Bridges and Sustainability: Best practice for design, maintenance, and replacement provides a comprehensive evaluation of sustainability topics related to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of bridges. It addresses critical challenges of achieving sustainability in bridge engineering, offering valuable insights and practical guidance.Given their longevity, achieving sustainability for bridges involves tackling climate change, ensuring resilience, and cutti...

In sharply original readings of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Disastrous Subjectivities explores modernity’s failed promise to bring about a just social order under the ongoing threat of climate change.Drawing on Kantian critical philosophy and Lacanian theory, this book traverses aspects of the history of science, the form of the novel, the limits of historicism, and the impasses of moral autonomy. What pass...

Certain moments in British Romantic poetry and art depict a state from which the attributes of existence – time and space, subject and object, language and visuality – have fallen away, leaving a domain prior to the world and to thought, the condition of mere existence. As Blank Splendour demonstrates, poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Clare as well as paintings by Turner evoke a condition that transpires in a time without time, a life without life.David Collings ...

A Christmas Cruise in SpaceThis is newly-promoted Glen Price's first time as cruise director. He wants to make his mark and do something special for the passengers. But his plan to project a giant Christmas star above the ship turns disastrous when the ship suddenly loses power. Can Glen salvage what's left of the event and still make it a meaningful Christmas?A science-fiction Christmas short story set in the "Jewel of The Stars" universe.

The Cruise is OverHaylee was more confident designing starships than raising an autistic child. Now she just wants a relaxing vacation with her family. But when Earth falls to an alien armada, she knows life will never be the same again.Les was just a cruise ship captain. Now, he must rise up and become something greater, if he is to keep his crew and passengers alive.Braxton never wanted to leave the space navy, but now, taking a cruise is the only ...

We’re not on a cruise, anymoreAvaline just wanted a perfect honeymoon, but when an alien invasion of Earth forced her ship into unexplored space, she fights with everything she has to hold onto her dream. So why isn’t her new husband fighting with her?A series of lootings turn violent, prompting security chief Jaylen Banks to investigate organised crime on the ship, while first officer Maya Rice leads a supply mission to a mysterious earth colony that shoul...

Tourists on a cruise. Stranded in an alien battlegroundWhen their warp drive mysteriously stops working, the luxury cruise ship Jewel of The Stars becomes easy pickings for humanity’s enemy – the Dracnor. And there may be an enemy agent on board.Before the fall of Earth, a madman made doomsday predictions on Captain Les Miller’s doorstop. How did he know the invasion was coming? Now that same man has been spotted walking the promenade. Les must sto...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Haylee was more confident designing starships than raising an autistic child. Now she just wants a relaxing vacation with her family. But when Earth falls to an alien armada, she knows life will never be the same again.Les was just a cruise ship captain. Now, he must rise up and become something greater, if he is to keep his crew and passengers alive.Braxton never wanted to leave the space navy, but now, taking a cruise ...

A strange alien world offers respite to tourists turned refugees, but will they destroy this sanctuary?Two weeks into their exile, the crew of Jewel of the Stars detect an unexplored habitable planet. Captain Les Miller seizes the chance to let the passengers walk under an open sky.When the local inhabitants—a winged humanoid species called the Rippesh—fall critically ill in large numbers, Doctor Rashona Clarke must find a cure. Chief Engineer Sarah McLaugh...

What if you couldn't save someone you cared about?Flynn Porter is a teenage boy with the ability to rewind time. His opportunity for infinite retries in life makes him feel like a god. So when his friend and crush Carissa dies unexpectedly, he is convinced he can save her.But life is more complicated than he realises.

In a future one thousand years from now, an echo of the Victorian past thrives. A future terraformed Venus sees our era of high technology as one of innumerable dangers. Dominated by the most advanced technological society on the planet, New Berlin, the nation and city-states of Venus deliberately imitate both the technology and culture of the Victorian Era. As nations chafe under the yoke of New Berlin, war breaks out--driving this culture so much like our past into a future entirely unli...

In a future one thousand years from now, an echo of the Victorian past thrives. A future terraformed Venus sees our era of high technology as one of innumerable dangers. Dominated by the most advanced technological society on the planet, New Berlin, the nation and city-states of Venus deliberately imitate both the technology and culture of the Victorian Era. As nations chafe under the yoke of New Berlin, war breaks out--driving this culture so much like our past into a future entirely unli...