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Mutiny by Julian Stockwin
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Mutiny by Julian Stockwin

It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master's mate on Achilles, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, on his way back from the Caribbean. After a dangerous rescue mission to Venice Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home after many years' absence is soon forgotten when he finds himself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary events in English history - the Mutiny at the Nore. Ten thousand men, one thousand guns and scores of ships hold the country to ransom: the government is near collapse; the economy on the brink of ruin. And Kydd is faced with a terrible choice. Abandon his friends and shipmates? 

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Tags: Mutiny, thousand, government, collapse, economy, ransom
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
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The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and -- finally -- the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order.
 
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Tags: Collapse, disintegration, Sheet, Antarctica, Great
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail

*Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own civilization is global, its collapse will also be global, as well as uniquely devastating owing to the immensity of its population, complexity, and consumption.
 
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Tags: decay, collapse, Immoderate, Civilizations, global
Train Man
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Train ManTrain Man

P.T. Deutermann - Train Man

The collapse of one of the six major rail bridges over the Mississippi stirs suspicions of foul play, but with a military train ferrying deadly, unstable material from Alabama to the West Coast and the collapse of a second bridge, a crisis quickly ensues.

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The Monstrosity of Christ
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The Monstrosity of ChristThe Monstrosity of Christ

If the theological was marginalized in the age of Western secular modernity, it has now returned with a vengeance. Theology is reconfi guring the very makeup of the humanities in general, with disciplines like philosophy, political science, literature, history, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, in particular, feeling the impact of this return. There are many ways of accounting for this surprising development but one stands out, namely, the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the subsequent global expansion of capitalism under the fl ag of the American Global Empire.


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Tags: namely, collapse, communism, 1980s, stands, Monstrosity, Christ, development