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2) Earthfall
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 4
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Two brothers return to an Earth their ancestors left 40 million years earlier. They are Nafai and Elemak of the planet Harmony, and they are seeking help for their ruling computer which is breaking down. The brothers arrive to find Earth inhabited by winged angels. By the author of The Ships of Earth.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 17
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed in 1886, mysteriously drowning three days later. Eccentric to the point of madness, history tells us that in the years before he died Ludwig engaged in a worldwide search for a new kingdom, one separate, apart, and in lieu of Bavaria. A place he could retreat into and rule as he wished. But a question remains: did he succeed? Enter Cotton Malone. After many months, Malone's protaegae,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day.The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a renowned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance...
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Not Supplied
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Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Traces and explains how various national and international powers have risen and fallen, relative to one another, over the course of five centuries since the Renaissance, focusing on the interaction between economics and military strategy.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Enclave Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Decades ago, a mysterious treasure vanished in the middle of the night. But the secrets it held were worth more than gold.
The thrilling follow-up to The Secret of the Stones sends former government agent Sean Wyatt and his sidekick Tommy Schultz from the deserts of the American southwest to the hills and jungles of Ecuador in a perilous race to find the mysterious lost treasure. The treasure is somehow linked to the legendary Lost Chambers of Gold...
Author
Series
Neog volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The crew of Zuma's Ghost has won the Boarding Games for the second straight year. The crew feels unstoppable, until their leaders decide to retire and they get a new commander
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Well-known financial speculator Soros argues that the United States can lose its dominant global position only through its own mistakes, mistakes that George W. Bush seems intent on committing under the cover of a hijacked September 11th. After some specific criticisms of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he looks at domestic matters, finding the Bush administration's domestic activities just as horrifying. In the second half of the book, he proposes...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1991, the United States was the only global superpower. It seemed that the 21st century, like the 20th, would belong to America. Then came the stock market bubble, the costly foreign unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency, and the financial catastrophe of 2008. Meanwhile, China was rising and the Middle East was awakening politically. Today it is clear that America is vulnerable--to domestic and international decline and unregulated greed....