Seven teens trapped underground after an earthquake discover that the only person who knows their location is a criminal who would rather them dead.For sixteen-year-old Mollie Fox, selling earthquake insurance is just a way to keep her beloved Jeep on the road. But when the Big One actually does strike California, Mollie finds herself living her worst nightmare. Trapped in a basement office beneath a collapsed shopping mall, Mollie makes two startling discoveries: ...

When her childhood friend is accused of being a drug courier, the seventeen-year-old amateur sleuth travels to the scene to prove her friend's innocence.Mollie Fox has known Meredith Hughes since third grade. So when Meredith is busted for drug possession upon returning to San Francisco from a New York City fashion shoot, Mollie is certain her friend is being framed. Everyone else at Bayside High is convinced that Meredith is guilty simply because she's wealthy, be...

When a teenage amateur sleuth accompanies her best friend on a road trip to find her missing boyfriend, they drive straight into a small-town conspiracy.With her BFF in a panic over her boyfriend's disappearance, Mollie Fox decides she and Roberta need to take matters into their own hands if they hope to find Jaime alive. But soon after driving to the small town where Jaime was last seen, the two girls realize they may as well have taken a road trip to the Twilight...

Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon are off on their next Creature Keepers mission in the second book in this epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.Gearing up for a triumphant return to South Florida, and their new position as honorary Creature Keepers, Abbie and Jordan are surprised when it turns out they are actually heading north of the border to Canada for their summer vacation. With Creature Keepers t...

Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon travel to the snowy Himalayas to find the Yeti and save the world in the third book in the epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, Creature Keepers, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.Although the Creature Keepers were able to defeat Chupacabra, their nemesis still managed to get his claws on one of Bigfoots Soil Soles. Now he needs only one more item of mythological power to wreak havoc across the globe. ...

Meta-Xenakis offers readers a comprehensive collection of insights into the history, works and legacy of Iannis Xenakis, one of the twentieth century’s most significant creative figures. It presents a transcontinental engagement with his life and output, focusing as much on the impact of the questions he posed as on the accomplishments of his body of work.This volume evolved out of the multi-modal, international Meta-Xenakis Consortium’s artistic and scholarly events commemorating ...

A guide from the premier treehouse designer: "Stunning photos of fanciful houses . . . To browse through Nelson's book is to fantasize about life in midair." — The Washington Post Book WorldThe host of Animal Planet's Treehouse Masters and the world's best-known treehouse designer and builder, Pete Nelsonwants to put you in a tree. His motto: "Get 'er done, so you can BE in a TREE." With this book he provides a comprehensive source of inspiration a...

For kids who love the Origami Yoda and Zombie Chasers series comes the first book in an epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, starring some of history's best-known mythical beasts, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.Twelve-year-old Jordan Grimsley has moved with his family into an old, abandoned house in Florida that belonged to his long-lost grandfather. While clearing stuff out of the attic, Jordan finds a scrapbook filled with...

This book proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary landscape and offers a synthesis of art history, geography, game studies and play. Like paint on canvas, the game engine is taken as the underlying medium, and using the Valve Source Engine as the primary case study, it analyses landscapes according to the technical, economic and cultural features this medium affords. It presents the single-player first-person shooter (Half-Life 2) as a Promethean saf...

An epically hilarious, fully illustrated adventure seriesAbbie, Jordan, and Eldon band together with their cryptid friends in an attempt to save the world in the final book in this fun series.As summer draws to an end, Jordan and Abbie Grimsley are moving with their parents from the city into their long-lost grandfather’s house in the Florida everglades. But before they settle into their new life, they’re taking a completely ordinary, creature-free cruise t...

The year 2120 may appear a long way into the future but will come quickly. The global population reached one billion in 1804, four billion in 1974, six billion in 1999, seven billion in 2012, and nine billion predicted for 2020. Given the speed of current development under the threat of changing climate, this book attempts to project ahead but with a particular focus. Housing and feeding so many people is about saving the planet while laying the foundations for a quality of life that is wi...

The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below -- better than when the shells exploded in the trenches . . .In A More Unbending Battle, journalist and author Pete Nelson chronicles the little-known story of the 369th Infantry Regiment -- the first African-American regiment mustere...