Is that sugar in your tea, or something else?And really, how would you know?Just how "life imitates art" is a perception we often take for granted, the ongoing fusion of technology into our daily routines may soon twist into wondering what is real, and what is not.Is AI really for our betterment … or the first steps towards subjugation?Artificial Sweetener is a collection of 17 speculative fiction short stories and poems from SpecFicNZ members exploring the w...

The G.O.D.S are trained from birth for an organization called Olympia.Team Hades, genetically modified to be the best, lost one of their own a long time ago. Losing her changed them since they no longer had a heart to protect, turning them into deadly weapons.When I show up, Team Hades is thrown into a spin of mixed emotions, ones they were never trained to master. None of them can understand why they are drawn to me, why the memories of their heart are res...

« Il se profile une tempête économique à l'horizon qui menace d'emporter les fondations sableuses de notre système monétaire. » - Extrait de la préface de Russell Okung L'argent fait partie de la vie quotidienne. Nous le gagnons, nous le dépensons et nous l'économisons. Nous sommes tentés de le vénérer et de lui faire confiance pour subvenir à nos besoins. Si le pouvoir, le danger et la gestion de l'argent ont fait couler beaucoup d'encre, peu de choses ont été écrites sur la vraie nature ...

En el frente de la Gran Guerra, en la zona de Venecia, el oficial austríaco Radesky, desde lo alto en su dirigible de observación, da la señal para que empiece la operación de recuperación del oro organizada por Corto Maltés. Mientras Corto espera en el mar a bordo de una cañonera, los valerosos soldados aliados llegan al pueblecito de Sette Casoni para buscar el tesoro, el oro de Montenegro…

After Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt was the most influential figure in early Mormon history and culture. Missionary, pamphleteer, theologian, historian, and martyr, Pratt was perennially stalked by controversy--regarded, he said, "almost as an Angel by thousands and counted an Imposter by tens of thousands." Tracing the life of this colorful figure from his hardscrabble origins in upstate New York to his murder in 1857, Terryl Givens and Matthew Grow explore the crucial r...

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman. The press reported with great interest how "Miss Jane" won by a landslide with only a $100 campaign budget. She hit the ground running, voting to pass the Atomic Energy Act, working tirelessly to mitigate a century of flood disasters in western North Carolina, and serving the constituents she knew so well.This first biography of Congresswoman Jane Pratt re...

El dinero es un hecho cotidiano. Lo ganamos, lo gastamos y lo ahorramos. Tenemos la tentación de adorarlo y de confiar en que cubrirá nuestras necesidades. Aunque se ha escrito mucho sobre el poder, el peligro y la administración del dinero, poco se ha escrito sobre lo que es realmente y sobre si el dinero en sí es moral o no. Este vacío de información ha sido aprovechado para enriquecer a unos pocos privilegiados, esclavizar a millones y sembrar la confusión y la división en todo el mundo...

En Itapoa, Corto, Tristán y Steiner conocen a Boca Dorada, una gran hechicera vudú que crió a Morgana y la inició en la magia negra y blanca. Por mil libras esterlinas Corto acepta la propuesta de Boca Dorada de llevar armas y dinero a los cangaceiros del jefe Tiro Fijo, rebeldes que combaten en el Sertão brasileño contra los grandes latifundistas petroleros y sus esbirros. Corto y sus amigos se verán involucrados en esas luchas y tendrán que elegir de qué lado están.

Compiling more than fifty years of the best poetic insights from the renowned series, a selection of the E.J Pratt Lectures are collected together for the first time in this commemorative edition.For more than fifty years, Memorial University’s E. J. Pratt Lecture Series has invited eminent critics and artists to St. John’s, Newfoundland, to speak on the topics that lie at the heart of their work. This special edition, published to coincide with Memorial’s...

En La balada del mar salado, una de las muchas obras maestras de Hugo Pratt, se entretejen varias historias cuyos protagonistas se han convertido en fi guras casi legendarias: la bella Pandora, su primo Caín, el misterioso monje, el feroz pirata Rasputín, el teniente Slutter, los polinesios Cranio y Tarao, y cómo no, Corto Maltés, el marino errante.La narración adquiere un ritmo sorprendentemente moderno y desarrolla una atmósfera extraordinaria que subraya el dibujo, de una fuerza ...

One Man’s Obsession: One Heck of a Steamy SagaCharlie wasn’t prepared for a journey like this. Upon opening his briefcase, the airline pilot finds a leather diary chronicling a captivating series of encounters that progress from innocent to reckless to ravenously sexy.As he delves further into her written accounts, his fascination transforms into a burning obsession: How can he find this incredible woman? As Charlie follows the clues left in her diary, he w...

This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than men—and lays out how the system must change for women to flourish.Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the help they need? Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. Yet in a healthcare system steeped in gender bias, women’s complai...