The Armaments Issue. The future isn’t just starships and galactic civilizations. Often, it will come down to the punk on the street with a knife in their hand. Or the soldier fighting for dirt. Ten stories of cybernetic shopkeepers, accidental diplomat warriors, and lost Electronic Beings facing the ultimate test.Cold Steel and Hot Blasters.

Whitstable, lying on the shore of the Thames Estuary on the North Kent coast, has long been famous for its oysters. The world’s first passenger steam railway connected Whitstable to Canterbury in 1830, serviced by a harbour that opened two years later in 1832. These events were the catalysts for growth and prosperity during the ensuing Victorian era, turning a small fishing community into a busy seaside town with maritime-based industries at its heart. Much about the town has changed over ...

Gunnar Hamundarsson returns to Iceland having served with great distinction as a mercenary soldier in the army of king Olaf of Norway. Soon he falls under the spell of the beautiful but flawed Hallgerd. Their marriage is the mid-summer highlight of the Rangariver Plains community and all goes well until there is a famine and he discovers that his wife has been stealing food from their neighbours. She is also accused of being implicated in the murder of Kari Grimsson, her husband's cousin, ...

Amber Houston was born light-years away from Earth aboard the enormous colony starship Dandelion.By the age of 14, she has spent her entire life training as a Ranger, ready for the day when she will be among the first humans ever to set foot on an alien world and build a new civilization.When Dandelion suffers an emergency toward the end of its journey, Amber and her fellow young rangers are evacuated and land on the planet Newhome years ahead of s...

Come Alive! Venture beyond the borders of Ordinary and the life that the world is pressuring you into.Awakening! The Dreamer's Quest is a journey through five gates that open into the lands of Dream, Believe, Dare, Do, and Be. Each of these gates makes up one of the five parts of the book. In each part author, Philip B Johnson has guided the readers to discover their own Dreamer's Quest through each of the five gates and lands. Each part begins with an allegory about a Tra...

If Christ had not risen from the dead, if God's plan for redemption had ended at the cross, what would our faith look like? Have we become so fixated on the cross that we have lost an understanding of the centrality of the resurrection? And if we ignore the resurrection, what effect does that have on our worldview, our evangelism, and our Christian practice?In The Cross Is Not Enough, Ross Clifford and Philip Johnson explore how the resurrection of Christ has been understo...

Pat Leonard served throughout the Great War as a Chaplain to the Forces in France, Belgium and, after the Armistice, in Germany. Along with the many hundreds of letters he wrote to the relatives of those parishioners who died or were wounded, he found time to describe for his parents back at home the awful reality of life in the Trenches, and on the makeshift aerodromes from which the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps operated from the Observers seat which liberated his spirit from the mud ...

Milking your family cow and experiencing the simple joys that comes with it are explained in this guidebook by veteran dairy farmer and cheesemaker Phil Hasheider.This book leads you through all the steps needed to make your dream a reality and the processes involved to make your own dairy products. You will learn the practical do’s and don’ts of buying a cow, milking, feeding, and assisting her when she gives birth to a calf. You may not have the experience yet, but time will take care of...

I had reached a point in my writing that I felt I could confront the fear of sharing my words. Out of all the writers and poets I read on social media there was one fledgling poet and gifted writer that shone brightly. Mustering my confidence I reached out to who at the time I knew to be Sharon Johnson and now know to be my friend. She was incredibly gracious with her time and advice. During the development of our friendship we wrote, exchanged notes, shared stories and somewhere along the...

**Are you struggling to keep your immune system healthy? Or are you trying to learn more about your immune system but don’t know where to start? Then, keep reading...**In many cases, people overlook their health & their own immune system which can be one of the biggest downfalls in their lives. Without health & proper self nurture you limit how long you live & your ability to function in general. That’s why it’s so important to look after our immune systems.When you purchase this book you ...

Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality examines how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of race. It brings together diverse perspectives from musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, anthropology, performance studies, history, and postcolonial scholarship to show how the hymn has perpetuated, generated, and challenged racial identities.The global range of contributors cover a variety of historica...

A classic portrait of hunting, sport, and gentlemanly culture in the antebellum South.The least well known of Johnson Jones Hooper’s works, Dog and Gun was first published as a newspaper series, then appeared in six book editions between 1856 and 1871. Hooper is Alabama’s most celebrated antebellum author, and here he gives insight into the meaning of a culture where every male hunts – and a man who shoots as a gentleman will be assumed a gentlema...