What role, if any, should AI technologies have in the church and to what end?In this book, Walter Sisto contends that the sophiological perspective of Father Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1994) lays a path for the church during the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. What distinguishes Bulgakov's theology is not merely his Russian Orthodox sophiological framework, but his prophetic vision for the Church's active engagement with modernity-a vision this book seeks to ext...

First published in 1939, Walter Jackson Bate’s seminal study of John Keats’s “negative capability” remains the definitive account of one of the central ideas of Romantic poetics. At once genealogical and analytical, Bate traces the concept across a wide intellectual field—linking it to William Hazlitt’s notion of “gusto,” to William Shakespeare’s dramatic impersonality, and forward to Henri Bergson’s distinction between intellect and intuition. In Bate’s formulation, negative capability em...

Join the shrinking twins, Dev and Maya, in this graphic novel adventure as they shrink until they are no bigger than a little finger. In this story, Dev and Maya are on a school trip to the museum when they shrink! How will they escape the Egyptian room when there are mummies, scorpions and scarab beetles scaring them?Reading Champion Graphic readers is a new strand in the Reading Champion programme. Each story follows the adventures of the same set of characters in exciting comic ...

Join the shrinking twins, Dev and Maya, in this graphic novel adventure as they shrink until they are no bigger than a little finger. In this story, Dev and Maya are at the seaside when they shrink! How will they escape the giant crab and the hungry seagull?Reading Champion Graphic readers is a new strand in the Reading Champion programme. Each story follows the adventures of the same set of characters in exciting comic book form, perfect for encouraging reluctant readers. The book...

Flight 868 is a ticket to paradise, a non-stop service to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Over a dozen tipsy passengers are off to a destination wedding. A team of high school baseball players is headed to a tournament. The plane is packed with people going on a trip of a lifetime.But under cover of turbulence, a killer strikes – and when the lights come back on, a passenger is found brutally murdered. As holiday dreams turn into nightmares, a bewildered air marshal must solve the crime. Fo...

Who advises politicians about the issues that impact our daily lives, and how has their advice changed over time?In Australia Fair? authors James Walter and Carolyn Holbrook explore the world of departmental officials and political advisers who wield significant influence in shaping our society and assess how policy advice has changed since World War II. How has the relationship between our elected representatives and bureaucrats evolved? Have they delivered what the peopl...

The humble sandwich elevated to culinary art by a Japanese master chef.The Japanese sando is both humble and refined, embodying Japanese culinary excellence and flavor at its very best. For Chef Walter Ishizuka of Yabai Sando, France's trendiest sando restaurant, these cult classics evoke the flavors of his childhood.This groundbreaking cookbook allows you to create dozens of Ishizuka's amazing sando recipes, including:

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Litter Pickers follows Class 2B as they clean up the litter on their local beach. They find all kinds of things and work hard to pick everything up!Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their develo...

Rethinking AI ReasoningFrom Prompting to Governed ThinkingA practical framework for governing AI outputs, auditing reasoning, and deciding what claims have earned the right to be relied upon.Artificial intelligence can produce answers that sound intelligent, confident, and persuasive.But can those answers be trusted?Recent research from Apple, Stanford, Caltech, and other leading institutions has shown that today's most advanced AI systems can fail i...

On July 2, 1937, famed American adventurer Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, embarked on an attempt to make her the first female aviator to circumnavigate the world. When they failed to land and refuel on Howland Island in the central Pacific, a massive search was launched. Nothing was found, and they were presumed dead.Eighty-two years later, the yacht, "Sarah Bee," sinks after hitting a reef during a typhoon. The yacht owner's daughter, Denis...

Rethinking the Causes of Climate Change Using Three Thinking HatsA DIY Guide for Climate Activists, Critical Thinkers, and Curious CitizensClimate change is one of the most important and contested issues of our time.Yet most people are asked to choose between competing narratives without being given practical tools to examine the evidence, test the assumptions, or compare the logic for themselves.This book offers another way.Drawing on decades of exp...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Up, Up. Up and Down! features brother and sister, Ben and Jess, who are pushing and pulling their go-kart and scooter up the road and hill to get to the top. And when they get there, they cannot wait to come down again!Reading Champion offers indepe...