New Human War

Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan’s collection, John Scalzi's Old Man’s War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave...

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and...

What if the greatest threat to America isn’t a missile but a strategy? Written by two experts combining years of research and strategic advisory experience, this 367-page book offers a comprehensive, human-curated account of China’s rise and its impact on America’s future. With 23 insightful chapters and nearly 500 citations—including US Defense, Commerce, and State Departments and congressional reports—this book offers a sweeping, well-researched account of China-US relations. It connects pivotal historical moments to today's most pressing challenges, proving that China’s rise ...

John Scalzi's eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast...

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to...

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence.

Jon Harper is gone. In his place is V—a soulless killer hiding in the shadows, desperate for answers about what he has become. To find the truth, V must hunt down Cassius, a vampire who holds the key to his past. With Thorn—his dangerous lover and only ally by his side, V steps deeper into the shadows. But every answer brings new dangers… and a secret that could shatter him forever. What is the purpose of the creature he has become? Will the truth set him free—or break him completely? Step back into the shadows with The Truth of Vengeance, the thrilling sequel in P.A. Ross’s ...

From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster. In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army...

The Bodies of Others is about how we came to the harrowing civilizational crossroads at which we find ourselves—engaged in a war against vast impersonal forces with limitless power over our lives and which threaten the freedoms we have always taken for granted. In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Naomi Wolf shows how these forces—from Big Tech and Big Pharma to the CCP and our oligarchical elites—seized upon two years of COVID-19 panic in sinister new ways, to not only undermine our republic but to fundamentally reorient human relations.

Winner of the 2022 Global Book Awards & instant crowdfunding success! • Hope and human compassion envelope this inspiring, eye-opening and heart wrenching true story exposing the systematic oppression and persecution of medicinal cannabis patients, and the group of underground “angels in disguise” fighting to bring the medicinal herb to those who need it most. Early into his 40s, Tom Wegner received the one piece of news everybody fears; his father was diagnosed with cancer. Just like that, Wegner’s life course evaporated: One day he was living the life of a hotshot political ...

The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity...

An epic, atmospheric story that begins with twenty three genetically superior orphans being groomed to become elite spies in Chicago's Pedemont Orphanage and concludes with a political assassination deep in the Amazon jungle. The Orphan Factory, a coming-of-age spy thriller novel, is book two in The Orphan Trilogy and a prequel to The Ninth Orphan. Go on another frenetic journey with the ninth-born orphan as he busts out of the clandestine orphanage he knew as home and goes on the run across America. In the late 1970's, in Chicago, Illinois, the secretive Omega Agency initiates the Pedemont...

Brought to you by Penguin. For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the erection of temples on Malta around 3500 BC to modern tourism. Ranging...

HIJACKED: The Hidden War for the Human Soul: What if humanity’s greatest struggle has never been political, scientific, or even extraterrestrial — but spiritual? What if the very architecture of our reality has been engineered to keep us blind, recycled, and obedient to a counterfeit god? In Hijacked, Philip Kinsella tears open the veil of the world we think we know. Drawing on Gnostic cosmology, anomalous phenomena, abduction research, and the suppressed teachings of Christ, this book exposes a cosmic deception stretching from the dawn of creation to the modern age. Journey through ...

Pirates and Emperors is a brilliant exploration of the role of the United States in the Middle East that exposes how the media manipulates public opinion about what constitutes "terrorism". Chomsky masterfully argues that appreciating the differences between state terror and nongovernmental terror is crucial to stopping terrorism and understanding why atrocities like the bombing of the World Trade Center and the killing of the Charlie Hebdo journalists happen.

Twenty lighter, more intimate, stories from the furthest orbits of the time-space continuum When the gods coming visiting, are we included on their agenda? Or their menu? The ship has suffered a massive structural failure – a Breach: Level Two. Do you still have a future? The Galactic Emperor is passing through your hospitality lounge. “Please,’ they ask, ‘stand in for him at tonight’s banquet.” But why? In his brutal suppression of a city rebellion, the Lord of Tyre has one last matter to deal with. After all the trauma and mistreatment I endured in the alien prison camp, why ...

Some of these questions will disturb you if not full on offend you. Fair warning if you are easily offended, stop now and continue with your day. As for the rest of you, once you start asking these questions to yourself and start answering them you will go insane. With that said, who wants in?

A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain) ‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being...

A systems programmer, 39, falls into a deep depression and makes a decision that not only changes his own life and his family’s life but the fate of mankind as well. Through the creation of an operation system, Christopher is able to open the doors of human consciousness and parallel worlds as he designs human chips never seen before in the planet. An innovative technology launched mid 2030 that utterly changes the world in one decade, taking people into a reality never before imagined. Synopsis: Christopher Atkins was born in 1973, in the outskirts of Atlanta, in the southeast of the US....

The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when you’re a thousand light years beyond.; the choices you face in the big, black Vac. Mostly a laugh or a satisfied...