Author: Matt Doeden
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 9781474711203
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 112
View: 701
A huge rock hurdles through space on a collision course with Earth. It's enormous, as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. You've got a little more than a day to get to safety. Where will you go? Who will you help - and who will help you? When YOU CHOOSE what to do next in this eBook, the choices you make could mean the difference between life and death. Can you survive the greatest disaster that the human race has ever known?
Author: Steve Foxe
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 9781398218024
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 64
View: 229
Screech! Some major interference is coming through on Walden's hearing aid. But it's not the local radio station - it's a cry for help from the alien colonists called Arrok! Their home has been blasted apart by an asteroid. Can Mr K and his students help? Will the same thing happen to Earth? And will the citizens of Arrok demand that Dani stay and serve as their leader? There's never a dull moment in Mr Kazarian's spaceship . . . er, "e;library"e;! A science-fiction graphic adventure with lots of actual science - and lots of fun!
Author: Elisa Gabbert
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781838950637
Category: Science
Page:
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'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less 'Masterly... Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply a sort of distant, retrospective view, like postcards sent from the near future' New York Times We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did you see?" The feeling that we're living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten. Poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert's The Unreality of Memory consists of a series of lyrical and deeply researched meditations on what our culture of catastrophe has done to public discourse and our own inner lives. In these tender and prophetic essays, she focuses in on our daily preoccupation and favorite pasttime: desperate distraction from disaster by way of a desperate obsession with the disastrous. Moving from public trauma to personal tragedy, from the Titanic and Chernobyl to illness and loss, The Unreality of Memory alternately rips away the facade of our fascination with destruction and gently identifies itself with the age of rubbernecking. A balm, not a burr, Gabbert's essays are a hauntingly perceptive analysis of the anxiety intrinsic in our new, digital ways of being, and also a means of reconciling ourselves to this new world. 'One of those joyful books that send you to your notebook every page or so, desperate not to lose either the thought the author has deftly placed in your mind or the title of a work she has now compelled you to read.' Paris Review
Author: Tim MacWelch
Publisher: Weldon Owen International
ISBN: 9781681880013
Category: Self-Help
Page: 469
View: 839
This New York Times bestselling guide covers essential skills and strategies for surviving any catastrophe—from natural disasters to zombies attacks. How to Survive Anything covers situations ranging from the unexpected to the unthinkable, deftly balancing real-life survival know-how with wild scenarios that most likely won’t ever happen. But, on the other hand, who would you rather have in your bunker? The guy who read up on killer robots or the one who didn’t? The editors of Outdoor Life magazine cover everything from disaster preparedness to subsistence hunting and fishing, to which guns to use against the undead. After reading the expert advice in this manual, you’ll be prepared for whatever this world throws at you.
Author: Tim MacWelch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781681885308
Category: Nature
Page: 105
View: 441
In this action-oriented book, a survival expert walks you through what to do in dozens of scary situations, from riding out a tsunami to surviving the fall of civilization. Fast-paced and remarkably practical, this latest book from best-selling survival expert Tim MacWelch breaks down the odds of your facing dozens of scary situations, from the fairly likely (getting lost in the woods or mugged on the mean streets, for example) to the unlikely but terrifying (being hit by an asteroid, attacked by zombies, or other sci-fi-worthy scenarios)—and provides concrete, doable strategies for how to improve your odds of survival. Each danger is rated with handy graphics that give an-at-a-glance idea as to how likely it is to befall you, how much you should worry about it happening, and how possible it is to increase your odds of survival. And then, in the pages that follow, he gives practical, step-by-step instructions, tutorials, and hints to help you beat the odds and live to tell the tale.
Author: Weldon Owen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781681886657
Category: House & Home
Page: 234
View: 466
New for 2020, The Complete Survival Book Collection combines the best in emergency readiness and disaster survival with sustainable living and survival practices. This collection pairs up two of the best books in surviving and thriving, whether facing a natural disaster or creating your own home away from it all. Writer Tim MacWelch brings us the know-how in survival and homesteading from the editors of Outdoor Life. How to Survive Anything, a comprehensive guide to surviving anything from the normal to the rare, brings us everything from confronting wild animals to living through a meteor impact. How to Survive Off the Grid gives the reader the know-how to engage in sustainable living and housing off the grid, ranging from backyard chicken coops to building and living in your own distant cabin retreat.
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Arc
ISBN: 9781909203020
Category:
Page: 137
View: 789
Arc, a new publication from the makers of New Scientist, explores the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated authors, alongside columns by thinkers and practitioners from the worlds of books, design, gaming, film and more.
Author: Sarah Levete
Publisher: Mystery Solvers
ISBN: 9781398200968
Category: Bermuda Triangle
Page: 49
View: 577
Many people are fascinated by global danger zones such as the Bermuda Triangle, Death Valley and the Boiling River. Be a mystery hunter and find out about the geography and climate of these locations that explain the mysterious events that occur there, and decide whether you would dare venture into these danger zones.
Author: John Hildreth Atkins
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc
ISBN: 9781312313798
Category: Science
Page: 82
View: 821
This is absolutely the most amazing book that you will ever read. John is one of the most insightful men on the planet. His discoveries are even more important than the theory of relativity, Newton's laws, and thermodynamics all rolled into one. Atkins explains blackholes, big bangs, how planets go around the sun without anything even resembling gravity (his COW formula), why the speed of light is much greater than 186k in interstellar space, how and why planets give birth to moons, and the real cause of Global warming. The number of the beast is 666 and we are the beast. 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons = carbon. After revealing the secrets of the universe, Atkins goes on to explain why the economy is in dire straits. There is a fix but we need to act soon as the crooks in office won't do it. This book is amazing, shocking, and will forever change the way you see the universe. Sure, it is a small book. It is small because it needs to be. Be the first on your block to know what John knows.