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Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction depict the challenges to the human condition posed by the demands of duty and honour. Written in English, his third language after Polish and French, these works are excellent examples of Conrad’s poetic prose and exotic style. This selected collection includes ‘Heart of Darkness’, ‘Lord Jim’, ‘Nostromo’ and ‘The Secret Agent’ in a single volume, and is an essential edition for collectors, students and ge...

The revolutionary movement which began in 1787 disrupted every aspect of French society, rising to a pitch of such extreme violence that the effects are still felt in France today. The Revolution was the product of social tensions that developed throughout France in the second half of the eighteenth century. Norman Hampson analyses the nature of these social conflicts within their political framework. With enough background information to satisfy the general reader with no previous knowled...

Two Experts. One Topic. No Confusion.In a field often clouded by complexity and sensationalism, keeping track of what the Bible says about the end times can be challenging even for seasoned believers. That’s why the bestselling authors behind the Prophecy Pros Podcast are here to bring you a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the most need-to-know facts about what is to come.Neatly organized and packed with charts, timelines, and infographics...

A mother's love knows no bounds...Gosport, 1941. Fourteen-year-old Vera has led a sheltered life with her overbearing, religious mother and older sister. But her world is turned upside down with the arrival of the Lovell family on her street. Vera quickly befriends the daughter, Angela, an impulsive, worldly young woman who opens Vera's eyes to what she has been missing. But Vera, unaware of the effect she has on men, invites the unwanted attention of Angela's fath...

This funny and fact-filled exploration explains to preteens what Bible prophecy is, why it is so important, who the prophets were, and a whole lot more.Bible prophecy for kids? Sounds crazy, right? Maybe not. The fulfilled and future prophecies contained in Scripture are more mind-blowing than any superhero story or action-packed adventure…because they are 100% true!Young readers will join the Non-Prophet and his pet frog Plague on comical capers that illum...

What would it really take to make the Six Million Dollar Man? a medical thriller on earth and in space!Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger.Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancée—takes his place, and Glenn wi...

"A book I greatly admire." - Graham Greene"One of the most interesting first novels I have read for some time. Short and dramatic, and written with a fine simplicity. I could not put it down until I knew all that was to happen that Saturday night." - Sunday Times"A first novel of outstanding merit . . . In Mr. Hampson we have a new writer of strong and wholly original talent." - Harold Nicolson, Daily Express"A masterpiece of character drawing." - Daily Sketch

After the end of the world, a tropical paradise might just be the hardest place to survive.The virus robbed humans of their higher thought processes, turning them into uncontrollable savages. The Hawaiian Islands are separated from the rest of the world by thousands of miles of ocean, but that couldn’t stop the virus. Civilization fell, and it fell HARD.Can paradise survive the end of the world?High atop a dormant volcano, a team of scientists prese...

1 The problem and the approach The model developed here, which is actually more a collection of com ponents than a single monolithic structure, traces a path from relatively low-level neural/connectionistic structures and processes to relatively high-level animal/artificial intelligence behaviors. Incremental extension of this initial path permits increasingly sophisticated representation and processing strategies, and consequently increasingly sophisticated behavior. The initial cha...

NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists.The stars will change us.STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity’s far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar system—with an emphasis on the change...

What You Believe About God Will Change Your LifeIn a world of competing claims and skeptical voices, belief in God can feel difficult to defend—even to yourself. How can you know whether the God of the Bible is real, reasonable, and worth trusting?In The Apologetics Guide to Questions About God, Todd Hampson offers a clear and compelling case for why belief in the God of the Bible makes sense and what that can mean for you today. As you are guided ...

When Todd's critically damaged ship dropped out of hyperspace near the Human colony world of Azure, he had no memory of his past. He didn't know who he was, or even what he was, and the Humans didn't either. That didn't stop the colonists of Azure—they took him in, anyway…even though they didn't understand how he could do some of the things he could do.Todd and his descendants consider themselves Human—eight armed and water-breathing—but Human, nonetheless. After seventy y...