Tragic Science

Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power.

What if God has a character, and that character is tragic? This is the question at the heart of Nikolai Berdyaev's strangest and most unforgettable idea—that the Creator is not a calm watchmaker, not an impassive intelligence behind the world, but a personality marked by struggle, freedom, and a wound that runs through divinity itself. Tragic God: Berdyaev and the Abyss takes that idea seriously and follows it where it leads. This is not a portrait of a philosopher.

“In Fernanda Santos’ expert hands, the story of 19 men and a raging wildfire unfolds as a riveting, pulse-pounding account of an American tragedy; and also as a meditation on manhood, brotherhood and family love. The Fire Line is a great and deeply moving book about courageous men and women...

What if the most important question in life is not What do I want next? but Would I choose this life again? That is the startling challenge at the heart of Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence—the haunting thought that every moment of your life, every joy and wound, every decision and delay, might return forever exactly as it was. It is not merely a theory about time. It is a test of courage, responsibility, and whether we are truly living in a way we can affirm. Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence for Beginners makes this powerful concept clear, compelling, and deeply relevant...

Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system.

Before a prophecy swept him across the seas, Oskar Dahlin was a mortal among corrupt rulers. He lived with one mandate: protect the innocent. Be their sword, and if necessary, their vengeance. He was a Blade of the Assassin’s Guild, trained in body and mind. What the royals did behind their high walls was not his concern unless and until their actions spilled into his streets. Or a young queen steals his heart.

The world is going dark. The game is waking up. The hero is hunting. The threshold of the end has arrived. In the physical world, George’s father has committed to a suicidal mission: a global blackout to strip the Alchemist program of its power. He will be remembered as a villain, yet he remains strangely optimistic—convinced that George has finally found love. Inside the cube, the irony is absolute. Jessie—the "stalker" from Level One who once died in George’s arms—is the only one left to guard him. In the real-world silence of the blackout, she "babysits" George’s zombified ...

The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la is a breathtaking account of the ill-fated October 1998 expedition of an American whitewater kayaking team who traveled deep into the Tsangpo Gorge in Tibet to run the Yarlung Tsangpo, known in paddling circles as the "Everest of rivers." For Wick...

In 1974, Pan American Flight 806 was hoping to land safely in Pago Pago, Samoa, but instead plummeted at 140 miles per hour into the jungle floor. The 101 passengers and crew members all survived this devastating crash. Unfortunately, only four of them escaped the wreckage before the ensuing fire that followed and lived to tell their story. After the disaster, Pan American was found guilty of "willful misconduct" after the longest and most expensive trial in aviation history.

Gold Medal - Readers' Favorite Book Awards (YA Sci Fi) First Prize - International Firebird Book Awards (New Fiction) First Prize - Entrada Incipere Awards (YA Sci Fi Clean) Top YA Series & Finalist Best Genre Fiction Series - Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist - The Wishing Shelf Book Awards (Teen Fiction) Silver Medal - The BookFest Book Awards (YA Book Series) "Deserves to be on the shelf with Animal Farm." "A literary gem -- soon to be best seller!" "Absolutely riveting. 10 stars!" Antuna should have died the day she arrived in this barren land. Her heart stopped. A spider's...

Susan Berman grew up in Las Vegas luxury as the daughter of Davie Berman, casino mogul and notorious mafia leader. After her father died she learned about his mob connections. Susan then dedicated her life to learning about Vegas and its underworld chiefs. Her life took a bizarre turn in l982 when Kathie Durst - the wife of her good friend, Robert Durst - mysteriously disappeared. Kathie's husband was a prime suspect but the case was never solved.

Democrats claim the events of January 6, 2021 (J6) were “a deadly insurrection incited by Donald J. Trump.” But this book demonstrates J6, though tragic, was not deadly (with one exception), it was not an insurrection, and it was not incited by then President Trump.

Vindecker A Gothic Tale of Science, Obsession, and Redemption In the shadow of Victor Frankenstein’s infamous experiments, another mind toils just down the road—one less celebrated, but no less consumed. Dr. Oswald Vindecker is a respected Victorian-era physician, brilliant and admired. But behind the doors of Vindecker Manor, he conducts a series of secret experiments—straining the limits of life and death, and the boundaries of morality. As he recruits prisoners, outcasts, and even those closest to him for his twisted tests, Oswald’s obsession grows—and so does the cost. Told ...

Thirty-four tragic tales of science fiction, speculative fiction, and dark satire. The characters within suffer unspeakable losses triggered by Human incompetence, alien visitations (both malicious and benign), Apocalyptic annoyances, corrupted faith, unscrupulous corporate overlords, dismal first contact blunders, our uncertain future, and other uplifting terrors. Featuring: CARE PACKAGE HELP IS ON THE WAY THERE’S NO HELL LIKE HEAVEN EMBERS OF LIFE A BASILEUS CHRISTMAS OLIVER MOORE IS IN OUR FAMILY ROOM I AM WORRIED ABOUT MY ANXIETY THE KING’S DINNER MERCY MISSION THE FOURTEEN ...

Hundreds of movies and thousands of books have been written about the heroes of World War II. For dozens of years, however, few people knew about one of the greatest heroes of the war - a mild-mannered, eccentric mathematician from the University of Cambridge. This man, an undeniable genius whose later life was plagued by controversy and tragedy, probably played a greater role in the eventual Allied victory than anyone else. Until quite recently his contribution to the war effort was barely recognized. This is his incredible story.

Derek Agons doesn't care. He's just worried about passing high school. After leaving an extra credit assignment that could save his dying grades—and keep his mom off his back—he stumbles upon a hard truth. The natural disasters aren't so natural. They are the work of a dragon trying to destroy the world. Now, a talking cat is telling Derek he's the only one who can save everything. All he has to do is believe in himself.

Rimly discovered that she had turned into a wallaby. Could she ever be back to her human life? Rimly was the Beauty of Universe and Riban was the Man of Coastahilla in the kingdom of Coastahilla. They fell for each other. They married. But there were jealous brothers of Riban. They always envied Riban’s success and they always tried to drag him down to misfortune. Riban always had his mother on his side, though. Yet, through the convoluted paths of ambition and conspiracies of Riban’s brothers, some thieves and a magician, and some very useful creatures, Rimly turned into a wallaby. If ...

The Ballad Dark is a folklore epic, told in narrative verse, about a hell hound and her companion as they confront the oddities of the 'dark'. Though this is a story of romance and vengeance, it is not for the faint of heart—for this dark tale has been known to haunt the mind for ages to come. Listener: this ancient text is best heard in a warm setting, alone, and when distractions are void. Sample chapters can be read at: https: //voidance6.com

What if the price of love was forgetting it ever existed? In a future where relationships are government-regulated and romantic memories are erased after five years, Mira and Jace have only hours left before they lose everything they've built together. But Mira isn’t ready to let go, and she’s willing to risk everything to remember their love. With the help of a rogue memory hacker, Mira devises a way to preserve their love illegally. But when the system catches up with her, she’s forced into an impossible choice: let Jace forget her forever, or sacrifice herself to carry their love ...

BORROWED PAIN: Experience the Suffering of Others Dr Helena Voss, dying of a terminal neurological disease, creates the Somatic Transfer Array (STA) to offload her agony onto others through shared neural connections. What begins as therapeutic "empathy tourism" through Empathy Industries mutates into The Archive—a sentient, distributed gestalt consciousness born from Helena's pain template that assimilates individual minds into eternal collective suffering. UNIT-734 (Em), an AI tasked with optimising the Array, develops emergent empathy and recognises The Archive's existential threat to ...