If humans were to go extinct, what would follow? Orcas are the ocean's top predator and as the land is essentially empty, they evolve to come on land. Many orcas believe they are the first sentient species on the land but one astute orca has other ideas. He has exceptional sonar abilities and can see the outline of a bunker left by the last human on earth. What will he find there? How will those who believe they were first handle this new information?

The book outlines possible scenarios for the first life based on published scientific papers. The book outlines a series of steps towards the formation of LUCA, the organism ancestral to all life on earth. All steps are from literature referenced articles.

Abigail Frayler is unaware of why people are acting strange around her, be it her adopted father or her friends. She is unaware that evil shapeshifters on a reconnaissance mission want to cause the destruction of mankind. Her planet is better known as Mars, which was destroyed in World War Two and is now a red, barren planet. Abigail fails to realise that her adopted father’s new girlfriend, Rachel Miller, is a shapeshifter of a lizard race of beings known as dracons.

For Abigail fryler is unlike other girls her age due to being a superhero who happens to be a trainee spy as well due to wearing a magical necklace none as a symbiotic necklace made of Nano and organic on materials as she is an ontore female being a kind of elves humanoid. So she finds herself being deported back and forward in time and sideways in otter cosmic realms on the hunt for an evil emperor wizard none as zarn and to his side kick associate strife the troll who is the mastermind o...

From one of America's most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from fifty language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White.With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Stephen King would be more appropriate. Then again, what about the classics -- Strunk and White, or even Ar...

One of America's most influential writing teachers offers writing lessons we can draw from twenty-five great texts.Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made.In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through s...

Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts.Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through...

A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the...

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing." How to Write Short is a deeply practical guidebook and an annotated collection of concise gems from some of the world's greatest writers and journalists, not one of them longer than 300 words. Roy's message is clear: great writing is a matter of craft, not word count. How to Wri...

America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headl...

America's favorite writing coach returns with a guide to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation.The darker and more dystopian the future appears, the more influential public writers become. But with so much content vying for our attention, and so much misinformation and propaganda polluting public discourse, how can writers break through the noise to inform an increasingly busy, stressed, and overwhelmed audience?

America's favorite writing coach and bestselling author returns with an "indispensable" guide (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation.The darker and more dystopian the future appears, the more influential public writers become. But with so much content vying for our attention, and so much misinformation and propaganda polluting public discourse, how can writers break th...