Ben Mapstone is a normal boy growing up in rough circumstances. His mistreatment leads him down a dark path where he meets the Freolans. The mystical friends take him, and his assassin dad, to a mind blowing world where they give him information that will change his life forever.He is told the end of humanity is coming and he must prepare. Ben undergoes some serious training, and then with his crazy group of friends, goes on an action packed journey to establish th...

SCM Study Guide: New Testament Books, together with its companion volume on "New Testament Interpretation", offers an up-to-date, accessible introduction to this fast-changing area of theological study. Aimed at level one students, it encourages interaction with the New Testament texts and provides pointers for further reading and learning. The book describes the world out of which the New Testament came, and what can be known of the key figures of Jesus and Paul, before discussing the 27 ...

Meet Ben Mapstone, a young boy struggling to find his way through this world. After a traumatic childhood, he finds some unearthly friends who save him, and then prepare Ben for what is coming. The first half of the book follows Ben on his journey to become a leader and a warrior.Now grown up, Ben and his friends create a multibillion pound organisation and go on an epic mission to create their own way to survive the end of humanity. The team and their family get ready for what is ...

Lysander is on a rampage. Death and destruction are what he exists for. Ben and the team are searching for ways to help humanity survive after the collapse of modern society. Their journey takes them to war, and to the edge of reality, where things they cannot believe become conceivable. Their discoveries open a realm of possibilities that go further than the 3rd dimension.Some wars you cannot win, and new ways to exist need to be found. T...

Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individ...

From the time of the early Christians, the book of Revelation has fascinated and puzzled its readers in equal measure. Now you can join one of the world’s leading experts in exploring this important—and often misunderstood—biblical book.Also known as the Apocalypse of John, Revelation has left a profound mark on Western culture. For many, however, Revelation remains a mystery, and it is rarely preached or read at Sunday Mass. Ian Boxall (D.Phil., Oxford), a celebrated New Testament...

Long-awaited revision of this best-selling book on the Arduino electronics platform (50,000+ copies sold). Readers gain an in-depth understanding of the Arduino -- beyond just making simple projects.The Arduino is an inexpensive, flexible microcontroller platform that makes it easy for hobbyists to use electronics in DIY projects. With its wide range of input and output add-ons, sensors, indicators, displays, and motors, the Arduino offers you countless ways to cre...

As a Christian, how do you come to know Jesus? And how can this knowledge transform your life?The four Gospels are foundational to Christianity. Yet Christian readers are often puzzled by the differences between the Gospels, preferring to harmonize the four into a single narrative. Now, this 24-part lecture course invites you to understand each Gospel’s distinctive message.Along the way, you will examine theories about how the three Synoptic Gospels are rel...

Explore one of the most enigmatic gospels with a celebrated New Testament scholar.Most scholars agree that the Gospel according to Mark is the earliest of the four canonical gospels. It is also the shortest, with swift dramatic turns throughout its fast-paced narrative. Because of its brevity, Mark''s Gospel leaves many questions unanswered, and it has often been overlooked in the history of Christianity.As you will discover, though, Mark''s Gospel is compe...

Why does the Gospel according to John enjoy such timeless popularity? Join celebrated New Testament professor Ian Boxall (Ph.D., University of Oxford) to find out.The author of numerous books of New Testament scholarship, including The Revelation of John, Prof. Boxall is the perfect guide to this remarkable text. Nicholas King, S.J. describes him as a beloved teacher who has “captivated his students at the University of Oxford and the Catholic University o...

Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as 'the last modernist', the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. And yet despite this, it is striking that many of the most important contemporary writers, across the world, see their work as emerging from a Beckettian legacy. So whilst Beckett belongs, in one sense, to the end of the modernist period, in another sense he is the well spring from which the contemporary, in a wi...

The species of brigandage known in Australia as bushranging was, without doubt, evolved, more or less directly, from the convict system established as the basis of the earlier settlements in the island continent. The first bushrangers were simply men who took to the bush to escape work and enjoy freedom of action. Under the harsh laws of the Georgian era the greater criminals were hung, and not transported, and the convicts sent to "Botany Bay," in the eighteenth and the earlier years of t...