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1) Calm Pond
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Are you looking for the ideal bedtime book for your child? A book where you and your child can connect to strong characters and develop essential life skills through fun?
Then look no further than Calm Pond!
Calm Pond is in Blackstone Edge. It is a wonderful place, a special place.
It can be quiet and beautiful, but it can also be noisy and fun as it is the home of some amazing creatures!
The creatures of Calm Pond live and work together, helping...
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Ulster has produced an impressive number of surgeons who have gained world-wide renown. None has been more celebrated, or more deserving of a biography than Sir Ian Fraser whose life spanned almost the whole of the 20th century. Following a brilliant university career, Fraser's training occupied most of the inter-war years. As with most innovatory surgeons, his career really flourished in war-time conditions. During the Second World War, he was at...
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With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, five simultaneous murders on three continents lead to an investigation revealing the recent black-market sale of five nuclear weapons. But, who bought them? And, what is their intended target?
Washington fears the bombs are timed to explode in major American cities before the election. They call on intelligence expert Ray Bowman to prevent the attack. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female...
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In Washington, D.C., the Kill Committee gathers in the White House's Situation Room to pick the next targets for the United States drone program. At an airbase just outside Las Vegas, a team of pilots, military personnel, and intelligence officers follow through on the committee's orders, finding the men who have been deemed a threat to national security and sentenced to death.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, in the mountains where the...
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An essential, eye-opening book about cyberterrorism, cyber war, and the next great threat to our national security.
"Cyber War may be the most important book about national security policy in the last several years." –Slate
Former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict. Cyber War is a powerful book about...
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From President Bill Clinton's recommended reading list
Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and possibly the fate of civilization.
In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, the spread of viruses...
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Our lives are more controlled by computers and algorithms than we understand, but who controls the computers? Artificial Intelligencia steps behind the veil into the world of hackers, intelligence agents, surveillance systems, quantum computing, and deadly international competition.
A junior Chinese police detective stumbles onto a global plot that has control of camera and computer systems tracking billions of humans, including people who seem to...
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Richard Clarke's dramatic statement to the grieving families during the 9/11 Commission hearings touched a raw nerve across America. Not only had our government failed to prevent the 2001 terrorist attacks but it has proven itself, time and again, incapable of handling the majority of our most crucial national-security issues, from Iraq to Katrina and beyond. This is not just a temporary failure of any one administration, Mr. Clarke insists, but rather...
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My best friend is a secret agent volume 1
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Wattpad Books
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2021.
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Ten-year-old Nort McKrakken is a pint-sized computer genius and madcap inventor. Fourteen-year-old Chip Munson is his best friend and loyal guinea pig. When Nort creates C.H.I.P.--a microsized computer thingy--and sticks it on his best friend's tooth, it turns Chip into a real-life secret agent. With Chip's C.H.I.P. and Nort's brain, the pair is ready for anything... even middle school. In the first My Best Friend Is a Secret Agent book, Nort and...
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An essential read for all serious energy and climate change professionals, this comprehensive, revelatory carbon audit of Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station employs a depth of forensic analysis that yields profound conclusions.
Edward Coe and Richard Clarke deconstruct, examine and assess the implications of Hinkley Point C with its myriad combinations of alternatives, and raise many issues hitherto escaping popular consideration.
In today's...
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Fascinating and highly readable, Digital Resilience opens with the infamous 2013 Target attack, which compromised the credit card information of 40 million customers. In hindsight, the hack (like most today) was preventable. This book helps businesses understand the threats they face, assess the resilience of their networks against attacks, identify and address weaknesses, and respond to exploits swiftly and effectively. Data theft. Downed servers....