Jacob: 2030 books

Extrait : "Nous avons vu percer des rues là où s'entassaient les maisons, ici où verdoyaient les jardins ; de nouvelles rues ont donné le jour et de l'air aux vieux quartiers ; de nouvelles rues larges comme des voies romaines se sont ouvertes dans les quartiers tout neufs; chaque année la grande...

Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance; Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality; Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...

Double Issue!Our featured writer is Gene O'Neill. His story, *The Algernon Effect*. We talk to him about his writing, and Northern California.We have fiction from:* Tim Deal* Gwendolyn Kiste* Subodhana Wijeyeratne* JS Breukelaar* Matt Mikalatos* Douglas F. Warrick* Leanne...

They say that people go there when they're ready to die. They say Death himself is a patron. That's where the tavern gets its name. Azrael's Stop. Watering hole for the Angel of Death. Since Ceph started tending bar there, many people have come through the Stop, whether looking for some peace...

From Scout Media comes A Matter of Words—the first volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world. In this first installation, no limits were set on genre, allowing the authors to lead the reader to destinations unknown. From the outer limits of...

From Scout Media comes A Flash of Words—the fifth volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world, but the first in which the stories are exclusively flash-fiction pieces. In this installation, no limits were set on genre, allowing the authors to...

16 beautifully brutal tales of hardcore horror:• A girl mutilates herself to be with her lover where the anesthetic sends her.• A metaphysical beast who fears nothing— until he meets the goddess of waste.• Delia finds unexpected delights when her boyfriend burns to death.• The town...

Abandoned, Rejected, Exploited… They live in the shadows, away from the light, hiding from judgmental eyes. Complicated names describe them, but to most of the world they’re just freaks. Although society sees little to no use for them, someone does… The Goddess of Darkness … She is beauty...

His touch brought nothing but fire and destruction, her touch nothing but uncaring cold.As the city literally comes alive—morgue freezers sprouting arms and legs, hungry walls calling out to be caressed—Mike and Daria race to find release from the rising heat and brutal cold that have found...

Emerging a changed man after sixteen years in prison, Kanoa Talako experiences a traumatizing event that catapults him onto a path of torment and disarray. As he spirals out of control, his sanity is in question but his intentions are not.

Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. At 29, the usually carefree Starshine has realized that it is easier to start sleeping with a man than to stop. Her lovers include one of the last underground members of the Weathermen and the dilettante heir to a lawn...

Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th–16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliography.

This innovative study sees the relationship between Athens and Jerusalem through the lens of the Platonic dialogues and the Talmud. Howland argues that these texts are animated by comparable conceptions of the proper roles of inquiry and reasoned debate in religious life, and by a profound awareness...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...