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"CYMERIA”, a dark, polluted planet inhabited solely by machines, exists millions of miles from Earth. By chance, a vast solar storm throws one of its probes, XL-122, off course. Lost, this tiny explorer crashes into the bedroom of John Couper, an eleven year-old from Costa Mesa, California. THE CYMERIAN CHAPTER tells about the secret partnership formed by the robot and the human being in an effort to understand each other's worlds. Together, this contrasting couple investigates human nature plus earth's ecosystem, organisms, and level of science. We learn that computers are tools of learning not end in themselves."
He was the shameful cause of his sister Elena’s death and he stole state papers from England, yet Adrian Hart is feted by the best of society in Rome, and boldly dubs himself ‘Iago’. Determined to avenge Elena, his unrequited love, Lieutenant Andrew Sullivan asks the advice of poet and Shakespearian John Keats, and his artist friend Severn. Soon Percy and Mary Shelley join them, then Lord Byron and his servant Fletcher. But how can the seven of them work against this man, when they can’t even agree what he is? The atheist Shelley insists that Hart is an ordinary man, while Byron becomes convinced he’s the Devil incarnate, and Keats flirts with the idea that he’s Dionysius… As death and despair follow in Hart’s wake, Sullivan knows he must do something to stop Hart before even Sullivan himself succumbs – but what…?
This book provides an evidence-based guide for both trainees and consultants in geriatric medicine and those interested in geriatric medicine. Designed in line with the core Royal College curriculum, it provides a comprehensive and relevant guide to the issues seen in everyday geriatric medicine practice across the world.
When college students Elliot Fleming and Vesta Lloyd agree to join English Professor Rydar Colson's production of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2, they do not know what to expect. Sacred Shadows and Latent Light follows Elliot and Vesta as they prepare for what they assume will be little more than an enriching extracurricular challenge. However, when student reporter Ermine Jackson goes beyond his journalism professor's instruction to lobby the university for a second director, he initiates a campaign to cancel the plays and remove Shakespeare from the university curriculum--and Colson from campus. Between Colson's production and Jackson's crusade, the campus steadily divides, leadi...
Preoccupied with supplying arms for England, Trent Severn has ignored his ward, Amy Conde, for 15 years. Now a mature young woman, she's transformed Trent's country estate into the country's top horse-breeding enterprise. When Trent returns from war, they soon discover the heated emotion that sparked between them from the first is rapidly turning to desire.