Author: Steve Cole
Publisher: Astrosaurs Academy
ISBN: 9781862308886
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After years of training they’ve finally done it! Teggs and his classmates at Astrosaurs Academy are all set to become real space-exploring astrosaurs. But first they must pass one final challenge. A mission into outer space, more dangerous than any they have faced before...
Space Kidnap!
Author: Steve Cole
Publisher: Astrosaurs Academy
ISBN: 9781862308886
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After years of training they’ve finally done it! Teggs and his classmates at Astrosaurs Academy are all set to become real space-exploring astrosaurs. But first they must pass one final challenge. A mission into outer space, more dangerous than any they have faced before...
Publisher: Astrosaurs Academy
ISBN: 9781862308886
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
After years of training they’ve finally done it! Teggs and his classmates at Astrosaurs Academy are all set to become real space-exploring astrosaurs. But first they must pass one final challenge. A mission into outer space, more dangerous than any they have faced before...
Kidnap for Ransom
Author: Richard P. Wright
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420080083
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The enormous sums paid for the release of hostages coupled with law enforcement‘s inability to stem the tide has made kidnapping for ransom a worldwide plague. The increasing rate of reported incidents from every corner of the globe suggests this plague is growing. Kidnap for Ransom: Resolving the Unthinkable removes the veil of mystery and dispels
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420080083
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The enormous sums paid for the release of hostages coupled with law enforcement‘s inability to stem the tide has made kidnapping for ransom a worldwide plague. The increasing rate of reported incidents from every corner of the globe suggests this plague is growing. Kidnap for Ransom: Resolving the Unthinkable removes the veil of mystery and dispels
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters
Author: Ronald Story
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780337035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
An illustrated A-to-Z guide to all things alien. Over 400 entries from more than 100 contributors cover everything from the incidents and witnesses involved to the concepts at stake and experts' personal position statements. Entries range from alien abductions, the Fantasy Prone hypothesis and JAL Flight no 1628, to the Lakenheath-Bentwaters Episode, mind control by aliens and Roswell. The contributors include: Isaac Asimov, Jerome Clark, Erich von Daniken, Peter Davenport, Hilary Evans, Timothy Good, Marvin Kottmeyer, Jenny Randles, Carl Sagan, Whitley Streiber and Jacques Vallee. There are over 300 images, eyewitness drawings and photographs.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780337035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
An illustrated A-to-Z guide to all things alien. Over 400 entries from more than 100 contributors cover everything from the incidents and witnesses involved to the concepts at stake and experts' personal position statements. Entries range from alien abductions, the Fantasy Prone hypothesis and JAL Flight no 1628, to the Lakenheath-Bentwaters Episode, mind control by aliens and Roswell. The contributors include: Isaac Asimov, Jerome Clark, Erich von Daniken, Peter Davenport, Hilary Evans, Timothy Good, Marvin Kottmeyer, Jenny Randles, Carl Sagan, Whitley Streiber and Jacques Vallee. There are over 300 images, eyewitness drawings and photographs.
Astrosaurs Academy 3: Terror Underground
Author: Stephen Cole
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1862305579
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Teggs Stegosaur is a pupil at the Astrosaur Academyy where all astro-cadets go to complete their training. He hopes to become an ASTROSAUR one day but for now he has classes to attend, missions to complete and lessons to learn. His new best friends and ro
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1862305579
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Teggs Stegosaur is a pupil at the Astrosaur Academyy where all astro-cadets go to complete their training. He hopes to become an ASTROSAUR one day but for now he has classes to attend, missions to complete and lessons to learn. His new best friends and ro
Stolen
Author: Lucy Christopher
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545361117
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545361117
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.
Kidnap on Barnegat Bay
Author: Joseph R. Yeamans
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149318489X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The Jersey shore is for sun, surfing and boating. However, when a kidnapping occurs at the posh Mantoloking Yacht Pavilion, the fun and games take a back seat for teen sleuths Josie Hart and Becky Silang who were raised on true crime mysteries. A baby kidnapping baffles the local police and the FBI. How did it happen? How did the kidnapper get-a-way? When the ransom demand calls for the suitcase of money to be dropped in Barnegat Bay at the end of a secluded pier, the FBI cunningly stakes out the location ready to strike when the kidnapper takes the money. But kidnapper never shows up. The baby is returned and the money disappears. Did the kidnapper get the money or was the million dollars lost in the currents of the bay? With more twists and turns than a roller coaster, Josie and Becky take one lead at a time to unravel the extremely clever plans executed by this crafty kidnapper.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 149318489X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
The Jersey shore is for sun, surfing and boating. However, when a kidnapping occurs at the posh Mantoloking Yacht Pavilion, the fun and games take a back seat for teen sleuths Josie Hart and Becky Silang who were raised on true crime mysteries. A baby kidnapping baffles the local police and the FBI. How did it happen? How did the kidnapper get-a-way? When the ransom demand calls for the suitcase of money to be dropped in Barnegat Bay at the end of a secluded pier, the FBI cunningly stakes out the location ready to strike when the kidnapper takes the money. But kidnapper never shows up. The baby is returned and the money disappears. Did the kidnapper get the money or was the million dollars lost in the currents of the bay? With more twists and turns than a roller coaster, Josie and Becky take one lead at a time to unravel the extremely clever plans executed by this crafty kidnapper.
Kidnap
Author: Anja Shortland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019254750X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are peacefully resolved - often for remarkably low ransoms. In fact, the market for hostages is so well ordered that the crime is insurable. This is a puzzle: ransoming a hostage is the world's most precarious trade. What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? And why would kidnappers release a potential future witness after receiving their money? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019254750X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are peacefully resolved - often for remarkably low ransoms. In fact, the market for hostages is so well ordered that the crime is insurable. This is a puzzle: ransoming a hostage is the world's most precarious trade. What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? And why would kidnappers release a potential future witness after receiving their money? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.
The Political Economy of Kidnapping and Insecurity in Nigeria
Author: J. Shola Omotola
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031471687
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031471687
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Abducted
Author: Rena Marks
Publisher: Terran Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Alien abductions are real. I’m the third female awakened aboard the spacecraft that specializes in kidnapping females. Their mission? To sell us to other galaxies. Human female numbers one and two didn't make it, but I was lucky. I’m able to understand instructions from Drakar, the first caged abductee from the planet Blaedonia. Together we formulate a plan to escape for both us and the ten other unawakened Earthlings. Lucky for Drakar, the spaceship crash-lands back on his primitive planet. Unlucky for the Earthlings, we'll never be able to travel back home. We'll have to learn to adapt. Other books in the series: Book 1 - Abducted Book 2 - Stranded Book 3 - Taken Book 4 - Captive Book 5 - Stolen Book 6 – Betrayed If you like blue barbarians, try my Xeno Sapiens in the Genetically Altered Humans Series!
Publisher: Terran Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Alien abductions are real. I’m the third female awakened aboard the spacecraft that specializes in kidnapping females. Their mission? To sell us to other galaxies. Human female numbers one and two didn't make it, but I was lucky. I’m able to understand instructions from Drakar, the first caged abductee from the planet Blaedonia. Together we formulate a plan to escape for both us and the ten other unawakened Earthlings. Lucky for Drakar, the spaceship crash-lands back on his primitive planet. Unlucky for the Earthlings, we'll never be able to travel back home. We'll have to learn to adapt. Other books in the series: Book 1 - Abducted Book 2 - Stranded Book 3 - Taken Book 4 - Captive Book 5 - Stolen Book 6 – Betrayed If you like blue barbarians, try my Xeno Sapiens in the Genetically Altered Humans Series!
Criminal Resistance?
Author: Temitope B. Oriola
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317157842
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the survival of the Nigerian state. Several generations of state neglect, corruption and mismanagement have ensured that the Delta region is one of the most socio-economically and politically deprived in the country. By the late 1990s there was a frightening proliferation of armed gangs and insurgent groups. Illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism, disruption of oil production activities, riots, and demonstrations intensified and in 2003, insurgents began kidnapping oil workers at a frenetic pace. In late 2005, an uber-insurgent movement 'organization' was formed in Nigeria. Christened the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), it operates as an amorphous, multifaceted amalgam of insurgent groups with an unprecedented clinical precision in execution of intents. By focussing on kidnappings that are putatively connected to the struggle for emancipating the Niger Delta, Oriola makes the case for analysing MEND as a social movement organization, rather than a terrorist or criminal gang by showing how political processes shape kidnappings in the Delta. The use of violent repertoires of contention has not garnered sufficient attention in the social movement literature, despite the fact that that around the world, many similar groups are adopting violent tactics without necessarily eschewing non-violent techniques. Based on multi-actor research, including interviews and focus group discussions with community members, military authorities, 42 ex-insurgents directly involved in illegal oil bunkering and kidnapping, and official email statements from 'Jomo Gbomo', the spokesperson of MEND, this book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists and peace and security studies scholars.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317157842
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the survival of the Nigerian state. Several generations of state neglect, corruption and mismanagement have ensured that the Delta region is one of the most socio-economically and politically deprived in the country. By the late 1990s there was a frightening proliferation of armed gangs and insurgent groups. Illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism, disruption of oil production activities, riots, and demonstrations intensified and in 2003, insurgents began kidnapping oil workers at a frenetic pace. In late 2005, an uber-insurgent movement 'organization' was formed in Nigeria. Christened the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), it operates as an amorphous, multifaceted amalgam of insurgent groups with an unprecedented clinical precision in execution of intents. By focussing on kidnappings that are putatively connected to the struggle for emancipating the Niger Delta, Oriola makes the case for analysing MEND as a social movement organization, rather than a terrorist or criminal gang by showing how political processes shape kidnappings in the Delta. The use of violent repertoires of contention has not garnered sufficient attention in the social movement literature, despite the fact that that around the world, many similar groups are adopting violent tactics without necessarily eschewing non-violent techniques. Based on multi-actor research, including interviews and focus group discussions with community members, military authorities, 42 ex-insurgents directly involved in illegal oil bunkering and kidnapping, and official email statements from 'Jomo Gbomo', the spokesperson of MEND, this book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists and peace and security studies scholars.