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"Astronauts on the International Space Station must protect their resources--their lives depend on it. The same is true about Earth. For the planet to survive, we must also conserve water, air, food, and energy, and cut down on waste. 'Space on Earth' explores how innovative efforts in space are inspiring bright ideas on Earth, and how thinking like an astronaut can help us save the planet."--
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A chilling Dark Web thriller An anonymous website, a few clicks, and Joe Henderson's life is changed forever. 'The Red Room' is the only place where the failings of a weak justice system are righted and where the line between good and evil becomes blurred. When the lights go up, viewers bid, criminals are punished, and the Brotherhood of the Righteous broadcasts a show like no other. The room has remained hidden until now, when a video arrives in...
3) Brainchip
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Ein Thriller der Extraklasse! Dieser Roman wirft einen realen Blick in die atemberaubende Zukunft der Gehirnchip-Welt und der künstlichen Intelligenz. "Die Zukunft ist in dir!", das ist die unmissverständliche Aussage der Neuroforscher. Und diese einzigartige Zukunft hat längst begonnen. Genau hier. In diesem Buch. Sie wird sich schon bald und überall in unseren Köpfen abspielen. Mensch und Mikrochip werden eins. Schöne neue Welt der Nanos und...
4) Category 7
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A Category 4 hurricane, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour, tears roofs off buildings, smashes windows and doors, and can send floodwaters up to the second floor. Evacuation is suggested for up to six miles inland.
Hurricane Katrina was a Category 4 when she made landfall.
Hurricane Simone is a Category 7-the biggest, strongest storm in recorded history. When she hits New York City, skyscrapers will fall. Subways and tunnels will flood. Lower...
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Hunted by the top companies in America, Michael Patrick Ryan was offered the world: high starting salaries, stock options, and signing bonuses. Ryan set his sites on SoftCorp, Inc., a company with only one client-the Internal Revenue Service.
But, Mike Ryan has also fallen into the sights of the FBI. Millions of dollars have been smuggled out of the country, and Karen Frost suspects it's someone in the IRS. The deal: federal protection and immunity...
6) Madeira
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Value Engineer Rave Maps lost a vital business consulting opportunity working on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Then she nearly lost her life.
Rave's VE skills are tested as she struggles to fulfill client obligations racing from Madeira to Toronto, Paris, Steamboat Springs, and St. Lucia fighting to remain a step ahead of BrainRanger AI, an artificial intelligence working to steal her clients and appropriate everything she knows.
To survive,...
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On October 28, 1943, a U.S. Navy ship was successfully teleported with disastrous effects on its crew. Crewmen died, developed rare or yet unidentified diseases, and most horrifying of all, some became fused to the metal, their arms and legs protruding from the bulkhead.
A team of psychologists has gathered at a small university to study and analyze the same reoccurring dream of seven completely different people. The dream involves a large navy ship...
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Cyber Knights 1.1 is the second part in a stunning two-part collection of stories based on true-life cyber vulnerabilities, by Harold Coyle and Jennifer Ellis
Here be Dragons. In the Age of Discovery, unexplored areas of a map were often marked with this warning. Today, such a warning could easily be applied to the internet. Hackers and cyber assassins present a constant threat to individuals, companies, and institutions.
Protecting these targets...
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The silicon chip, the soul of today's machines, governs every aspect of our modern society. Dominance in semiconductors equates dominance in the new millennium. But, something has gone wrong. A terrible railway accident in Florida, leaving dozens dead, and countless more injured is traced to faulty computer chips. One-woman figures out that the faulty chips weren't due to negligence, but to sabotage. Erika Conklin was forced to work for the FBI due...
10) Tempest Down
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An experimental U.S. Submarine, the Tempest D, with a propulsion system five-times-faster than traditional drives is to be tested in the remote South Polar waters. Chinese intelligence learns of the test and sends their own submarine to observe. When an underwater collision causes the submarines to become trapped under the Antarctic ice, they need each other to survive. Meanwhile, a U.S. military team codenamed L.A.S.E.R., Land Air Sea Emergency Rescue,...
11) Firewall
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The final words that Mortimer Fox whispered to ex CIA agent Bruce Tucker. Cryptic words said in a code coveted the world over, a code that could wipe all the world's powers off the map and trigger Armageddon. The words are understood by a few, but are especially desirable to Vlad Jarkko, Tucker's nemesis from his CIA days. And, when Jarkko snatches Monica Fox, Mortimer's daughter, Tucker must resume the blood feud and find Monica before she capitulates...
12) Sabotage
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A cruise ship loses power in the North Atlantic. A satellite launches in the South Pacific. Professor Malcolm Clare-celebrated aviator, entrepreneur, and aerospace engineer-disappears from Stanford University and wakes up aboard an unknown jet, minutes before the aircraft plunges into the high seas.
An extortionist code-named "Viking" has seized control of a private warfare technology, pitting a U.S. defense corporation against terrorist conspirators...
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A techno-thriller novel of the near future when a powerful Artificial Intelligence called Oracle identifies individuals who pose a significant risk to the stability of our society, or who have a high probability of posing such a risk in the future, and sends assassins to kill them. Oracle knows each of us so well, better than we know ourselves, that it is able to determine who might become the next Hitler or Stalin long before that person even has...
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Master novelist Drury probes the controversy and political machinations as America strives to land on Mars . . .
A mission that may be torn apart by the nation's turmoil . . .
The Throne of Saturn shows the struggle of dedicated and courageous astronauts to set foot on the red planet and maintain our quest for the stars
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In a derelict squat, the Smart Man watches as the new narcotic developed by his shadowy organisation wreaks havoc on it, unsuspecting victims. The drug is now ready for sale on their exclusive darknet marketplace. Elsewhere, DCI Robert Smith, the retired head of the Cyber Crimes Unit, seeks out crime boss Curtis Slater at his remote farm. He offers to provide Slater with information in exchange for money. But, what information is he offering? Meanwhile,...
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How does a video on YouTube go viral? What would it be like to experience that? Or, what would it be like become a YouTube and internet sensation? Well, in 'adventures in cyberland', not only is this modern-day new phenomenon experienced by the reader, but also shows them the power of group creativity and working together as a team, regardless of what background and worldviews each roommate comes from.
And with this established in the first part...
17) Drumbeats
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This dark fantasy set in Africa is a collaboration between a New York Times–bestselling author and the drummer from the multi-platinum rock band, Rush.
A chilling tale of African drums and human souls from #1 international bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush lyricist and drummer Neil Peart.
Early in their three decades of correspondence, Neil Peart sent Kevin J. Anderson extensive descriptions and travelogues of his...
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Mac Savage, a former CIA officer; Marie Kovacs, a former nanotechnology scientist turned missionary; and Kate Chavez, a Texas Ranger investigating a murder, join forces to unravel a global conspiracy that starts with the diamond industry and ends with a plan to eliminate the human race.
The Donovan Group, a high-powered global conglomerate, has used diamond-based technology to create an overarching artificial intelligence, known as ANNE. Using spyware...
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Catalina Saylor ha sido aceptada para trabajar en la incubadora de Qubit a prueba durante 30 días. Si prueba su idea dentro de ese tiempo, se le permitirá quedarse e intentar obtener una patente de su dispositivo. La Incubadora de Qubit es un lugar de trabajo para gente brillante con buenas ideas, pero que no tienen recursos para desarrollarlas.
Si el candidato es aceptado, se le proporcionará un espacio de trabajo, equipo y otros beneficios durante...
20) Fragments
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A team of psychologists has gathered in a small college town to conduct a revolutionary experiment: To find five "savants" with extreme and diverse aptitudes, in order to create a sixth composite intelligence using new cybernetic technology. The first experiments show promise, but a terrifying secret from the past will transform the project in ways the researchers never anticipated-and infect the newborn intelligence with a catastrophic thirst for...