Explorer Probe VI, a spacecraft launched by NASA in 1972, was designed to investigate the outer bodies of Neptune and the lesser dwarf Pluto. The probe was the flagship of the Explorer series. It was programmed with the latest artificial intelligence enabling it to survive on its voyage for many years in distant, cold interstellar space. This artificial intelligence was endowed with a capacity for being almost self-aware.After the completion of its assignment, it was programmed to ...

In the heart of Sin City, two men on opposite sides of the law collide in a dangerous game of power, passion, and betrayal.Isaac Thoreau, the son of a notorious crime boss, has spent nine years behind bars for his father's murder. Driven, cunning, and unfeeling, he's now back to claim what's rightfully his. But when an enigmatic security guard named Hawk is hired to work at his nightclub, Isaac finds himself distracted… and inexplicably drawn to Hawk, despite his b...

It's 1971, and 7-year-old Mishel Manoucherian's family has packed up their life in Tehran and moved to Los Angeles, launching him headfirst into a disorienting new world of social and schoolyard expectations. At once a witty and warm exploration of the immigrant journey and coming of age tale, American Playground illuminates the Iranian American experience through a child's unique perspective.Armed with a handful of English words, a fiery mother who uses h...

Atlanta PD's best, Detective Lieutenant Noah McGraw and his partner, Detective Sergeant Holly Roark, are on the hunt once again for a deranged killer. This time, they're up against a real-life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a scientist of great talent—and great violence when things don't go his way.Dr. Michael Mordecai has spent his whole life searching for a cure to aging—and he's finally found it. There's just one thing standing in the way of him reaping his millions: his by-the-book r...

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritu...

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's sixty-year history. These are real Mission: Impossible true stories brimming with high-octane action—from the breathtaking capture o...

First time in ebook format, this biography of Isaac Newton reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries. In this ‘ground breaking biography’ Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac Newton and reveals a portrait of the scientist as the last sorcerer.According to traditional accounts, Newton was the first modern scientist . As creator of the theory of gravity, calculus, modern theories of light and...

Step by Step Coaching: Absolute Beginner Japanese Grammar and Vocabulary.Everything you need to go from absolutely nothing to actually speaking and understanding simple Japanese.The Benefits of This Audiobook:Step by Step Program: Be expertly guided through all of the Japanese grammar and vocabulary you will need to start speaking with confidence. Our clear and straight forward explanations are perfect even if you d...

Learn to speak in Spanish about the things that matter to you.Massively improve your Spanish vocabulary and speaking skills through reading about these 32 everyday topics.Who is it for?If you are a high beginner with a good understanding of basic grammar and vocabulary then this is the book to help you to take your Spanish to the next level.How does it work?Each article covers a topic that you would ...

Isaac Newton's influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radical new theory of light and created a calculus that would revolutionize mathematics. His theory of matter in motion sparked the Industrial Revolution. But there was far more to Newton even than these great discoveries.Opening with an informative foreword by the bestselling author of The Body Bill Bryson, the book is then divided into two parts: a biographical essay that provides a c...

Imagined by one of the world's foremost Newton scholars, this fictionalized conversation presents the essential biography of one of the greatest scientific minds of all time.Isaac Newton's influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radical new theory of light and created a calculus that would revolutionize mathematics. His theory of matter in motion sparked the Industrial Revolution. But there was far more to Newton even than these great disco...

Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis last volume in the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964 contains eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and...