Download or read book Code Name Snowman written by David Bennett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex Special Forces Jim Hammond, now turned freelance trouble-shooter was relaxing at home when a call came from his old boss Frank Keenan, who was now working for British Intelligence in Cairo. They both served together in the army. Jim had, at one point saved Frank's life. The call was to get Jim to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers and capture the number one man, a certain Miguel Sandora. Jim knew that if he was going to shut Sandora's operation down, he would have to go into the lion's den. He had to come up with a plan to get Sandora out in the open.........
Download or read book Codename Iron Bear written by Charles Eugene Anderson and published by Mad Cow Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world on the brink of war, two superpowers clash in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. When Russia launches a surprise invasion, the United States deploys its most advanced weapon: the Mech Troopers. Among them is Easy Squadron, an elite team of pilots tasked with defending America's last frontier. Led by the enigmatic Bandit, Easy Squadron must navigate treacherous terrain, brutal weather, and an enemy that will stop at nothing to claim victory. As they uncover a secret that could turn the tide of the war, the team must risk everything to protect the ones they love and the country they serve. From the frozen tundra to the heart of Russia's military might, Codename: Iron Bear is a pulse-pounding tale of courage, sacrifice, and the unbreakable bonds forged in the heat of battle. With its vivid characters, non-stop action, and thought-provoking themes, this military sci-fi thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page.
Download or read book CodeName Snake the Evil We Kill written by CodeName Snake: The Evil We Kill M. M. Rumberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jewish Assassin operating in Berlin during World War II.
Download or read book My Magical Snowman written by Campbell Books and published by Campbell Books. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Magical Snowman takes readers on a wonderful Christmas adventure with a fun-loving magical snowman! With push, pull and turn mechanisms and a sparkly foil cover wheel, little ones will have lots of fun taking part in the snowman's exciting adventure. Yujin Shin's beautifully coloured illustrations are paired with gently rhyming text to create a perfect magical Christmas world, with lots to spot in four delightful scenes. My Magical Snowman is another exciting addition to the My Magical series, based on the popular Busy Book format. Enjoy more magical adventures with My Magical Unicorn, My Magical Dragon, My Magical Mermaid, My Magical Sea Unicorn, My Magical Witch, My Magical Easter Bunny, My Magical Fairy, My Magical Flying Pony and My Magical Owl.
Download or read book Just a Snowman written by Mercer Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hooray! It is a snow day! And what a perfect time to make a snowman. But Little Sister needs help putting on her boots, Dad needs a hand with shoveling, and Gator wants to build a fort. Will Little Critter ever get to build a snowman?"--Cover back.
Download or read book Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema written by Gene D. Phillips and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moreover, Phillips seeks to represent the various trends in filmmaking that have evolved over the years, such as American film noir, which is included in the discussion of Alfred Hitchcock's films, and British social realism, which is included in the discussion of Bryan Forbes's films."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The History of the Snowman written by Bob Eckstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who made the first snowman? Who first came up with the idea of placing snowballs on top of each other, and who decided they would use a carrot for a nose? Most puzzling of all: How can this mystery ever be solved, with all the evidence long since melted? The snowman appears everywhere on practically everything -- from knickknacks to greeting cards to seasonal sweaters we plan to return. Whenever we see big snowballs our first impulse is to deck them out with a top hat. Humorist and writer Bob Eckstein has long been fascinated by this ubiquitous symbol of wintertime fun -- and finally, for the first time, one of the world's most popular icons gets his due. A thoroughly entertaining exploration, The History of the Snowman travels back in time to shed light on the snowman's enigmatic past -- from the present day, in which the snowman reigns as the King of Kitsch, to the Dark Ages, with the creation of the very first snowman. Eckstein's curiosity began playfully enough, but soon snowballed into a (mostly) earnest quest of chasing Frosty around the world, into museums and libraries, and seeking out the advice of leading historians and scholars. The result is a riveting history that reaches back through centuries and across cultures -- sweeping from fifteenth-century Italian snowballs to eighteenth-century Russian ice sculptures to the regrettable "white-trash years" (1975-2000). The snowman is not just part of our childhood memories, but is an integral part of our world culture, appearing -- much like a frozen Forrest Gump -- alongside dignitaries and celebrities during momentous events. Again and again, the snowman pops up in rare prints, paintings, early movies, advertising and, over the past century, in every art form imaginable. And the jolly snowman -- ostensibly as pure as the driven snow -- also harbors a dark past full of political intrigue, sex, and violence. With more than two hundred illustrations and a special section of the best snowman cartoons, The History of the Snowman is a truly original winter classic -- smart, surprisingly enlightening, and quite simply the coolest book ever.
Download or read book Burning Questions written by Margaret Atwood and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as... • Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx & Crake, and Atwood's other beloved works. • How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? • How can we live on our planet? • Is it true? And is it fair? • What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood’s views on the climate crisis, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
Download or read book Ice and Snow in the Cold War written by Julia Herzberg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Cold War has focused overwhelmingly on statecraft and military power, an approach that has naturally placed Moscow and Washington center stage. Meanwhile, regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery have received little attention. However, such environments were of no small importance during the Cold War: in addition to their symbolic significance, they also had direct implications for everything from military strategy to natural resource management. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”
Download or read book The Central Intelligence Agency 2 volumes written by Jan Goldman Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Central Intelligence Agency is essential in the fight to keep America safe from foreign attacks. This two-volume work traces through facts and documents the history of the CIA, from the people involved to the operations conducted for national security. This two-volume reference work offers both students and general-interest readers a definitive resource that examines the impact the CIA has had on world events throughout the Cold War and beyond. From its intervention in Guatemala in 1954, through the Bay of Pigs, the Vietnam War, the Iran-Contra Affair, and its key role in Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, this objective, apolitical work covers all of this controversial intelligence agency's most notable successes and failures. The content focuses on describing how a U.S. government organization that is unlike any other conducts covert warfare, surreptitiously collects information, and conducts espionage. The work allows for easy reference of former CIA operations and spies, looking at the positive and negative aspects of each operation and the "why" and "how" of its execution. The second volume provides documentation that supports and amplifies more than 200 cross-referenced entries. Readers will be able to understand the reasons behind the CIA's various actions, perceive how the agency's role has evolved across its 75-year history, and intelligently consider the viability and future of the CIA.
Download or read book Codename Vengeance written by David Wright and published by David Wright. This book was released on 2017 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Codename Vengeance is a WWII historical thriller filled with top-secret Nazi weaponry, breath-taking aerial duels, and gut-wrenching moral dilemmas. It's the first in a series of adventure/espionage novels spanning the career of the German double agent, Henrik Kessler, and the demise of the Nazi empire from 1942 to 1945. When an American pilot on loan to the RAF shoots down three British spitfires in his own squadron, and then crash-lands at a German airbase in Holland, the Nazi SS have more than a few questions about his identity. Who is this American? A deserter? A traitor? A maniac? Or truly a German spy as he claims to be? Before they can interrogate him to find the answers, Henrik escapes the airbase and travels on foot to Amsterdam for mysterious reasons of his own. Apparently he has returned from America, not to deliver top secret plans of the atomic bomb, but to smuggle his former fiancé, Esther Jacobs, out of German occupied Holland in a hidden submarine. There is only one problem with his plan. What if she doesn't want to go? Before he can convince her to come with him, Esther and her family are evacuated to a Jewish concentration camp in the Harz Mountains. Now Henrik must choose between his tainted loyalty to an evil regime or his forbidden love for a Jewish woman. Will he continue to work on Hitler's dreaded Vengeance weapons with the secrets he has brought with him from America, or will he set out on a doomed mission deep into the heart of the Third Reich to save Esther and her family? Whatever his decision, only the fate of the civilized world hangs in the balance.
Download or read book The Snowman written by Raymond Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Download or read book Oryx and Crake written by Margaret Atwood and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake, nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash written by Richard Olsson and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you. You will learn the core Flash 3D concepts, using the open source Away3D engine as a primary tool. Once you have mastered these skills, you will be able to realize the possibilities that the available Flash 3D engines, languages, and technologies have to offer you with Flash and 3D. Describes 3D concepts in theory and their implementation using Away3D Dives right in to show readers how to quickly create an interactive, animated 3D scene, and builds on that experience throughout the book Each chapter contains a number of tutorials that focus on one specific feature or group of features
Download or read book A Snowman Named Just Bob written by Mark Molton and published by WorthyKids. This book was released on 2000-01-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recently built snowman comes to life and offers a message of friendship.
Download or read book Recovery written by W. J. Cherf and published by W.J. Cherf. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 15, 1359 BC a distress call was transmitted into deep space…On Christmas Eve AD 670, relatively speaking, the distress call was received and a salvage crew dispatched…On March 24, 1965 an anomaly was first detected by the Ranger IX spacecraft and was subsequently confirmed by the Orbiter I and III platforms…On November 11, 1969 the anomaly was recovered by NASA’s Apollo XII crew...On May 13, 1994 a new asteroid, a NEA – a near-Earth asteroid, was first detected inbound from deep space…The word recovery is indeed one pregnant with meaning and in the final analysis one must ask: who truly is recovering what? Recovery continues the temporal adventures of Egyptologist Joseph Richards. This is the second manuscript published by the Richards’ Trust in accordance with the posthumous wishes of Joseph William Richards, Ph.D.
Download or read book Jim Talbert Whistling in Chicago written by Timothy Segrest and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to Jim Talberts Whistling in Chicago, The Birth, Jim holds up his end of the bargain with Detective Kasey, ridding Chicago of the railway gangs controlling power. His revenge for Mr. Wallace may be over, but the real fight has just begun. A willing neighborhood watch group trained by Jim, Snowman and Viper, attempt to combat the infiltration of rival gangs into the now open territory, resulting in havoc and death. Despite knowing they are outgunned and outmanned, they execute a strategy to triumph in a seemingly impossible war. The climax is full of surprises and unforeseen consequences.
