When World War III strikes, Dr. Craig Emilson is sent to take out a powerful artificial intelligence. Unexpectedly, he becomes the greatest hope for humanity. He must choose between saving mankind or saving himself as he faces impossible odds and an army of super soldiers on a mission to destroy him. "Sub-Human" is the first book in a new series of page turners that will keep you guessing until the very end. A mix between action thriller and science fiction, this novel will have you on the...

An unexpected solar storm destroys the U.S. power grid and unravels civilization.Natasha is a student from a nomadic Siberia tribe trying to adjust to her new life in New York and fit in. But when a cataclysmic solar storm slams into the planet, everything changes.Lightning storms hammer the entire globe, burning and destroying everything they touch.The electrical grid goes down. Fires rage out of control. Cars and electronics quit working.

The Multiverse needs a hero...Craig Emilson, is an immortal super soldier, from another era; James Keats, is the world's last natural-born genius and the commander of the Venus terraforming project. Now, in an upgraded future world of post-humans, they must work together to rally humanity against a superhuman artificial intelligence before it succeeds in destroying the multiverse.

The 3-Plan Retirement: Take Control of Your Finances and Retire More Comfortably by David Simpson.Many Canadians believe they need millions to retire comfortably, but the truth is, you can achieve a great retirement with far less-if you take the right steps. In The 3-Plan Retirement, David Simpson reveals how you can take control of your financial future and maximize your retirement savings, without relying on financial institutions that prioritize their profit ov...

Striding explores the modernization process by outlining the economics of agriculture, growth theories of economic development, and problems with growth.During the last century, policy makers and the public acquired a considerable interest in economics. As a result, this heightened awareness enhanced the well-being of society.In 1969, the Nobel Foundation initiated the new prize category of economic sciences and started awarding the prize annually....

Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to claim the power of violence, has often been accused of inciting it. This book sets out to descr...

AS THE READER, I SUSPECT THAT YOU ARE AS GUILTY AS MY BROTHER RON AND ME FOR RAISING HELL IN YOUR YOUTH. Within these pages are the memories of two senior citizens who drove their family and neighbors absolutely crazy with their youthful foolhardiness during the forties and fifties in Acton, Massachusetts. True stories of two youngsters who terrorized a town, enraged their parents, Ole Ern and Ethel, their neighbors, Ray and Bell Harris, and succeeded in blaming all of them on another kid lab...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology—from Plato to NATO.Introducing the concept of the "fear-terror cluster," Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states over the centuri...

Practical Onshore Gas Field Engineering delivers the necessary framework to help engineers understand the needs of the reservoir, including sections on early transmission and during the life of the well. Written from a reservoir perspective, this reference includes methods and equipment from gas reservoirs, covering the gathering stage at the gas facility for transportation and processing. Loaded with real-world case studies and examples, the book offers a variety of different types of gas...

This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labour and urbanisation; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and...

In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. In Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger, David Simpson locates the figure of the stranger and the rhetoric of strangeness in romanticism and places them in a tradition that extends from an...

Who knew that a simple solar flare, although a massive one, would cause so much damage and destruction?Natasha and her friends from college have almost made it home to upper Maine. They have survived much in the desperate new world. They've encountered good people and bad, some desperate enough to kill for a scrap of food and others who willingly share what they have.They are only a few days ride from family but with a winter storm gathering strength and th...