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The Illustrated Man By : Ray Bradbury READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--with...

Bloodchild and Other Stories By : Octavia E. Butler READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The award-winning author of The Parable of the Sower explores the paradoxes of power and inequality in this highly imaginative collection of parables for the contemporary world. "Bloodchild, " the title piece, has received both Hugo and Nebula Awards. Book Detail : Author : Octavia E. Butler Pages : 228 pages Publisher : Open Road Media Language : eng ISBN-10 : B008HALO0U ISBN-13 :   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Light of Impossible Stars (Embers of War, #3) By : Gareth L. Powell READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy.Low on fuel and hunted by the Fleet of Knives, the sentient warship Trouble Dog follows a series of clues that lead her to the Intrusion--an area of space where reality itself becomes unstable. But with human civilisation crumbling, what difference can one battered old ship have against an invincible armada?Meanwhile, Cordelia Pa and her step-brother eke out their existence salvaging artefacts from an alien city. But when Cordelia starts hearing the city's song in her head, strange things start happening around her. What extraordinary affinity does she have for this abandoned technology, and how can it possibly help the Trouble Dog?Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy. Book Detail : Author : Ga...

The Man Who Folded Himself By : David Gerrold READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : This classic work of science fiction is widely considered to be the ultimate time-travel novel. When Daniel Eakins inherits a time machine, he soon realizes that he has enormous power to shape the course of history. He can foil terrorists, prevent assassinations, or just make some fast money at the racetrack. And if he doesn't like the results of the change, he can simply go back in time and talk himself out of making it! But Dan soon finds that there are limits to his powers and forces beyond his control. Book Detail : Author : David Gerrold Pages : 127 pages Publisher : BenBella Books Language : en-US ISBN-10 : 1932100040 ISBN-13 : 9781932100044   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

The Wind's Twelve Quarters By : Ursula K. Le Guin READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time. Book Detail : Author : Ursula K. Le Guin Pages : 305 pages Publisher : Harper Perennial Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0060914343 ISBN-13 : 9780060914349   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI,...

Lightning By : Dean Koontz READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere ? the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later ? another bolt of lightning ? and the stranger returned, again to save Laura from tragedy. Was he the guardian angel he seemed? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space? Book Detail : Author : Dean Koontz Pages : 384 pages Publisher : Berkley Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0425192032 ISBN-13 : 9780425192030   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Occultation and Other Stories By : Laird Barron READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, nine stories of cosmic horror from the heir apparent to Lovecraft?s throne.Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year?s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.He returns with his second collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation?s nine tales of terror (two published here for the first time) were nomina...

The Truth and Other Stories By : Stanis?aw Lem READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanis?aw Lem, nine of them never before published in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought-provoking and scathingly funny.Written from 1956 to 1996, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, The Truth, a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; The Journal appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite uni...

Resident Evil: Nemesis (Resident Evil, #5) By : S.D. Perry READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Zombies, mutant animals, bioengineered weapons and surgically enhanced monsters: after all she's been through, Jill Valentine is ready to leave Raccoon City for ever. But the Umbrella Corporation isn't finished with Raccoon City.Under cover of night, mercenary teams have entered the city, along with something else - a lethal creature code-named Nemesis. Nemesis is on the hunt, and Jill is its prey Book Detail : Author : S.D. Perry Pages : 288 pages Publisher : Titan Books Language : eng ISBN-10 : B008QNF2E2 ISBN-13 :   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Novels & Story Cycles: The Martian Chronicles / Fahrenheit 451 / Dandelion Wine / Something Wicked This Way Comes By : Ray Bradbury READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : ?I can imagine all kinds of worlds and places,? Neil Gaiman has written, ?but I cannot imagine a world without Bradbury.? A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. In books that look forward to astonishing futures and backward to evanescent realms of memory, he elevated speculative fiction from the pages of the pulps to the vital center of American literary culture. This definitive Library of America edition gathers his novels and story cycles of the 1950s and 1960s for the first time.Published at the hopeful dawn of the space age, and presented here in the complete, twenty-eight story-chapter form that Bradbury came to prefer, the linked tales of The Martian Chronicles (1950) envision an extraterrestri...

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State By : Glenn Greenwald READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : By Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward SnowdenIn May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the twenty-nine-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.Now Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity eleven-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fr...

Black History 1619-2019: An Illustrated and Documented African-American History By : Sandra K Yocum READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : BLACK HISTORY 1619 TO 2019 is an inspiring and educational journey through American history. It is an in-depth look at the events which shaped the lives and contributions of the African-American community in the United States of America. This book is designed to restore the integrity of African-American history and is based on extensive research and documentation related to the African-American experience from the era of slavery until modern times. In this landmark book, Yocum and Rice promote awareness and preserve significant information and material that can replace revisionist accounts of African-American history. Are you ready for a life-altering experience?African-American history is richly illustrated with 393 photos, maps, and illustrations that portray the real lives of African-Americans during slavery, the Civil War, reconstru...

The Conservative Sensibility By : George F. Will READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, a monumental new reflection on American conservatism, examining how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition--one that now finds itself under threat, both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party. For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government...

The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit By : Randy E. Barnett READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : A renowned constitutional scholar and a rising star provide a balanced and definitive analysis of the origins and original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendment's key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws.Barnett and Bernick contend that the Fourteenth Amendment was the culmination of decades of debates about the meaning of the antebellum Constitution. Antislavery advocates advanced arguments informed by natur...

In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony By : Darren Byler READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human historyNovel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China?s vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading experts on Uyghur society and Chinese surveillance systems, uncovers how a vast network of technology provided by private companies?facial surveillance, voice recognition, smartphone data?enabled the state and corporations to blacklist millions of Uyghurs because of their religious and cultural practice starting in 2017. Charged with ?pre-crimes?...

Speech Craft By : Joshua Gunn READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Using Macmillan's highly touted LaunchPad to deliver superior content online, Speech Craft engages students with a contemporary edge and a focus on connecting with the local community. It's a public speaking textbook unlike any other. Joshua Gunn's distinctive style and strong scholarship are paired with compelling visuals to prepare students for public speaking situations in their own lives, whether they are giving a toast or presenting to the class. Wildly successful in its first edition, Speech Craft has drawn accolades from instructors around the country for its distinctive personality, student-friendly tone, and support for teaching the public speaking course both face-to-face and online. The second edition explores public speaking as advocacy and pays careful attention to diversity, empowering students to make ethical connections with their audiences and meaningful differences in the wo...

The Challenge of Effective Speaking in a Digital Age By : Rudolph F. Verderber READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Grounded in the latest research and best practices, THE CHALLENGE OF EFFECTIVE SPEAKING IN A DIGITAL AGE, 17th Edition, emphasizes the role of technology and digital media in all aspects of preparing, presenting, and interpreting public speeches in face-to-face and online environments. Building on a strong tradition of skills-based public speaking instruction, this bestseller's six Speech Plan Action Steps skillfully guide students through topic selection, audience analysis and adaptation, research, organization, presentational aids, and language and delivery. The authors provide an exceptional foundation to help students create and deliver speeches, including hands-on activities, techniques to address anxiety, practice grappling with ethical issues speakers face, and critical-thinking prompts that urge thinking logically about the speechmaking process....

Communication in Our Lives By : Julia T. Wood READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : COMMUNICATION IN OUR LIVES, 8th Edition, provides everything you need to become a more confident and effective communicator -- in both your personal and professional life. Award-winning teacher Julia T. Wood combines the latest research, theory, and best practices with hands-on skills development. Extremely student friendly, the text features an engaging, personal tone, while frequent Student Voice sections highlight how past students have experienced key communication concepts. In addition to its signature emphasis on social and cultural diversity, the eighth edition includes expanded coverage of digital media, a new focus on health communication, and an early introduction to public speaking -- with plenty of sample speeches. The text also illustrates the importance of effective communication to today's careers. Interactive, online study tools help you put what you learn into practice...

Stand Out 5 By : Rob Jenkins READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Stand Out is a six-level, standards-based ESL series for adult education, with a proven track record of successful results. The new edition of Stand Out, continues to provide students with the foundations and tools needed to achieve success in life, college, and career. Book Detail : Author : Rob Jenkins Pages : pages Publisher : National Geographic Society Language : ISBN-10 : 1305655648 ISBN-13 : 9781305655645   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Stand Out 2 By : Rob Jenkins READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Stand Out is a six-level, standards-based ESL series for adult education, with a proven track record of successful results. The new edition of Stand Out, continues to provide students with the foundations and tools needed to achieve success in life, college, and career. Book Detail : Author : Rob Jenkins Pages : pages Publisher : National Geographic Society Language : ISBN-10 : 1305655478 ISBN-13 : 9781305655478   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================