Download or read book Countdown to Disaster written by David Burnie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is in danger! From gigantic eruptions to asteroid collisions natural disasters have the power to devastate life on Earth. Find out why these disasters occur, what effects they have on our surroundings and how likely each disaster is to strike again. Find out what we are doing toavoid disasters in the future, and how people are learning to live with the threat of an earthquake or volcano on their doorstep.
Download or read book The Digital Demon written by Ronald Kinsella and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1982, a young man of thirteen was abducted from his bedroom, his captors being strange and apparently not of this world. Prior to this, he, along with his twin brother and grandmother, were observed by an otherworldly sphere, which hung over their heads as a soundless electronic eye.It has taken Ronald Kinsella many years to finally document these bizarre events, and in doing so he has drawn some very interesting parallels with these things we call 'Aliens,' along with their super-advanced ships. His testimony questions the validity of a paradox that, he reflects, can swiftly change faces to suit what's in vogue.From his humble beginnings, to the trauma of a solo snatching, Ronald searches for answers as to 'Why;' questioning the hogwash so many alleged abductees ramble, in that these strange visitors often proclaim a concern for 'World Peace,' when, he reiterates, there has not been one solitary scrap of evidence to support it.This spurred him to research the subject.Ronald contests the validity of these things people call 'Greys,' along with observing the disquieting rise of an agenda that will not benefit mankind (The Herd,) in as much as 'The Powers That Be' may well be working with something far more sinister than 'Aliens.'Was the Roswell Crash of 1947 a true saucer in the 'Spaceman' sense? Or was it something else? Was it, as Ronald speculates, a clever deception, engineered by minds much darker than we can conceive, and of which was expected to crash in a spectacular and dramatic fashion; aimed at effectively ensnaring the human race in a ploy for ultimate technological subjugation? A thing which has pulled wool over our eyes for long enough, and of which may well have calculated its rise to physicality, once the populace has been fooled and conditioned by its ambiguous intervention.
Download or read book Bullet Train Disaster written by Jack Heath and published by Union Square Kids. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the disastrous first trip of a new bullet train that ascends nearly vertically up steep Mount Grave, the reader makes choices that determine how the hero proceeds--and whether survival is possible.
Download or read book The 2030 Spike written by Colin Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
Download or read book Countdown to World Disaster written by Basilea Schlink and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Countdown to Preparedness written by Jim Cobb and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beginner's guide to disaster preparedness outlines how to create a self-sustainable home that can provide for needs in the face of anything, covering such topics as supply stockpiling, food foraging, and defense weaponry.
Download or read book Countdown written by Deborah Wiles and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman's life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war. Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems that the whole country is living in fear. When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, it only gets worse. Franny doesn't know how to deal with what's going on in the world -- no more than she knows how to deal with what's going on with her family and friends. But somehow she's got to make it through. Featuring a captivating story interspersed with footage from 1962, award-winning author Deborah Wiles has created a documentary novel that will put you right alongside Franny as she navigates a dangerous time in both her history and our history.
Download or read book July 1914 written by Sean McMeekin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict -- much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events. As acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might have been avoided entirely had it not been for a small group of statesmen who, in the month after the assassination, plotted to use Ferdinand's murder as the trigger for a long-awaited showdown in Europe. The primary culprits, moreover, have long escaped blame. While most accounts of the war's outbreak place the bulk of responsibility on German and Austro-Hungarian militarism, McMeekin draws on surprising new evidence from archives across Europe to show that the worst offenders were actually to be found in Russia and France, whose belligerence and duplicity ensured that war was inevitable. Whether they plotted for war or rode the whirlwind nearly blind, each of the men involved -- from Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold von Berchtold and German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov and French president Raymond Poincaré- sought to capitalize on the fallout from Ferdinand's murder, unwittingly leading Europe toward the greatest cataclysm it had ever seen. A revolutionary account of the genesis of World War I, July 1914 tells the gripping story of Europe's countdown to war from the bloody opening act on June 28th to Britain's final plunge on August 4th, showing how a single month -- and a handful of men -- changed the course of the twentieth century.
Download or read book 300 Minutes of Danger written by Jack Heath and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 stories. 10 dangerous situations. 10 brave kids. 30 minutes to escape. George is trapped in a falling aeroplane with no engine and no pilot. Milla is covered with radioactive waste and her hazard suit is running out of air. Otto is in the darkest depths of the ocean, where something hungry is circling ...
Download or read book Damascus Countdown written by Joel C. Rosenberg and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Israel declares war on Iran, CIA operative David Shirazi infiltrates the Iranian regime and intercepts information indicating that two Iranian nuclear warheads have been moved to a secure and undisclosed location.
Download or read book Trouble at Table 5 2 Busted by Breakfast written by Tom Watson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Stick Dog comes the second book in a highly illustrated early chapter book series about three best friends whose plans, missions, and schemes are sure to shake up their school. Simon always has a lot to say. And sometimes he can’t stop talking—even in the middle of class. When Simon gets in trouble for jabbering at school, his best friends, Molly and Rosie, think up a plan to keep him from getting grounded at home! It involves cars, suds, and pink plastic flamingos! But will their big plan turn into an even bigger disaster? HarperChapters build confident readers one chapter at a time! With short, fast-paced books, art on every page, and milestone markers at the end of every chapter, they're the perfect next step for fans of I Can Read!
Download or read book Japan 1941 written by Eri Hotta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western readers, and barely explored in depth in Japan itself, Hotta poses an essential question: Why did these men—military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor—put their country and its citizens so unnecessarily in harm’s way? Introducing us to the doubters, schemers, and would-be patriots who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan rarely glimpsed—eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by reckless militarism couched in traditional notions of pride and honor, tempted by the gambler’s dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable. In an intimate account of the increasingly heated debates and doomed diplomatic overtures preceding Pearl Harbor, Hotta reveals just how divided Japan’s leaders were, right up to (and, in fact, beyond) their eleventh-hour decision to attack. We see a ruling cadre rich in regional ambition and hubris: many of the same leaders seeking to avoid war with the United States continued to adamantly advocate Asian expansionism, hoping to advance, or at least maintain, the occupation of China that began in 1931, unable to end the second Sino-Japanese War and unwilling to acknowledge Washington’s hardening disapproval of their continental incursions. Even as Japanese diplomats continued to negotiate with the Roosevelt administration, Matsuoka Yosuke, the egomaniacal foreign minister who relished paying court to both Stalin and Hitler, and his facile supporters cemented Japan’s place in the fascist alliance with Germany and Italy—unaware (or unconcerned) that in so doing they destroyed the nation’s bona fides with the West. We see a dysfunctional political system in which military leaders reported to both the civilian government and the emperor, creating a structure that facilitated intrigues and stoked a jingoistic rivalry between Japan’s army and navy. Roles are recast and blame reexamined as Hotta analyzes the actions and motivations of the hawks and skeptics among Japan’s elite. Emperor Hirohito and General Hideki Tojo are newly appraised as we discover how the two men fumbled for a way to avoid war before finally acceding to it. Hotta peels back seventy years of historical mythologizing—both Japanese and Western—to expose all-too-human Japanese leaders torn by doubt in the months preceding the attack, more concerned with saving face than saving lives, finally drawn into war as much by incompetence and lack of political will as by bellicosity. An essential book for any student of the Second World War, this compelling reassessment will forever change the way we remember those days of infamy.
Download or read book Trouble at Table 5 6 Countdown to Disaster written by Tom Watson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Stick Dog comes the sixth book in a highly illustrated early chapter book series about three best friends whose plans, missions, and schemes are sure to shake up their school. Uh-oh! Molly’s parents have a secret. They want to move to a new house—maybe even a new town. But Molly can’t leave her best friends Rosie and Simon behind! Now the trio from Table 5 only have three days to come up with a scavenger hunt that will remind Molly’s parents of all the things they love about their house and neighborhood…before the moving vans come and Molly has to go. HarperChapters build confident readers one chapter at a time! With short, fast-paced books, art on every page, and milestone markers at the end of every chapter, they're the perfect next step for fans of I Can Read!
Download or read book 400 Minutes of Danger written by Jack Heath and published by Scholastic Australia. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad has fallen into the lion enclosure, and the big cats are hungry! Charith takes the wheel of an out of control bus after an explosion. Iresha hears strange noises … from beneath the seabed. Daniel crawls into a waste crusher after a building collapse–and then it gets switched on. Tak’s class goes on excursion to an army base and now an experimental military robot is hunting them. Jack Heath’s ten more nail-bitingly dangerous short stories will fascinate and terrify during each full 40-minute count down, as the dangerous situations play out right down to the last crucial moment. Who will live and who will die? 40 minutes of danger, in 30 minutes* of reading time! *Based on average reading speed
Download or read book The Final Countdown written by William Vincent and published by RWG Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Final Countdown: A Race Against Time is a thrilling tale of a world facing an impending disaster that could threaten the very existence of humanity. As the clock ticks down, a team of top scientists must work tirelessly to find a solution to avert the disaster and save the world. Set in a not-too-distant future, the book takes readers on a heart-pounding journey as the team of scientists races against time to crack the code and find the solution to the impending disaster. The tension builds with each passing day, as panic sets in and riots break out around the globe. The scientists must work together, sacrificing their own well-being for the greater good. They know that failure is not an option and that every second counts. The book is a thrilling reminder of the importance of perseverance, determination, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to succeed, even in the face of seemingly impossible odds. As the final countdown begins, the team must confront their greatest challenge yet. It is a race against time, as they work tirelessly to prevent the disaster from occurring. The world watches in awe, holding its breath, waiting to see if the scientists will succeed in their mission. The Final Countdown: A Race Against Time is a powerful tale of the importance of teamwork, sacrifice, and determination. It is a gripping thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. The book is perfect for fans of action and adventure, environmental science, and technological thrillers. It is a must-read for anyone who loves a thrilling tale of heroism and triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds.
Download or read book Shockwave written by Jack Heath and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will you survive or will you die? You are swimming through the ocean, trying to escape dangerous mercenaries who have planted a bomb on the mainland. Behind you, getting closer, is the largest shark you've ever seen. An explosion rips out from the shoreline and a massive wave flings you closer to the stunned shark's open mouth. You don't have much time, and you need to get to land. Do you keep swimming or do you climb onto the shark's back to ride to shore? Thirty minutes. Thirty paths. Can you choose the path to survive?
Download or read book Countdown to Preparedness written by Jim Cobb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to fully prepare your family for any cataclysmic event. Welcome to the most important class you’ll ever take. In this dangerous world, there’s no place where disaster won’t find you. Your only option is to get educated. Presenting a straightforward fifty-two-week course to becoming a full-fledged prepper, this book guides you step-by-step with everything from simple tools for storing food and water to advanced techniques for defending your family and property: • Learn to stock, treat, use, and reuse the most important survival item of all—water • Store enough food to feed your family for three months without breaking the bank • Develop the emergency skills to respond effectively to any catastrophic event • Fortify and protect your home with affordable and manageable DIY projects • Create a prepper savings account to ensure your family’s well-being If you want to make it out alive, you can’t rely on hope or help from others. You need to be ready to act on your own, and this guide can get you there.
