The champions of BioWare's award winning series embark on thrilling interstellar expeditions through alien war and existential crisis, struggling for peace and fighting for the right to survive.Mass Effect's vibrant world is teeming with conflict, and always on the edge of tipping into despair--but there are some who still struggle to maintain order in the chaos and secure the future of the galaxy. Join Liara as she teams up with the Drell Feron to recover...

Can you die impaled by a straw, killed by a slug, crushed by a cow that fell from the sky, poisoned by a carrot, or choke on a laugh? NO? Well yes, it is possible... Unfortunately. You will discover the 100 most absurd and tragic, sometimes funny, ways to die, which will make you feel cold and smile at the same time. Each one is a reminder of the unbearable fragility of existence and the need to avoid risky behaviour.

Best intentions can go suck it.I walked into a dark alley with the best of intentions, and look where that got me. Drugged, kidnapped, and thrown into a world I didn't even know existed.Now I'm being held captive by a hot as sin vampire, whilst trying not to be killed by his wife, and, oh yeah, he's the leader of the Russian Mob and I'm suddenly a target. Go me.Safe to say, I'm not sure I'll do anything for anyone ever again.Follow Benji...

From New York Times bestselling authors Mac Barnett and Jory John comes a deviously funny series about fitting in, making your mark, and finding a friend where you least expect one.This ebook collection brings together all four laugh-out-loud books that have captivated young readers and prank enthusiasts alike.“A double helping of fun and mischief.” —Jeff Kinney, author, Diary of a Wimpy KidBook 1: The Terrible Two...

EddieWhen my best friend drags me to a vampire dinner club as her wingman, I'm determined—I won't end up on the menu. No eye contact. No flirting. Definitely no biting.Then he appears. Deadly attractive with a voice smooth like velvet, he murmurs into my ear, his lips graze my wrist, and I forget my resolve. The rush of his venom in my veins feels like falling off the world's edge. The lust consumes me, intoxicating and irreversible.I leave in a daz...

Soils and Landscape Restoration provides a multidisciplinary synthesis on the sustainable management and restoration of soils in various landscapes. The book presents applicable knowledge of above- and below-ground interactions and biome specific realizations along with in-depth investigations of particular soil degradation pathways. It focuses on severely degraded soils (e.g., eroded, salinized, mined) as well as the restoration of wetlands, grasslands and forests. The book addresses the ...

Part 1 of 4. Take a beautifully simplistic journey of fact and modern theory across the mysteries of our Universe in this first part of a quadrilogy of E-books. Discover the amazing you and the quantum certainty of another you, to the birth of a Universe in a Multi-verse, to the formation of a solar system, the Earth and our biblical legends. Discover our puzzling directionality of time to the realm of invisible dark matter, a brief visit to the world of particle physics and our mortality ...

Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that’s famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. In his old school, everyone knew him as the town’s best prankster, but Miles quickly discovers that Yawnee Valley already has a prankster, and a great one. If Miles is going to take the title from this mystery kid, he is going to have to raise his game.It’s prankster against prankster in an epic war of trickery, until the two finally decide to join forces and...

Born in 1907 Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan's early modern poets. A bohemian romantic, his death at the early age of thirty, coupled with the delicacy of his imagery, have led to him being compared to the greatest of French symbolist poets.Since the Second World War, Nakahara's stature has risen, and his poetry is now ranked among the finest Japanese verse of the 20th century. Influenced by both Symbolism and Dada, he created lyrics renowned for th...

It’s Miles and Niles’s final year at Yawnee Valley Science and Letters Academy, and the Terrible Two have one goal: an epic prank. Something big, something brilliant, something that will leave a lasting legacy at their school. Which should be easy-peasy for these experts, especially now that their principal has gone from archnemesis to pranking protégé.But their smooth sailing gets downright bumpy when they find out that the new superintendent is none other than Bertrand Barkin, the...

Everyone’s favorite pranksters are at it again! School’s out, and Miles and Niles are running wild in the woods outside town: climbing trees, exploring caves, and, yes, pranking. But these leafy, lazy days of mischief darken when bully Josh Barkin and his cadets from a nearby kids’ boot camp discover the merrymakers—and vow to destroy them. Are our heroes’ sharp minds any match for these hooligans’ hard fists? The latest installment of the witty, on-target illustrated series is another “fa...

On their own, pranksters Miles and Niles were pretty devious. Now that they’ve formed a pranking duo, they’re terrible! But their powers will be tested when their favorite nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern and cunning father, Former Principal Barkin. Now Miles and Niles will do just about anything to get their old antagonist back—including pranking alongside him.Authors and friends Mac Barnett and Jory John “are in perfect comic harmony” (Publishers Weekly