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Book cover of The Walking Whales

The Walking Whales

From Land to Water in Eight Million Years

by J. G. M. Hans Thewissen
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014

Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled...
Book cover of Blood Whispers
by J. G. Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014

Kaltrina Dervishi is a prostitute on the run from Serbian gang leader Fisnik Abazi. The police want her to give evidence against him: Abazi wants her dead. Only her lawyer, Keira Lynch, can keep that from happening. What Keira doesn't realise is that this is a case with global repercussions...
Book cover of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Left Hand of Destiny Book Two
by J. G. Hertzler, Jeffrey Lang
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2003

"The true test of a warrior is not without...it is within." Sins of the past collide with hopes for the future as Martok fights for the right to lead the Klingon Empire. With the secret of his usurper exposed, the ousted chancellor and his ragtag band of followers embark on a desperate plan to retake...
Book cover of The Use of Power
by J. G. Sumner
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008

After many years of research, a young physicist acquires what he has been seeking, albeit in an unexpected manner. He then uses his acquisition to save lives and prevent injustices around the world, but soon learns that the President of the United States plans to confiscate his unique possession....
Book cover of Mathematical and Physical Simulation of the Properties of Hot Rolled Products
by L. Cser, J.G. Lenard, Maciej Pietrzyk
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 1999

The objective of this publication is to comprehensively discuss the possibilities of producing steels with pre-determined attributes, demanded by the customer to fit exacting specifications. The information presented in the book has been designed to indicate the reasons for the expenses and to aid...
Book cover of The Interpreter: A Tale of the War
by J. G. Whyte-Melville
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Not one of my keys will fit it: the old desk has been laid aside for years, and is covered with dust and rust. We do not make such strong boxes nowadays, for brass hinges and secret drawers have given place to flimsy morocco and russian leather; so we clap a Bramah lock, that Bramah himself cannot...
Book cover of Canada
by Sir J. G. Bourinot
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with...
Book cover of The Common Objects of the Country
by J. G. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

In the following pages will be found short and simple descriptions of some of the numerous objects that are to be found in our fields, woods, and waters. As this little work is not intended for scientific readers, but simply as a guide to those who are desirous of learning something of natural...
Book cover of British Scientists of the Twentieth Century
by J G Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

Following on from British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, this volume covers six eminent British scientists whose work and personality have not receded into the same depth of perspective as their predecessors of the Nineteenth Century, but the tremendous changes following the two world wars have already cut them off sharply from this generation.
Book cover of Hello America: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

"This fable lifts a great freight of ideas effortlessly…The story of an expedition driven on by wishes of possession and power but guided internally by myths of America whose sources lie in the late 20th century." —Guardian Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century,...
Book cover of The Drought: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012

An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" (Times Literary Supplement). Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by industrial...
Book cover of The Unlimited Dream Company: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." —New York Times Book Review When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to...
Book cover of The Day of Creation: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012

"Compulsively absorbing: the white heat of its images seems to burn off the page, and the surreal landscapes linger on in the mind." —Independent On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of...
Book cover of Rushing to Paradise: A Novel
by J. G. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013

"[A] chilling . . . tale about humans who gamely follow their own worst instincts.”—Chicago Tribune Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultivating it into their own private Eden....
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