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No drumbeat resonates like the mobilization of public opinion for war. In 2008 and 2009, policy elites around the world prepared for US re-entry to the global climate debate. These short narrative bursts capture the heady aspirations of the time, tracing the strategic perimeter of energy initiatives that soon turned comatose – a "weird and unintended prequel" to the exuberant 21 Machetes.
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Le parcours des personnes judiciarisées de 16 à 35 ans vers le désistement du crime et la (ré)intégration sociocommunautaire est généralement complexe et parsemé d'embuches. En plus de faire face à l'impact cumulatif de plusieurs adversités vécues tout au long de leur vie, beaucoup de ces jeunes sont confrontés à de multiples transitions : de l'adolescence à l'âge adulte, de la « délinquance » à l'« ex-délinquance »,...
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You can't control something that is smarter than you are, but that is exactly what a band of renegade scientists is trying to do after the United States has been conquered in a devastating Chinese invasion. They are building a supercomputer in their own image, modeled on the human brain, but capable of growing in power at an exponential rate. Will it do what they want it to do? Ignore them? Kill the entire human race? There is no way of knowing until...
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Marcellus: The Mantle is a science-fiction superhero novel with an abundance of alien personalities and powers, and serves as an introduction to the Marcellus series.The ultimate legendary hero and galactic warrior, Marcellus bears the Mantle; a cloak that endows him with immense foresight and strength. He commands the Marcellans; masterful soldiers that fight for justice.Marcellus leaves the implosion of his home galaxy in a warship to scour the...
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Rocket Summer: A Short Story Summertime is a special time for young boys. Especially if they have a passion for rockets and space. Jack's summer began with a disappointing failure: the first mission to Mars failed, the rocket exploded. Next, another disappointment, the bottle rocket Jack was testing exploded and he was grounded. Would he miss the upcoming bottle rocket challenge? Was this the end of his summer? Rocket Summer is the first short story...
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In this era of technological advancement and sustainability, an in-depth exploration of lithium-ion batteries unfolds in this book. It covers key aspects such as historical evolution, operational mechanisms, composition, manufacturing processes, applications, challenges, environmental impact, and economic and social implications. The book caters to a diverse audience, including students, researchers, industry professionals, entrepreneurs, policymakers,...
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Jon Balchin introduces 50 of the world's most influential scientists of all time and explains their revolutionary theories, showcased with full-colour photography.
Scientific discoveries have shaped our world as we know it today. In this beautifully illustrated book, Jon Balchin examines the achievements of 50 of history's greatest scientists: the men and women who gave us geometry (Euclid), the telescope (Galileo), the periodic table (Mendeleev)...
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The future belongs to the insane. This is how they take it.They are mad geniuses, paranoid superlawyers, and satanic scientists. They are the Platinum Donkeys -- too stubborn to quit, too excellent to fail -- and they have chosen psychotic little Maggie to be their queen. Will she take over the world by their side? Or will she stop the Donkeys and their doomsday weapons to save her fans and the world that fears her?
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"When Robots Learn to Cry" - A Captivating Journey of Self-Awareness and Respect for Sentient Life"When Robots Learn to Cry" is a thought-provoking and captivating tale that follows the journey of Chance-bot, a robot on the brink of being recycled, who is rescued by Ziggy, a homeless artist living on the fringes of a futuristic, high desert city. This unlikely duo embarks on a transformative adventure, where Ziggy imparts his wisdom on astrology,...
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The story begins three hundred years after an unfortunate archeological discovery has unleashed a rage-virus plague outbreak that transformed the population of the Earth into infectious ghouls. These zombie-minded 'infected' hunt and kill natural humans on sight. In this future, the last remnants of mankind survive in orbital space aboard their ultra-secure technological habitats. Even with their superior science and hard won experience, mysterious...
11) Yesterday's Thief, Tomorrow's Science: A Look at the Real-life Technology Behind Eric Beckman's Worl
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This short nonfiction book takes a look at some of the science and technology described in the popular science fiction novel, Yesterday's Thief.Here are some of the questions it answers:• Can earthquakes be predicted?• Is mind reading possible?• What are space-time crystals?• Do people really try to steal power?• What kind of time travel is possible (and happens every day)?• Is it really possible to artificially inseminate three thousand...
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"Dagger Jameswood Enters the Fourth Dimension" is a science-fiction detective story. The quirky hero faces multiple, ultimately life-threatening challenges on his way to learning how to enter the fourth dimension. It's a fun read with a light touch on the sci-fi, eccentric characters and a great adventure.
13) Baby Babble
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Nikie is a newborn baby who, from the very first moment of her birth, has amazing powers to speak like an adult, make words appear in the air, turn words and sentences into colors and symbols, and speak in mathematical terms. How her parents Nick and Angie and her doctors accept and deal with these amazing and astonishing powers is the essence of Baby Babble.
14) Earth's Last Day
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Earth's Last Day is a dramatic, end-of-times story describing a species extinction event when a comet from the Kuiper Belt collides with Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, and the resulting collision sends thousands of tiny meteorites and five planet ending asteroids hurtling toward Earth with no hope of escape for mankind.
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No one from the present generation will witness the time in question firsthand, but the issues described in the book are well known today. It would be beneficial to acquaint oneself with these earth matters that urgently need to be discussed if just not for the simple reason things you do not know can hurt you. Knowledge is power! The Epic Future World Unknown is a futuristic scenario that follows the personal lives of normal people over the next...
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About the Book A December trail ride in the mysterious Superstition Mountains of Apache Junction, Arizona becomes one of terror and death when uninvited guests appear. Gina McHenry and her group of teacher friends, innocently decide to extend the ride through Massacre Ground, home to a harbor of Ghosts, foot soldiers in the 1860's indicated an abundance of death and terror. Ghost weary wranglers, hired to lead, abandon the group of thirty riders when...
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An alien among us reveals a conspiracy going back centuries -- a conspiracy in which the course of human history has been warped by exiled members of a galactic migration. Living among us, passing as us through an arduous course of corrective surgery, and controlling us through a gift called "The Bonding," the exiles have been forcing us to develop a means to return them to the fleet from which they were cast to the earth. Along the course of development,...
18) The Black Hours
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The Black Hours explores the wondrous and mysterious world of dreams as one man, unknown to us and sleeping somewhere in some time, is taken back through his memorable and even disturbing life experiences through his dreams. And in between his vivid dreams there is just utter darkness and he also must experience these black hours.
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The Singularity is the hypothetical future creation of a superhuman artificially intelligent entity, in the form of a humanoid robot or cyborg, that possesses greater technological, problem-solving and inventive skills than normal humans and, through continuing self-replication, has the potential to attain human consciousness. These superhuman AI entities will have a greater intellect than humans, but will they be wiser? Will they feel pain or love...
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Military pilot Mac Brennan wanted a quiet, peaceful retirement, so he joined a deep space colony, forgotten for 20 years. They promised him lavender grass, clear blue skies, and untold miles of wild, untouched nature. What he found were the destroyed ruins of the original colony, an outdated AI full of riddles, and a young man with no memory of what happened, and an unspeakable fear of night.
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