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MutinyFor Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a self-awareImperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face ofthe enemy. The mutiny was never resolved—Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crewon prehistoric Earth.Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while th...

JOB PRESSUREColin MacIntyre’s life as a NASA astronaut might not have been exciting, but at least it was orderly. Unfortunately, he’s been tapped for greater things, and he isn’t too sure he likes it.First he was kidnapped by an ancient, self-aware starship masquerading as Earth’s moon. Then he was drafted as its captain to suppress a five-thousandyear-old mutiny. And then he had to mobilize the planet against the attack of aneons-old ancient menace dedicated to the ...

HIDEOUT: a place to escape detection, especially when being chased by someone determined to have revenge …When Griffin Bing and his friends first met Luthor, he was a vicious attack dog working for the slimy S. Wendell Palomino—also known as Swindle. The kids rescued Luthor, and never thought they’d see Swindle again.But now Swindle’s returned. And he wants his dog back.Swindle has manipulated the law so that there’s no way for Savannah Drysdale to keep Luthor in he...

Emperor Colin has a reputation for toughness that's second tonone. But now the galaxy had better watch out—because Colin'schildren are on the loose. It's not that Sean and Harriet aren't nicekids—but they are stranded a long way from home.

After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way—a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, and their inability to drive—but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his … even if hijinks ensue.This is Gordon Korman at his crowd-pleasing best,...

Everyone Knows Humans Get Transported to Other Worlds, But Now Dogs Do Too?!Takumi is a wage slave who works overtime all the time. Only his little Maltese, Leo, can brighten his day. One day, however, he wakes up to find himself deep in an unknown forest. At his side is his pampered pup…who's now a giant mythical wolf!With his silver fenrir companion and his mysterious new "Herb Cultivation" power, he'll finally have the laid-back life he's always dreamed ...

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from "the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history" (New Statesman)The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.The "ten myths"—repeated endlessly in the media, enforced by the military, and accepted without question by the world's governments—rei...

Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe?and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion?whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers?fail miserably. Drawing on recent findings from political science and other fields ranging from history to anthropology, Mercier shows th...

An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel–Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it."Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's 'new historians.'" —Avi Shlaim, author of Three WorldsThe devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel–Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when Israel o...

Cosmological Koans invites the reader into an intellectual adventure of the highest order. Through more than fifty Koans?pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition?leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from West to East, and through ideas spanning the age, breadth, and depth of the Universe. Using these beguiling Koans (Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe?) and ...

Cooper Vega's family moves so often that he's practically invisible at any school he attends. Now they've relocated to the town of Stratford—where nobody even makes an effort to learn Cooper's name. To them, he's just … whatshisface.Cooper's parents feel bad about moving him around so much, so they get him a fancy new phone. Almost immediately, it starts to malfunction. First there's a buzzing. Then there's a weird glare on the screen. Then that glare starts to take on the form of ...

“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continu...