Download or read book Dirt Bomb written by Fleur Beale and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming of age story for teenage boys, especially car lovers. Shortlisted for the 2012 NZ Post Book Awards and the 2012 LIANZA YA Award. Jake's life is sweet. He's got no money and doesn't have a mobile, but he's got two best mates; Buzz and Robbie. Buzz is generous and doesn't mind buying stuff for his mates. Jake wouldn't change a thing. But then Robbie has the idea of the century: rescue the old wreck from the ditch and make it into a paddock basher. Yes! Buzz, however, puts a spanner in the works by saying he's not paying for it all. Even stevens or no deal. Robbie gets a job. Jake refuses. It's just not his style to work for a boss. But he desperately wants to drive that car, and the others are going to go ahead without him. The summer holidays are looming ahead of him in a desert of boredom and friendlessness. He needs a game plan ... A writer with an uncanny understanding of young male teenagers, Fleur Beale also wrote Slide the Corner which won the Storylines Much-Loved Book Award - and teachers have been crying out for more books in this genre. Dirt Bomb fills this gap beautifully.
Download or read book The Facts about Dirty Bombs written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on 2005 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dirty Bombs written by Jonathan Medalia and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress has long sought, through legislation and oversight, to protect the United States against terrorist threats, especially from chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons. Radiological dispersal devices (RDDs) are one type of CBRN weapon. Explosive-driven "dirty bombs" are an often-discussed type of RDD, though radioactive material can also be dispersed in other ways. This report provides background for understanding the RDD threat and responses, and presents issues for Congress. Appendices: Technical Background; Some U.S. Vulnerabilities to RDDS. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Download or read book Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb written by Wendell Duffield and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the year 2025. Following a lengthy approval process seemingly driven more by politics than science, the nation's inventory of high-level radioactive waste is finally stored in underground passageways dug into the guts of Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Two years later, the unexpected and unthinkable happens ... a violent volcanic eruption blasts its way through the mountain. Because Yucca is saturated with the percolating abundant rainfall brought about by climate change, explosive steam bursts add to an already destructive eruption as two-thousand-degree magma mixes with water. Radioactive waste is erupted along with volcanic ash, creating the ultimate dirty bomb. The deadly mixture is blown downwind where it settles out over Las Vegas and Lake Mead. The city must be evacuated and the lake drained, displacing and disrupting the lives of millions of people for long into the future. Yucca Mountain Dirty Bomb invites the reader to live vicariously through a scenario that experts consider unlikely, as measured by carefully calculated probability (popularly called "the odds") ... the very mathematical construct that sustains the gambling mecca of Las Vegas. Nonetheless, unlikely events can and do occur, and in this novel "the house" loses!
Download or read book Dirty Bomb written by Gilbert King and published by Chamberlain Brothers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While newspapers carry stories about dirty bombs from time to time few readers know enough about these bombs to be scared. And scared they should be. The threat of a nuclear strike is more real than ever, and the government, while trying to do its best, is playing from way behind. Some experts even wonder if we should be spending less money on trying to prevent it, and more on trying to deal with one after it happens.This is an eye-opening investigation into the world of nuclear arms, radioactive machinery, and Al Qaeda terrorists. This book is filled with shocking revelations regarding huge security gaps, radioactive materials, missing nuclear arsenals, as well as the simplicity of technology needed to detonate what many experts have called "Weapons of Mass Disruption."Shocking stories include: In 1995 a 17 year-old Boy Scout built a working nuclear core in a shed in his parent's backyard In 1996 Chechen separatists planted a working Dirty Bomb in a Moscow park International intelligence recently uncovered the fact that the terrorists have a bomb-making school or network, which is easily transmitted via the internet 38 missing Alazan warheads were modified to carry radioactive material by the Russian government, effectively creating the world's first surface-to-surface 'dirty bombs' In 1987 an exposed core of Ceasium 137 was left in a trash can in Brazil for three days -- hundreds were treated for ailments related to radiation sickness There are rumored to be 20 missing Russian nuclear suitcase bombs Recent studies show that the affects of a medium sized Dirty Bomb would wreak far worse financial and long-term physical damage than originally assessed Includes: What Can You Do to Protect You and Your Family Protect Yourself During a Radiation Emergency - What to Do In Case of an Explosive Attack - Information on Potassium Iodide - What You Can Do to Prepare for a Terrorist Event
Download or read book The Project Kids written by Coach Mike Manley and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's go back to the time of rotary phones, party lines, TV screens that were fifteen inches, and the beginning of rock and roll. What was it like growing up in a Housing Authority project? Take a journey throughtime withnine friends in the fifties, as they try to show you kids are the same yesteryear as they are today. Or are they? Faith,friendship, and loyalty are the key words of the book. This book will make you laugh, cry, and wonder were the fifties the good old days. So when your grandkids ask,"How was it when you weregrowing up?"Hand them this book!Coach Mike Manley is a retired New York City physical education teacher. He often states there are 17,500 former students walking around sore from the thousands of pushups, sit-ups, jumping jacks, and chain breakers they did in hisclass His love of teaching, coaching, sports, and faith canbe traced back to his days growing up in a housing project. His book the Project Kids: Takes Us back to the 1950s.Many of the adventures with his eight friends will make you laugh, cry, and wonder how they grew up in such a small part of the world. Mike's book took forty-eight years in the making, and now he can check it off his bucket list.Mike still coaches on Cape Cod where he lives with his wife Carol.
Download or read book Terrorism Dirty Bombs and Weapons of Mass Destruction written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the construction of dirty bombs, radiation-dispersal devices, and the threat that the terrorists wanting to use them pose to the world.
Download or read book Mischievous Rascal written by Taylor Samuel Lyen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mischievous Rascal: Breaking the Seventh Seal is the story of a mother's unflagging zeal to correctly raise her mischievous rascal of a son and of that rascal's search, some sixty plus years later, to understand his mother's fury and his father's ghostly presence. "One's innate ability to face, overcome, and be strengthened by unpleasant experiences is key to human survival. The story reveals how one child's resiliency stood in the face of adversity." -Carol Haberberger, Special Education, County Juvenile Facility "Why Thomas didn't end up in prison is a silent miracle." -Jeanette Price, Legal Assistant "What lends depth to this work is the author's honesty in examining and understanding life Thomas' experiences in the hope of bettering his grandchildren's opportunities for health and well-being." -Arlene Landau, Therapist "The author takes us on the journey of a young boy seeking what he needed most, only to find it outside of his own family." -Cameran Haire, Corporate Managing Director
Download or read book In a Nut s Hell written by Jim Wood and published by Outskirts Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a Nut's Hell" by Jim Wood is a collection of satirical, humorous, and literary shorter-than-short stories geared for the waning attention span and aimed at providing the laughs we all so desperately need these days. Perfect for the coffee table or bathroom, Wood's serious silliness covers the topics we all must live with, from information overload to identity theft to hypocrisy to cancer to surprise parties to home invasion to religion to dung beetles taking over Washington DC. Wood hopes his book will make you laugh and think, ideally at the same time.
Download or read book 500 Things to Eat Before It s Too Late written by Michael Stern and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two American Boys written by Michael K. Bauer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two American Boys is a story of two childhood best friends, Mike and Rick, who grew up on the same block. Relive the late 50s and 60s with their numerous adventures and thrill with their faithful dogs, Ginger and Blackie, at their side. Play baseball, army and go hunting and fishing with Mike's father and enjoy his many stories, as they grow up in a time of innocence in America.? While America might have been innocent, these boys were not. From fistfights with the Bad Brothers on the block to breaking windows, these boys always found themselves in the midst of fun and trouble. Jumping from roofs while playing Zorro and running from angry sailors and hornets are just a glimpse at some of their experiences you will enjoy as you watch them grow up. After years of friendship, high school approaches and Rick moved to California. As the years went by, the boys still kept in touch through letters and the bond that was built between them still stays strong. After high school, Mike joined the army and went to Korea while Rick joined the Marines and went to Vietnam. It was 1969 and Mike had not received anymore letters from Rick in 'Nam and now he feared the worst. Mike searched for his long lost friend for years and years with no luck at all. Finally, follow Mike to the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. to find the answer to the question that plagued him: Did Rick make it back or was his name on the Wall?
Download or read book Little Beasts written by Matthew McGevna and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turnbull, New York, is a working-class town full of weary people who struggle to make ends meet. In July 1983, eight-year-olds James, Dallas and Felix leave their homes to play in the woods, where they have to navigate between the potentially violent world of angry adults and angrier teens. Little do they know that by the end of the summer, one of them will lay dead, after a bit of 'playful' bullying from older teens escalates to tragedy. After the murder, the novels main characters must come to grips with the aftermath, face down the decisions they've made, and re-establish faith.
Download or read book The Cape Code Table written by Lora Brody and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the quintessential clambake to beach plum jam, each of these 100 recipes celebrates this unforgettably beautiful peninsula. Gorgeous photographs paint a vibrant picture of the villages, the people, and--best of all--the food.
Download or read book A Spirit s Touch written by Joy Mindrup and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Amy discovers she is not alone in her home she is faced to deal with her own loneliness. Her spirit obsession takes over when she meets Sarah O'Connell online, a haunted object seller and paranormal investigator. Together they embark on a crazy journey linked by their own past life they once shared. A one of a kind ghost story you wont believe...or will you??
Download or read book The Chambers Dictionary written by Allied Chambers and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 2054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Jews Became White Folks and what that Says about Race in America written by Karen Brodkin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts how Jews assimilated into, and became accepted by, mainstream white society in the later twentieth century, as they lost their working-class orientation.
Download or read book It s Not Summer Without You written by Jenny Han and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jenny Han's follow-up to The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly finds out what comes after falling in love. Now available in paperback!
