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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Arsonist's BucketReligion has long operated on a subtle and powerful mechanism: it first defines the wound, then offers itself as the exclusive cure. By cultivating and framing concepts of guilt, sin, and fear, religious institutions create an spiritual deficit, only to present themselves as the sole source of salvation and moral redemption.This powerful pattern of unquestionable authority is consistent across history and theology, from the Crusades and the Reconquista to institutional abuse and the extracted wealth of the prosperity gospel. It is the same moral transfer that allows otherwise good people to participate in conflict, seeing their actions as sanctioned by a higher power.The central argument of The Arsonist's Bucket is that this monopoly is finally breaking. A fundamental shift is underway, as more people than ever are making the conscious choice of evidence over certainty, reciprocity over revelation, and individual responsibility over blind submission. The fire is not waning because humanity has suddenly become angelic. It is waning because we are finally learning to trust the light of reason.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. No society collapses because of a single villain. It falls when enough people, over enough time, learn to tolerate the intolerable.Open Systems, Closed Minds confronts the contradictions of modern society from the perspective of someone who has watched one democracy collapse and learned how easily another can grow careless.Ranging across politics, exile, nationalism, religion, science, music, and public life, these essays ask difficult questions without hiding behind slogans. Why should genuine free-market advocates support universal healthcare? How does the accident of birthplace become toxic nationalism? When did the language of liberty become a vehicle for moral and religious conformity?From Norman Borlaug, who helped save a billion lives from hunger, to Rafael de Nogales Mendez, who recorded the Armenian genocide from inside the Ottoman ranks, to the irreducible joy of an Etta James record, this collection moves between warning and admiration, public failure and human achievement.Clear-eyed and unsparing, Open Systems, Closed Minds is not a counsel of despair. It is a defense of the open mind against dogma, apathy, and the habits that make free societies easier to lose than people imagine. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Contact was made. The Gardeners, vast intelligences that tend spacetime itself, have learned to dream.But dreaming requires something they do not have: the biological boundary that separates imagination from reality. When they sleep, the universe moves. Orbits shift. Stars optimize. Water dances upward in the irrigation fields of Jian, and no one can explain why it is beautiful before it becomes a crisis.Dr. Sel Heiron built the systems that were supposed to keep humanity safe. He is beginning to understand what he actually built.As the cascade reaches toward Earth, the network demands something no protocol anticipated: people willing to cross a boundary no one has crossed before, into a form of consciousness that may not return them as themselves.Oneiroi is a story of what it costs to be understood, a novel where the most dangerous force in the galaxy is not malice, but care without limits.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Arsonist's BucketReligion has long operated on a subtle and powerful mechanism: it first defines the wound, then offers itself as the exclusive cure. By cultivating and framing concepts of guilt, sin, and fear, religious institutions create an spiritual deficit, only to present themselves as the sole source of salvation and moral redemption.This powerful pattern of unquestionable authority is consistent across history and theology, from the Crusades and the Reconquista to institutional abuse and the extracted wealth of the prosperity gospel. It is the same moral transfer that allows otherwise good people to participate in conflict, seeing their actions as sanctioned by a higher power.The central argument of The Arsonist's Bucket is that this monopoly is finally breaking. A fundamental shift is underway, as more people than ever are making the conscious choice of evidence over certainty, reciprocity over revelation, and individual responsibility over blind submission. The fire is not waning because humanity has suddenly become angelic. It is waning because we are finally learning to trust the light of reason This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Contact was made. The Gardeners, vast intelligences that tend spacetime itself, have learned to dream.But dreaming requires something they do not have: the biological boundary that separates imagination from reality. When they sleep, the universe moves. Orbits shift. Stars optimize. Water dances upward in the irrigation fields of Jian, and no one can explain why it is beautiful before it becomes a crisis.Dr. Sel Heiron built the systems that were supposed to keep humanity safe. He is beginning to understand what he actually built.As the cascade reaches toward Earth, the network demands something no protocol anticipated: people willing to cross a boundary no one has crossed before, into a form of consciousness that may not return them as themselves.Oneiroi is a story of what it costs to be understood, a novel where the most dangerous force in the galaxy is not malice, but care without limits. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Navarchus is a hard science fiction novel about time, distance, and the cost of contact.Humanity has learned to navigate spacetime not by outrunning light, but by following the history it carries. By reading the gravitational record preserved in ancient starlight, scientists have opened a path across forty-two light-years and decades of time. The mission is unprecedented. The objective is clear: send the Chronos beacon ahead, bring the great ship Aether behind it, recover the lost Kairos expedition, secure the return route, and prove that temporal navigation can carry humanity farther than ever before.Instead, they arrive in a system that is already listening.Four years earlier, Li Meng and the stranded Kairos crew reached HD 40307 and survived where no one should have been able to survive. Beneath an alien star, on the surface of a world that slowly stopped feeling foreign, they began to detect patterns in the deep structure of spacetime itself: seventeen gravitational sequences that did not behave like weather, noise, or any known natural process. What began as anomaly became pattern. Pattern became response. And response began to look dangerously like intelligence.By the time Chronos and Aether arrive, the rescue mission is already obsolete.The newcomers bring urgency, scale, and human certainty into a system that has taught Li Meng's crew a harder lesson: not everything unknown is empty, and not every silence is permission. The signals surrounding HD 40307 are patient, structured, and reactive to disturbance. What the Kairos expedition learned slowly, the new arrivals may learn all at once - that first contact is not a moment of triumph, but a test of discipline.As scientists, navigators, and commanders struggle to understand what has been waiting in the system long before they knew how to hear it, old assumptions begin to fail. The mission becomes something larger and stranger than rescue. It becomes a confrontation with the possibility that intelligence may exist on scales and in forms humanity is barely equipped to recognize.Navarchus is a novel of discovery, restraint, and the unsettling possibility that the universe is not empty, only patient. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. No society collapses because of a single villain. It falls when enough people, over enough time, learn to tolerate the intolerable.Open Systems, Closed Minds confronts the contradictions of modern society from the perspective of someone who has watched one democracy collapse and learned how easily another can grow careless.Ranging across politics, exile, nationalism, religion, science, music, and public life, these essays ask difficult questions without hiding behind slogans. Why should genuine free-market advocates support universal healthcare? How does the accident of birthplace become toxic nationalism? When did the language of liberty become a vehicle for moral and religious conformity?From Norman Borlaug, who helped save a billion lives from hunger, to Rafael de Nogales Mendez, who recorded the Armenian genocide from inside the Ottoman ranks, to the irreducible joy of an Etta James record, this collection moves between warning and admiration, public failure and human achievement.Clear-eyed and unsparing, Open Systems, Closed Minds is not a counsel of despair. It is a defense of the open mind against dogma, apathy, and the habits that make free societies easier to lose than people imagine. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Arsonist's BucketReligion has long operated on a subtle and powerful mechanism: it first defines the wound, then offers itself as the exclusive cure. By cultivating and framing concepts of guilt, sin, and fear, religious institutions create an spiritual deficit, only to present themselves as the sole source of salvation and moral redemption.This powerful pattern of unquestionable authority is consistent across history and theology, from the Crusades and the Reconquista to institutional abuse and the extracted wealth of the prosperity gospel. It is the same moral transfer that allows otherwise good people to participate in conflict, seeing their actions as sanctioned by a higher power.The central argument of The Arsonist's Bucket is that this monopoly is finally breaking. A fundamental shift is underway, as more people than ever are making the conscious choice of evidence over certainty, reciprocity over revelation, and individual responsibility over blind submission. The fire is not waning because humanity has suddenly become angelic. It is waning because we are finally learning to trust the light of reason This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Contact was made. The Gardeners, vast intelligences that tend spacetime itself, have learned to dream.But dreaming requires something they do not have: the biological boundary that separates imagination from reality. When they sleep, the universe moves. Orbits shift. Stars optimize. Water dances upward in the irrigation fields of Jian, and no one can explain why it is beautiful before it becomes a crisis.Dr. Sel Heiron built the systems that were supposed to keep humanity safe. He is beginning to understand what he actually built.As the cascade reaches toward Earth, the network demands something no protocol anticipated: people willing to cross a boundary no one has crossed before, into a form of consciousness that may not return them as themselves.Oneiroi is a story of what it costs to be understood, a novel where the most dangerous force in the galaxy is not malice, but care without limits. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Navarchus is set in a future shaped by the interplay of light and time, where humanity navigates Lorentzian waveguides-pathways etched by ancient starlight that allow direct passage into the past. But the breakthrough comes at a price: the journey is one-way.Unmanned probes have tested these fragile corridors. The first crewed vessel, Fora, vanished. Now Kairos will go farther, guided not only by machines but by a navigator trained to sense what no system can: the moment the universe allows passage. At its helm is Navarchus Li Meng, whose discipline and instinct define a new kind of exploration.Years later, Earth launches Chronos-the first return-capable beacon ship-to retrieve Kairos and uncover the deeper forces at work near HD 40307. At the farthest edge of knowledge, the crew confronts questions that reach beyond science: of time, identity, and the fragile threads that bind consciousness across the stars.Navarchus is a story of exploration, sacrifice, and the uncertain cost of discovery-a novel where first contact is not conquest, but a quiet reckoning. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…