This is the first attempt, using Canadian data and econometric techniques, to study property crime as rational economic behaviour. Supply-of-offences functions for five types of property crime are specified and estimated using provincial data for 1970-2. Both the probability of apprehension and the probability of conviction are shown to have a substantial negative effect upon most kinds of property crime, with the conviction rate exhibiting the stronger influence. The generally significant...

This book provides a focus for future discussion in one of the most important debates within historical theology within the protestant tradition - the debate about the definition of a category of analysis that operates over five centuries of religious faith and practice and in a globalising religion. In March 2009, TIME magazine listed ‘the new Calvinism’ as being among the ‘ten ideas shaping the world.’ In response to this revitalisation of reformation thought, R. Scott Clark and...

In 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke brings the greatest and most successful science fiction series of all time to its magnificent, stunningly unforeseen conclusion. As we hurtle toward the new millennium in real time, Clarke brilliantly, daringly leaps one thousand years into the future to reveal a truth we are only now capable of comprehending. An epic masterpiece at once dazzlingly imaginative and grounded in scientific actuality, 3001 is a story that only Arthur C. Clarke could...

Some discoveries expand our understanding of the universe. Others challenge the stories we tell ourselves about our place within it.In The Star, Arthur C. Clarke delivers a quiet, devastating meditation on faith, knowledge, and moral consequence. Set against the immense backdrop of deep space, the story follows a brilliant scientific mind grappling with the emotional weight of an astronomical revelation. What begins as a triumph of exploration slowly transforms into an int...

Across five hundred light-years, the scientists of Thaar discover that Earth is running out of time. They have a way to save humanity, but first they must find someone who can hear their telepathic warning. Against astonishing odds, they make contact with Dr. William Cross, a gifted rocket engineer who has just been reprimanded at work, abandoned by the woman he loves, and is well on his way to finishing a bottle of whiskey.Unfortunately for the aliens, Cross assumes the voice in h...

In Superiority, Arthur C. Clarke delivers a sharply focused military science fiction classic told as an official postwar testimony. A defeated supreme commander sets out to correct public misunderstanding, explaining how his seemingly unbeatable civilization lost a war despite superior fleets, talent, and confidence. What unfolds is a gripping account of escalation, innovation, and overconfidence — all seen through the lens of hard science and strategic decision-making.As ...

There is a burning desire within us all that wants us to be more than we ever thought we could be. Bigger, stronger, and more confident in our abilities than we ever thought possible. What if all of those possibilities were literally at your fingertips? The Forging of the Ring is a series of epic tales that allow us to do exactly that. Follow the ring as it makes its journey from mystical lands on the hands of heroes and villains alike battling monsters and creating the fine line between g...

Something ancient, fragile, and alive is set adrift in a universe that does not notice its passing. Castaway is a quietly devastating meditation on isolation, scale, and the tragic mismatch between human perception and cosmic reality. Arthur C. Clarke strips science fiction down to its essentials, letting awe and melancholy carry the weight where action never could. The story unfolds with a calm inevitability, inviting listeners to confront how vast the universe truly is—and how l...

There are moments that feel ordinary while they are happening, yet echo for ages after they are gone. Transience unfolds across a single shoreline, revisited again and again as generations pass, tools evolve, and the future quietly closes in. Children play, tides rise, and the world reshapes itself while no one is watching closely enough to stop it.Arthur C. Clarke does not tell this story through heroes or battles, but through small human gestures placed against an immens...

Arthur C. Clarke Short Stories brings together nineteen classic tales from one of the greatest visionaries in science fiction. Long before 2001: A Space Odyssey became a cultural landmark, Arthur C. Clarke was captivating readers with stories of deep space, alien mysteries, scientific discovery, and humanity’s place in an ever-expanding universe.This collection features timeless classics including The Star, The Nine Billion Names of God, Superiorit...

At The End Of The Orbit delivers Arthur C. Clarke at his most gripping and emotionally layered, blending adventure on the Great Barrier Reef with a moral reckoning that creeps in slowly and lands with devastating force. When a meteor blazes across the dawn sky, the crew of a pearling lugger discovers a fallen Soviet space capsule—its silent occupant waiting in the darkness below the waves. For Tibor, a diver haunted by the scars of war and betrayal, the discovery becomes a...

Randall’s Comet is the greatest sky show in human history—a colossal banner of ice and glowing gas stretching across the dawn, brighter and more spectacular than anything seen since the age of mammoths. Riding its tail is the research ship Challenger, packed with scientists, instruments, and one very lucky reporter, George Takeo Pickett. His assignment is simple: document the mission, interview the crew, and send back the story of a lifetime as humanity flies straight into the hea...