There is a new power coming. It will sweep aside the four colleges of magic. It has manifested itself in Lyanna, a five year old girl. Desperate to maintain their power, the colleges will do anything to control the child. If that fails, they will kill her. Terrified, Lyanna's mother takes her into hiding. But they can't hide forever.

Business leaders are in charge. They are in charge of people, of budgets, of production lines. Most leaders also believe that they are in charge of their greatest resource - their own brain. But how true is that? This book combines brain research with insights from psychological studies of how people think.

It is hard to imagine the study of human origins without the Leakey family. Three generations of Leakeys have scratched in the baked, unfriendly soil of East Africa to unearth fossil evidence of the earliest humans and their ancient ancestors. This biography tells the story of three generations of Leakeys.

Offering an assessment of America's War of Independence, this work presents a fundamental reinterpretation of the birth and the subsequent development of the US. It challenges the prevailing American national saga, arguing that our independence from Britain was premature and that the experience of Canada has in many ways been preferable.

Is global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilisation deserve to survive? These are the unnerving questions raised by the Great Crash of 2009. In this book, the author insists that global society has only begun to realise its full potential.

An apocalyptic spell has been cast. Now the land of Balaia must live with the consequences. The Dawnthief spell - designed to destroy the world, but cast to save it - has torn a hole in the sky, and, through it, unfriendly eyes are turning to Balaia. With war already sweeping the land, there are no armies to send against the dragons.

Travelling alone in the depths of winter, Morlock Ambrosius is attacked by an unknown enemy. To unmask his enemy he must travel a long crooked way through the world. Soon he will find that the duel he has stumbled into will threaten more lives than his own, leaving nations shattered. And at the end of his long road waits the death of a legend.

According to crime statistics from the Department of Justice, 67 percent of sexual assault victims in 2008 were juveniles and an astonishing 93 percent of these victims knew their attackers. This book shows readers how the real criminal justice system works, in terms you rarely hear about on the news.

Brings together the thoughts of well-known writers and philosophers, artists and musicians, poets and playwrights, geniuses and jokers, demonstrating that some of the finest minds explored, feared, confronted, experienced, and played with the real or imagined presence of 'nothing' in their lives.

Everyone knows the importance of good marketing, but few companies consistently create successful campaigns. Spending marketing budgets wisely, especially when the economy is in a downturn, is more important than ever. This book guides you step-by-step to create a marketing plan that can produce positive, measurable results.

Most men and women who aspire to be police officers begin their careers with a noble dream of community service, upholding the law, and helping those in need. A few become corrupted and slip into criminal behaviour, directly contradicting their oath to guard the public. This book tells eighteen stories about cops who kill.

No beverage has broader world-wide appeal than coffee. It is the magnet that draws people together for inspiring interchanges of information and ideas. This book traces the intriguing history of the product and its consumption, and even suggesting the best techniques for making the perfect brew to compete in the World Barista Championship.

An analysis of John Dewey's, one of America's great philosophers. It argues that what makes Dewey's philosophy exciting is his attempt to synthesize what the author calls 'Prometheanism' with Dewey's brand of mysticism.

Argues that, in a prescientific world, religion was an evolutionary necessity for human survival. This book explores what survival advantages religion first conferred on those humans faithfully practising a locally adaptive set of cults and customs.

A collection of essays that evaluates the legacy of Darwin. Beginning with pre-Darwinian concepts of organic origins proposed by the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant, it shows the challenges that Darwin's radically different idea faced.

The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would not hesitate to label them 'evil'. This title uses this common emotional reaction to horrifying acts to explore the concept and reality of evil from a fresh perspective.

While science offers a wealth of rational explanations for natural phenomena, we often prefer to embrace the fantasies that reassured our distant ancestors. This book encourages us to transcend the mental default settings and tribal loyalties that worked well for our ancestors back in the Pleistocene age.

When Jack Churchill and Ruth Gallagher encounter a terrifying, misshapen giant beneath a London bridge they are plunged into a mystery which portends the end of the world as we know it. All over the country, the ancient gods of Celtic myth are returning to the land from which they were banished millennia ago.

The eternal conflict between the Light and Dark once again blackens the skies and blights the land. On one side stand the Tuatha de Danaan, golden-skinned and beautiful, filled with all the might of angels. On the other are the Fomorii, monstrous devils hell-bent on destroying all human existence.

Takes the reader on a tour of some of the world's most perplexing and provocative climate mysteries. This title explains the science of climate study - from digging ice cores in Antarctica to counting tree rings in Arizona - and the various specialists whose ingenious techniques help to sort out climate's intricate components.