Author: Russell Andrews
Publisher: Orbit Books
ISBN: 9780708867778
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Elizabeth Hand
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453278958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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DIVWendy Wanders and Margalis return in the thrilling conclusion of the Winterlong trilogy—and their lives hang on one question: “What is Icarus?”/divDIV Araboth is destroyed, open war rules both the earth and sky, and Margalis Tast’annin sees himself as the last hope for the Ascendants as they fight against the dangerous energumens. Outside the destroyed City of Trees, Wendy Wanders finds herself joining the rebel forces as they wait for the mythical and mysterious Icarus to turn the tide of the rebellion./divDIV /divDIVWith the Philip K. Dick Award–nominated Icarus Descending, Elizabeth Hand completes the sensual dystopian Winterlong trilogy. And the explosive conclusion will reveal the final fates of geneslaves, the Ascendants, and the legendary combat leader Metatron as all eyes look to the sky for Icarus./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div

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Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 9781860395321
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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First published in 1997 and now available in paperback, a re-telling of a classic tale in the ORCHARD MYTHS series, with amusing illustrations by Tony Ross.

Author: Peter Beinart
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 052285804X
Category : Ambition
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart tells a tale as old as the Greeks - a story about the seductions of success. Beinart describes Washington on the eve of three wars - World War I, Vietnam and Iraq - three moments when American leaders decided they could remake the world in their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that history was over, and the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a president held the nation in the palm of his hand. And each time, a war conceived in arrogance brought untold tragedy. In dazzling colour, Beinart portrays three extraordinary generations: the progressives who took America into World War I, led by Woodrow Wilson, the lonely preacher's son who became the closest thing to a political messiah the world had ever seen. The Camelot intellectuals who took America into Vietnam, led by Lyndon Johnson, who lay awake night after night shaking with fear that his countrymen considered him weak. And George W. Bush and the post-cold war neoconservatives, the romantic bullies who believed they could bludgeon the Middle East and liberate it at the same time. Like Icarus, each of these generations crafted 'wings' - a theory about America's relationship to the world. They flapped carefully at first, but gradually lost their inhibitions until, giddy with success, they flew into the sun. But every era also brought new leaders and thinkers who found wisdom in pain. They reconciled American optimism - our belief that anything is possible - with the realities of a world that will never fully bend to our will. In their struggles lie the seeds of American renewal today. Based on years of research, The Icarus Syndrome is a provocative and strikingly original account of hubris in the American century - and how we learn from the tragedies that result.

Author: Roger Levy
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473202930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 587

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Mankind has reached deep space. Separated from earth and each other by unimaginable reaches of space, forced to adapt to various diverse planetary environments the colonies have become isolated and inward looking, forgetting their pasts, losing touch with their humanity. Until a mysterious ship found locked in the deep rock by a mining team on a planet whose surface is drenched in lethal radiation sparks off a deadly conspiracy that threatens man wherever he is. After his grim dystopias set on a failing earth Roger Levy has spread his wings to give us a broad and exciting SF novel of exotic locales and mindblowing ideas without losing any of his trademark psychological acuity and elegant style.

Author: Caighlan Smith
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1630790583
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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It�s Clara who�s desperate to enter the labyrinth and it�s Clara who�s bright, strong, and fearless enough to take on any challenge. It�s no surprise when she�s chosen. But so is the girl who has always lived in her shadow. Together they enter. Within minutes, they are torn apart forever. Now the girl who has never left the city walls must fight to survive in a living nightmare, where one false turn with who to trust means a certain dead end.

Author: Ben Zellner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Author: Brian Brivati
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1785907220
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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In 2017, Arif Naqvi and The Abraaj Group were on the brink of changing the world of private equity. Abraaj was a pioneer of impact investing, it had helped transform communities and companies across the world by financing healthcare, education and clean energy projects, and it was about to close a new fund worth $6 billion. But then it all came crashing down. On 10 April 2019, after landing at London Heathrow, Naqvi was arrested on fraud charges. He is facing extradition to the United States and a prison sentence of up to 291 years if he is found guilty. The dominant media narrative has painted Naqvi as a thief and fraudster, the key man in an organised criminal conspiracy. But in this explosive book, which is based on extensive research and interviews, Brian Brivati investigates how things are not quite what they seem. Icarus explores how Abraaj found itself caught in the middle of a geopolitical war between the United States and China, and when it would not back down economic hitmen tried to wipe it out.

Author: S. Alan Stern
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. The Pluto System After New Horizons is the benchmark research compendium for synthesizing our understanding of the Pluto system. This volume reviews the work of researchers who have spent the last five years assimilating the data returned from New Horizons and the first full scientific synthesis of this fascinating system.

Author: Chantal Delsol
Publisher: Crosscurrents (ISI Books)
ISBN: 9781935191698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Originally published: Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2003, in series: Crosscurrents.