Birth Science

For their ninth birthday, the twins go on a vacation in a getaway land where a magical pond grants birthday wishes. When Bril and Arisa finally announce their wishes, the unimaginable happens – their wishes get mixed up, embarking them on an adventure neither one expects…

After the end of the Great War, Mural has made a steadfast recovery and have found peace thanks to the GSD. The six Continent-Nations of Mural have united and restarted trading and collaborating. With newfound peace - ugh! Sorry...It seems it’s time. Time for the fragile peace to be shattered. So soon...But it was within prediction. It seems Mural has a new artist in mind. The last colors of sins that have stained it are...Quite a mess...I hope this artist is cleaner. Schemers too...I can sense one - no...Not one but two...Two lurking down below.

Father McClain boldly bears God’s strength. When a monstrous tsunami threatens to annihilate England, the devout priest is divinely blessed with abilities to deliver them from certain death. But now charged with slaying a fiendish villain, his seven-year search for the beast yields no clues…until he learns of a recently rescued missing actress and her mysterious pregnancy. Convinced the unborn child may be Satan’s scion, McClain is thrown for a loop when he forms a deep bond with the expectant mother.

Wizened and invigorated by their losses, fears, and ultimate triumph in the elven ruins of Kadason, the Heroes of Dragon’s Nest seek to continue the mission of their looming benefactor by traveling on to the magic-infused stronghold of Falcon Crest. Arriving in the great city, however, they find its people as distrusting of outsiders — especially those of half-breed blood — as they are enamored with their protectors; the Samanir Order and its champions.

Like the classics of dystopian literature - think Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, and more recently, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Birthday Present 2050 is a dystopian play that takes a dark look at a disturbing contemporary trend and magnifies it under future totalitarian conditions. The Birthday Present 2050 takes place in a society in which only people and things considered productive are assured existence

Everything happened so fast. One minute Konrad was a perfectly normal eight year old, just trying to get through a perfectly normal school day. The next minute he was catapulted through time and space - and oil paints and canvas - into a world he never even knew existed. A pair of sunglasses transform the boring painting outside the principal’s office into the most beautiful thing you ever saw - and a powerful spy device at that.

Back in the age where they belong, Jack, Tanner, Allie, and Gefnar have bid farewell to their friends in the lawless lands of Varbius, only to encounter an old acquaintance - one who extends to them a curious invitation from the eagle-blood King Shanedir. Intrigued and assured that the requested detour will not delay them long, the heroes of Dragon’s Nest agree to meet with Shanedir, a man strangely intent on uniting all the half-breed nations under a banner of peace.

Still grappling with the darkness they encountered on Nisaim, Jack, Tanner, Allie, and their new friend Gefnar are merely seeking a moment of peace back in the safety of Dragon’s Nest. But the band’s alliance of happenstance is solidified when an ancient face of evil imparts them with a dangerous task. And, with the town they’ve worked so hard to safeguard held for ransom, refusal is not an option.

In the wake of a devastating attack, Dragon’s Nest and its newly proclaimed heroes seek to secure the safety of the weakened town, looking to sea for potential allies. Brought together by circumstance, Jack, Allie, and Tanner join forces once more, traveling to the island of Nisaim off the western coast of Covorum, hoping to secure the aid of the island’s self-proclaimed captain Lenmoir, and to dissuade Lenmoir from any designs he might have on the vulnerable Dragon’s Nest.

Lauren Pailing is born in the '60s, and a child of the '70s. She is 13 years old the first time she dies. Lauren Pailing is a teenager in the '80s, becomes a Londoner in the '90s. And each time she dies, new lives begin for the people who loved her - while Lauren enters a brand new life, too. But in each of Lauren’s lives, a man called Peter Stanning disappears. And, in each of her lives, Lauren sets out to find him. And so it is that every ending is also a beginning. And so it is that, with each new beginning, Peter Stanning inches closer to finally being found....

With the increasing demand for midwives among U.S. women, reproductive rights activists are lobbying to loosen restrictions that deny legal access to homebirth options. In Pushing for Midwives, Christa Craven presents a nuanced history of women's reproductive rights activism in the U.S. She also provides an examination of contemporary organizing strategies for reproductive rights in an era increasingly driven by "consumer rights".

Scientific research is on the cusp of being able to grow babies outside human bodies, from machines, for the very first time. Claire Horn takes us on a truly radical and urgent deep dive into the most challenging and pertinent questions of our age. Could artificial wombs allow women to redistribute the work of gestating? How do we protect reproductive and abortion rights? And who exactly gets access to this technology, in our vastly unequal world?

“Why is a ‘Professor’ in charge of birthdays?” you might ask. That’s a rude question. Would you ask Cupid why a half-naked baby who shoots arrows runs Valentine's Day? What you don’t know about Professor Birthday could fill an audiobook—this audiobook. So get it and start listening!

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species in this evocative account of years spent studying elephant behaviour in the wild. Watching a family out for a swim on a hot day, Dr Hannah Mumby notes grandmothers, mothers, sisters and children exchanging noisy greetings, a consistent stream of close-range vocalisations, intermittent touching, co-operative herding of babies and frequent stopping for snacks. A close and interconnected family.

2024 marks the centenary of the first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald. What legacy of the past have they left behind? How far has each Labour administration influenced succeeding administrations? Above all, was the Attlee government of 1945 really the golden period of Labour power? Professor Richard Toye explores Labour’s exercise of power as a continuum, setting Attlee’s administration in long-term historical context between the first Labour Government of 1924 and the current party under Keir Starmer.

Imagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death. Life would be better, right? All over the globe, people are trying to make this a reality. They want to use technology to solve the thorniest problems of humanity. But what if these ‘problems’ are the very things that make us human?

In this novel, Holo Man fights to prevent panic when a wave of holographic missiles are aimed at the United States.

As a surgeon for the Mercy Interplanetary Alliance, Micheel Reshi is no stranger to difficult choices. But when his wife, Nabelle, gives brith to their twins, Micheel is horrified to find Callox and Pasher bare the Sign of Gemini on their arms. The bright constellation marks them as carriers of the hidden code Earth’s last generation had engineered into human DNA - and marks them as targets by the Collectors, a group of people determined to wipe out all memory of Old Earth and its existence.

On the night of a blue moon, a white stork arrives at the Smurf Village. Baby Smurf brings warmth and laughter to the village, but something unexpected is about to happen....

"Рождение трагедии, или Эллинство и пессимизм"—эстетический трактат, в котором Фридрих Ницше изложил свой взгляд на дуалистические истоки искусства.