2077: Neo-Cairo suffocates. A toxic shroud blankets the city, while colossal Carbon Cathedrals, monuments to corporate deception, bleed the atmosphere of its lifeblood – oxygen. The elite, sheltered in their bio-domes, breathe easy, ignorant of the slow asphyxiation of the masses below. But in the oxygen-starved slums, a spark ignites.Malik Hassan, a brilliant engineer driven to desperation, hijacks a Cathedral, diverting its precious air to his dying district. His act of defiance ...

This book provides in-depth coverage of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency that manages the national wildlife refuge system, protects endangered species, and conducts fish and wildlife research. In addition to detailing the history and organization of the service, the authors take a hard look at its current—and often controversi

In a world obsessed with charts, indicators, and short-term signals, most traders miss the only thing that truly moves markets: real value.The Raw Edge strips away the noise of technical analysis and reveals a deeper framework for day trading—one grounded in:global wealth creation,capital allocation,and the underlying assets that power the modern economy.From the high-income economies of Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland, and...

Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 7 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 24 minutes"The Blithedale Romance" is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1852. The story takes place in the mid-1800s and revolves around the conflict between the ideals of a communist community called Blithedale and the private des...

‘The Scarlet Letter: A Romance’ is a masterpiece of historical fiction set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1642 to 1649. Exploring themes of legalism, sin and guilt, it tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a child out of wedlock and then struggles to create a new life of dignity. ‘The Scarlet Letter’ was one of the earliest mass-produced books in America and a best-seller. It is still highly regarded in literary circles.

The environmental movement today is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessment of the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders and activists, including Barry Commoner, Stewart Udall, William K. Reilly, Gus Speth, Jay Hair, Lois Gibbs, Michael Frome, Chuck Little, and William Futrell.

Tales of Lost Souls: 400+ Ghost Stories in One Collection maps the extraordinary breadth of supernatural fiction from Gothic romance to psychological horror, antiquarian terror, folkloric fantasy, and modern ghostly unease. Its vast assembly moves through ruined estates, cursed objects, spectral visitations, doubles, revenants, and haunted domestic spaces, demonstrating how the ghost story continually adapts to changing fears. Alongside classic Gothic atmospheres, readers encounter tales o...

The Big Book of Ghost Stories: 140 Horror Novels & Short Story Collections maps the ghostly imagination across the Gothic, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, and modern traditions. Its capacious selection ranges from ancestral curses, haunted houses, doubles, revenants, and spectral revenge to psychologically ambiguous apparitions and folkloric visitations. Novels and short fiction mingle with fairy-tale, sensation, decadent, imperial, and supernatural-investigation modes, revealing how the g...

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as "The Snowstorm", "Lucerne", "The Diary of a Madman", and "The Devil" are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious thought that characterizes Tolstoy's w...

Dark, mysterious, unforgettable — the master of Gothic horror and mystery in one collection. Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential writers of the 19th century, created stories and poems that continue to haunt and inspire readers worldwide. The Edgar Allan Poe Collection gathers his complete tales of horror, mystery, poetry, and the macabre into one definitive volume. Why readers love it: A complete treasury. Includes Poe's short stories, poems, and groundbreaking works of detective ...

This book contains several tables of HTML content for easy reading. The novels are sorted in chronological order. content: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving On Ghosts by Mary Shelley The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens Schalken the Painter by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Curious, If True: Strange Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell The Haunted House by Charles Dickens Ultor...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Dickens' Christmas Stories (20 original stories as published between the years 1850 and 1867 in collaboration with Wilkie Collins and others in Dickens' own Magazines)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Not to be confused with Dicken's well known Christmas Tales (A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man) this eBook presents a collection of 20 short stories...