Author: Jonathon Waterman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105041425
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Krypton Software has learned of the Nationwide software contest their biggest competitor is sponsoring. And with Paul Pontiac and Tim Hegler being not only co-developers of the best-selling PC Game Titan Industries offers, but also members of Gibsonville High School's Computer Club - the executives at Krypton are out to steal Gibsonville's entry - NO MATTER THE COST! Come join the exciting corporate espionage adventure within the pages of: Plutonium's Revenge - Where Death, Deception, and Corporate Espionage Meet
Plutonium's Revenge
Author: Jonathon Waterman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105041425
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Krypton Software has learned of the Nationwide software contest their biggest competitor is sponsoring. And with Paul Pontiac and Tim Hegler being not only co-developers of the best-selling PC Game Titan Industries offers, but also members of Gibsonville High School's Computer Club - the executives at Krypton are out to steal Gibsonville's entry - NO MATTER THE COST! Come join the exciting corporate espionage adventure within the pages of: Plutonium's Revenge - Where Death, Deception, and Corporate Espionage Meet
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105041425
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Krypton Software has learned of the Nationwide software contest their biggest competitor is sponsoring. And with Paul Pontiac and Tim Hegler being not only co-developers of the best-selling PC Game Titan Industries offers, but also members of Gibsonville High School's Computer Club - the executives at Krypton are out to steal Gibsonville's entry - NO MATTER THE COST! Come join the exciting corporate espionage adventure within the pages of: Plutonium's Revenge - Where Death, Deception, and Corporate Espionage Meet
Hopeless Love
Author: Jonathon Waterman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304980774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
When one is in love, the world seems to be a beautiful place. At least, that's the way things appeared for recently graduated Maria Vargas and José Mendez.Plans were already in place. After getting their degrees from the University of Tarapacáe, they would start promising careers, and soon afterward, get married.However, good plans, sometimes unexpectedly get changed.Maria's mother had decided to visit her oldest daughter in Ft. Lauderdale - And while she was there, Maria would start her college freshman year at Miami's Florida International University.COULD JOSÉ AND MARIA'S RELATIONSHIP SURVIVE SUCH A LONG SEPARATION?Not if Maria's arch enemy, Michelle Mantez, had her way about it.NOT TO MENTION, unwelcomed rumors about José has started to grow. He's been seen frequenting Arica's most prominent gay bar, El Gato Feliz.PLEASE join us as we travel through one of the most adventurous and convoluted romantic stories, you might ever see - HOPELESS LOVE.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304980774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
When one is in love, the world seems to be a beautiful place. At least, that's the way things appeared for recently graduated Maria Vargas and José Mendez.Plans were already in place. After getting their degrees from the University of Tarapacáe, they would start promising careers, and soon afterward, get married.However, good plans, sometimes unexpectedly get changed.Maria's mother had decided to visit her oldest daughter in Ft. Lauderdale - And while she was there, Maria would start her college freshman year at Miami's Florida International University.COULD JOSÉ AND MARIA'S RELATIONSHIP SURVIVE SUCH A LONG SEPARATION?Not if Maria's arch enemy, Michelle Mantez, had her way about it.NOT TO MENTION, unwelcomed rumors about José has started to grow. He's been seen frequenting Arica's most prominent gay bar, El Gato Feliz.PLEASE join us as we travel through one of the most adventurous and convoluted romantic stories, you might ever see - HOPELESS LOVE.
The Question
Author: Jonathon Waterman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105147894
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Being a young teenager in today's world is hard enough. But can you imagine what it would be like to have been raised in a big city like Hollywood, Florida and through no fault of your own you are suddenly forced to reside in the rural backwoods of North Carolina? E-e-k! And if that wasn't bad enough. What if just shortly before school starts you discover: Not only are you going to have to attend a K-12th grade school. Your mother is going to be the school's new guidance counselor. Heaven Forbid - That's worse than being a Preacher's son. Come join the non-stop, unpredictable adventures in thirteen-year-old Paul Pontiac's world as it gets turned completely upside down because of a single careless answer to: The Question
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105147894
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Being a young teenager in today's world is hard enough. But can you imagine what it would be like to have been raised in a big city like Hollywood, Florida and through no fault of your own you are suddenly forced to reside in the rural backwoods of North Carolina? E-e-k! And if that wasn't bad enough. What if just shortly before school starts you discover: Not only are you going to have to attend a K-12th grade school. Your mother is going to be the school's new guidance counselor. Heaven Forbid - That's worse than being a Preacher's son. Come join the non-stop, unpredictable adventures in thirteen-year-old Paul Pontiac's world as it gets turned completely upside down because of a single careless answer to: The Question
Depth of Revenge
Author: Richard Golden
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440115273
Category : Submarines (Ships)
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Gilad commands an Israeli submarine equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. Nuclear detonations in Israel and attacks against Israeli embassies leave him with no way to receive orders from civilian or military authorities. A letter written by the prime minister before the mission provides his only instruction. The submarine crew dodges attacks from foreign navies, replenishes food and fuel far from home, and faces a deadly fire. As tensions rise, Gilad must persuade his own officers and crew, as well as the vengeful commander of a second Israeli submarine, of his decisions. A feisty female intelligence officer onboard helps, but provides unexpected challenges. Now, with millions of lives at stake, Gilad has difficult choices ones that may decide the fate of the free world. The review by Slate.com columnist Ron Rosenbaum dated May 08, 2009 is reproduced below following its url. http://www.slate.com/id/2217899/ I want to return to Cormac McCarthy and the mystery he leaves us with at the end of his novel. But before I do I want to point out that not all of the new nuclear novels deserve the nuke porn label. I want to recommend one nuclear war novel that rises above nuke porn and takes an all-too-sober look at the way nuclear war could consume us. Depth of Revenge by Richard Golden came to my attention in an unusual way. It's not an airport bookstore production but comes from a small self-publishing company called iUniverse. After my recent column on "The Letter of Last Resort" about the safe within the safe on British subs that contains the prime minister's handwritten instructions on what the captain should do in terms of retaliation should the sub be cut off from a potentially incinerated United Kingdom by a "decapitating strike."
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440115273
Category : Submarines (Ships)
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Gilad commands an Israeli submarine equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. Nuclear detonations in Israel and attacks against Israeli embassies leave him with no way to receive orders from civilian or military authorities. A letter written by the prime minister before the mission provides his only instruction. The submarine crew dodges attacks from foreign navies, replenishes food and fuel far from home, and faces a deadly fire. As tensions rise, Gilad must persuade his own officers and crew, as well as the vengeful commander of a second Israeli submarine, of his decisions. A feisty female intelligence officer onboard helps, but provides unexpected challenges. Now, with millions of lives at stake, Gilad has difficult choices ones that may decide the fate of the free world. The review by Slate.com columnist Ron Rosenbaum dated May 08, 2009 is reproduced below following its url. http://www.slate.com/id/2217899/ I want to return to Cormac McCarthy and the mystery he leaves us with at the end of his novel. But before I do I want to point out that not all of the new nuclear novels deserve the nuke porn label. I want to recommend one nuclear war novel that rises above nuke porn and takes an all-too-sober look at the way nuclear war could consume us. Depth of Revenge by Richard Golden came to my attention in an unusual way. It's not an airport bookstore production but comes from a small self-publishing company called iUniverse. After my recent column on "The Letter of Last Resort" about the safe within the safe on British subs that contains the prime minister's handwritten instructions on what the captain should do in terms of retaliation should the sub be cut off from a potentially incinerated United Kingdom by a "decapitating strike."
The Plutonium Standard
Author: Charles Turek
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411608259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In a perfect world, technology would rise to the needs of a free society and provide the means for sustenance and defense of that society. A contemporary example is atomic energy, which provided both the means to win a world war and a supply of cheap energy for the luxuries of growing western economies.Should the discredited promise of nuclear power be called upon to throw off the fears of proliferation and tackle the problem of short-term energy shortages and high fuel prices? Can we trust ourselves, in a free society, to manage this awesome responsibility?The Plutonium Standard is a cautionary tale of how one man's dream of technological superiority could turn the promise of cheap and unlimited fuel supplies into a trading game leading to ultimate destruction.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411608259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In a perfect world, technology would rise to the needs of a free society and provide the means for sustenance and defense of that society. A contemporary example is atomic energy, which provided both the means to win a world war and a supply of cheap energy for the luxuries of growing western economies.Should the discredited promise of nuclear power be called upon to throw off the fears of proliferation and tackle the problem of short-term energy shortages and high fuel prices? Can we trust ourselves, in a free society, to manage this awesome responsibility?The Plutonium Standard is a cautionary tale of how one man's dream of technological superiority could turn the promise of cheap and unlimited fuel supplies into a trading game leading to ultimate destruction.
The Plutonium Blonde
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 1625670486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Zachary Nixon Johnson is the last private eye on earth (long story, starts here). And in the pop culture-crazed, deco-inspired world of 2057, that makes him a bit of a celebrity. It also makes him a magnet for trouble. In his years as a PI, Zach has seen a lot of strange things and solved a lot of crazy cases. But when the famous BB Starr, a former exotic dancer who is now the CEO of the world’s largest corporation, hires him to find her illegal, plutonium-powered, psychotic android clone, Zach knows that the weirdness of his life is about to get a whole lot weirder. Once Zach takes the case, his life is suddenly filled with unwanted publicity, uncommon dangers, and unexplained assassination attempts. He realizes that not only is this case more trouble than it’s worth, but the mystery of the missing android is deeper than he thought. Together with his beautiful, kick-boxing surgeon girlfriend Electra, his genius inventor tech expert Randy, and his holographic, sentient super-computer sidekick HARV, Zach must find a way to unravel the mystery, find the missing android, and quite possibly save all humanity from total destruction. What some guys will do for five thousand credits per day, plus expenses. REVIEWS An excellent first novel in the style of the great Douglas Adams ... This novel can be universally recommended to anyone with a funny bone. --Cinescape Surprisingly clever ... spoofs the genre and everything else in sight. --Science Fiction Chronicle (Best of '01) A fast-paced science fiction noir thriller that has entertaining plot twists. --Romantic Times Fast-paced, witty and shrewd ... futuristic pulp for the thinking reader ... No one who got two paragraphs into this dark, droll, downright irresistible novel could ever bear to put it down until the last heart pounding moment. --SF Site A tongue-in-cheek hardboiled attitude .. good fun for those who can handle the concentrated doses of humor. --Locus Manages to blend the pulpy hard-boiled detective genre with pulpy sf for an entertaining read that pokes fun at both. The writing and dialogue is snappy and smart and the story is fast paced. I can't recommend enough for anyone looking for a fun twist on sf and detective novels. --Pink Raygun
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 1625670486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Zachary Nixon Johnson is the last private eye on earth (long story, starts here). And in the pop culture-crazed, deco-inspired world of 2057, that makes him a bit of a celebrity. It also makes him a magnet for trouble. In his years as a PI, Zach has seen a lot of strange things and solved a lot of crazy cases. But when the famous BB Starr, a former exotic dancer who is now the CEO of the world’s largest corporation, hires him to find her illegal, plutonium-powered, psychotic android clone, Zach knows that the weirdness of his life is about to get a whole lot weirder. Once Zach takes the case, his life is suddenly filled with unwanted publicity, uncommon dangers, and unexplained assassination attempts. He realizes that not only is this case more trouble than it’s worth, but the mystery of the missing android is deeper than he thought. Together with his beautiful, kick-boxing surgeon girlfriend Electra, his genius inventor tech expert Randy, and his holographic, sentient super-computer sidekick HARV, Zach must find a way to unravel the mystery, find the missing android, and quite possibly save all humanity from total destruction. What some guys will do for five thousand credits per day, plus expenses. REVIEWS An excellent first novel in the style of the great Douglas Adams ... This novel can be universally recommended to anyone with a funny bone. --Cinescape Surprisingly clever ... spoofs the genre and everything else in sight. --Science Fiction Chronicle (Best of '01) A fast-paced science fiction noir thriller that has entertaining plot twists. --Romantic Times Fast-paced, witty and shrewd ... futuristic pulp for the thinking reader ... No one who got two paragraphs into this dark, droll, downright irresistible novel could ever bear to put it down until the last heart pounding moment. --SF Site A tongue-in-cheek hardboiled attitude .. good fun for those who can handle the concentrated doses of humor. --Locus Manages to blend the pulpy hard-boiled detective genre with pulpy sf for an entertaining read that pokes fun at both. The writing and dialogue is snappy and smart and the story is fast paced. I can't recommend enough for anyone looking for a fun twist on sf and detective novels. --Pink Raygun
Restricted Data
Author: Alex Wellerstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602038X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
"Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602038X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
"Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--
Terrorism, Retaliation, and Victory
Author: Brian Ree
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465331727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
We could use some help. Whatever you think of the present situation in Iraq, about President Bush and our nations Global War on Terror, about all the political spin that is being put on current events, we can all agree: we could use some help. The threat of terrorist attack persists; the threat of chemical warfare and/or biological warfare may even have increased. Whether or not Saddam Hussein still had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), other regimes that support terrorism do have them, and we cannot be sure that they are not sharing them with terrorists determined to hurt us. Even a single completed attack with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons will be intolerable. While we can count on our military to prevail in a stand-up fight, military history and current events teach us that we cannot defeat this enemy by force of arms alone. Indeed, despite all our prowess and strength, we remain vulnerable; it seems just a matter of time before we are struck again. How can we prevail in the battle for the hearts and minds of the populations from whence tomorrows terrorists may come? Fortunately, there are things we can do. Field-tested, proven cutting edge research reveals that subtle psychological operations can disarm opponents, promote peace and inhibit attacks on our soldiers overseas and on our citizenry at home. The implementation of novel solutions will require that we abandon politics as usual, overcome our ignorance and apathy, and stop kowtowing to moneyed special interests and the agendas of corporate greed. We must demonstrate the will to be true to the most fundamental principles of America. What can you do? Read the excerpt. Get the book. Contact your representatives. Become knowledgeable. Be active. Hold people in business and government accountable. Lets move forward: do your part.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465331727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
We could use some help. Whatever you think of the present situation in Iraq, about President Bush and our nations Global War on Terror, about all the political spin that is being put on current events, we can all agree: we could use some help. The threat of terrorist attack persists; the threat of chemical warfare and/or biological warfare may even have increased. Whether or not Saddam Hussein still had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), other regimes that support terrorism do have them, and we cannot be sure that they are not sharing them with terrorists determined to hurt us. Even a single completed attack with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons will be intolerable. While we can count on our military to prevail in a stand-up fight, military history and current events teach us that we cannot defeat this enemy by force of arms alone. Indeed, despite all our prowess and strength, we remain vulnerable; it seems just a matter of time before we are struck again. How can we prevail in the battle for the hearts and minds of the populations from whence tomorrows terrorists may come? Fortunately, there are things we can do. Field-tested, proven cutting edge research reveals that subtle psychological operations can disarm opponents, promote peace and inhibit attacks on our soldiers overseas and on our citizenry at home. The implementation of novel solutions will require that we abandon politics as usual, overcome our ignorance and apathy, and stop kowtowing to moneyed special interests and the agendas of corporate greed. We must demonstrate the will to be true to the most fundamental principles of America. What can you do? Read the excerpt. Get the book. Contact your representatives. Become knowledgeable. Be active. Hold people in business and government accountable. Lets move forward: do your part.
The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
Author: Elizabeth Stuckey-French
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385534035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This lively, intricately plotted, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly touching family drama combines the wit of Carl Hiaasen with the southern charm of Jill McCorkle. Seventy-seven-year-old Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs come hell or high water. In 1953, he gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent as part of a secret government study that had horrible consequences. Marylou has been plotting her revenge for fifty years. When she accidentally discovers his whereabouts in Florida, her plans finally snap into action. She high tails it to hot and humid Tallahassee, moves in down the block from where a now senile Spriggs lives with his daughter’s family, and begins the tricky work of insinuating herself into their lives. But she has no idea what a nest of yellow jackets she is stumbling into. Before the novel is through, someone will be kidnapped, an unlikely couple will get engaged, someone will nearly die from eating a pineapple upside-down cake laced with anti-freeze, and that’s not all . . . Told from the varied perspectives of an incredible cast of endearing oddball characters and written with the flair of a native Floridian, this dark comedy does not disappoint.
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385534035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This lively, intricately plotted, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly touching family drama combines the wit of Carl Hiaasen with the southern charm of Jill McCorkle. Seventy-seven-year-old Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs come hell or high water. In 1953, he gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent as part of a secret government study that had horrible consequences. Marylou has been plotting her revenge for fifty years. When she accidentally discovers his whereabouts in Florida, her plans finally snap into action. She high tails it to hot and humid Tallahassee, moves in down the block from where a now senile Spriggs lives with his daughter’s family, and begins the tricky work of insinuating herself into their lives. But she has no idea what a nest of yellow jackets she is stumbling into. Before the novel is through, someone will be kidnapped, an unlikely couple will get engaged, someone will nearly die from eating a pineapple upside-down cake laced with anti-freeze, and that’s not all . . . Told from the varied perspectives of an incredible cast of endearing oddball characters and written with the flair of a native Floridian, this dark comedy does not disappoint.
Plutonium and Security
Author: Dr. Frank Barnaby
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349116939
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The contributors to this text discuss the cases for and against the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel elements to remove the plutonium from them.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349116939
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The contributors to this text discuss the cases for and against the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel elements to remove the plutonium from them.