A pivotal piece of nineteenth-century Native American history from a tireless warrior seeking justice for his people. Storied leader of the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, Geronimo led resistance against Mexican and American troops seeking to drive the Apache from their land during the 1850s through the 1880s. In 1886, he finally surrendered to the US Army and became a prisoner of war. Although he would never return to his homeland,...

Dutch thinker and theologian Desiderius Erasmus played a key role in the development of humanism during the Renaissance and early modern periods. In Against War, Erasmus mounts a stunningly lucid and detailed argument against armed combat on humanistic grounds. It's a must-read for anyone who has strong feelings about the moral and ethical dimensions of militaristic undertakings. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and...

The River Twice, by the Giller-nominated author of the bestselling The Island Walkers, is a gripping new World War I novel set in the Southern Ontario factory town familiar to his many readers, where residents are reeling as the wounded return and the list of local young men who have been killed continues to grow. Wounded in body and spirit, Ted Whitfield returns home from the trenches to his wife, Miriam, who finds him deeply altered and virtually...

In a parallel universe, World War I is interrupted by an invasion from the planet Mars a renewed attempt following the first failed attack fifteen years before. We follow the gripping story of human resistance fighters battling this second invasion of the martians. Earth was laid waste during the first attack in 1899, by 80 ft tall heat ray spewing martian battle tripods-but the invaders ultimately fell victim to Earths tiny bacteria. Now in 1914,...

Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have been touched with the spirit of science, prophesying is almost a habit of mind. (Excerpt from book)

Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St. Paul's, but never went to college. He went to art school. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series...

Excerpt: "Brave Serbia has not been forgotten in her hour of need by the women of England. For the Women's Imperial Service League, with Mrs. St. Clair Stobart as directress, went out to Serbia under the aegis of the Serbian Relief Fund, after arduous work out in Antwerp and after at Cherbourg. Mrs. Stobart decided that ours should be a Field Hospital owing to typhus and other fever raging in the country. We left on April 1, 1915, on the Admiralty...

Satire at its best, in both writing and cartoon. Intelligent, character forming and witty; grounded in recognition of the bounds of our human condition.

Could artificial intelligence be the next big star in entertainment, or will AI destroy our creativity? Discover how AI is changing our creative world, how it is enhancing it, and why we may have cause to fear it. Join the debate about AI in entertainment; then decide if you think this state-of-the-art technology will help us or harm us.

Una visión global y completa del sangriento conflicto bélico que desencadenaría la Revolución rusa, la desaparición del Imperio austro-húngaro, la Alemania imperial y el desmembramiento completo de Europa central. Esta obra abarca el desarrollo completo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, desde la batalla de Marne en 1914, a Gallipolli, el Somme, el horror de las ofensivas de 1917, la ofensiva alemana de 1918 y las consecuencias de la guerra.