The emergence of Artificial Intelligence filtered through the timeless wisdom and Insights of the legendary strategist Sun Tzu. The art of war in the age of AI is the art of harnessing intelligent machines while mastering these new complexities, ensuring that technology serves strategy, and strategy serves the enduring political aims of the State.

The Apocalypse finally happens. Brother demons Lucifer and Satan are victorious. Life on Earth becomes a bureaucratic hell. When Lucifer's Ministry of Information database is hacked, a programmer and private detective are brought in to track down the hackers and find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy that goes back to the dawn of humanity.

Wireless communication was wiped out 50 years ago. No Wifi, Radio, TV, Mobile, or Radar.Even your remote control won't work.Eldritch lightning bolts flash across dawn skies creating power blackouts.Magic and Sorcery, creative power in the hands of ordinary people, is real, a threat to social order, a terrorist crime.Nights have become a hunting ground for monstrous predators.Meanwhile, hidden from the world, vampires search for an ancient book of spells t...

Earth is icebound. Millions have perished. In the remains of a lawless America, The Followers, an extremist alliance, believe they can fix the weather and save the world - but at a deadly cost. With all communications down, a veteran and a teen with amnesia set out to stop them.Gripping, Sci-Fi action from the Author of Nanopunk."the action takes your breath away"

In a world recovering from climate devastation, Alister, infected with nanoparticles, can hack any network. When his sister, the creator of the particles is kidnapped by Lycus, a corrupt military corporation, he sets off to rescue her. It's not long before MI6, Lycus, and mercenaries go after him, turning his search into a deadly race across a devastated Europe.

The doctrine of deification or theosis has been gaining interest among scholars for some time. Yet most publications on the topic have focused on Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions and have subsumed the discussion under the category of soteriology. If "being transformed into the same image" (2 Corinthians 3:18) is truly essential to the Christian life, a fuller understanding of this biblical concept is needed for Christians of all traditions.In this vo...

Restorative practice (RP) has been successfully implemented in schools for decades and is primarily associated with improving behaviour and relationships, by changing the culture of problem solving in the school. However, it has huge untapped potential to support initiatives in other areas, and this book provides examples of how RP can enhance the effectiveness of these other practices.Split into three sections, the book first looks at implementation, readiness and evaluation. It t...

Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. This anthology is paradoxically ecumenical, for it embraces unifying and disparate positions without being prescriptive or exclusive. It is both synergistic and disruptive. Building on this premise, the Advent and Easter stories are exa...

Scholars have been arguing for years that Star Wars is more than light sabers, Wookies, Millennium Falcons, and troubling familial relationships. Star Wars is an exciting space fantasy that we can explore from multiple academic perspectives, such as philosophy and psychology. This volume adds to that conversation by asking, “what would it look like if we analyzed the Star Wars universe theologically?” In Theology and the Star Wars Universe, contributors from various theological traditions ...

The Spring 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Laila Lalami, features poetry and prose by Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January...