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Choose one: (A) Science gives us objective knowledge of an independently existing reality.... or (B) Scientific knowledge is always provisional and tells us nothing that is universal, necessary, or certain about the world.Made your choice? Welcome to the science wars. This long-running battle over the status of scientific knowledge began in ancient Greece, raged furiously among scientists, social scientists, and humanists during the 1990s, and has reemerged in today's conflict between science and religion over issues like evolution.

The Earth is doomed. Humanity has a chance. In the near future, an alien probe arrives on Earth with a pivotal mission: to determine if humanity has what it takes to survive the impending invasion by a merciless armada. The probe discovers Marc Ibarra, a young inventor who holds the key to a daring gambit that could save a fraction of Earth's population. Humanity's only chance lies with Ibarra's ability to keep a terrible secret and engineer the planet down the narrow path to survival.

After a devastating world war and a hundred-year rebuilding period, the people of the world have united to give mankind a new vision for the future and had built the starship named the Ascension to open a colony on Europa. Crisis arises when a wormhole takes the Ascension to the other side of the galaxy. The crew manages to find a new planet to land the Ascension on and call their new home Quail. Unknown to the newcomers, they are being watched by a race called the Ceptoids. The Ceptoids are a race of six-foot-tall centipede beings that watch these new aliens invade their world.

King Jonathan Archer defeated the ancient king and reigned supreme over all humans in Galaxy 12. He married a noblewoman from each conquered star nation to unite the people into one nation. Rebel leaders rose from the conquered, gathered in the shadows, and cultivated hatred and revenge against this new king. The Zorlon High Council became outraged at King Zigmarra's decision to abolish the Traditions of Fathers and his decree that Zorlon females now had the right to choose their mates.

What do a Roman Emperor and a Chinese General have in common? They both understood that true power begins with mastery of the self and ends with mastery of the situation. In this definitive collection, Meditations and The Art of War provide a holistic manual for navigating the complexities of modern business, politics, and personal growth.

Heresy Press’s first non-fiction offering addresses free speech and creative freedom—central to the Press’s mission—through a systematic debunking of the most common pro-censorship arguments. Co-authored by Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail constitutes a bulwark against the persistent censorial efforts from both the political left and right.

After debugging the apocalypse and stopping the corruption infecting Earth's last supply chain, Tom thought survival might finally get easier. He was wrong. With civilization hanging by a thread, the real threat isn't just monsters—it's people. Between power-hungry guilds, a self-proclaimed ruler who collects slaves like trading cards, and the ever-mysterious System pulling the strings, the only certainty in conflict. Now, Tom and his friends have a new mission: get back to Dallas before the world burns down around them.

An unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society. From assaults on merit-based hiring to the policing of language and replacing well-established, disciplinary scholarship by ideological mantras, current science and scholarship is under threat throughout western institutions. As this group of prominent scholars ranging across many different disciplines and political leanings detail, the very future of free inquiry and scientific progress is at risk.

William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the Forever War ends?

Embarking on a seemingly impossible mission, they travel through time and other worlds, facing treacherous dungeons and powerful enemies. But as Black Frost grows in size and strength, the stakes are higher than ever before. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, will Grey Cloak and his allies be able to find the ultimate weapon that will put an end to the invincible dragon's reign of terror?

He used to kill for country. Then for cash. Now, Nathaniel Wolfe kills for something else. Haunted by his past and hunted by forces he barely understands, Wolfe is just trying to stay alive when a job uncovers a ritual killing and a conspiracy older than civilization. As he digs deeper, he uncovers a world of secret cults, ancient weapons, and powers that don’t belong in this world—or any. Cultists want him dead. Old gods want him changed. And somewhere in the middle is a woman who might still believe he’s worth saving. Wolfe doesn’t care about redemption.

Why did the discipline of the ancients triumph where modern armies failed? In The Art of War, Niccolò Machiavelli challenges the reliance on mercenaries and advocates for a return to the civic virtues of Rome. Written as a spirited dialogue between a renowned commander and Florentine nobles, this masterpiece is a philosophical treatise on the bond between a society and its defenders.

The aliens offered food. The price was soldiers. With Earth collapsing and his daughter in need of treatment he cannot afford, paramedic Mark Calder does the unthinkable: he volunteers to fight in an alien war. Ripped from his world and sealed inside a deadly combat frame, Mark is sent to the front lines of a conflict where human troops are treated as expendable assets and survival is little more than a statistical error. Every battle is a slaughter. Every victory comes at a cost. And the more Mark sees of the war, the more he begins to suspect that humanity’s alien saviors are not ...

His vengeance against the gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive...and teach his son to do the same. This startling reimagining of God of War deconstructs the core elements that defined the series - satisfying combat, breathtaking scale, and a powerful narrative - and fuses them anew.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Hundreds of years before the Illum ruled supreme, humanity risked everything to rebuild after a devastating war in this explosive dystopian romance and prequel to Conform. Twenty-three-year-old Sasha Cadell knows time is running out in the underground city, filled with survivors of the nuclear...

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The final war against the Iceheart Dynasty has already started, and now it is a race against time to catch up before their enemies can wipe them out completely. But after everything that has been done to her, Selena struggles heavily with the effects of magic. Managing the full impact of it while fighting on the losing side of a war might just prove to be impossible. At least alone. But her friends are battling their own demons, and not everyone comes out unscathed.

The American War on Election Corruption is an investigative exposé revealing the battle to uncover and dismantle systemic fraud threatening the integrity of US elections.

Ben Davis was prepared for disaster. He just didn't know it would come so soon. He and his teenage son Joel, are miles deep in the backcountry of the San Juan Mountains when high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic detonations light up the pre-dawn sky. Ben, Joel, and their dog, Gunner, must make their way home - or whatever's left of it - on foot.