World Breakers

Author : Tony Daniel,Christopher Ruocchio
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625798176

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World Breakers by Tony Daniel,Christopher Ruocchio Pdf

Formed from cold steel and superpowered computing brains, these gigantic tanks with the firepower of an entire army have been the decisive factors in interplanetary battle. But are humans worthy of the extraordinary instruments of war that they have created? Are the Worldbreakers the greatest protector of human liberty, or its worst threat? For, while these Worldbreakers very definitely have minds of their own, the question remains: within their iron and superluminal quantum breasts, does there lie a faithful heart? Stories of world breakers and world makers in the great tradition of Keith Laumer’s Bolos from David Weber, Larry Correia, Wen Spencer, and more! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without Digital Rights Management (DRM). About Star Destroyers, edited by Tony Daniel & Christopher Ruocchio: “. . . spectacular space battles and alien contacts . . . themes of military ethics, the uses of artificial intelligence, and the limits of the capacity of the human mind. . . . it is the human interactions and decisions that ultimately drive the stories. . . . will appeal to fans of military and hard science fiction and any readers fascinated by the possibilities of space travel.”—Booklist “. . . stories of giant spaceships at war, at peace, and in the often-gray areas between. . . . a worthy addition to a long tradition of ship-based fiction, and its authors portray captains, arcane astrogators, and civilian child passengers with equal depth. It’s recommended for fans of military SF and space adventure.”—Publishers Weekly “. . . you’d probably expect some tight, action-filled space opera stories of giant space battles . . . and there’s some of that. But there are also espionage stories, rescue missions, political conflicts, alternate histories, even a few humorous tales. . . . each author took the premise in a different direction . . . if I had to identify one common feature to all the stories, it would be that they’re all fun. . . . Like it says, big ships blowing things up. What’s not to like?”—Analog

Author : Lisa L. Owens
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541536067

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World War II Code Breakers by Lisa L. Owens Pdf

Discover the true stories of code breakers who worked behind the scenes during World War II. Men and women cracked enemy codes in order to gain information that helped the Allies win the war.

Author : David Gardner,Tom Gardner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439147214

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The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers by David Gardner,Tom Gardner Pdf

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling authors of The Motley Fool Investment Guide and its successful, savvy prequel, The Motley Fool's You Have More Than You Think, here's an engaging, humorous, and practical stock-picking guide, packed with Foolish insights, that caps off this invaluable personal finance trilogy from David and Tom Gardner. The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers, Rule Makers presents the sophisticated, yet easy-to-understand stock-picking methods that have kept the Motley Fool portfolio beating the Standard & Poor's averages by more than 30 percent. The key is investing in small start-up companies that have historically offered the greatest investment returns (the "rule breakers") as well as huge companies that maintain legal monopolies in their fields (the "rule makers"). The Gardner brothers explain * How to identify the best investments in today's public markets: the rule breakers and the rule makers * The definition of a "tweener" -- a maturing rule breaker -- and how to detect the Tweener Death Rattle * When to buy and when to sell, and how to manage your portfolio on a regular basis In their first two books, the Fools got you started in investing and freed you from the fees and worries that Wall Street's Wise Men have been imposing on investors for decades. Now, by sharing their methods for picking rule breakers and rule makers, they guide you through a stock market that has seen company valuations soar to unprecedented heights and that promises to continue providing roller-coaster thrills. The Motley Fools are the ultimate companions to bring along for a safe, fun, and profitable ride.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Highway engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015048311404

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World Highways by Anonim Pdf

Author : Youth Specialties,
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310871873

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Crowd Breakers and Mixers by Youth Specialties, Pdf

Break the ice and warm up your group -- at meetings, parties, studies, or any other youth group event -- with one of these 230 crowd breakers and mixers! - Mixers . . . Make it fun for kids to get acquainted! Lots of creative ways for a group of strangers or classmates to circulate and learn a lot about each other in a little time. - Meeting-Opening Contests . . . All you need usually are two or three brave souls to jump feet first into a crazy competition while the group watches -- like Greasepuff (page 55) or Foot Signing (page 112). - Musical Crowd Breakers . . . Okay, so when your group sings, they remind you of water buffaloes with strep throat. At least they'll enjoy these engaging musical openers. All you usually need is a tape deck or CD player. Quizzes & Word Games . . . At last -- quizzes with absolutely no academic consequences, but loaded with crowd-breaking potential (and lots of laughs, too). If you're a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp -- Crowd Breakers & Mixers is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.

Author : C. S. E. Cooney
Publisher : Mythic Delirium Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781732644052

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Dark Breakers by C. S. E. Cooney Pdf

World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Story Collection Locus Award finalist for Best Story Collection “Welcome to a Gilded Era like you’ve never before known and will never be able to forget …If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one.” —Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award-winning author of Updraft and Riverland "Cooney’s lush follow-up to Desdemona and the Deep offers five stories linked by an intricate shared world … Throughout, Cooney’s descriptions are extravagant and gorgeous, and the musical cadence of her prose makes it exceptionally easy to be drawn into the worlds she weaves … Romantic fantasy readers will find a lot to love." —Publishers Weekly A young human painter and an ageless gentry queen fall in love over spilled wine-at the risk of his life and her immortality. Pulled into the Veil Between Worlds, two feuding neighbors (and a living statue) get swept up in a brutal war of succession. An investigative reporter infiltrates the Seafall City Laundries to write the exposé of a lifetime, and uncovers secrets she never believed possible. Returning to an oak grove to scatter her husband's ashes, an elderly widow meets an otherworldly friend, who offers her a momentous choice. Two gentry queens of the Valwode plot to hijack a human rocketship and steal the moon out of the sky. Dark Breakers gathers three new and two previously uncollected tales from World Fantasy Award-winning writer C. S. E. Cooney that expand on the thrice-enfolded worlds first introduced in her Locus and World Fantasy award-nominated novella Desdemona and the Deep. In her introduction to Dark Breakers, Crawford Award-winning author Sharon Shinn advises those who pick up this book to "settle in for a fantastical read" full of "vivid world-building, with layer upon layer of detail; prose so dense and gorgeous you can scoop up the words like handfuls of jewels; a mischievous sense of humor; and a warm and hopeful heart." “C. S. E. Cooney’s prose is like a cake baked by the fairies—beautifully layered, rich and precise, so delicious that it should be devoured with a silver fork.” —Theodora Goss, World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award-winning author of The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series “Dark Breakers is compounded of voluptuous invention and ferocious structural loves—for new romances and old friends, for the works of hands, for mortality and its gifts, and all the possibilities of worlds bleeding, weeping, wandering into each other’s arms.” —Kathleen Jennings, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Flyaway “Few people create worlds as lavish and sensual as those to spring from Cooney’s effervescent imagination. Her writing isn’t so much inspirational, but inspiration itself: gentry-magic spun into pages and paragraphs of glittering, fizzing, jaw-dropping beauty.” —Cassandra Khaw, British Fantasy Award-nominated author of The All-Consuming World MORE PRAISE FOR C. S. E. COONEY "C. S. E. Cooney is one of the most moving, daring, and plainly beautiful voices to come out of recent fantasy. She's a powerhouse with a wink in her eye and a song in each pocket." —Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times-bestselling author of Space Opera "C. S. E. Cooney's imagination is wild and varied, her stories bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time." —Delia Sherman, author of The Evil Wizard Smallbone "C. S. E. Cooney is a master piper, playing songs within songs. Her stories are wild, theatrical, full of music and murder and magic." —James Enge, author of Blood of Ambrose "Newcomers will find Cooney's glittering narrative skills and vivid worldbuilding addictive, her diverse characters intriguing, and her message of justice and freedom stirring." —Publishers Weekly

Author : John C. Miles
Publisher : Fighting Forces of World War I
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781543574845

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Fighting Forces of World War II on the Home Front by John C. Miles Pdf

"Explores the men and women who served on their own home soil during World War II, and provides information about the key battles, tactics, and weapons that helped propel the Allies to victory."

Author : DR. BETHANY MARSHALL
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781471103001

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Deal Breakers by DR. BETHANY MARSHALL Pdf

Deciding when to work on a relationship and when to walk away is a skill that can prevent us wasting months and even years of our lives on partners that will never make us truly happy. Once we have learned to identify the deal breaker in a relationship we can empower ourselves to action, and then change and improve our lives. Whereas books like 'He's Just Not That Into You' explored relationship troubles in black and white, 'Deal Breakers' covers all the shades of grey that lie in between - all those areas where relationships can hit an impasse. Some deal breakers are easy to identify - one partner wants marriage, the other doesn't - yet many are more subtle and difficult to pinpoint. Dr Bethany Marshall is a relationships expert. She has identified specific male archetypes and the traits that frustrate and infuriate their partners. Here, for the first time in book form, is advice that can help any woman who is trying too hard to make her relationship work.

Author : Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610756037

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San Francisco Bay Area Sports by Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith Pdf

San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years. The area’s diversity, anti-establishment leanings, and unique and beautiful natural surroundings are explored in the context of a dynamic sporting past that includes events broadcast to millions or activities engaged in by just a few. Professional and college events are covered along with lesser-known entities such as Oakland’s public parks, tennis player and Bay Area native Rosie Casals, environmentalism and hiking in Marin County, and the origins of the Gay Games. Taken as a whole, this book clarifies how sport is connected to identities based on sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity. Just as crucial, the stories here illuminate how sport and recreation can potentially create transgressive spaces, particularity in a place known for its nonconformity.

Author : Nick Hunter
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781669076001

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Soccer Record Breakers by Nick Hunter Pdf

With billions of fans and giant stadiums packed with cheering crowds, soccer itself is record-breaking. Find out even more by reading about soccer's record-breaking superstar players, trophy-winning teams, and standout coaches.

Author : Liza Mundy
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316352550

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Code Girls by Liza Mundy Pdf

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.

Author : Carey Scott
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1433900491

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Spies and Code Breakers by Carey Scott Pdf

Focuses on the history of spying since World War I, including the journals, secret devices, and biographies of spies.

Author : B. J. Dinkins
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781604776645

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The Sabbath Breaker by B. J. Dinkins Pdf

Is there something missing in your Church life? This book reveals what may be missing. The Sabbath Breaker is a message to the Sunday worshiping churches. The author experienced the transition from Sunday to Sabbath worship and its blessings! So, we journey in faith and confidence under God's righteousness and will, taking this message to God's people. Millions are in churches. Some are homeless, living under viaducts, and bars unknowingly looking for Jesus. Some are caught up in drugs and prostitution. Some are educators, corporate executives and politicians. Others are performers, athletes, atheists, and agnostics. Millions are in false religions, and prison cells. Some are in colleges and universities and don't know Jesus Christ. Millions are at home, lost, and fed up with church. These people want to know God! May the Lord bless you exceedingly abundantly above all you could ever hope for in the blessings of the Sabbath. DR. B. J. DINKINS is an inspiring motivation speaker, lecturer, educator, author and business consultant. He's listed in Marquis' Who's who in Finance and Industry, earning his undergraduate in business management and administration. He is a former university international business facilitator and former public school teacher. He is listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. He has a Doctorate degree in Church Administration. Dr. Dinkins teaches the application of practical righteousness principles. He's a leader's leader who brings others to the truth of their God-given purpose and potential that is within every human being. He teaches everyone is created with the seeds of greatness inside of them and that they were designed to a success story. He is one of few people who teach the principles and power of righteousness. He motivates students and readers to realize that they have the capacity and ability to accomplish anything in life! For speaking engagements, email: [email protected]

Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780684859323

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Battle of Wits by Stephen Budiansky Pdf

"This is the story of the Allied codebreakers puzzling through the most difficult codebreaking problems that ever existed.

Author : Elizabeth Schmermund
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502638649

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Code Breakers and Spies of the War on Terror by Elizabeth Schmermund Pdf

Shortly after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the U.S. government began both a ground and aerial military campaign in the Middle East in order to preemptively rout out terrorists. During the War on Terror, the cause of the United States and its allies was aided by many technical innovations in code breaking and espionage. In fact, increased surveillance went so far as to spy on regular citizens. This book explores the evolution of intelligence technologies and how these new methods controversially shape wars, and the dilemma many militaries and governments face in deciding how to use them in order to avoid political fallout in the global age of terrorism.