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A "rollicking, bittersweet tale of time travel and ecology" from the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of the Gaea Trilogy ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)."H. G. Wells meets Jurassic Park" in this novel about a multibillionaire, a time machine, and a baby woolly mammoth named Little Fuzzy ( The Best Reviews).The discovery of a perfectly preserved frozen mammoth in the Canadian wilderness gives wealthy visionary Howard Chri...

Forgotten paintings. A tarnished reputation. A web of silence.In Madrid, a world-renowned film director's career unravels overnight when rumours of gross misconduct surface. Doctor Genevieve Lenard is called in for her expertise in nonverbal communication and immediately faces an immense challenge. Every nonverbal cue of the accused director points to innocence, yet the growing trove of physical evidence is hard to refute. Especially when two long-lost paintings ar...

A landmark collection from the master of science fiction whose short stories "are quite literally unforgettable" (William Gibson).These eighteen stories from the acclaimed author of the Gaea Trilogy, The Ophiuchi Hotline, and many other important works span thirty years of his distinguished career. In these pages are Hugo, Nebula, Prix Tour-Apollo, and James Tiptree Jr. Award winners, including "The Persistence of Vision," "PRESS ENTER [ ]," "The Pusher," ...

What will it mean to be human in the future? How will we evolve in order to reach the stars?Fifteen short stories collected in this book examine how interstellar flight might change humanity itself. Will we choose to upload our minds into a singularity? Enhance ourselves with alien DNA? Will our bodies remain the same, but our culture and societal norms adapt to accommodate for effects of time dilation, or become subsumed by advanced alien cultures?Hugo and Nebula award win...

Try to penetrate the mystery of the Universe is the greatest challenge to the limits of human thought. The progress of scientific knowledge in the field of cosmology and astronomy, puts today available to the reader the basic tools for self-reflection to reach a new awareness of the profound meaning of existence and life.

Centuries after the events that transformed Astræion, history survives in fragments: incomplete documents, copies of copies, ruined records, lost Names, and stories repeated so many times that few remember where they began.Oren, a Reader of Records, discovers by accident a sealed chamber hidden behind the walls of the Astræion archive. Inside he finds no treasure and no final revelation, but something far more unsettling: discarded testimonies, contradictory versions, inventories o...

When the first civilizations began to raise cities, temples, and thrones, another form of power was born as well: the power to decide what should be remembered.In The Chronicles of Astræion, the third volume of the saga, history becomes a battlefield. Kingdoms rise, wars reshape the world, and conflicting accounts struggle to define what future generations will believe about the past.Marked stones, broken tablets, forbidden records, and incomplete testimoni...

"A Stranger in this town" was written during one of the most challenging periods in Samuel Vargo's life, when he was recovering from a second heart attack.None of the poetry and prose in this work has been previously published.

In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And in Washington D.C., an air disaster investigator named Smith is about to get a phone call that will change his life...and end the world as we know it.

Take charge of your immune system, prevent immune dysregulation, and mitigate disease risks through the power of the vagus nerve.This comprehensive guide delves into the intricate relationship between the vagus nerve and immune regulation, providing invaluable insights and practical strategies for understanding chronic illnesses like migraine, anxiety, BPD, cognitive dysfunction, stroke, hypertension, IBS, and more.Engineer, inventor, and vagus nerve expert J...

With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000, she provides an eloquent account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians. As the first generation to have come of age entirely in the period since the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, twenty-...

Neel faces multiple challenges as many enemies and foes crash into his life terrorizing him, born as a royal with no parents and a journey of his own. The clan of Ashwathamma; the Valayaputras is in decline. The Kaliyuga ends and the world restarts as the medieval ages come again; an era of gods and powerful kings. Enjoy this book by a young twelve-year-old Sriharsh. The first book of the Vardhana series.