If Hovercraft Can Go Anywhere, How Did We End Up Here?


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If Hovercraft Can Go Anywhere, How Did We End Up Here? tells the stories of two hovercraft fixers who gave up some of the best years of their lives to repair and commission hovercraft all over the world. Unfortunately, the places that need hovercraft are tough, rugged, god-forsaken and not in the least bit glamorous - just like John and Russ, in fact. Whether impounded in the docks, in pieces in a hanger or strapped to a stranded lorry, as John once put it, "There's always a bloody hovercraft waiting to be fixed."




Cyborg Force Collection One


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On a dangerous sand-covered planet, secrets won’t remain buried for very long. Cyborg Force Collection One is a science fiction romance two-volume boxed set containing Blown Away and Gale Force, books 1 & 2 of the series. Blown Away (Cyborg Force 1) Astrogeologist Breeze O’Day takes a research job on a faraway sand-blasted alien world. She’s on the brink of a major scientific discovery when her hovercraft crashes in a violent sandstorm, nearly killing her. On furlough from C-Force because of PTSD, cyborg Tack Grayson does not want company. But when he happens upon a downed hovercraft, he’s forced to rescue the unconscious passenger. As Breeze recovers, and they wait out the storm in his tiny cabin, unexpected respect and chemistry ignites between them. But both of them have dangers in the past that won’t remain buried, and when the storm blows over, the deadliest perils are yet to come. Gayle Force (Cyborg Force 2) Gayle Chambers always dreamed of studying alien life, but dangerous, corrupt officials would just as soon see her dead as allow her research come to light. To make a bad situation worse, her bodyguard turns out to be her ex-husband who broke her heart. Axel Vander’s dream had been to become a cyborg and save the world. Then he met and married the love of his life, the brilliant, ambitious Dr. Gayle Chambers. He never fathomed joining C-Force would destroy their marriage. He’s never gotten over the betrayal, but he’ll perform his duty and keep her safe. Braving fierce dust storms and deadly government machinations, they’ll race against the clock to save an alien intelligence. But can Axel and Gayle regain the love they once had before time runs out?




Congressional Record


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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)




Evolution


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Clementine's world is on the brink of destruction. An army of aliens from the distant planet Marden has arrived with a massive fleet of battleships, intent on finally putting an end to the war Kiel's old rulers initiated. With the Alliance headquarters reduced to rubble and one of the rebel leaders close to death, Clementine and her friends have no choice but to retreat to the Core to escape the alien ships attacking the Surface. But safety in the Core means forming a temporary alliance with their sworn enemy, Commander Charlie. He's a ruthless man and a liar, but striking a bargain with him—his pardon in exchange for their help defeating the Mardenites—is the only way the rebels might survive the war. And Charlie needs their help too, for Marden's force is more powerful than anyone anticipated, with weapons and technologies never before seen on Kiel. Unless old feuds can be set aside long enough for a diplomatic solution to be found, all of Kiel's people will be destroyed, and everything Clementine and her friends have sacrificed in their fight for peace will have been for nothing.




Perfect Dark Zero


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Your guide to perfection. • Complete single-player strategies showing every possible route and methods through all 14 missions • Insanely detailed weapons guide includes full stats, plus primary, secondary, and tertiary fire tactics for each piece of killing ordnance • Every gadget, vehicle, and destructible object revealed • Tactics to complete every single-player game in Dark Agent difficulty • Get the jump on the online competition with maps and strategy for every multiplayer level • Detailed breakdowns of every weapon set for online agents • Maps and areas of interest guide you through every level




The Politics of Panem


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The Hunger Games trilogy is a popular culture success. Embraced by adults as well as adolescents, Suzanne Collins’s bestselling books have inspired an equally popular film franchise. But what, if anything, can reading the Hunger Games tell us about what it means to be human in the world today? What complex social and political issues does the trilogy invite readers to explore? Does it merely entertain, or does it also instruct? Bringing together scholars in literacy education and the humanities, The Politics of Panem: Challenging Genres examines how the Hunger Games books and films, when approached from the standpoint of theory, can challenge readers and viewers intellectually. At the same time, by subjecting Collins’s trilogy to literary criticism, this collection of essays challenges its complexity as an example of dystopian literature for adolescents. How can applying philosophic frameworks such as those attributable to Socrates and Foucault to the Hunger Games trilogy deepen our appreciation for the issues it raises? What, if anything, can we learn from considering fan responses to the Hunger Games? How might adapting the trilogy for film complicate its ability to engage in sharp-edged social criticism? By exploring these and other questions, The Politics of Panem: Challenging Genres invites teachers, students, and fans of the Hunger Games to consider how Collins’s trilogy, as a representative of young adult dystopian fiction, functions as a complex narrative. In doing so, it highlights questions and issues that lend themselves to critical exploration in secondary and college classrooms.




On a Cushion of Air


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This is the story of how private foreign enterprise in the form of Swedish Lloyd and Swedish America Line, who formed a British company called 'Hoverlloyd', galvanised the British Government in to supporting this new concept in transport through the formation of a British Rail subsidiary called 'Seaspeed'.




Dawn's Early Light


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Working for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, one sees innumerable technological wonders. But even veteran agents Braun and Books are unprepared for what the electrifying future holds in the third novel in the steampunk adventure series. After being ignominiously shipped out of England following their participation in the Janus affair, Braun and Books are ready to prove their worth as agents. But what starts as a simple mission in the States—intended to keep them out of trouble—suddenly turns into a scandalous and convoluted case that has connections reaching as far as Her Majesty the Queen. Even with the help of two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical, Braun and Books have their work cut out for them as their chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is none other than Thomas Edison. Between the fantastic electric machines of Edison, the eccentricities of MoPO consultant Nikola Tesla, and the mysterious machinations of a new threat known only as the Maestro, they may find themselves in far worse danger than they ever have been in before…




Checkmating Aliens


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Has the corrupted alien captain coverted "Operation Earth Shield" to "Operation Kill Earth?" The Doomsday question confronting both: humans living on man-made islands due to water-logged earth land erosion; and, the alien planet's rulers who had sent their navy captain on the rescue mission. Another dilemma: What's the connection between this crisis and the alien children growing up as humans, who were secretly planted on earth by unknown beings for reasons not yet discovered? And, what about those mysterious blue-skinned species being who reveal themselves only to these homo-alien children? Will the truant captain controlling the fate of two planets win?




Once Upon a Mouse


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Yougodid has trained his whole life for the battle that is about to ensue. Find out what it is he’s fighting for and how the future of the world is at stake in this page-turning novella.