A soothsayer promises timeless romance to anyone that defeats an invincible sorcerer king three times. Would you mess with a prophecy like that?You might, if it messed with you first.Princess Maryan flees an arranged marriage and takes up the challenge of the prophecy. In her way stand ravaging hordes of the undead, ignorant politicians, and her own conniving parents. She tries to recruit great warriors to her cause, but she's stuck with a bankrupt knight, a magic-less mage...

I'm a pretty rational guy. My LinkedIn profile has just the right amount of normal, wealth-building capitalist on the page. I fly around the world. I sit in boardrooms. To my friends and family, I'm a stand-up guy. But inside I'm spinning. I know what I'm doing. I just don't know why I'm doing it.For the first forty years of his life, tech entrepreneur Alex Thomas focused on two things: business and family. When his marriage began to fall apart, his search for love and wis...

A narrative-driven tabletop roleplaying game set in a world of swords, spells, and legendary deeds.In Venture, you create a character and take that character through exciting and perilous ventures. Your choices matter. The story is limited only by your imagination and the capabilities of your character.Venture features two core classes - Warrior and Mage - with deep customization through subclasses. Choose from nine unique and powerful races, each with rich lore and mechani...

An unforgettable exploration of what it means to belong and the power of human connection in a world divided by both cultural and temporal barriers.American Eric Thompson is elated when he is finally able to score a date with his long time crush. But what starts as an innocent evening at a cultural exhibition soon becomes the adventure of a lifetime, as Eric gets mysteriously transported back in time hundreds of years, alone.Ripped from the humble life he k...

A sociological phenomenon afflicts sociology itself: academics think of themselves as the vanguard of the working class despite the fact that they are not working class, as the noble willingness to side with the oppressed contrasts scholars’ reliance on authority to bolster their politics.While there are no simple solutions to this contradiction, a necessary beginning is for sociologists (and other academics) to acknowledge the reality of their own class privilege as members of the...

I’m a pretty rational guy. My LinkedIn profile has just the right amount of normal, wealth-building capitalist on the page. I fly around the world. I sit in boardrooms. To my friends and family, I’m a stand-up guy. But inside I’m spinning. I know what I’m doing. I just don’t know why I’m doing it.For the first forty years of his life, tech entrepreneur Alex Thomas focused on two things: business and family. When his marriage began to fall apart, his search for love and wis...

Former passenger Carmen is stranded on a small freighter in the middle of the ocean and finds herself stranded alone with only 3 chickens for company ...... and the sailor-turned-new-vampire Cort. While Carmen doesn't exactly know what Cort is, she's seen firsthand what these blood-drinking beasts are capable of, so she's not taking any chances. She devised a foolproof method - sleep at sunrise and shoot the vampire in the head at sunset. It took him nearly a full day to heal, so it didn't...

Former passenger Carmen is stranded on a small freighter in the middle of the ocean and finds herself stranded alone with only 3 chickens for company ...... and the sailor-turned-new-vampire Cort. While Carmen doesn't exactly know what Cort is, she's seen firsthand what these blood-drinking beasts are capable of, so she's not taking any chances. She devised a foolproof method - sleep at sunrise and shoot the vampire in the head at sunset. It took him nearly a full day to heal, so it didn't...

This thesis demonstrates that an ultralow temperature refrigeration technique called "demagnetisation refrigeration" can be miniaturised and incorporated onto millimeter-sized chips to cool nanoelectronic circuits, devices and materials. Until recently, the lowest temperature ever reached in such systems was around 4 millikelvin. Here, a temperature of 1.2mK is reported in a nanoelectronic device. The thesis introduces the idea that on-chip demagnetization refrigeration can be used to cool...

Former passenger Carmen is stranded on a small freighter in the middle of the ocean and finds herself stranded alone with only 3 chickens for company ...... and the sailor-turned-new-vampire Cort. While Carmen doesn't exactly know what Cort is, she's seen firsthand what these blood-drinking beasts are capable of, so she's not taking any chances. She devised a foolproof method - sleep at sunrise and shoot the vampire in the head at sunset. It took him nearly a full day to heal, so it didn't...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licenceTranshumanism is a philosophy which advocates for the use of technology to radically enhance human capacities.This book interrogates the promises of transhumanism, arguing that it is deeply entwined with capitalist ideology. In an era of escalating crisis and soaring inequality, it casts doubt on a utopian techno-capitalist narrative of unending progress. In critiquing the transhumanist project, the book offers an alt...

Former passenger Carmen is stranded on a small freighter in the middle of the ocean and finds herself stranded alone with only 3 chickens for company ...... and the sailor-turned-new-vampire Cort. While Carmen doesn't exactly know what Cort is, she's seen firsthand what these blood-drinking beasts are capable of, so she's not taking any chances. She devised a foolproof method - sleep at sunrise and shoot the vampire in the head at sunset. It took him nearly a full day to heal, so it didn't...