This is an unusual book—in many respects. It's born out of a frustration teaching Critical Thinking courses over the years and feeling that the most interesting issues raised in those courses are typically either ignored altogether, or quickly brushed aside, by the 'normal' Critical Thinking text. The effect was that a Critical Thinking course was a smattering of Baby Logic, some very simple Intro to Statistics and Probability, add in the usual Informal Fallacies and some beating up on the...

General Torkal has just promoted Marcus Scout Master of the First Legion of Antiago. Fame, glory, and who knows?

Becoming a starpilot can get you killed.Landing on a faraway planet, Brian doesn't know the rules of the pilot's academy, of the planet he has reached or what it takes to fly among the stars. He is sure of only one thing. He has to survive his training if he wants Earth to receive the support it needs to face the collapse of its ecology.If you want to recapture that sense of wonder from reading Robert Heinlein's "Have space suit, will travel" and the tale o...

To cross wormholes, human pilots need the help of nanorobots. Great? Not really. Overuse them and they will kill you.Those nanorobots are delivered by a Human Federation trading among stars. Earth is the latest planet who has joined it and requires its help to overcome its ecological collapse. The deal is simple: Earth will obtain what it needs if it can provide starpilots able to survive those nanorobots.These books follow the adventures of different starpilots, the challe...

A politician who faces death to run for election...The crew of a generation ship confronted to the hardest decision...Cyber-induced nightmares and no one to turn to...Sometimes funny, sometimes dark, those stories explore different facet of our futures. They revisit old golden-age themes but with modern twists.This book incorporates previously published 6 long stories, more than 40 flash fictions and more than 20 images created by Michel Rigaux for that antholog...

Humanity once dreamt of stars. No more. Will Captain John Lester last voyage from Titan Primary find new opportunities?

Set in an alternate universe during the time of Caesar, witness the might of the Roman Legions as they clash against fantasy adversaries.

Surviving initial training was just the beginning. Now, can Brian faces his deepest fears ?He has already faced the dangers of the outlying worlds, pirates and mad AIs, surviving, but with deep scars. He has also made powerful enemies along the way.Separated from his friends, facing both jealousy from colleagues and hatred from enemies, and with a new set of skills to master, the odds stack up against Brian while everyone else is betting against him.Can he find new ...

Earth is dying and its first starpilots are the only real hope.Tasha has survived five years of brutal training, her body transformed by a nano-technology no one fully understands.Her job: link Earth to the stars in a ten millennia old wreck, train the first-ever crew from Earth, and build a space station fit to trade with the stars. Without the eco-system stabilizing tech interstellar trade can bring, the price of her failure will be the end of all life on Earth.But a...

When you are named Child of the Federation, the Federation gives you a fresh beginning and your past is erased from all databases. But Isara was named when she was barely a year old with nothing to erase.Or so she thought until forty years later, now a confirmed starpilot, she finds out that she comes from Filb, the planet which witnessed the worst catastrophe the Federation has ever known. And murders accumulate around her as she tries to dig into her own past?With no clue...

Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting stories about how this dam has transformed a West African nation, while providing a model for other African countries.The massive Akosombo Dam is the keystone of the Volta River Project that includes a large manmade lake 250 miles...

Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings.Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visualityIncludes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuriesHighl...