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Author: J. A. Henderson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780152062408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a scientific experiment goes haywire, a hidden military base is thrown into chaos and its up to a small group of genius teens that lives there to find a way out of certain destruction.
Author: Joshua Hale Fialkov
Publisher: Oni Press
Published: 2015-03-25
Total Pages: 26
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe future's in bad shape. Droughts have made things even worse. For one couple in the midwest, everything hinges on a routine trip to the store. In this stunning issue drawn by Brahm Revel (Marvel Knights: X-Men, Guerillas), the darkest parts of the future are revealed.
Author: Sebastien Brebel
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 1564789829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dilapidated seaside villa whose interior opens upon a landscape of memory and madness is the setting for this story about the ways our homes come to define our personalities. The narrator of Villa Bunker receives letters, dozens of them, written by his mother in an isolated seaside villa, which tell of his parents’ troubles in this uninhabitable house, which is soon to become a kind of labyrinth roamed by memories and long-buried feelings. At first the narrator’s parents fret most about the villa’s physical deterioration, but soon their own psychological deterioration becomes the inescapable focus of their stories. Is their joint madness due to the villa’s aberrant architecture? Or is the isolation of the villa to blame? Or were they mad all along? The narrator is left to decipher the clues, himself in turn becoming prey to his own house, which like memory and time, seems in a state of permanent metamorphosis.
Author: Nick Bunker
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1101872802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.
Author: Bradley Garrett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-08-03
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1501188569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears- from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now, an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus. The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us, in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds.
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 756
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.
Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2011-01-15
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1448818672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the 1944 Allied raid to secure Pointe-du-Hoc during D-Day in World War II, including the army forces who executed the raid, the challenges of securing the area, and how the raid affected the outcome of the invasion at Normandy.
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bair Irincheev
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 184908100X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the wake of the bloody civil war that followed Finland's independence from Russia in 1917, the border between the two countries was established across the Karelian Isthmus, an area long fought over by Russia, Finland and Sweden in their attempts to dominate the northern tip of Europe. Neither the Soviets nor the Finnish were comfortable with such a divide which was only 32km from the military and industrial city of Petrograd. As such, both sides began an intensive period of fortification and defensive planning. As the Winter War broke out in November 1939, the complex and heavily defended Mannerheim Line suffered intense bombardment. The armistice of 1940 saw Finland cede control of the entire Karelian Isthmus to the USSR, and a propaganda war ensued. Through an analysis of the background, and operational history of the Mannerheim Line, Bair Irincheev attempts to dispel such myths and provide an accurate assessment of its huge historical importance.
