Author: Victor Appleton (II.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Tom Swift, Jr., and his friend, Bud Barclay, enter an international space race hoping to orbit the earth in two hours.

Author: Victor Appleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Victor Appleton (II.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448146027
Category : Adventure stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Tom Swift and his father travel to a South American country in their flying space lab to look for uranium and keep it from falling into the hands of a group of dangerous rebels.

Author: Scott Dickerson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781980802747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Tom Swift's third invention adventure takes the brilliant young inventor into outer space in an advanced spacecraft of his own design! On Fearing Island off the Atlantic coast Tom readies the rocket which will carry him and his friend Bud into orbit in pursuit of an international prize. But a mysterious competitor and his network of spies threaten not only Tom's revolutionary Star Spear, but the mammoth experimental rocket designed by Tom's father. A reclusive billionaire and an eerie informant add to the perplexing mystery -- a tale of furious action from the moment a flying figure breaches Fearing security to Tom and Bud's final confrontation in space with a hail of deadly missiles! Tom Swift reimagined--for today!

Author: Victor Appleton (II.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780001622203
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Each bimonthly issue of Cancer Nursingâ„¢ addresses the whole spectrum of problems arising in the care and support of cancer patients--prevention and early detection, geriatric and pediatric cancer nursing, medical and surgical oncology, ambulatory care, nutritional support, psychosocial aspects of cancer, patient responses to all treatment modalities, and specific nursing interventions. The journal offers unparalleled coverage of cancer care delivery practices worldwide, as well as groundbreaking research findings and their practical applications. Continuing Education Contact Hours are available in every issue and online at Nursing Center.com.

Author: David Kushner
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588362892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

Author: Carey Rockwell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1609777441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Carey Rockwell is the pseudonym used for the author of the Tom Corbet Space Cadet series of books written for young boys. This 1950's series included books, comic strips, coloring books and television shows. The Tom Corbett space series consists of eight books, which may have been based on the novel Space Cadet by Robert Heinlein. The series follows the adventures of Tom and his friend Roger as they train to be members of the Solar Guard. The stories center around the academy, the bunkroom and their training ship Polaris. Their adventures take them to alien worlds in our solar system and beyond.

Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481415603
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Following the successful repackaging of Bruce Coville’s My Teacher Is an Alien series, great new covers for another popular backlist series from the bestselling author. IT’S THE WEIRDEST ALIEN INVASION EVER! “I cannot tell a lie,” says Rod Allbright. And it’s the truth. Ask him a question and he’s bound to give you an honest answer. Which is why, when his teacher asks what happened to last night’s math assignment, Rod has to give the only answer he can: “Aliens ate my homework, Miss Maloney!” Of course, no one believes Rod this time, so they don’t bother to ask him why the aliens are here. It’s just as well, since he is sworn to silence about their secret mission and the fact that he has been drafted to help them!

Author: Victor Appleton II
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312535237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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In this hardbound edition of the 14th novel in the New Tom Swift Invention Series, Tom is approached by the U.S. Navy to do the impossible: make their RADAR-invisible ships truly invisible, even to the human eye in broad daylight! Things progress almost too well before disaster strikes. During a test of a small car outfitted with the technology, a group of terrorists and turncoats kidnap Tom, nearly killing him as they steal the invisible coupe. He must come up with a way to not just see his nearly perfectly invisible car, he must also do it in some way so that he doesn't ruin its use in the Navy project. It is a balance of tasks that are almost too much for the young inventor to juggle. And, with the Navy and the FBI breathing down his neck, has Tom overstretched himself on this one?

Author: Victor Appleton II
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312143150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Within weeks of putting his outpost in space into geosynchronous orbit, Tom got it into his mind to build a bigger station farther out in an orbit where it will be safe from space debris and where he can have much more room for everything he hopes to accomplish in space. A combination of attacks and events on him and his company make it look like a necessity and much sooner than he would have imagined. But what can he do to get around the logistical nightmare such an undertaking will bring? An elevator from the ground straight up into space has been a dream of writers and engineers for more than a century. Tom puts development of a space elevator on the front burner at Swift Enterprises. His only hope is that it is actually possible.