition Time', while in 'And God Created Woman', Ted finds his vows of celibacy tested by the arrival on Craggy Island of a steamy authoress. Finally in 'Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest', Jack consumes too much floor polish and leaves Ted and Dougal half a million pounds in his will, but he may not stay dead long enough for them to collect.

Successful Hollywood television star Nathan Prentiss finds himself caring for his five-year-old grandson after his only child Cassandra succumbs to a drug overdose. Determined not to raise the boy on the Left Coast, Nathan, accompanied by close friend and bodyguard Doug Ratske, moves back to Addison, a small town in upstate New York where he was born and raised. He is determined that his grandson Natty will be raised with small town values; however, Nathan's fame often gets in the way of small town life. Soon he meets Olivia, the girl he left behind and old feelings are rekindled.

Communication networks underpin our modern world, and provide fascinating and challenging examples of large-scale stochastic systems. Randomness arises in communication systems at many levels: for example, the initiation and termination times of calls in a telephone network, or the statistical structure of the arrival streams of packets at routers in the Internet. How can routing, flow control and connection acceptance algorithms be designed to work well in uncertain and random environments? This compact introduction illustrates how stochastic models can be used to shed light on important issues in the design and control of communication networks. It will appeal to readers with a mathematical background wishing to understand this important area of application, and to those with an engineering background who want to grasp the underlying mathematical theory. Each chapter ends with exercises and suggestions for further reading.

Communication networks underpin our modern world, and provide fascinating and challenging examples of large-scale stochastic systems. Randomness arises in communication systems at many levels: for example, the initiation and termination times of calls in a telephone network, or the statistical structure of the arrival streams of packets at routers in the Internet. How can routing, flow control and connection acceptance algorithms be designed to work well in uncertain and random environments? This compact introduction illustrates how stochastic models can be used to shed light on important issues in the design and control of communication networks. It will appeal to readers with a mathematical background wishing to understand this important area of application, and to those with an engineering background who want to grasp the underlying mathematical theory. Each chapter ends with exercises and suggestions for further reading.

Successful Hollywood television star Nathan Prentiss finds himself caring for his five-year-old grandson after his only child Cassandra succumbs to a drug overdose. Determined not to raise the boy on the Left Coast, Nathan, accompanied by close friend and bodyguard Doug Ratske, moves back to Addison, a small town in upstate New York where he was born and raised. He is determined that his grandson Natty will be raised with small town values; however, Nathan's fame often gets in the way of small town life. Soon he meets Olivia, the girl he left behind and old feelings are rekindled.

Jeffrey M. Elliot interviews four writers, artists, and editors of science fiction: Charles D. Hornig, Bob Shaw, Frank Kelly Freas, and Brian M. Stableford. With an introduction by Raymond Z. Gallun.

Attempting to deconstruct America's joyless obsession with sobriety, The Modern Drunkard offers today's befuddled drinkers a comprehensive and instructive manual on how to drink-and how to do it well. Through articles, anecdotes, cartoons, and illustrations, Frank Kelly Rich campaigns to revive the lost art of tippling and taps a deep vein of boozy lore and legend through the ages, uncovering etiquette and expertise from some of history's greatest guzzlers.