A riveting sci-fi thriller that takes the reader into the heart of the dangers of alien intelligence's already among us.What starts out as a fight against a Russian oligarch by Michigan's Upper Peninsula Potawatomi Indian tribe to help the Bigfoot take their next evolutionary leap turns into a deadly battle between extraterrestrial entities for control of the Bigfoot's supernatural powers of interdimensional travel.A diverse team of American investigators led by tribal lead...

The most common explanation for the Bigfoot phenomena is that they are artificial life forms brought to Earth tens of thousands of years ago by aliens, designed to evolve and learn about the nature of the earth and its inhabitants. In Ron Meyer and Mark Reeder's gripping story, thousands of Bigfoot are poised to combine their knowledge and merge with the first genuine, human-made AGI machine. Over three days, in the primordial forest of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Bigfoot take an evolu...

Brought to you by Penguin.'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including f...

This series of stories address everyday issues sympathetically and with excellent character development whilst depicting people which many readers will identify with as the storylines are creatively and skillfully intertwined. This eclectic collection of stories expresses all of the human emotions of the characters with great sensitivity and with pathos.

The time is winter 1962, the place London. Teddy Bean’s detective agency isn’t doing too well lately. Their most illustrious client is an ageing actor who thinks he will be murdered. Another case is even more complicated when ex-police detective Tony Halliday is assigned to a worried wife who thinks her husband is planning a bank robbery and falls for her in the process.Meanwhile, Teddy’s worries about his failing business and on-off relationship with a divorcee are beginning to ta...

The book is intended for readers who are interested in exploring the Bible from a critical and skeptical perspective and who are willing to challenge their own beliefs and assumptions about religion and faith.It examines various aspects of the Bible including its creation, contradictions and inconsistencies, and societal impact. The author discusses how religion promotes ignorance and superstition, and argues that a rational and scientific approach is necessary to truly understand ...

It is the Spring of 1864 and the Confederate raider Palmetto is off the Philippines, pursuing her campaign against US shipping. For her captain, Thomas Grover there is much to consider, for with the ship’s previously sustained engine damage not fully repaired, he learns that these seas are now patrolled by a new Union warship that vastly overmatches his own ship. As the war turns increasingly against the south, Grover must redouble his efforts against the enemy, but the hidden threats faci...

When Lieutenant James Rutherford of the Honourable East India Company is summoned to Government House in Calcutta, he has no inkling of what awaits him there. To his great surprise, he is offered command of the Spartan, a newly converted steam warship, receiving orders to proceed to sea to hunt a Chinese pirate, but, though those orders appear straightforward enough, they initiate a deadly sequence of events during which the hunter all too often is the quarry.****Martin Hic...

"Thinking About Thinking" is a based on a series of lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1996 by Professors Alan Dershowitz (lawyer), Robert Nozick (philosopher) and Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist) about perennial issues such as truth, free will, race, gender and religion.

Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first in the Tarzan series.The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes to his encounters with other humans and Western society.The key themes in the novel include the impact of heredity on behavior, racial superiority, civilization - as Tarzan struggles with his identity as a human, sexuality & escapism.

Leadership is about influencing others to move in a certain direction and there are many ways of achieving this influence. Each of these leadership styles has its inherent qualities and pitfalls, and will be more suited to specific people and different circumstances. The more leaders understand their preferred leadership styles and are able to flexibly switch to the most suitable style given the situation, the more effective they will be. This book maps out ten sets of opposite leadership ...

"This is a book that needed to be written. Eric Cantor’s defeat was not only shocking but it runs against everything we teach in our election courses. By extracting the lessons from Cantor’s defeat, Slingshot helps to inform our more general understanding of campaigns & elections."-Professor Kirby Goidel, Texas A&M UniversityIncumbents don′t lose. So how did nationally prominent House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lose a primary battle to college professor David Brat,...