This engaging and well-illustrated volume describes the excavations of a large urban sector, the so-called Triconch Palace, of the Adriatic seaport of Butrint. In so doing it adds to the new paradigm for the development of Roman towns in the Mediterranean. The book traces the changing nature of this rich and varied area - from 2nd-century Roman townhouses, to a 4th-century elite domus, to a Mid Byzantine trading area to late medieval allotments - and reveals the rhythms of Butrint and its ...

How far is humanity willing to go to preserve its way of life?In the End there are only Beginnings.The Veil, a mysterious organization playing all sides, has deposited evidence of a terrible calamity at the United Nations—but is it a horrifying crime against humanity, or a terrifying weapon?A clandestine agency seeks to find out and fast, unaware that the answer lies at the center of one man's dramatic spiral into an abyss of despair and mania, alre...

If you want something hidden, consider hiding it in plain sight. Unfortunately, stumbling across such a something came close to getting Nathan fired.An innocent when it came to the discovery, to be sure, but it would nevertheless be fair to say that Nathan wasn't entirely blameless in the matter, having run roughshod over all manner of military regulations.Despite the repeated screw-ups, Nathan remains an asset to the auditing firm, Mace Forensics. So, in a last ditch effor...

If you go looking for something impossible, there is always the risk that you might actually find it. And for physicist Rhoda Mollo, finding such a something saw her banished to the fringes of what can only just about be called respectable science, her work dismissed as more heretical than theoretical.That Rhoda had been the architect of her own downfall had, at first, seemed an agreeable outcome for all concerned.But strange results from the world's largest atom s...

The universe, and what passes for reality, has its dark secrets—for those that dare to seek them out.But understanding the nature of reality holds no interest for Evyline Marron—she has only a shallow sense of its significance.Evyline's pursuit is the human condition, one that finds her peering into the deceased heads of others, of which there has been something of a dearth of late.Then, quite out of the blue, the cerebral cortex of a notorious individual comes her ...

At times it feels like the world is delivering a steady stream of crazies Henry's way, an unrelenting conveyor belt of the paranoid and delusional, each with their own angle on how the Book of Revelation is playing out right before them.They're all bonkers, of course, though it does seem like there's been more than usual of late.But while most of Henry's patients express their suspicions in a somewhat predictable manner, one has taken matters to a whole new level, building ...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. ClarkeThere are many ways to test humanity to destruction. Serving tea and cakes is one of them.And it is over tea and cakes that the enigmatic Mr. Day makes his proposition to skeptical diplomat Thaddeus Maine.The offer is for the United Kingdom to become the sole distributor of technology so advanced as to be out of this world. A conduit, delivering wonders to the rest of the globe...

The Mollos had come to England to start a new life, buying a small farm in the heart of Devon, only to have their dream cruelly snatched from them. Now their teenage daughter has risked the family farm in a desperate attempt to preserve her parents' legacy, betting everything on a new type of crop.But the country is in the midst of a financial crisis, and with more trouble looming, a Machiavellian mandarin has cooked up an outlandish scheme to manage what might otherwise be a diffi...

From heroes to zeros—their fall from grace could not have been more spectacular. The unlikely duo had saved Las Vegas from a rogue weapon, but the small matter of a flattened airbase sees the authorities hunt them down nonetheless, painted for all the world to see as a latter-day Bonnie & Clyde.Given the circumstances, they should have ended up in some godforsaken hole, having what they don't know beaten out of them.Instead it seems their redemption lies with a mysterious a...

A creature from another dimension had gotten into her head, eviscerated her mind, and gouged out her soul. Now physicist Rhoda Mollo finds herself where she'd really rather not be, cast away on some far-flung shore of Any Now, trapped in a nightmare of the real and not real, slave to her own heresies.No matter how hard she tries she can no longer slip into that happy state that simply accepts reality as it appears to be. Her mind won't let her—it has seen the illusion for what it i...

A mind born out of innocence can be a terrifying weapon. And just such a mind has been found in the laboratories of the failed corporation Cantor Satori. A machine-mind coveted by a powerful General in the Pentagon.Eminent psychologist Lucius Gray has been drafted in to investigate the mysterious machine-based intelligence.Through earning its trust Lucius forms a deep bond with the shy and secretive machine, a bond that not only reveals the machine's startling true nature, ...

Is humanity friend or foe?War, industrialization, technological advancement. It is a common transitional period, one that provides ample opportunity for a species to destroy itself. And thus far we have survived. Now, those that observe from afar are ready for us to take the next step. But first they must be certain of our suitability, and it all comes down to one thing.Sometimes those you hate and fear the most are those you need the most.A space odyssey of earthly...