Much of the modern way of thinking about history and historiography in fact begins with the great Greek historian Thucydides, an Athenian general in the latter half of the fifth century b.c.e. It is also Thucydides who provides us with the historical framework for fifth-century Greece, a period of progress and creativity rarely equaled in human history. His work, The Peloponnesian War, recounts that destructive conflict and also includes the only surviving contemporary record of the rise o...

Camelot 2050: Dragon Fire is the Second instalment in the Camelot 2050 Trilogy that rewrites the ending of the classic legend of King Arthur, and transports the reader to a near-future England ruled over by the ancestral line of Pendragon and the Knights of the Round Table. The war against Morgana le Fay rages on as the army of Camelot sweeps into Russia in search of the Sorceress Queens seat of power. As the armys clash Morgana unleashes a devestating weapon upon the forc...

Camelot 2050: Dark Magic is the Final instalment in the Camelot 2050 Trilogy that rewrites the ending of the classic legend of King Arthur, and transports the reader to a near-future England ruled over by the ancestral line of Pendragon and the Knights of the Round Table.Three months since her 'banishment' from the Camelot Coalition Rosalyn Pendragon returns to the front and the chilling prospect of a winter campaign in mainland Russia. Her friend and lover Geoffrey is sti...

Grace Under Fire is the first Camelot 2050 Anthology, with stories set before, during and after the events of the first trilogy. Five original short stories, Tilt, Covert, The Wizard, Squire and Patrol expand the Camelot 2050 Universe, the events of the Le Fay Campaign and bring us closer to the diverse cast of the Camelot 2050 Trilogy.

Speak. Don't speak. Proclaim your faith. A private faith. Be wise as serpents. Be innocent as doves. Yes, Jesus' teachings can often be seen as an excellent example of a paradox. Author David Cartwright shares his life long study of the gospels from elementary school through seminary and as a pastor. ... the question, "What would Jesus do?" goes back to a more basic one, "What did Jesus mean?" And that question further back to an even more basic one, "What did Jesus say?" What I can claim ...

'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines, continuous with those in his major work The World as Will and Representation, are presented here in more accessible, self-contained form. Schopenhauer argues, in uniquely po...

In the Strait of Gibraltar, a pod of six orcas launch a coordinated attack on the Céleste Mistral, a 50-foot sailing vessel – sending it to the depths.Along the Amazon River, pink dolphins exhibit a never-before-seen behavior, forging an enigmatic bond with an ancient, isolated tribe.On the seabed of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone – a 2.32-million-square-mile stretch of ocean between Hawaii and Mexico – a deep-sea mining operation begins harvesting billions of tons of...

A Russian cargo ship sinks in the shallow waters of the Bering Strait, and somehow vanishes without a trace.In the Colorado Plateau Desert, a cowboy follows a river of sand into an undiscovered ruin.A tunnel-boring operation between the Alaskan and Siberian peninsulas is stalled when its largest burrowing machine disappears into an abyss.Sam Reilly leads a search and rescue mission for the missing ship and crew. Wha...

Extreme weather conditions are wreaking havoc on the world, and baffled scientists are unable to discover the cause.The most powerful hurricane in history approaches New York, while at the same time atmospheric rivers flood Las Vegas.Wildfires spread through Canada, and Europe is wracked by powerful earthquakes.Most bizarre of all: a tempestuous mass of dark, foreboding sky seems to be spreading across the globe.In Arizona, an astronomer tries to decipher th...

On March 11, 2011, the Japanese fishing trawler, Hoshi Maru accidentally hauled up something deadly into its live-fish hold. The crew, having discovered their mistake, raced toward the harbor in the hope that they might survive.They never made it.Presumed sunk by the tsunami that ravaged the coastline of Japan, its crew were declared dead.Seven years later, the shipwreck washed up on Cannon Beach, Oregon. By the ti...

A private jet crashes in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, killing everyone on board.One of the passengers was Darren Young, an entomologist who was meant to be working alone in Papua New Guinea, studying rare beetles.So why was he on a private jet on the other side of the world?And why, as his plane entered its fatal descent, did he send a text message to his wife containing just three simple words:“FIND SAM REILLY!”

After the world’s most expensive diamond heist goes wrong, Jack Overton finds himself running from the man who had once been his master - England’s most powerful magistrate of the eighteenth century, Sir Robert Williams. With deep ties to one of the most violent Secret Societies in Europe, the honorable Sir Robert Williams will stop at nothing to catch him.There are few places in the western world that would harbor such a fugitive, and he finds himself headed for the one place that...