In the wake of the disintegrating empire of the Shaa, the tyrannical rulers of the universe, chaos threatens to erupt as various alien races struggle for power, and Gareth Martinez, a young Terran naval officer, stumbles upon an insidious plot by the Naxid, a warlike insectoid society, to replace th[...]
The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids--a powerful insectoid species themselves subjugated until the recent Shaa demise--pla[...]
Ini the dramatic conclusion to the Dread Empire's Falls series, two troubled warriors working on opposite sides of the galaxy--one in deep space, the other undercover on an unoccupied planet--fight to save their Empire from the vicious, alien enemy. Original.[...]
The empire of the Shaa lasted 10,000 years. Years of terror, infinite violence and oppressive, brutal order. Now the Shaa are no more, but the terror and violence are only beginning...[...]
Steward is a clone - a beta. His memories are fifteen years old, because his alpha never did have a brain-scan update. And in those fifteen years, the entire world has changed: The Orbital Policorp which held his allegiance has collapsed; dozens of his friends died in an off-planet war which he surv[...]
From Walter Jon Williams, the celebrated and influential author of "Hardwired", "Voice of the Whirlwind", and "Angel Station comes Implied Spaces", a new novel of post-singularity action, pyrotechnics, and intrigue. Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, a scholar of the impli[...]
In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife and on their verge of bowing to conquest. But those who refuse to surrender - Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo and their children and comrades-in-arms are determined to se[...]
From one of the leading thinkers on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, a pioneering set of simple practices to dissolve anxiety, stress, exhaustion, and unhappiness.In "Mindfulness," Oxford professor Mark Williams and award-winning journalist Dr. Danny Penman reveal the secrets to living a happier[...]
Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation of land-based resources in the absence of authority, t[...]
Denne boken er resultatet av et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom fire av verdens ledende forskere og klinikere innen feltet mindfulness-meditasjon og kognitiv atferdsterapi.
Med varme og innlevelse prensenterer forfatterne et nytt selvhjelpsprogram. De forklarer på en lettfattelig måte hvorfor[...]
Mindfulness en väg ur nedstämdhet är en ovanlig och varm självhjälpsbok för nedstämdhet och depression.
I boken beskrivs hur vi människor känner och reagerar vid nedstämdhet och depression samt hur våra försök att rycka upp oss, ofta gör att vi sjunker allt djupare ned i de[...]