Alternative Science

Immerse yourself in a collection of calm bedtime chronicles, featuring serene meditation narratives and mindful voyages meticulously crafted to ease the burdens of stress, insomnia, overthinking, and anxiety.

As Benjamin Franklin pursues his famous scientific and political work, he uncovers a world-changing magical plot he must thwart to save the lives of those around him. The only problem with that is that he didn't even believe magic was real until an accident with his kite experiment unlocked the ability in him. The ever-inquisitive Franklin races to decipher the rules of this mystical force and learn to control it while maneuvering through the politics and intrigue of the Royal Court in London.

When Lieutenant Gerald Yamato of the Republic of California Air Force bailed out of his doomed fighter he had no idea he would land in a culture that would forever change his life. The Dene thought they had won their independence and the war was over. Suddenly they face an advancing Russian army from one direction, a merciless band of mercenaries from another, as well as the remnants of a defeated, angry, Russian army between the Dene and the rest of their people.

Will defied history and saved the Alamo. However, before the celebration even gets started, proof of a Comanche uprising the likes of which have never been seen before force Will to scramble for a solution to keep the frontier from going up in flames. This time, he doesn't know what the future holds. But he might be able to find an invention to give his troops a fighting chance, assuming there's enough time and his enemies don't kill him or remove him from command.

Der schwerreiche Vater der vermissten Anna-Lena van Dam schickt den Ex-Soldaten Viktor mit einem fünfköpfigen Geo-Expertenteam los, um seine Tochter zu suchen. In einem gigantischen Höhlensystem entdeckt die Gruppe mehrere Türen mit mysteriösen Zeichen. Um Anna-Lena zu retten, müssen sie sich auf Pfade jenseits von Wissenschaft und Vernunft einlassen - Eine der Türen führt die Gruppe mitten in die 40er Jahre. Doch hier hat Nazi-Deutschland früh kapituliert, die USA haben kolonialgleiche Kontrolle über Europa übernommen und drohen dem Widerstand, angeführt von Russland, mit einem Atomschlag.

Ian’s alliance with the rebels brings the wrath of the Pur army crashing down on them, but he is forced to abandon his new allies and travels to Earth’s alternate universe to rescue Rayne. As Ian combs the strange, desolate planet in search of her, he discovers the true history of the Weir and his connection to Earth’s imminent destruction.

A single mother of five, Ellen Rogers has endured her fair share of tragedy, having lost both her first husband and stepdaughter to cancer. But nothing could have prepared Rogers for the June 2005 car accident that left her son Ned - now 25 years old - a quadriplegic with a brain injury. The road to Ned's recovery was long and discouraging, but when Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled stepped in to provide him with a service animal to help him cope with his disabilities, things turned around.

In Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction, Sarah M.S. Pearsall explores what plural marriages reveal about the inner workings of marriage and describes the controversies surrounding it. The book emphasizes the diversity of historical polygamist societies, from the Shi'ite Muslims and Wendat men who practiced short-term marriages to the Mixteca, Maori, Inca, Algonquin, and Marta indigenous people of North America and the Pacific Islands. Pearsall also explains the divides within Christianity that led to Joseph Smith's establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Stell dir vor, du landest in der Antike und hast eine Taschenlampe dabei. Du wärst ein Magier oder Gott.“Ein Asteroid von der Größe des Mondes rast auf die Erde zu und der Menschheit fehlen die Mittel, ihn aufzuhalten. Wie lässt sich die Katastrophe dennoch verhindern? Die neu gegründete „Phönix Initiative“ entwickelt einen riskanten Plan. Sechs Auserwählte sollen in der Zeit zurückreisen, um die Vergangenheit zu ändern und den technologischen Fortschritt zu beschleunigen. Denn nur mit Hilfe fortschrittlichster Technologie lässt sich die Katastrophe in der Zukunft verhindern.

The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. But Claire Emerson has a bigger problem. Claire’s father is a sought-after inventor, but he believes his genius is a gift granted to him by his daughter’s touch, so he keeps Claire under his control. As their province prepares for war, Claire plans to escape, even as her best friend, Beatrix, tries to convince her to stay and help with the growing resistance movement that wants to see a woman on the throne.

Outraged when the US Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels - and suddenly, it's a whole new war. Once again, cotton is king as the North's blockade crumbles before the might of the Royal Navy. While Lincoln confronts the monumental challenge of vanquishing mighty Britannia, the Redcoats revive their 1812 penchant for burning down American cities, and Union troops see Canada as ripe for the picking.

When a brutal attack leaves Agatha DeLacey blind, she and the Artful Dodger find themselves at the mercy of an experimental biomech surgery. Though the procedure restores Aggie’s sight, her new eyes come at an unnerving cost, and the changes in Dodger are even more alarming - instead of seeing Aggie as the girl he fancies, he now views her as a potential threat.

Kann man in einem Haus verschwinden?! Die Spuren von Anna-Lena van Dam führen zwar eindeutig hinein in die seit Jahrzehnten leer stehende Villa ihres Urgroßvaters - aber nicht wieder heraus. Ihr Vater vermutet sie in einem geheimen Höhlensystem unter dem Haus und schickt den Ex-Soldaten Viktor mit einem Geo-Expertenteam los, um sie zu suchen. Dass sich unter den sechs Personen auch ein Parapsychologe und ein Medium befinden, hat einen guten Grund, wie Viktor bald herausfinden muss.

Im Höhlenlabyrinth unter der Villa der van Dams lauert ein uraltes Geheimnis - hinter mysteriösen Türen, versehen mit rätselhaften Symbolen. Als Ex-Soldat Viktor und sein Geo-Expertenteam auf der Suche nach der vermissten Anna-Lena van Dam eine Tür öffnen, führt diese die Gruppe ins frühe Mittelalter des 9. Jahrhunderts. Doch anders, als sie es aus den Geschichtsbüchern kennen, wird die Macht nicht nur von Männern ausgeübt. Während mächtige Kaiserinnen sich bekriegen, planen männliche Verschwörer das Ende des Matriarchats.

Wir sind niemals auf dem Mond gelandet. Deutschland ist kein souveräner Staat. Der 11. September war ein Inside-Job. Angela Merkel ist Hitlers Tochter... Verschwörungstheorien boomen. Christian Alt und Christian Schiffer begeben sich auf eine Reise in die Welt des Wahns. Zu Reichsbürgern, Flat-Earthlern und Freimaurern. Mitten unter uns. Ob im Internet oder im Teutoburger Wald. Sie erläutern, wie Verschwörungstheorien entstehen, wer an ihnen verdient und wie man selbst eine Verschwörungstheorie lanciert - am Beispiel der Rauchmelder, über die wir alle abgehört werden.

The being known as Alpha distributes fear and hate, his only ambition to destroy all that’s good in the universe. And now he has support from another like him. While Eloah delivers the truth of our evolution in a fantastic display of technological power, the evil beings plan their attack on Eloah and his followers. The pope delivers a message to millions of expectant followers, one that will shock the world and change the course and charter of the Catholic Church, and likely all religions.

1939: Adolf Hitler, fallen from power, seeks refuge in a London engulfed in the throes of a very British Fascism. Now eking a miserable living as a down-at-heels private eye and calling himself Wolf, he has no choice but to take on the case of a glamorous Jewish heiress whose sister went missing. It's a decision Wolf will very shortly regret. For in another time and place a man lies dreaming: Shomer, once a Yiddish pulp writer, who dreams lurid tales of revenge in the hell that is Auschwitz.

Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations, who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment, under physical control by the state.

The year is 1933. Even in a world with free energy, robot labor, and megacorporations, nothing could stop the collapse of the American dream. As the world-spanning Great Depression rages on, the remaining New York-based mafias clash with police for control of the broken city. Elias Roche, former police officer turned Mafia enforcer, works to maintain a tenuous peace between the two parties.

Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a Movement, Renee Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism surrounding midwifery care.