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  • Digital Dust
    John S Pritchett
    Every click leaves a trace. Every account, search, purchase, photo, app permission, public record, and online interaction can add another fragment to the digital profile others can assemble about us.Digital Dust: How Everyday Data Becomes Personal Exposure explains how ordinary information becomes personal risk-not through one dramatic mistake, but through accumulation. John S....
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    30,12 €

  • Fearless
    John S Pritchett
    Fear was never the weakness. The pause was.In Fearless: The Ecology of Fear, Staff Sergeant Daniel Mercer enters a military research program designed to do one thing: shorten the interval between perception and action.The treatment works.Mercer reacts faster. Hesitation falls. Survival projections improve. Fear itself remains intact-but the brain’s conflict window narrows. Ambi...
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    11,90 €

  • The Thirst
    John S Pritchett
    It begins beneath Antarctic ice. It ends by changing the way people live with water.In The Thirst, a drilling team breaches an isolated subglacial pocket deep beneath Antarctica and recovers samples that appear almost lifeless. The incident is contained. The mosquitoes found near the site die. The scientists leave.Then people begin walking into freshwater.Dr. Martin Hale first ...
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    12,17 €

  • The Signature of Breath
    John S Pritchett
    The first cough comes from a horse. Soon, the whole world is holding its breath.In The Signature of Breath, veterinarian Dr. Mara Keene is called to Foxglove Ranch when a thoroughbred develops an unusual fever and cough. Within days, horses at other barns are falling ill. Pneumonia follows. Then death.And the people caring for them begin getting sick.The outbreak is identified ...
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    15,76 €

  • Trusted Intelligence
    John S Pritchett
    Artificial intelligence has become useful faster than it has become trustworthy.Trusted Intelligence: What AI Platforms Must Do to Deserve Trust asks a question that will shape the next era of AI: what must a platform do before people should rely on it?John S. Pritchett examines the gap between fluent output and trustworthy intelligence. AI can summarize, recommend, explain, dr...
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    30,39 €

  • The Breath of Ra
    John S Pritchett
    The Sun gives life to Earth. It can also threaten the systems modern civilization depends upon.In The Breath of Ra: Geomagnetic Storm, Elliott Caldwell’s fascination with the Sun begins with a childhood eclipse and grows into a lifelong mission to understand one of its most dangerous expressions: extreme space weather.As Elliott studies solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and...
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    15,80 €

  • Yellowstone Pressure Point
    John S Pritchett
    Yellowstone is restless. The question is whether humanity will listen before the warning becomes catastrophe.In Yellowstone: Pressure Point, volcanologist Dr. Emily Carter joins an extraordinary federal research effort inside Yellowstone National Park as scientists confront a disturbing convergence of seismic activity, ground deformation, gas changes, and rapidly shifting hydro...
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    11,88 €

  • Deep Earth
    John S Pritchett
    Deep beneath Earth’s ancient crust lies a discovery that could change humanity’s understanding of life itself.In Deep Earth, a geological expedition beneath the Canadian Shield uncovers an anomalous fragment embedded deep within some of the planet’s oldest rock. Its elemental chemistry is unusual. Its mineralogy suggests a differentiated planetary origin. And laboratory evidenc...
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    11,95 €

  • The Signal
    John S Pritchett
    The first signal changes everything. The second tells humanity where to go.In The Signal: Journey Beyond the Stars, radio astronomer Dr. Nova Jamil detects an extraordinary narrowband transmission at Green Bank Observatory. What first appears to be an unexplained anomaly survives every test, reappears at independent observatories, and begins to move.The source is not fixed amon...
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    15,72 €

  • Footsteps
    John S Pritchett
    A son searching for his father’s legacy discovers a calling of his own.In Footsteps: A Son’s Journey, Josh Wolfe has spent years avoiding the memory of the volcanologist father he lost at Mount Saint Helens. When his mother announces plans to remarry, the fear of losing his father all over again forces Josh to confront the past he has kept buried.His search begins with old news...
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    19,05 €

  • Asteroid Apophis Lord of Chaos
    John S Pritchett
    An asteroid is coming. Humanity has forty-three months to stop it.In Asteroid Apophis: Lord of Chaos, a young astronomer at Pan-STARRS notices something impossible: Apophis is no longer where its predicted orbit says it should be. His discovery triggers a global crisis as new observations raise the fictional possibility that the 340-meter asteroid could strike Earth in 2029.Wha...
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    12,54 €

  • Changbai Mountain
    John S Pritchett
    A volcano on the border of China and North Korea. A nuclear program hidden beneath the mountains. One scientist caught between geology and geopolitics.When volcanologist Josh Cooper is summoned to the Pentagon, he expects to answer a scientific question: could North Korea’s underground nuclear testing disturb Mount Changbai, one of Asia’s most consequential volcanic systems?The...
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    19,24 €

  • The Covenant of the Elements
    John S Pritchett
    Modern civilization was built on an unspoken agreement: water would replenish, land would regenerate, air would remain breathable, and fire would provide energy without destabilizing the systems that sustain us.The Covenant of the Elements: The Covenant We Choose examines what happens when that agreement is stretched by growth, extraction, climate pressure, aging infrastructure...
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    11,98 €

  • The Battle for Water
    John S Pritchett
    Water is the foundation of life, but the systems built around it are becoming less certain, less equal, and more difficult to sustain.The Battle for Water: The Covenant We Are Made Of examines how scarcity, contamination, climate change, aging infrastructure, and unequal access are reshaping one of humanity’s most essential relationships.John S. Pritchett explores water not sim...
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    15,65 €

  • The Battle for Land
    John S Pritchett
    Land is the ground beneath every human story-and one of the most contested inheritances we possess.The Battle for Land: The Covenant We Claim and Inherit examines how land shapes survival, identity, wealth, culture, power, and belonging. John S. Pritchett presents land not as passive scenery, but as the living foundation upon which societies build homes, grow food, establish bo...
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    15,76 €

  • The Battle for Fire
    John S Pritchett
    Fire made human civilization possible. It also created the systems now destabilizing the climate, landscapes, and communities that depend on it.The Battle for Fire: The Covenant We Ignite explores humanity’s oldest partnership-from the first hearths that warmed early societies to the combustion engines, power plants, and global energy networks that transformed the modern world....
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    11,95 €

  • Pangea Proxima
    John S Pritchett
    The continents look permanent only because human lives are too short to watch them move.Pangea Proxima: When the Continents Return explores one of the most extraordinary possibilities in Earth’s deep future: the gradual assembly of a new supercontinent hundreds of millions of years from now.The world we know is not finished. The Atlantic Ocean is still widening. The Pacific is ...
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    19,21 €

  • Columbia
    John S Pritchett
    Nearly two billion years ago, pieces of Earth’s oldest crust came together to form one of the planet’s earliest great supercontinents. Its name was Columbia-and its remains are still beneath our feet.Columbia: The Forgotten Supercontinent explores a vanished world assembled long before Pangaea, when ancient continental fragments known as cratons collided, mountain ranges rose a...
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    11,93 €

  • Rodinia
    John S Pritchett
    More than a billion years ago, Earth had land, oceans, atmosphere, energy, and life-but the planet still did not fully work as a living system.Rodinia: The Mother of Supercontinents explores a vanished world in which the essential ingredients for habitability were present but poorly coordinated. The land was barren and exposed. Oxygen existed, but it was low and unstable. Ozone...
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    11,93 €

  • Huddled Masses
    John S Pritchett
    America has always depended on immigrants-and has almost always feared the newest people arriving at its doors.Huddled Masses: The Untold Truth About Immigration challenges the myths, anxieties, and political narratives that have distorted one of the most important debates in American life.John S. Pritchett traces the country’s recurring pattern of welcoming immigrant labor and...
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    11,85 €

  • You Can Be Amazing!
    John S Pritchett
    Every child has the ability to grow stronger, become kinder, manage difficult feelings, build lasting friendships, and discover just how amazing they can be.You Can Be Amazing is an encouraging five-part collection that helps children develop confidence, resilience, emotional awareness, healthy habits, and important social skills. Through friendly explanations, imaginative comp...
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    11,78 €

  • What Lies Beneath
    John S Pritchett
    Beneath every landscape, city, and civilization lies another world-older, darker, and far more active than it appears.What Lies Beneath: The Secret Life of the World Below takes readers on a journey through the hidden realms beneath our feet, from fragile topsoil and ancient bedrock to underground rivers, living caves, mines, tunnels, buried cities, and the deepest scientific b...
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    12,04 €

  • What Lies Above
    John S Pritchett
    The sky appears open, limitless, and distant. In reality, humanity lives inside a thin, finite layer of air that makes every breath, storm, flight, and season possible.What Lies Above: Life Inside the Atmosphere explores the unseen system that surrounds the planet and shapes nearly every aspect of life at the surface. The atmosphere regulates temperature, carries water, distrib...
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    11,95 €

  • The Hallowing of Congress
    John S Pritchett
    Congress was designed to be the center of American self-government. Today, it often appears more capable of producing conflict than governing through it.The Hallowing of Congress: How Congress Lost Its Power examines how the People’s Branch gradually surrendered its constitutional authority, weakened its own procedures, and allowed power to migrate to presidents, courts, federa...
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    11,75 €

  • Media Literacy In an AI World
    John S Pritchett
    The message is no longer the whole problem. We must also understand the systems that create, select, personalize, summarize, and amplify it.Artificial intelligence has made information faster, more polished, and easier to produce-but not necessarily more reliable. Images can look authentic without recording a real event. Voices and faces can be convincingly imitated. Rumors can...
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    30,26 €

  • The Narrator Within
    John S Pritchett
    Inside every mind is a quiet storyteller-one that turns memory, perception, and experience into the continuous story of a self. But how reliable is that narrator?The Narrator Within explores the fragile neurological architecture behind identity, consciousness, memory, and self-awareness through remarkable cases in which the mind’s internal story begins to fracture.John S. Pritc...
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    11,95 €

  • Zero Tariffs or No Trade
    John S Pritchett
    Tariffs are not shields protecting American workers. They are hidden taxes paid by American families and businesses.Zero Tariffs or No Trade: A Case for Free Trade presents a bold alternative to protectionism, retaliatory trade wars, and complicated agreements filled with exceptions: eliminate tariffs entirely and reserve access to the American market for countries willing to d...
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    15,69 €

  • The Limits of Perception
    John S Pritchett
    Change rarely begins when we notice it. By the time it becomes visible, it may have been developing for far longer than we realize.he Limits of Perception: Why Change Feels Sudden explores why individuals, organizations, and entire societies can experience long periods of apparent stability followed by moments when everything seems to shift at once.John S. Pritchett begins with...
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    12,10 €

  • Rebuilding the Ladder
    John S Pritchett
    Losing a job should not mean losing your direction, identity, and future-but America’s unemployment system was never designed to help workers navigate lasting economic change.Rebuilding the Ladder: From Unemployment to Reemployment in 21st-Century America presents a practical case for replacing a passive, Depression-era safety net with a modern system that actively guides displ...
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    11,90 €

  • Moments of Madness
    John S Pritchett
    The nuclear age was never only about the bomb. It was about the extraordinary systems, dangerous assumptions, and fragile human judgments built around it.Moments of Madness: Weapons of Reason and Ruin in the Nuclear Age examines the aircraft, missiles, submarines, battlefield weapons, tests, and doctrines created to make nuclear deterrence credible-and the moments when strategi...
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    15,56 €


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