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New World - Star Warriors

Star Warriors - Science Fiction Adventure, #4


2013

EN

New World is book 4 of the Star Warriors Sci-Fi adventure book series. Mars Magellan explores a new world in 3050AD, as he and his companions finds a new planet to live on. His travels take him on a journey where he begins to find out about his past life and his destiny.Read the full instalment of the novel in these gripping ebooks: Book 1 - Spaceboy Mars, Book 2 - Space Recall, Book 3 - Space Refugees, Book 4 - New World, Book 5 - The Uprising

Hurricane Pioneer

Memoirs of Bob Simpson

2015

EN

In 1951, Robert H. Simpson lifted off in a specially-equipped plane, flying directly into the path of a storm that would send most people running for cover. For more than four hours he observed Typhoon Marge from its eerily calm eye, later describing it in The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society as “a coliseum of clouds whose walls on one side rose vertically and on the other were banked like the galleries in a great opera house.”For Simpson this was just one o...

Price£12.59

Eat the Flowers

Poems for the youth inside us.

2018

EN

These poems began fifty-one years ago when the author began to capture his feelings and life’s events. About thirty years ago he stopped writing and put them aside to pursue his career as an attorney.Originally everything was handwritten – often on scraps of paper stuffed into envelopes, book jackets, photo albums or some other convenient storage hole. Every so often, the browning paper and fading ink were revisited. Surprisingly, the scraps managed to survive despite the passage o...

Price£4.99

Breach of Contract

What the Government doesn't want you to know

2025

EN

The title was done for Americans who understand what the so-called "government" is doing or NOT doing for us.

Price£3.99

2018

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Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #2: January 2019Featuring Ideas by:Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles

Attention, Cooperation, Purpose

An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion

2018

EN

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This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, "every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The approach described here shows how individual group members' use of attention - both broad or "evenly suspended" and focused - can promote a better understanding of purpose, ...

Price£33.99

Scarcity and Growth Revisited

Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millenium

2012

EN

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In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that con...

Price£54.99

A Tapestry of African Histories

With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics

2021

EN

In A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics, contributors demonstrate that African historians are neither comfortable nor content with studying continental or global geopolitical, social, and economic events across the superficial divide of time as if they were disparate or disconnected. Instead, the chapters within the volume reevaluate African history through a geopolitically transcendent lens that brings African countries into conversation with other pert...

Price£26.79

Collaborating for Change

A Participatory Action Research Casebook

2020

EN

Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community org...

Price£16.99

2025

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Deep beneath the earth, something ancient and malevolent stirs. When Lee-Anne and her husband Geoffrey become trapped in an abandoned mine, they uncover horrors beyond imagination-an entity that feeds on lost souls and bends reality to its will. As Lee-Anne fights to save Geoffrey from possession, she unknowingly awakens forces that refuse to stay buried. Years later, just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a chilling phone call shatters their fragile peace. The mine never forgets. And ...

Space Refugees - Star Warriors

Star Warriors - Science Fiction Adventure, #3


2013

EN

Space Refugees is book 3 of the Star Warriors Sci-Fi adventure book series. Mars Magellan finds himself and his companions at the end of rough tactics that are designed to eliminate any evidence of his existence on the space-station Maverick. As a result of this unwanted attention, they leave behind their past careers in space exploration and find themselves looking for a new world to call home.Read the full instalment of the novel in these gripping ebooks: Book 1 - Spaceboy Mars, B...

WHY THE HYDRANTS FAILED

AND THE FUTURE OF HOUSING IN THE WEST

2025

EN

California's wildfires are worsening. Is this a result of Climate Change or forest and water mismanagement? Or a combination of both? The 2025 Southern California Wildfire claimed 29 lives, displaced over 200,000 people, and destroyed more than 18,000 homes and buildings. The main culprit: A failing water infrastructure.While firefighters needed 12 million gallons to fight the blaze, the system could deliver only 3 million. As the fire spread, 20% of hydrants ran dry.In Why...

Price£6.99