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In the North, the gods are not eternal—they are on a countdown. From the first collision of fire and ice comes a world carved by violence, cunning, and uneasy truces. Odin bargains pain for knowledge, Thor swings a hammer to hold back chaos, and Loki threads mischief through every fate. This is myth stripped of mercy and dressed for battle: frostbitten courage, cosmic serpents, and halls that only the brave remember. No promises of forever—only the chance to meet your end with honor and to shape whatever comes after. GODS OF SCANDINAVIA is an unflinching epic of gods and giants, faith ...

Saturn: The Architect of Beauty celebrates the breathtaking elegance of Saturn, the jewel of the solar system. Its iconic rings may not last forever, but they serve as a powerful symbol of impermanence and beauty. This book delves into the mystery behind Saturn’s stunning rings and the fascinating moons that orbit it, including Titan with its thick atmosphere and Enceladus with its icy jets. Saturn’s grandeur raises questions about the transient nature of beauty, and whether we can truly appreciate something knowing it will eventually disappear.

Who writes the rules when your bank blocks a transfer, a ride-hail trip surges, or a video vanishes overnight? Code Is Law pulls back the curtain on the lines of text that act like laws in our pockets and on our screens—fast, exacting, and often invisible. Short, clear explanations and everyday examples show how protocols, apps, payment rails, and smart contracts decide access, safety, and money long before a human ever sees the result. This isn't theory. It's a map: where these digital rules came from, how simple IF/THENs become sprawling systems, why they fail, and who gets to change ...

Hypatia was the brightest mind in the ancient world’s greatest library. She taught geometry as fiercely as she argued philosophy, interrogated scripture with reason, and held a classroom that doubled as a state of conscience. This book strips away myth and sentiment to reveal the real woman behind the legend: a mathematician and philosopher whose intellect made a city listen and whose choices made history tremble. Concise, sharp, and rigorously sourced, Hypatia & The Library of Alexandria places her work inside the thrum of a changing Alexandria — politics, piety, scholarship, and the ...

What do we mean when we call something beautiful? In The Eye of the Beholder: What Is Beauty?, JD Arden strips away the clichés and easy answers, diving deep into the shifting ground beneath our ideas of art, attractiveness, and worth. From ancient statues to street graffiti, from symmetry to scars, Arden leads us through a landscape where every judgment is up for grabs and every standard is ripe for rebellion. Sharp, philosophical, and surprisingly witty, this book will challenge what you think you know about taste, envy, and what really stands the test of time. For anyone who’s ever ...

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him." So listen instead to what does speak: the ant under your shoe, writing life in scent. I lay a trail that reads like a sentence, press my antennae to a sister for grammar, taste sugar and grit as punctuation. I do not speak; I broadcast maps, alarms, and care with chemicals and touch. In plain, unsentimental scenes I narrate how a single path becomes a mind — how food, brood, and danger are solved by bodies obeying small rules until they look like decisions. This is natural history pried open at the seam where science meets sensation. ...

In Japan’s oldest stories the divine never stays aloof; it slips from pine bough to mountain path, from a breath of wind to the pulse of a village well. Gods marry mortals, grieve, rage, vanish into fog, and demand a quiet justice that outlives kings and seasons. This is not folklore as ornament—this is a world where kami are immediate, luminous, and dangerous in equal measure. GODS OF JAPAN distills Shinto’s fierce intimacy into sharp, lyrical retellings. Creation begins with a jeweled spear and a drop of brine. Sun goddesses hide until the world almost covers itself in frost. Fox ...

What if your darkest moments weren’t traps but launchpads? What if the shadows you hide from are the very source of your strength? *Onyx: Shadows and Strength* cuts through the sentimental fluff of self-help and drills into the raw, unvarnished mechanics of resilience. This is a manifesto for those who refuse to be victims of circumstance, who understand that pain isn’t a dead-end but a brutal tutor. It exposes the shadow self—not as a villain, but as an untapped ally in the battle for authenticity and power. Forget quick fixes and feel-good platitudes; this book demands grit, ...

A morning of mist. A single foot on sand. On 12 October 1492, a navigator who thought he’d found Asia set a map tilted on its axis. Two worlds met without a common language. The encounter that began with curiosity—gifts, glances, traded food—unfolded into an exchange that remade ecosystems, empires, and memory. Nothing about that shoreline was tidy. This short, sharp history follows that day as an origin story and a warning. It moves from decks slick with salt to the quiet rooms of archives, from Taino canoes to Spanish logs, asking when discovery becomes dominion and how the first ...

Privacy used to mean closing the curtains—now it means dodging a thousand invisible needles. The Death of Privacy traces how everyday choices and clever technologies turned personal life into a profit engine, who sells and buys those pieces of you, and why the stakes are literal: stolen money, ruined reputations, nudged decisions, and a weaker democracy. Clear, unsentimental, and sharp, this book turns technical systems into plain language so you actually understand what’s watching you. You’ll get short, realistic tools you can use today (no tin-foil hats required): how phones and ...

Data is the world’s most traded currency—and you’re spending it every day without looking at your receipts. The Hidden Language of Data decodes those invisible transactions in plain English: what data actually is, how phones and websites collect it, how companies turn tiny signals into big decisions, and why that matters for your privacy, your schoolwork, and your future. Short chapters, real examples, and a few laugh-out-loud metaphors make a dry topic suddenly useful. This classroom-friendly guide gives you the map and the toolkit: spot trackers, understand profiling and bias, weigh...

Your phone is a magician in your pocket: small, shiny, and always ready to steal a moment. The Smartphone Spell pulls back the curtain—how a camera, a touch screen, and a business model teamed up to turn a device into the remote control for modern life. Clear, witty, and firmly classroom-friendly, it traces the history, explains the mechanics (touch, apps, networks, notifications), and shows why those tiny pulses and badges feel impossible to ignore. This book doesn’t panic; it teaches. You’ll learn what’s actually happening when apps tug at your attention, how notifications rewrite...

Step into the transformative power of the Judgement card with Judgement: Awakening & Renewal by JD Arden, the 21st volume in the Cards of Fate series. More than a guide to symbolism, this book is a razor-sharp exploration of rebirth, accountability, and the seismic shifts that redefine our paths. Arden slices through mysticism to reveal how Judgement demands not just reflection but decisive action—an awakening that propels you beyond old patterns into radical renewal. This volume unpacks the archetype’s rich mythology and Jungian resonance, illuminating its call for honest self-...

Discover the miraculous complexity within your skin. With sharp insight and poetic clarity, JD Arden guides you on a journey through the silent orchestra that is your own body—from the architecture of your bones to the electric fire of thought, from the mysteries of DNA to the final marvel of aging itself. Witty, no-nonsense, and always philosophical, this book is an invitation to see yourself—literally—in a new light.

Your photos, messages, bank records, avatars — they keep living when you don’t. The Digital Afterlife explains, without jargon or judgment, what actually happens to your online life: who can see it, who can control it, and how platform rules and shaky laws shape the outcome. Readable, a little wry, and full of concrete examples, it turns an awkward mystery into manageable choices. You’ll learn who technically owns your accounts, how social networks treat the dead, why email is the skeleton key, and how to give a trusted person safe access without handing them your whole life. Concrete...

On 29 May 1453 a city that had kept empires honest for a thousand years reached a hinge. This is not a solemn elegy or a single-action thriller; it's the granular, human story of siege life and command choices, of artillery that rewrote theory and of the small, stubborn moments—sorties at dawn, whispered bargains, a priest's stubborn ledger—that decided the day’s shape. Readable, sharp, and unsentimental, the account puts you at the battered walls and inside the narrow rooms where patience and panic ran on the same hour. JD Arden follows the fighting into the streets, then watches ...

Jupiter: The King of the Heavens is a journey into the heart of the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter is both protector and potential destroyer—its immense gravity shields the inner planets from cosmic threats, while its chaotic moons and powerful storms pose constant challenges. This book delves into the mysteries of the Great Red Spot, Jupiter’s storm that has raged for centuries, and the icy moon Europa, which hides a vast ocean beneath its frozen surface. What does Jupiter’s immense power tell us about responsibility, greatness, and the isolation that comes with such ...

July heat, empty bread carts, and a city that had learned to believe rumors as fast as it feared troops. On 14 July 1789 Parisians set out for gunpowder and guns; they wound up improvising politics in public. The Day of the Guillotine follows that morning minute by minute—market noise, tavern talk, municipal bungling, and the raw, chaotic work of turning a theft into a story that could not be put back in its box. JD Arden moves past legend to the practical mechanics of revolt: supply chains and shouting matches, weak policing and sudden leadership, pamphlets that turned a local raid into ...

"If a lion could speak, we would not understand him." I take that not as a wry thought but as a task: to live in a throat, to map life by scent, muscle, and the bookkeeping of hunger. I speak from the geometry of the hunt — the rasp of grass, the grunt of a falling hoof, the way blood rewrites the night — and I refuse your moral vocabulary. This book is not elegy or sermon. It is a field report written inside a body that measures everything by appetite, endurance, and the slow calculus of survival. Nine lean chapters move from the roar outward and back again: presence, hunger, pride, ...

At the eleventh hour on 11 November 1918 the guns along the Western Front fell silent—and for a few minutes a battered, exhausted world believed the war had ended. In a low railway carriage in a shadowed forest, generals and diplomats signed terms that stopped the killing and began to sort blame. This is a book about that quiet: the odd intimacy of negotiation in a mundane room, the sudden chorus of church bells and cheers, the way celebration walked hand in hand with mourning. Silence here is not a neat moral; it is a pause, humane and uneasy. JD Arden follows the day and its immediate ...