Modern Welfare States: Scandinavian Politics and Policy in the Global Age

Einhorn and Logue analyze the political, economic, and social challenges facing five small, affluent, and advanced industrial democracies in Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Updated and expanded from its successful predecessor, this edition emphasizes how global and European developments have affected democratic policymaking in areas such as:• Social welfare policy• Employment policy• Labor relations• Economic policy• Social changeA comprehensive yet accessible survey of political history, governmental institutions, policymaking, political parties, interest groups, political culture, and foreign relations is also included. The comparative and interdisciplinary focus makes this a stimulating source of ideas for anyone interested in democracy and social justice in the global era.

Bone Silence (The Revenger Series, 3)

History

Reynolds,Alastair

Europe

Orbit

<p>In the last surviving human city, an ex-spy gets sucked into a dangerous quest that will take him beyond the city walls when a winged man turns up dead in his morgue in this innovative and original dystopian space adventure.\nSpearpoint, the last human city, is an enormous atmosphere-piercing spire. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different—and rigidly enforced—level of technology.\nFollowing an infiltration mission that went tragically wrong, Quillon has been living incognito, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, Quillon's world is wrenched apart one more time, for the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels—and with the dying body comes bad news.\nIf Quillon is to save his life, he must leave his home and journey into the cold and hostile lands beyond Spearpoint's base, starting an exile that will take him further than he could ever imagine. But there is far more at stake than just Quillon's own survival, for the limiting technologies of the zones are determined not by governments or police, but by the very nature of reality—and reality itself is showing worrying signs of instability . . .</p>

Terminal World

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

<p><div> <div><b>This highly acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself . . .</b></div> <div><br /></div> <div> <div>Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason, and if that reason is uncovered, the universe and reality itself could be irrevocably altered . . .</div> <div><br /></div> <div><b>"[A] tour de force... Ravishingly inventive." -- <i>Publishers Weekly</i></b></div> </div> </div></p>

Revelation Space (Volume 1) (The Inhibitor Trilogy, 1)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

<p>Return to the dazzling world of Revelation Space with this British Science Fiction Award-winning space opera about a young man hell-bent on revenge on the surface of a twisted, disease-corrupted planet.<br />
The once-utopian Chasm City -- a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet -- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -- from the people to the very buildings they inhabit -- only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a lowlife postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.<br />
One of Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle's "Best SF Novels of the Year"</p>

Chasm City (The Inhibitor Series, 2)

<p><div> <div> <div><b>In the second book of The Inhibitor Trilogy, Alastair Reynolds pushes the boundaries of science fiction and "confirms his place among the leaders of the hard-science space-opera renaissance" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).</b></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors -- alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons -- and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes -- and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether . . .</div> </div> </div></p>

Redemption Ark (Volume 2) (The Inhibitor Trilogy, 2)

<p>Product Description      \nAward-winning author Alastair Reynolds creates "a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study" (Publishers Weekly) with this novel set in the Revelation Space universe.\nTom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds.\nHis current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But his investigation uncovers something far more serious than mass slaughter -- a covert plot by an enigmatic entity who seeks nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.\nReview      <br />
"This is solid British SF adventure, evoking echoes of le Carre and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who."―<br />
Publishers Weekly on The Prefect\n"Absorbing...gripping in the extreme...A fine provocative portrait of utopia on the brink. The relentless narrative momentum it employs simply underscores the pertinent urgency of that topic. The resulting mixture of space opera and police procedure is sublime entertainment."―<br />
Locus on The Prefect\n"[A] magnificently imagined world."―<br />
Booklist on The Prefect\n"Alastair Reynolds has developed real skill in mixing a detective investigation mystery with a background that is as thoroughly hard science as anybody's...Eminently satisfying."―<br />
SF Site on The Prefect\n"An adroit and fast-paced blend of space opera and police procedural, original and exciting."―<br />
George R. R. Martin<br />
      About the Author      <br />
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. he stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer.<br />
Revelation Space and<br />
Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award;<br />
Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and<br />
Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and<br />
Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.</p>

Aurora Rising (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, 1)

<p>Product Description      \nAn "engaging and awe-inspiring"(SF Signal) space opera from the critically-acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series.\nSix million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels.\nOnly there is no Gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And now Campion and Purslane -- two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences -- must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence . . .\nReview      <br />
"Entertaining...This is warm hearted science fiction with big ideas."―<br />
Interzone on House of Suns\n"A thrilling, mind- boggling adventure."―<br />
The Times (UK) on House of Suns\n"Reynolds's approach seems new, exciting, vibrant."―<br />
SFX on House of Suns\n"There's enough here that is big, brash and bold to keep any space opera fan well satisfied."―<br />
SF Site on House of Suns\n"Reynolds's brand of space opera continues to be engaging and awe-inspiring...big-scale ideas; packed with sense of wonder; great world building; backed up by believable science."―<br />
SF Signal on House of Suns<br />
      About the Author      <br />
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer.<br />
Revelation Space and<br />
Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award;<br />
Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and<br />
Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and<br />
Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.</p>

House of Suns

<p><div> <div><b>In the third book of the legendary Revelation Space trilogy, the last remnants of humanity realize that forging an alliance with a greater and even more mysterious alien force may be their only chance for survival.</b></div> <div><b><br /></b></div> <div> <div>The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence -- and they've targeted Humanity. War veteran Clavain and a ragtag group of refugees have fled into hiding. Their leadership is faltering, and their situation is growing more desperate. But their little colony has just received an unexpected visitor: an avenging angel with the power to lead mankind to safety -- or draw down its darkest enemy.</div> <div><br /></div> <div>And as she leads them to an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on Clavain and his companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse . . .</div> <div><b><br /></b></div> <div><b>"<i>Absolution Gap</i> is a good as it gets, and should solidify Alastair Reynolds' reputation as one of the best hard SF writers in the field." -- SF Site</b></div> </div> </div></p>

Absolution Gap (Volume 3) (The Inhibitor Trilogy, 3)

Century Rain

<p>Part science fiction thriller, part interstellar adventure, and part noir crime, Century Rain is an astonishing international bestseller of "blistering powers and style" (SF Revu).\nThree hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: a mid-20th-century version of Earth, preserved like a fly in amber.\nSomewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable of destroying both worlds at either end of the wormhole. And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it's too late -- for the past and the future of two worlds.\nCentury Rain is a jaw-droppingly good SF thriller, packed with pace, adventure, brilliant storytelling and with twists that will keep you guessing to the end.</p>

Mystery

<p>Product Description      \nPushing Ice is the brilliant tale of extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies, and sweeping space opera from award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds.\n2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it.\nThe Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place. It's some kind of machine -- and it is now headed toward a fuzzily glimpsed artifact 260 light-years away.\nThe Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach. In accepting this mission, she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny -- for Janus has more surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome.\nReview      <br />
"A believable and interesting cast of characters, and the political intrigue both on board the Rockhopper and among the various forms of alien intelligence they eventually meet will keep readers guessing."―<br />
The Rocky Mountain News on Pushing Ice\n"A fantastic tale of survival and adaptation to strange surroundings. Wow!"―<br />
The Weekly Press on Pushing Ice\n"Spectacular . . . [Reynolds] has a genius for big-concept SF and fans of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama and Larry Niven's Ringworld will love this novel."―<br />
Publishers Weekly on Pushing Ice\n"Where this transcends the average ho-hum space opera is the über-text that contemplates the incomprehensible immensity of the universe and the relative insignificant presence-yet nevertheless unique fact-of human existence . . . entertaining and . . . hopeful."―<br />
SF Site on Pushing Ice<br />
      About the Author      <br />
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He stopped working as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency to become a full-time writer.<br />
Revelation Space and<br />
Pushing Ice were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award;<br />
Revelation Space, Absolution Gap, Diamond Dogs, and<br />
Century Rain were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and<br />
Chasm City won the British Science Fiction Award.</p>

Pushing Ice

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