Women of Science Fiction is a powerful collection of 18 classic stories by the pioneering women who helped shape the future of science fiction. Long before the genre was dominated by familiar names, these authors were asking daring questions about time, identity, power, technology, and what it means to be human.From Mary Shelley’s meditation on immortality in The Mortal Immortal to Leigh Brackett’s sense of wonder in The Moon That Vanished, these ...

In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and governments are using cyberspace to advance interests through malicious activity. Terrorists recruit, train, and target through the Internet, hackers steal data, and intelligence services conduct espionage. Still, the vast majority of cyberspa...

How will the world end? Come the Apocalypse, will you be ready? Who do you want on your side, and which team will you be on?Picking Sides for the Apocalypse Choose Your Doom is a collection of short stories set in end times to help you get your priorities straight and answer these fundamental questions.Team AI:Angel - A lone fugitive brings with her the threat of pursuit by the state.The Undesirable Robert Millings - Can a US Congressman's virtual therapist he...

*A New York Times Bestseller*A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America’s Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon.Through the lens of their decades-long friendship and including exclusive interviews and details from previously classified documents, noted ...

Revised and updated to answer the challenges of a rapidly changing business world, the 4th edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics taught at America's top business schools, from corporate ethics and compliance to financial planning and real estate to leadership and negotiation. With more than 400,000 copies sold around the world, this internationally acclaimed guide distills the lessons of the most popular business school courses taught at Harvard, Stanford, the Univ...

Encyclopedic in scope, Lewis’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, 6th Edition, provides up-to-date, authoritative information on scientific principles, research methodologies, and everyday clinical care. New editor Dr. Gerrit I. van Schalkwyk, assisted by co-editors Drs. Fred R. Volkmar, Michael H. Bloch, Hanna E. Stevens, and Andrés Martin, leads a team of more than 160 contributing authors who have revised and updated this foundational text. It remains a must-have...

Burying the past in a nuclear cull, Deathlands spares no one from its punishing assault. In this grim new reality, there's little to live-or die-for, except the possibility of unlocking the mysteries of the past. Ryan Cawdor and his group of fellow survivors scour the perilous land for sanctuary in a world where nothing is guaranteed but death.Hiring on as crew to a merchant's wag-train, Ryan and his companions anticipate trouble as they head west toward what was once Montana. The ...

The survivors of postnuclear America struggle against the free fall into anarchy and barbarism. Hot lead keeps people sharp, but it's the fire within that keeps them alive. Ryan Cawdor and his band roam Deathlands searching for somewhere to call home. Until then, it's survival at all cost.New Hampshire is rich with big game, more than enough to feed Ryan and his hungry companions. But claims to a fallen elk get ugly and Ryan is forced to chill another hunter, the self-proclaimed ki...

Crawling from the wreckage of Armageddon, humanity endures, mutated and forever altered. Gone are the comforts of civilization, replaced by a bloodlust to survive. Deathlands is a tortured landscape where peace and hope struggle to take root. Still, Ryan Cawdor and his band push onward, seeking a place to call home.If any kind of utopia exists in postapocalyptic America, Ryan and his companions have yet to find it. But high in the Virginian mountains, their quest may find its rewar...

In the Deathlands, the game of survival offers no reprieve. There's nothing to win in nuke-blasted America except the chance to fight another day. Still, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow travelers hope for sanctuary…somewhere. Until they find it, they face each dawn as if it's their last. Because it just might be.Justice is a damning word in what used to be called Oklahoma, thanks to a sadistic baron known as the Hanging Judge. Crazy, powerful and backed by a despotic sec crew, the judge...

Remnants of humanity have managed to regroup after a global nuclear showdown that decimated the planet. But life in Deathlands is a far cry from actual living. And the survivors must believe they'll find something better, because surrendering to the inhospitable forces of a nuked world means giving in to death. Or worse.Fear and human depravity permeate the frigid air in a once-dynamic Alaskan city. Ryan Cawdor and his group of survivalists go on red alert the moment they set foot ...

There's little to remember about life before the Big Nuke, but there's plenty to scavenge in the tainted wreckage of the post-apocalyptic frontier. The barbaric code of survival of the fittest, meanest or dirtiest makes for hard living and easy death. But Ryan Cawdor and his friends have stayed alive by holding on to their humanity-playing fair...and chilling only when they've got no choice.A civil war raging in the Des Moines River valley forces Ryan and his companions to take sid...