A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

A donor-centered guide to charitable gift planning for fundraisers and professional advisorsThe Philanthropic Planning Companion compiles and analyzes the latest research on donor/client behavior, discussing the need for segmented approaches to charitable gift planning based upon the values and personal planning objectives of the donor/client. With its many tools, checklists and sample materials, it will serve as your charitable giving guide in your work w...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Somewhere between dreams and memory… a love story waits to be remembered.Vincent lives a quiet life as the baker in a small-town bakery — a man of habit, flour-dusted mornings, and afternoons spent on a bench by the river, where he often slips into dreams that feel more like memories.He’s always imagined her — the same woman, the same smile, a sense of something unfinished.Until one day… she walk...

1950s Science Fiction 12 is a powerhouse collection of 23 classic short stories from the golden age of sci-fi. Journey through first contacts, time paradoxes, alien invasions, ethical dilemmas, and cosmic wonder in tales by Arthur C. Clarke, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, and more. From chilling inevitability to dark satire and hard science, these unforgettable stories capture the imagination, anxiety, and boundless creativity that defined 1950s science fi...

Protestantism, at its best, grounds both its religious and its social critique in the faith of the prophets and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as understood and lived by the church. Its teachings and desired practice stand in start contrast to complacent religion that seems to be at ease with imperial greed, domination, and violence. Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian S...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10: More Than 25 Hours of Classic Science FictionStep into the golden age of imagination with 50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories 10. Featuring more than 25 hours of classic science fiction, this extraordinary collection brings together fifty unforgettable tales from the visionary authors who helped shape one of the world’s most beloved genres.Blast off on daring space missions, encounter mysterious alien civiliz...

WHITEFELLA DREAMING: ESSAYS IN SEARCH OF BLACKFELLA TRUTHS is Dr Brian Roberts’ second collection of essays challenging Australia’s Indigenous policies. He sets the record straight on the evolution of intelligent species, Indian and Mungo ancestors, and the serious divide between Indigenous traditionalists and modernists, exemplifying Philip Roberts, a Northern Territory ambulance driver and Elder as an individual successfully integrating two worlds. Noel Pearson and Marcus Waters are comp...

California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy, however, Brian Roberts offers a surprising challenge to this assumption.Roberts points to a long-neglected truth of the gold rush: many of the northeastern forty-niners who ventured westward were in f...

If you want to grow as a leader and you are an introvert, read this game-changing book. You don't have to come across as extroverted or outgoing to succeed.Introverts are too quiet and flimsy to be leaders. Have you given it any thought?What characteristics spring to mind when you consider an introvert and what characteristics strike you when you consider a leader? The two words are not often used together. Society usually stereotypes introverted persons as being quiet, res...

Roberts’ Rule: Tribal identity is proportional to discrimination by outsiders.ESSAYS ON ABORIGINALISM is the first collection from Dr Brian Roberts on Indigenous Futures and aims to present a more nuanced alternative to the simplistic Left/Right binary view offered by the contemporary Australian commentariat. The essays revisit the worldview of the de-colonisation idealists and employ the records of global colonisation as a means of rationalising historic migrations.Dr Robe...

Embark on a transformative journey where science meets the extraordinary, as "Biohacking: Optimize Your Health and Performance" takes you on a mind-bending exploration of human potential. In this groundbreaking book, discover the awe-inspiring world of biohacking, where cutting-edge technology and ancient wisdom converge to unlock the secrets of peak performance. From enhancing cognition to supercharging vitality, this captivating guide equips you with the tools and knowledge to unleash yo...

He dropped the camera and stared at its monitor. The video paused. His face, in lustful pleasure, was frozen on the screen.Marcus grew up a gangster kid, but now he's a Priest. He's come back home to re-start a 19th century Catholic church that has been completely vandalized. He finds out the community is heavily influenced by Satanism—something Marcus intends on changing, but his past lingers and sin is in his blood.Jada is a Satanist, and she seduces Marcus. Sex is the re...