Death Wave

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466868748

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Death Wave by Ben Bova Pdf

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in Death Wave In the precursor to the Star Quest Trilogy, New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human race acts to save itself, all life on Earth will be wiped out. When Kell and his team return to Earth, many years after their departure, they find that their world has changed almost beyond recognition. Not only has a second wave of greenhouse flooding caused sea levels to rise, but society has been changed by the consequences of the climate shift. Few people want to face Jordan Kell's news. He must convince Earth's new rulers that the human race is in danger of extinction unless it acts to forestall the death wave coming from the galaxy's heart. The Star Quest Trilogy #1 Death Wave #2 Apes and Angels At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Stephen Coonts,William H. Keith
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429928859

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Deep Black: Death Wave by Stephen Coonts,William H. Keith Pdf

Stephen Coonts' Deep Black: Death Wave continues the bestselling technothriller series. Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black. Off the coast of Africa lie the beautiful Canary Islands, a resort destination of millionaires. Underneath this idyllic paradise is one of the most volatile fault lines in the world. There, an alliance between radical Islamic terrorists and a rogue element of the Chinese government is planning to unleash an act of unimaginable geological terrorism that could devastate the U.S. East Coast, striking it with waves up to a thousand feet high. They plan to set off nuclear devices to precipitate a gigantic landslide that will send a death-dealing tsunami across the Atlantic. In the Central Asian Republic of Tajikistan twelve nuclear warheads, stolen by the Russian Mafia, are about to be smuggled out of the country and delivered into the hands of the conspirators. Charlie and Ilya go on an intercept mission, but before they can retrieve them, the weapons vanish. Meanwhile, in a hotel in New Jersey, a bestselling author is assassinated to prevent the release of his stranger-than-fiction story about an Islamic plot to change the course of history. Lia, Charlie's girlfriend, is sent to Berlin to infiltrate the empire of a ruthless Chinese billionaire whose machinations have come to the attention of the NSA. She risks immediate execution if her true identity is revealed. Their paths all converge in the Canary Islands. Unless the Deep Black team intervenes, the islands could be the epicenter of an apocalypse, with millions of lives---and the entire world order---at stake.

Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Ontario
ISBN : UOM:39015068517179

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Sessional Papers - Legislature of the Province of Ontario by Ontario. Legislative Assembly Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Ontario
ISBN : NYPL:33433062736784

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Report Relating to the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Province of Ontario for the Year Ending 31st December ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Ontario
ISBN : NWU:35556002533057

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Sessional Papers by Ontario. Legislative Assembly Pdf

Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Ontario
ISBN : SRLF:A0001865625

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Sessional Papers by Ontario. Legislative Assembly Pdf

Author : Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022008186

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Supplement to the Registrar-General's Reports on Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Scotland during the ten years 1861-1870 by Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland) Pdf

Author : Ontario. Office of the Registrar General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Ontario
ISBN : MINN:31951D006769312

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Report Relating to the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Province of Ontario for the Year Ending by Ontario. Office of the Registrar General Pdf

Author : Sonali Deraniyagala
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771025389

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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala Pdf

A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.

Author : Fletcher S. Bassett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Folklore
ISBN : HARVARD:HWL45N

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Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in All Lands and at All Times by Fletcher S. Bassett Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015070450682

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Canada Lancet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765397218

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Earth by Ben Bova Pdf

Earth is the latest science fiction novel from multiple Hugo Award winner Ben Bova, author of Apes and Angels and Survival A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years. Humans were helped by the Predecessors, who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return, the Predecessors asked humankind's help to save other intelligent species that are in danger of being annihilated. But what of Earth? With the Death Wave no longer a threat to humanity, humans have spread out and colonized all the worlds of the solar system. The technology of the Predecessors has made Earth a paradise, at least on the surface. But a policy of exiling discontented young people to the outer planets and asteroid mines has led to a deep divide between the new worlds and the homeworld, and those tensions are about to explode into open war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : C. A. Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1940696542

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While Standing in Line for Death by C. A. Conrad Pdf

Eighteen new (Soma)tic exercises that strive for human connection and political action.

Author : Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226276212

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Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg Pdf

The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. By July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—twenty times the number of those struck down by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Heat waves kill more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city’s vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a “social autopsy,” examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. He investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how city government responded, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported and explained these events. Through years of fieldwork, interviews, and research, he uncovers the surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown that contributed to this human catastrophe as hundreds died alone behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies. As this incisive and gripping account demonstrates, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities made visible by the 1995 heat wave remain in play in America’s cities today—and we ignore them at our peril. Includes photos and a new preface on meeting the challenges of climate change in urban centers “Heat Wave is not so much a book about weather, as it is about the calamitous consequences of forgetting our fellow citizens. . . . A provocative, fascinating book, one that applies to much more than weather disasters.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It’s hard to put down Heat Wave without believing you’ve just read a tale of slow murder by public policy.” —Salon “A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.” —Chris Hayes

Author : Francis Trevelyan Buckland,Frank Buckland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Fishing
ISBN : OXFORD:600030548

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Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist by Francis Trevelyan Buckland,Frank Buckland Pdf