What if the past isn't as finished as we think?Throughout history, people have reported impossible photographs, mysterious artifacts, unexplained coincidences, strange predictions, and encounters with people who seemed to belong somewhere—or somewhen—else.The Time Traveler's Almanac explores these stories and asks a deceptively simple question:What if some of them are pointing toward something we still don't understand about time?From the ancient Antikythera...

Glenn, a college sophomore, has a Sociology 102 paper that requires spending time with an unfamiliar group or culture. Luckily, two hot girls from his class have the same idea: Attend the university’s game club to get reaction material for their papers.A creepy game moderator shows up, ready to start a game of Monsters, Maces and Magic. Glenn doesn’t fret over the GM’s disturbing vibe, figuring it’ll lead to potential fodder for his paper.Moments after rolling up his characte...

Black Colossus by Robert E. Howard is a powerful tale of heroic fantasy featuring Conan the Cimmerian in a grand conflict of prophecy, war, and dark sorcery. Set in a world of ancient kingdoms and looming supernatural threats, the story showcases Howard's signature blend of fast-paced action, atmospheric world-building, and larger-than-life heroism. The narrative begins with an empire threatened by invasion and chaos, while mysterious forces and ancient prophecies stir beneath the surface ...

Shadows in the Moonlight by Robert E. Howard is a thrilling sword-and-sorcery adventure featuring Conan the Cimmerian in a tense and atmospheric tale of survival, danger, and deadly intrigue. Blending fast-paced action with eerie mystery, the story showcases Howard's ability to create vivid worlds filled with peril, suspense, and unforgettable encounters. The narrative follows Conan and a companion as they flee from powerful enemies and seek refuge in a strange and seemingly abandoned coas...

The Phoenix on the Sword by Robert E. Howard is a landmark work of heroic fantasy and the first published story to feature Conan as king of Aquilonia. Combining political intrigue, dark sorcery, and thrilling action, this classic tale helped define the sword-and-sorcery genre and established many of the themes that would become hallmarks of Howard's legendary fiction. The story finds Conan ruling a powerful kingdom, yet his greatest challenges come not from distant enemies but from threats...

The Nation On No Map uses Black anarchism as a tool of survival in an age of crisis. Picking up where his co-authored debut As Black As Resistance left off, Anderson rejects nationalism, the State, and citizenship as avenues to achieve liberation. He issues a bold case for prioritizing basic survival as social and environmental conditions grow worse and global disasters abound. In order to overcome oppression, he says, people will have to first overcome certain barriers t...

Humankind is facing monumental challenges—the sustainability of our natural resources, climate change, wealth inequalities, breakdowns in social structures, the impact of artificial intelligence, and of course the threat of pandemics. What we need to understand is that with each of these challenges is an opportunity to create a better future for our Earth. But first we need to open our eyes and understand how the old "normal"—the conventions and assumptions about how our systems work—are n...

Lauren Berlant transformed how we think about attachment, emotion, sexuality, and ordinary life. Their interventions have given scholars across disciplines new language for understanding why people stay bound to worlds that diminish them, and what politics looks like when understood through the body and the emergent present. Thinking with Lauren Berlant is the first edited collection to reflect on Berlant’s oeuvre since their death in 2021. Organized around key themes in Berlant’s...

Two earnest scholars who study human consciousness spend six days in a conversation spanning their areas of knowledge in science, philosophy, and metaphysics to question whether our profound ecological crisis, unique in the life of our planet in its potential for loss of biodiversity and the possibility of actual extinction of our species, can be rectified.

The time is coming when the world will be radically changed for the better. It will last for a thousand years, bookended by resurrections, first of the just and then of the unjust. Satan will be chained in the abyss, no longer free to influence the nations. The saints will reign alongside the King of kings, Jesus Christ. This is a time that will begin after the return of the Messiah and end with Satan's total defeat and the judgment of sinners. It is the very culmination of history, a tran...

The Olympic swimmer reveals the wild and challenging journey that took place between two gold medals: "Inspiring, humorous, and often profound."— People MagazineAnthony Ervin is an Olympic swimmer who won the gold at nineteen—and that may be one of the least interesting things about him. An athlete of Jewish and African-American descent who is also a practicing Buddhist, he auctioned off the medal he won in Sydney to help raise funds for victims of the 2004...

'A powerful – even startling – book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' - Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda ReportAnarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising tide of Black political organizing, this foundational classic written by a key f...