Dr. Raj Mondal had it all. Born to one of The Landing's founding families, he had a high-status position with the Colonial Medical Administration. He implemented the Colonial Governing Council's eugenics policies, which meant he decided who was allowed to have children and who wasn't, who lived and who died. He was a reliable, loyal citizen of Charis Colony. Until his patient, Mr. Singh, disappeared. Suddenly, Dr. Mondal was suspected of aiding a defector. He and his wife, Shirin, now foun...

The Roaring Twenties are Sebastian's playground until his mother informs him that bad investments have bankrupted the family. He must leave his fiancé and sail to Germany to do what he can. He arrives broke and riding a bicycle. Marlene, who wasn't told her father had sold their failing machine shop to keep the town employed, and who runs the family business, assumes Sebastian is another useless consultant. She hands him an apron, points to a lathe, and puts him to work. Marlene's father a...

David Martin's dark contemporary fictions have appeared in the likes of Black Static, The Dark, Litro and The Mechanics' Institute Review. This collection brings together previously published short stories from 2015-2019, including the title novelette, which was described by Nick Cato of The Horror Fiction Review as "One of the finest short horror stories dealing with music I've ever read… it left me in a genuine state of wonder" as well as The Park, which was shortlisted for the Bridport ...

David Martin was one of the world's leading commentators on secularization theory. He was also a committed and lifelong reader of English poetry. The present book develops Martin's argument against simplistic secularization narratives with reference to the history of poetry, a topic with which few social theorists have been concerned. Martin shows the enduring but ever-changing centrality of Christian thought and practice, in its many different forms, to English poetry. Always mindful that...

David Martin, a distinguished journalist, political analyst and staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, first published his book ALLY BETRAYED in 1946. Having devoted his life to uncovering the truth and to defending Mihailovich, Martin's book asks the crucial questions:Why did the Allied press which had made a great hero of Mihailovich as a resister of Axis invaders of Yugoslavia begin to play him down after 1942?What was Tito's past? And where was the radi...

In spite of all the books written on the First World War, some remarkable stories still remain untold, and that of the 58th London Division is one of the most neglected. A territorial formation, lacking the glamour of the old army or the Kitchener Volunteers, the 58th never received an official history and apart from the odd mention and a poignant memorial on the Somme battlefield depicting a rider cradling a dying horse, it has faded from memory. Yet the Division saw hard service and won ...

The missio Dei concept has shifted missiological thinking from an anthropocentric view of mission to the understanding that the church and persons are participants in the missio Dei. A Wesleyan perspective of grace and the means of grace inform the development of a theology of participation in the missio Dei that overcomes the repetitive articulations of mission as simply being human action or divine action. Through the means of grace, Christian disciples participate in the missio Dei as t...

Cyborg operative Agent 1.22 is an emissary of T.E.R.R.A, cryogenically preserved in deep sleep between assignments. When external communication is lost with Fortress DX-B Biotech Facility, agent 1.22's MotherShip S.S. Mnemosyne proceeds to the third moon of Pandora 5 to discover the fate of the facility and its staff.

When their father is held captive inside a military academy guarded by vicious teenage cadets, three young girls who have been training in martial arts and combat their entire lives must use their skills to rescue him. As the girls go further into the academy to reach their father, their opponents get bigger and more terrifying, but the girls' discover they are even more skilled than they knew.Jess (age 17), Faith (age 15) and Cate (age 10) are normal adolescent girls--except that ...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"A Prayer to the Many-Eyed Mother" by Eliza Victoria"Things Behind the Sun" by David Martin (reprint)"Maria's Children" by Tobi Ogundiran"Sun Dogs" by Laura Mauro (reprint)

As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation, conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase. Such materials are not only subject to limited supply and extreme price volatility but can also represent serious burdens to the environment, to human health, and also to socio-political systems. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this book provides a novel perspective on the discussion a...

From the darkest depths of a disturbed mind comes this collection of stories, with subjects ranging from the supernatural to the simply terrifying. We will go on a journey together that will take us to the past, and project us into the future. We will see the world in ways it wasn’t meant to be seen. We will visit places that are familiar, and places that are unfamiliar, and we will bring to life the horrors that the mind can create when it is dark, and when sleep is fitful.