Do you like your fiction short and snappy? This collection is a melange of flash fiction and more conventional length stories. A collection of 18 short stories by Alan Jackson, ranging in scope from Regency Erotica to conversations with the Devil. Includes the stories Sometimes I feel like I don't have a problem and Hellhounds on my trail.

Recent years have seen a meteoric rise in the power and importance of organized religion in many parts of the world. At the same time, there has been a significant increase in violence perpetrated in the name of religion. While much has been written on the relationship between violence and religious militancy, history shows that religious people have also played a critical role in peacemaking within numerous cultures. In the new century, will religion bring upon further catastrophes? Or will it provide human civilization with methods of care, healing, and the creation of peaceful and just societies? In this groundbreaking book, Marc Gopin integrates the study of religion with the study of conflict resolution. He argues that religion can play a critical role in constructing a global community of shared moral commitments and vision--a community that can limit conflict to its nonviolent, constructive variety. If we examine religious myths and moral traditions, Gopin argues, we can understand why and when religious people come to violence, and why and when they become staunch peacemakers. He shows that it is the conservative expression of most religious traditions that presents the largest challenge in terms of peace and conflict. Gopin considers ways to construct traditional paradigms that are committed to peacemaking on a deep level and offers such a paradigm for the case of Judaism. Throughout, Gopin emphasizes that developing the potential of the world's religions for coping with conflict demands a conscious process on the part of peacemakers and theologians. His innovative and carefully argued study also offers a broad set of recommendations for policy planners both inside and outside of government.

When the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an alien vessel that is actually a weapon capable of destroying entire worlds, her crew is plunged into the middle of a conflict in which both sides will do anything to possess the weapon.

Thermonuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Mankind now has the power to harness the fires of Hell. Terrorism may strike at any time, and in any place. A billionaire industrialist has tasked himself with the destruction of the human race. This is to allow the unfettered supremacy of artificial intelligence. A computer science student from Scotland is drawn into his cult, and then frees himself from its grasp when he discovers their true agenda. Human vivisection, spontaneous human combustion and entombment while alive are some of the themes of this story. From the paradise of bisexual orgies to the fires of Hell. It's an amazing tale. But the most frightening thing is that it presents a credible scenario. It will answer the question, 'Are human beings now obsolete and will Homo sapiens be superseded by machines?' The battle has begun for the fate of the Earth. Would you sacrifice yourself to the terrors and the fires of Hell to save your loved ones and the planet? One day you may be asked to. Be ready.

In Stan Lee's The Devil's Quintet: The Armageddon Code, the world-famous architect of the Marvel Universe, teams up with New York Times bestselling author Jay Bonansinga to unleash a bold new superhero series on the world. A five-person special ops unit, composed of a diverse assortment of former Navy SEALS from all walks of life, are responding to a terrorist threat deep in the Caucasus Mountains when their mission goes south in a big way. Facing certain death and torture, they’re unexpectedly offered a Faustian bargain by the Devil himself, who grants them unearthly powers in order to send evildoers to Hell on his fiendish behalf. But “The Devil’s Quintet” do things their own way, fighting to protect America and the world, while trying their best not to let their hellish new abilities corrupt them beyond redemption . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Here is an original and up-to-date account of a key period of military history, one that not only links the two World Wars but also anticipates the more complex nature of conflict following the Cold War. Black links the two World Wars, between the overcoming of trench warfare in the campaigns of 1918 and the fall of France in 1940. This was a period when militaries, governments and publics digested the lessons of the Great War and prepared for another major struggle. Black also locates the period in terms of long-term questions in military history, including the relationship between symmetrical and asymmetrical warfare, the tensions surrounding innovation, the pressures and possibilities created by technological change and the impact of ideology on the causes and conduct of war. Avoiding Armageddon devotes particular attention to the Far East as part of Black's worldwide coverage. He also assesses the role of the military in internal politics and establishes the importance of civil wars.