Our extinction is inevitable.Bill Bartles washes data. He cleans the lies and crap from new information before saving it with the rest of the knowledge on the Infinity Drive.Bartles has it all: a captivating companion, an inner-city apartment mid-way up the tall-tower, and an imminent promotion. For him, life is great—except for his obsession with entropy and its promise that nothing lasts forever.When he digs too deep into the forbidden archives of...

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife populations and communities in the wake of unprecedented habitat changes. Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate is an essential resource, bringing together leaders in the fields of climate change ecology, wildlife population dynam...

In a ruined future split between those who have and those who do not, America has contracted like a singularity into a single city. There, citizens live under a divided society, split by five walls. At the center, their depraved leader, Gideon, rules with the iron fisted reach of propaganda and an oppressive governmental agency.Outside the city walls Penny, an adopted young girl, farms one ranch of many that provides food to the citizens of Mercury. There she has learned self relia...

To achieve peace and reconciliation, the post-conflict state must reimagine itself, changing power dynamics and incorporating new voices into the national narrative.While the literature on post-conflict states has focused on state-building, it has been largely silent when it comes to nation-building. In Reimagining the Post-Conflict State, Eric N. Budd argues that these states need to fundamentally redefine themselves-who they are and who is part of their ...

A *spell* has been cast over the church making the emperor's new clothes seem to exist. At the same time Jesus' plain teachings about His coming and Paul's usage of those Scriptures have vanished from our Bibles. Because of this the saints are now vulnerable and spiritually unprepared to enter the time of the Tribulation. The startling conclusion of the book is that there are absolutely no verses of Scripture that declare a pre-tribulation rapture or even a mid-tribulation rapture. The chu...

Thanks to the machinations of the right, there is no dirtier word in American politics today than “liberal.” Yet public opinion polls consistently show that the majority of Americans hold liberal views on everything from health care to foreign policy.In this feisty, accessible primer, Eric Alterman sets out to restore liberalism to its rightful honored place as the politics of America’s everyday citizens. In a crisply argued and extensively documented counterattack on right-wing sp...

L'essentiel des marchés financiers présente de façon claire et synthétique :la naissance et le développement des marchés ;les produits négociés ;les motivations et les contraintes des différents intervenants ;les processus et traitements administratifs des opérations ;les mécanismes de suivi des risques ;les outils mathématiques de valorisation.Complet et précis, illustré de nombreux exemples, cet ouvra...

The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connect...

Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out. In this book, Eric Post argues that time should be treated as a resource used by organisms for growth, maintenance, and offspring production.Post uses insights from phenology—the study of the timing of life-cycle events—to present a theoretical framework of time in ecology that casts long-standing observations in the field in an entirely new light. Combining conceptual mod...

How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World: How Power Actually Works in American Democracy by Eric L. Hall is a clear-eyed, nonpartisan guide to the operational reality of American politics. Moving past the idealistic diagrams of middle-school civics textbooks, Hall maps out where political power actually lives, how it moves, and who operates the levers of governance behind the scenes.This book does not take sides, nor does it argue for a specific policy agenda or pol...

In "The Hand-Made Gentleman: A Tale of the Battles of Peace," Irving Bacheller offers a rich tapestry intertwining humor and social commentary within the fabric of early 20th-century American life. Set against the backdrop of a swiftly modernizing society, the narrative follows Harland D. Waters, a man of integrity grappling with the paradoxes of his era. Bacheller employs a narrative style that combines vivid characterizations and satirical prose, effectively capturing the zeitgeist of a ...

It is early 1952 and in Panamá the CIA is using “enhanced chemical interrogations” on former Soviet agents who have come over to the American side. Ostensibly, this is to determine the veracity of the agents, to determine whether they are true walk-ins or if they are, in reality, Soviet plants. But agents are dying under interrogation and Sam is determined to get to the bottom of it all. And what he eventually finds appears to be a conspiracy to protect the identity of an American turncoat...