Called out of semi-retirement, the telepath and Mindguard Sheldon Ayers is tasked with protecting an information package located inside the mind of a young woman who claims the knowledge she holds is vital to the future of humankind. Sheldon and his team must help her cross the most dangerous territory in the man-inhabited universe: the Djago Desert.Hunted by the Enforcement Unit, the all-powerful Military arm of the Interstellar Federation of Common Origin, Sheldon's team must fig...

In a world where some are Marked—chosen by fate to love only once—our heroine is given a Mark that ties her to a love she does not yet know. But fate is not kind. The man she begins to fall for is not the one destiny has chosen for her. And in this world, to love against fate is to invite destruction.She must decide: Does she follow destiny, or does she fight it?

A history of Russian socio-economic thought from Pososhkov, the self-taught merchant who wrote on poverty and wealth under Peter I, through the Smithian professors of the early nineteenth century, Radishchev, the Decembrist economists, Herzen and Chernyshevsky, down to the Populist theorists Vorontsov and Danielson and the first Russian Marxists.Anikin does it with learning, sympathy and a novelist's eye for the person inside the doctrine. For an English reader this is very nearly ...

"The most important, most influential and most perfectly realized Russian novel written in the 20th century." ― The New York Times Book ReviewSet in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government official—Nikolai's own father, Apollon Apoll...

Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of ...

Most books of this kind have to be argued with line by line. This one is largely correct, and that is what makes it worth reading closely.Its subject is single and precise. In January 1981 the incoming Reagan administration announced that international terrorism would replace human rights as the central concern of American foreign policy, and that the Soviet Union was behind it; Alexander Haig said so within days of taking office, and Claire Sterling's The Terror Network appeared t...

The NPR reporter offers an "engaging and enlightening" window into late-90s Cuba, "from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba" ( Kirkus Reviews).For NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, reporting from Cuba on the eve of Pope John Paul II's 1998 visit was an opportunity to understand the realities of life in a country that has long been the subject of stereotypes and misconceptions. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba was t...

This book offers a focused collection of lectures and tutorials on applying machine learning techniques to research in theoretical physics and pure mathematics. Machine learning continues to transform the scientific landscape, providing powerful tools capable of driving significant advances across these disciplines. Through clear conceptual explanations and practical examples, this text equips students and researchers with the knowledge and skills needed to integrate these methods into the...

When journalist Ethan Mercer arrives in the fog-shrouded town of Black Hollow, he expects to uncover a simple mystery. But the whispers in the mist speak of something far darker. As he investigates the disappearances linked to the lighthouse, Ethan finds himself caught in an ancient nightmare. The fog is not just a natural phenomenon—it is alive, and it is hungry.

Washington’s eight years of preparing Ukraine and its armed forces for war with Russia was a mistake of historic proportions, due to its misperception of American military power based on its 1991 Gulf War victory against a minor military player. Washington believed its own propaganda about crippling sanctions on Russia, about the viability of its Ukrainian proxy army, and the economic and military weakness of Russia, spelling doom for the American empire and its “rules-based order”. By 202...

**Two of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists tell the "gripping" (Foreign Policy) story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s was replaced by autocracy, fear, and betrayalA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year**Our Dear Friends in Moscow tells the story of a group of young Russians, part of an idealistic generation who came of age in Moscow at the end of the twentieth century, just as the communist...

Immerse yourself in the Gay Erotica Shorts — a bold and electrifying collection of 120 explicit tales that dive deep into forbidden lust, raw passion, and the seductive thrill of the taboo. Each story is crafted to capture the intensity of desire between men who dare to explore their darkest cravings and wildest fantasies.From secret affairs and heated encounters to shameless indulgence and unrestrained ecstasy