Do we live in a simple or a complex universe? Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart explore the ability of complicated rules to generate simple behaviour in nature through 'the collapse of chaos'. 'The most startling, thought-provoking book I've read all year. I was pleased to learn that most of the things I thought I knew were wrong' -- Terry Pratchett

In this New York Times bestseller, one of America’s premier physicians offers a must-read account of the new challenges facing parents today and a program for how we can better prepare our children to navigate the obstacles they face In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people can be traced to parents abdicating their authority. The result is children who have no standard of right and wrong, who lack discipline, and who look to their peers and the Internet for direction. Sax shows how parents must reassert their authority - by limiting time with screens, by encouraging better habits at the dinner table, and by teaching humility and perspective - to renew their relationships with their children. Drawing on nearly thirty years of experience as a family physician and psychologist, along with hundreds of interviews with children, parents, and teachers, Sax offers a blueprint parents can use to help their children thrive in an increasingly complicated world.

Getting home has never been so treacherous When an EMP takes down the power grid and everything that runs on a computer chip, Melissa has no choice but to walk from her office in downtown Salt Lake City to her home in a suburb fifteen miles south. With a few co-workers to keep her company, she isn't too worried-until they begin their journey and discover how quickly society can fall apart. Alex, Melissa's husband, works thirty blocks south of Melissa's office. When everything stops working he has to decide whether to head north and find Melissa or go in the opposite direction to see if their teenaged children made it home. Only trouble is, he's by himself and danger is everywhere.

In a heartbeat, everything grinds to a halt...On Christmas Eve, the lights go out. Vehicles stop working. Communications break down.Reclusive former soldier Liam Coleman doesn't want to be anywhere near bustling downtown Chicago the day before Christmas. But his twin brother and his pregnant sister-in-law need him, so he makes the trip.But mere minutes after leaving O'Hare, their car crashes, along with hundreds of other vehicles. When Liam's phone stops working, he begins to suspect something more sinister than a local power outage. But before he can react, the first plane falls from the sky... When a super EMP takes down the nation's power grid, Liam knows it's time to bug out. He's prepared, but he never expected to be caught in the middle of Chicago as chaos erupts. With society collapsing before his very eyes, Liam will have to risk more than he ever thought possible to protect the ones he loves--if it's not already too late. Chaos Rising is the riveting post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller prequel novella set in the Edge of Collapse universe, a brand new series from bestselling author, Kyla Stone. Includes a six-chapter sneak peek of Edge of Collapse, book #1 in the explosive new post-apocalyptic series.

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When two teenage boys try to buy marijuana in Washington, D.C., one evening, the deal goes sour, an undercover cop ends up dead, and the boys soon realize they've stumbled onto a major conspiracy of epic proportions.

"Starfall" is the first novel in "The Fables of Chaos", a new dark fantasy epic series across the vast, broken world of Eos. 8,000 years ago, a great Cataclysm threatened all life on Eos. Its moon was fractured and strewn across the night sky, the oceans shifted and swallowed the lands. Those living across Eos were forced to fight against other-wordly horrors as reality itself was torn asunder. Since then, the peoples of Eos have long-forgotten their dark history, until signs of a new Cataclysm begin to appear once again...It began with the bleeding star. A strange, bright-red streak across the sky that some viewed as a sign of fortune, others as a stark omen of bloodshed.The secretive Magisters of the Grand Repository are hunted down and slaughtered by unknown forces. The seas turn to blood, and fresh corpses go missing in battle. Peasant children are lured away by strange, ghoulish whispers into the woods, never to be seen again.Katryna Bower, the runaway daughter of King Giliam Bower, is forced to return home after her mother dies suddenly and father is poisoned. Old traumas run deep however, and Katryna must confront her painful past and estranged family before she can uncover the twisted plot against her House.King Emery Blacktree agrees to end a bitter border dispute with the House Seynard by marrying his only daughter to the despisable Seynard prince. Emery's objective is to maintain peace, but all is quickly shattered at the royal wedding as his wife's fears consume her and slanderous secrets are revealed. How far will Emery go to avoid a civil war?Up north, Tomas and Rilan, two naive peasant boys from a small village, are conscripted into the army of the Broken Coast, and thrown into the horrors of an invasion by a foreign empire. War isn't the only threat they will face, as they fight alongside an unforgiving captain and his barbaric men on a dangerous mission that will lead them into the very path of the next Cataclysm and a strange girl who may hold all the answers.