Author: Jennifer Nielsen
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402240244
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Elliot, the King of the Brownies, might be able to survive some unusual self-defense lessons and a king-napping plot, but withstanding the friendship of his arch-nemesis, Cami Wortson, may be more than even he can handle.

Author: Mike Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781569716182
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Three Hutts place a wager on who can gather the most successful henchmen to retrieve a valuable and mythical treasure. They create three teams of notorious scoundrals including, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Boba Fett and Lando Calrissian, but no one suspects that there is a fourth agent using his seductive agent to get the treasure first.

Author: Jennifer Nielsen
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402240228
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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For most kids, accidentally starting an interspecies war on Halloween would be the biggest event of their lives. For Elliot Penster, it was only the beginning. Now, three years later, the Brownies, who are hopelessly losing the war against the Goblins, make 11-year-old Elliot their king.

Author: Greg Cox
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743480724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Based on characters from Screen Gems's 2003 motion picture starring Kate Beckinsale, this all-original prequel reveals the origins of the rival clans of vampires and werewolves, and how their clandestine war has been fought in the shadows of the mortal world. Original.

Author: Jude Watson
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756983048
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Empire has taken over the galaxy. Anakin Skywalker is now Darth Vader. Most of the Jedi are gone...but a few remain. It is up to former Jedi apprentice Ferus Olin and his street-smart sidekick Trever to find them.

Author: Jeffrey Carr
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1449382991
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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What people are saying about Inside Cyber Warfare "The necessary handbook for the 21st century." --Lewis Shepherd, Chief Tech Officer and Senior Fellow, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments "A must-read for policy makers and leaders who need to understand the big-picture landscape of cyber war." --Jim Stogdill, CTO, Mission Services Accenture You may have heard about "cyber warfare" in the news, but do you really know what it is? This book provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world are using the Internet as an attack platform to gain military, political, and economic advantages over their adversaries. You'll learn how sophisticated hackers working on behalf of states or organized crime patiently play a high-stakes game that could target anyone, regardless of affiliation or nationality. Inside Cyber Warfare goes beyond the headlines of attention-grabbing DDoS attacks and takes a deep look inside multiple cyber-conflicts that occurred from 2002 through summer 2009. Learn how cyber attacks are waged in open conflicts, including recent hostilities between Russia and Georgia, and Israel and Palestine Discover why Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Vkontakte, and other sites on the social web are mined by the intelligence services of many nations Read about China's commitment to penetrate the networks of its technologically superior adversaries as a matter of national survival Find out why many attacks originate from servers in the United States, and who's responsible Learn how hackers are "weaponizing" malware to attack vulnerabilities at the application level

Author: Donald Thomas
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471916669
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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The Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice, but it also made many people rich. Under the cover of war, crime ranging from opportunistic looting to systematic theft was able to flourish. Donald Thomas draws on extensive archive material to reveal the ingenuity and sheer scale of wartime criminality, making fascinating reading of one of the great untold stories of the war. 'A mesmerising, unputdownable and brilliantly researched page-turner' Sunday Times

Author: John Silvester
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1844541479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Jason Moran was in his blue Mitsubishi van when he was gunned down with his friend, Pasquale Bardora, in front of up to 250 people in the car park of the Cross Keys Hotel. At least five children, including Moran's twin girl and boy, aged six, and his brother's own fatherless children were in the van when the gunman fired. While murdering two men in front of hundreds of people might, at first, seem wreckless, to the killer, it made perfect sense...' From the authors that brought you Mark Bradon Read's Chopper, comes a true account of the most bloodcurdling gang violence you will ever read. For the last ten years a war has raged on once safe suburban streets that has stunned the world. The killings have been particularly callous and brutal: mothers gunned down with their babies sleeping beside them, fathers killed in front of their children and couples shot down in cold blood. This is true crime at its most bloody, surreal and terrifying.

Author: Timothy J. Knab
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429711042
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This book presents a tale with a complete, concise, compelling narrative that conveys some of the essence of the discovery, adventure, and learning of twenty years of field work of the author about the ancient religion of the Aztecs in Mexico. .

Author: Robert E. May
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War.