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Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle on the Seymour family that moves from Austria, America and Africa, through Edinburgh and Venice, and then back through the Paris o
Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned their daily routine, each day unfolding exactly as the next. They live at night, sleep during the day and see their widowed father only rarely - their house shrouded in perpetual winter. Then one
Centuries is the complete collection of Quintus Curtius’s essays from the years 2020 to 2023. It continues where his previous volume of essays, Digest, ended.The range of topics includes moral philosophy, history, travel, leadership, and literature. Also included is a special collection of...
Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned their daily routine, each day unfolding exactly as the next. They live at night, sleep during the day and see their widowed father only rarely – their house shrouded in perpetual winter. Then one day, Mercy is woken to find a snowdrop on her...
Liberal democracy has produced the most freedom and security for the most people of any form of government in human history. For a while, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we believed that this would be enough. Yet, today, we face an anti-liberal backlash—and we bear much of...
From an award-winning science journalist comes Nomad Century, an urgent investigation of environmental migration—the most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change where—and how—we live. “The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I’ll ever read.”—Mary Roach “An...
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where – and how – we liveWe are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for...
A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches into the crash site, so a circle of death expands...
MG Century, authored by marque expert David Knowles, offers a complete and richly illustrated history covering the evolution of this storied British car company. For many car enthusiasts, MG is synonymous with “sports car.” It is often credited with igniting a passion for European cars in postwar...
A husband and wife's weekend getaway in a mid-century style rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.
'Twentieth Century,' Cold Chisel's final studio album (for the next 15 years) was a scorching send-off for a band that in ten years had elevated itself into the national psyche as its best and best-loved act. Although the passion was waning, the songs here carry Chisel's inimitable brand: the...
Next Century tells the same story set in three different eras and locales: 1799 (London), 1999 (Midwest America), and 2099 (the Moon). In each story, a young woman (Claire) seeks vengeance against her father, who has been abusing her moth
The quadrupling of the world population in the 20th century has over-burdened the environment and accelerated the depletion of natural resources, whether renewable or not. The effort of the largest nations, China, India, and others, to attain affluence at this time further damages the environment...
Silicon is shaping the 21st Century. Semiconductor chips are the new oil and gold combined— fueling global power shifts. Asia's factories are leading the charge. China's ambitions are on the rise and the west is scrambling for strategy. In "Silico
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century d
The Peterson family farm is one hundred years old and about to enter a new century. Here, in wonderful family anecdotes, the author shares the story of the farm as it grew from a barn and house and granary in the 1890s to a thriving dairy farm in
A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest, lies the most recent fallen angel, its vast stone form half-buried and fused into the rock by the violence of impact. As its dark energy leeches in
Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstract