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Matt Simon

“Informed, utterly blindsiding account.” - Booklist, starred reviewIt’s falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It’s in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It’s microplastic and it’s everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis, one even ...

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Matt Simon

**“A bizarre collection of evolution tales . . . the weirder, the better.” —Entertainment WeeklyA fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, unsettling ingenuity of evolution from Wired writer Matt Simon, author of Plight of the Living Dead (coming soon from Penguin Books)**On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber’s anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, lur...

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Matt Simon

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselvesZombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans.In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind co...

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Matt Simons

In this gripping sequel, Jason Baker awakens from his illness only to witness a new nightmare, for changing the timeline has consequences. Angel's life has been destroyed and his revolutionary breakthrough-a technology that defies the laws of reality-has unleashed unprecedented power and placed Earth's destiny in the crosshairs of a crimson-eyed architect of genocide.As Johnathan Kane shoulders the weight of his family's legacy, stained with his brother's blood, his new mission wil...

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Matt Simons

Sebastian thought he had his future mapped out: criminal justice degree, police academy, following in his grandfather's footsteps. But a failed colorblind test shattered those dreams, leaving him pushing beds and stretchers through the endless halls of a hospital. Nine miles of corridors. Hundreds of patients. And more death than any twenty-six-year-old should have to witness.Between morgue runs and dodging violent patients, Sebastian navigates a world where dark humor is the only ...

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Matt Simons

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End of Earth

Drafted into a world war that no country can win, young Jason is forced to witness the worst of humanity as everyone around him dies before he is thrown back in time by an explosion that kills him. Seemingly trapped in childhood with memories of a hopeless future haunting him, can Jason find a way to stop the war and save millions of lives if no one believes him?See firsthand how trauma changes a person, how quickly a good person can become a violent killer. This is Jason's story.

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Matt Simons

Jason figured it out, but not in time to change the future. He must pass his notes and the task of stopping World War III on to Angel. Once drafted into the military together in a parallel universe, the two are now friends in juvenile detention lockup before they meet in bootcamp. Angel only knows the poor, abused life he's had so far, but the time machine his dying friend wants him to build from his notebooks could change all of that.Young Barry Kane tries to live up to the family...

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Matt Simon

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Holter Graham

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselvesZombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans.In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind co...

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Matt Simon

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Adam Verner

It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis. Dealing with discarded plastic is bad enough, but when it starts to break down, the real trouble begins. The very thing that makes plastic so useful and ubiquitous...

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Matt Simon

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Jonathan Todd Ross

From the man behind the popular Wired series "Absurd Creature of the Week," a fun, fascinating collection of unique animals and the unbelievable evolutionary traits they use to survive the most extreme scenarios From Wired columnist Matt Simon, The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar is an absurdist, comical romp through evolution's weirdest solutions to - appropriately enough - the hazards that evolution itself produces. Each original entry talks about a creature and its amazing adaptat...

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Simon Stranger

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Matt Bagguley

An extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events--an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called homeOn a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Bef...

The Brown Government provides an interim evaluation of Gordon Brown’s Labour administration through identifying continuities and discontinuities with the Blair governments from 1997. By focusing on key ideas and areas of public policy it presents an analysis of the first 18 months of Brown’s government. This book is notable for its topicality particularly for the discussions of the credit crunch, the British banking crises and the interconnectedness of these events with the global economic...