What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?A new philosophical field has emerged. “Existential risk” studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway global warming to nuclear warfare to malevolent artificial intelligence, deploying a curious mix of utilitarian ethics, statistical risk analysis, and, controversially, a transhuman advocacy that would aim to ...

The world has fallen, but life goes on…In the late 2020s and early 30s, corporations managed to render the major governments of the world obsolete. The big corporations owned most of the territories as well as the majority of the world's wealth. While many of the old traditions were still observed in various parts of the world, the true power was with the corporations.In the late 30s, what would be known as the Corporate Wars began as larger companies initi...

"For vividness and a sense of the overall flow of the battle . . . The Narrow Margin is excellent for the British side."— Air & Space MagazineThe Battle of Britain saved the country from invasion. If the RAF had been defeated all the efforts of the British Army and the Royal Navy would hardly have averted defeat in the face of complete German air superiority. With all Europe subjugated, Germany and Japan would later have met on th...

Injury recidivism is a continuing health problem in the modern clinical setting and has been part of medical literature for some time. However, it has been largely absent from forensic and bioarchaeological scholarship, despite the fact that practitioners work closely with skeletal remains and, in many cases, skeletal trauma. The contributors to this edited collection seek to close this gap by exploring the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in bioarchaeological and ...

Revised and updated to match the latest AQA A-level Psychology specification, the third edition of this incredibly popular revision guide is ideal for consolidating knowledge both at home for revision, and at school as a lesson-by-lesson summary as the course progresses.-Accessible, spread-based approach makes it engaging and easy to use-Description (AO1) is on the left-hand page: content divided into key terms/concepts in the first column and explanation in...

A handful of heroes stand between a monstrous horde and the destruction of the mystical heart of Terrinoth, in this nonstop fantasy novel from the world of Descent: Legends of the DarkThe invasion of Terrinoth has begun. Brutal Uthuk Y'llan hordes swarm across the land, ravaging everything in their path. A great champion has arisen in the Darklands: Beastmaster Th'Uk Tar, bent on destroying the wild and mystical Bloodwood as his first step in conquering the great f...

I didn't think I'd ever see her again, then she barged into my life and shattered it.Kleos disregards every rule, all common sense that dictates she shouldn't trust me. I'm a dark sorcerer, comfortable with murder, torture, and not entirely opposed to world domination. She's the sweetheart of Highvale. We make no sense.I can't say I care.Our city. Our families. Our entire world.It doesn't matter what I'll have to destroy to keep her.They told her I w...

From the first shot fired by his grandfather on a jungle trail in 1903 to the day his father captured plans for the Chinese invasion of South Korea, William Crawford Woods's family has fought in nearly every American war of the twentieth century. Drawing on his family's letters, journals, official records, and other artifacts found in his grandmother's attic, Woods has revived their stories—accounts of his grandfather, who served in the Philippine War and World War I; of his uncle, who ros...

Silver: He literally fell from the sky, with his sharp jawline, unsettling eyes, and those marks burning bright when he looks at me. How the hell am I supposed to believe a word he says?Cas is too powerful, too mysterious, and honestly? Too convenient. We're on the brink of war, both inside and outside of the city. And all of a sudden, a bona fide god spawn lands in our laps, happy to help? I don't buy it. He must be a spy. A weapon deployed to destabilize us....

This is a love story. It is also, as the title suggests, a ghost story.The setting is a rambling old house called Rakers Wood. It has a sinister reputation that the new owners, Carol and Adam Baker, have yet to hear about. By the time they move in it is already too late to avoid what is coming.The Bakers' new home is a very old house on a site with a fearsome history dating from pagan times. It was founded in blood and that blood has tainted the place, as if for all time.

In the old days, they outright murdered people . . . things like me. Now they simply seek to control us. The Council of Elders has determined every aspect of my life from my first breath. What I'd study, my job, who I'd eventually marry. That was all their decision.But when I woke up covered in runes designed to enslave me, I stopped submitting to the will of others. I wasn't supposed to set foot down in the undercity. Someone like me shouldn't associate with dark sorcerer...