This book is part of the Towards the New Millennium Series, featuring the works of thoughtful Canadians who are profoundly interested in the future of Canada and the world. Most democracies do not use Canada's "first past the post" voting system. To give a party more seats than its share of the popular vote warrants is deemed undemocratic by most. Such democracies use proportional representation to ensure a party's seat-share does not exceed its vote-share....

Apocalyptic suspense, political intrigue, and blood-chilling spiritual warfare merge in Paul Meier's classic Christian fiction novel, The Third Millennium. This top-selling supernatural thriller from years past takes readers on a terrifying journey where last-day prophecies unfold while good and evil clash over the fate of the world. The Third Millennium is narrated by Michael, guardian angel to the Feinberg family. Facing angels, demons, and natural...

This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This book is the second in a series of books which will report on the findings from the data and follows on from Children of the 21st century: From birth to nine months (The Policy Press, 2005). It takes an extended look at the children's...

Hired to investigate an unresolved missing person's case, discredited journalist Mikael Blomkvist headed to Hedeby Island in order to further explore the various twists and turns of the Vanger family history. Aided by the brilliant but deeply troubled hacktivist Lisbeth Salander, Blomkvist soon discovered a link between the disappearance and a brutal trail of murder, deception and dark secrets leading right to the heart of the Vanger family. But can...

It took me a while but Ive seen the light but as may you. How I got there with the rest of this book is hard to ascertain now (although Ive actually now managed to write about this concisely at the end, now that Im writing this right now in the future now sounds a bit ridiculous, I know, and far too many nows), but what Ive put Im damn sure is true and it will be as true for anyone else. And thats why I think this book has so much value. With these...

FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE NATURE OF MAGIC. In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen's world faces. Elsewhere, in a land ruled by the priests,...

After receiving a call from a trusted source claiming to have vital information to the United States, journalist Mikael Blomkvist turns to hacker Lisbeth for help.

As the first Millennium approaches, Middle Ages Europe is torn apart by violence and unrest. Ghoulish creatures prowl the land, strange lights are seen blazing through the sky, and sinister machinations threaten to destabilize the Continent's entire political and religious structure. Holy relics merchants, Raedwald the Saxon and Arnulf, travel these brutal roads, surviving by brains and brawn. The world is about to catch the original millennial...