Download or read book Generation Zero 7 written by Fred Van Lente and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animalia enters the ?HEROSCAPE?! Tap into the uncharted plane of reality called the Heroscape and you can see the world through anyone else?s eyes ? and find out how their reality is governed by their own inspirations! Now, as a mysterious force preys upon Rook?s citizens, Animalia must enter the Heroscape...and experience a world filtered through her own twisted imagination! But as Generation Zero?s most militant adolescent wunderkind enters a world populated by colorful monstrosities of her own design, Animalia must lock horns ? literally ? with demons both outward and within! ?HEROSCAPE? travels to the darkest corners of the mind right here as New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and acclaimed artist Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) transform Generation Zero?s deepest desires into their darkest nightmares!

Download or read book Generation Zero Vol 1 We Are The Future TPB written by Fred Van Lente and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready... Set... Riot! Years ago, the children of the experimental strike team known as GenerationZero were taken from their families by Project Rising Spirit, a private weapons contractor, and raised to be psychic soldiers. After years of taking orders, they have fought for and won their freedom. Now, the world?s most wanted teenagers have pledged to protect each other?tooth and claw, while using their extraordinary abilities to right wrongs for a generation without a future? To fight for kids, just like them. One of those kids is Keisha Sherman, whose boyfriend just turned up dead after a suspicious car crash in Rook, Michigan ? a newly booming tech town that sprang from rags to superriches seemingly overnight. When Keisha makes a desperate plea into her webcam, the local high school suddenly finds itself with several unusual new students? But as word of Generation Zero?s presence spreads rapidly through the halls, this volatile band of teenage upstarts is about to discover that they?re far from the most extraordinary thing lurking behind Rook?s stainless-steel facade? New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG,?Amazing Spider-Man) and blockbuster artist Francis Portela (FAITH) launch four highly specialized superhuman soldiers into their most dangerous mission yet: high school! Collecting?GENERATION ZERO #1-5.

Download or read book Faith Ongoing 7 written by Jody Houser and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted heroics! Faith Herbert has lost many allies throughout her life? Her mother. Her father. Even a fellow Renegade. Despite this, Los Angeles? high-flying hero has always defined herself by more than tragedy. But what happens when Faith must literally confront the ghosts of her past? A mysterious force is wrenching the passed spirits of Faith?s most loved ones back from beyond the grave...and into our world to break her mind and spirit! Can Faith overcome her greatest fear?or will these ghosts soon make her one of their own? Jump on board the best-selling independent superhero series of 2016 right here as rising star Jody Houser (Mother Panic) and acclaimed artists Meghan Hetrick (Red Thorn) and Marguerite Sauvage (DC Comics Bombshells) push Faith into the crosshairs of a frightful new foe!

Download or read book Generation Zero 6 written by Fred Van Lente and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALL NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! Fight your way through the ?HEROSCAPE?! Generation Zero managed to survive their first mission, and now duty has called on?them to venture deep inside a perilous dimension only known as the Heroscape to see the world through a new set of eyes! They?ll discover their friends? biggest secrets, their enemies? darkest fears, and their town?s sinister connection to this imagination-fueled reality. But just because the Heroscape is imaginary, doesn?t mean it can?t kill you? And, from anime-inflected zombie hordes to psychedelic sci-fi warriors, all of Rook, Michigan?s most deeply buried fantasies are about to come roaring out of your daydreams! Dream big because New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (IVAR, TIMEWALKER) and acclaimed artists Javier Pulido (Daredevil) and Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) are gearing up for a brand-new jumping-on point that?s going to send Valiant?s temperamental teenage time-bombs blasting out of the suburbs and into their most grisly adventure yet!

Download or read book Seveneves written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

Download or read book The Fourth Turning written by William Strauss and published by Crown. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.

Download or read book Generation Zero Vol 2 Heroscape TPB written by Fred Van Lente and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeros to heroes! Generation Zero managed to survive their first mission, and now duty has called on them to venture deep inside a perilous dimension only known as the Heroscape to see the world through a new set of eyes! They?ll discover their friends? biggest secrets, their enemies? darkest fears, and their town?s sinister connection to this imagination-fueled reality. But just because the Heroscape is imaginary, doesn?t mean it can?t kill you? And, from anime-inflected zombie hordes to psychedelic sci-fi warriors, all of Rook, Michigan?s most deeply buried fantasies are about to come roaring out of your daydreams! Dream big because New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (IVAR, TIMEWALKER) and acclaimed artists Diego Bernard (X-O MANOWAR) and Javier Pulido (Daredevil) and are gearing up to send Valiant?s temperamental teenage time-bombs blasting out of the suburbs and into their most grisly adventure yet! Collecting GENERATION ZERO #6?9.

Download or read book Zero written by Charles Seife and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend off heretics. Today it's a timebomb ticking in the heart of astrophysics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything. Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time: the quest for a theory of everything. Within the concept of zero lies a philosophical and scientific history of humanity. Charles Seife's elegant and witty account takes us from Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Egyptian geometry, Kabbalism, Einstein, the Chandrasekhar limit and Stephen Hawking. Covering centuries of thought, it is a concise tour of a world of ideas, bound up in the simple notion of nothing.

Download or read book Generation Zero 5 written by Fred Van Lente and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live for destruction! Generation Zero has finally pinpointed the silent evil that has infiltrated Rook High School?but it?s not going down without a fight! Now, every corner of this idyllic techtown is about to become a war zone as Cronus, Telic, Animalia, and Cloud hit back with the force of four walking hydrogen bombs and show the world why this one group of reformed commandos aren?t just dangerous? They?re disorderly! Generation Zero's first field mission is about to come crashing down...but not before New York Times best-selling writer Fred Van Lente (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and breakout artist Francis Portela (FAITH) send them hurtling toward their next target!

Download or read book Quantum and Woody 7 written by Eliot Rahal and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""WHAT THE KLANG?"" Hey, who the heck invited these guys to HARBINGER WARS 2? With HARBINGER WARS 2 seizing America, Livewire has rendered the nation's power grid useless in a last-ditch attempt to shield her psiot allies. The people of Washington D.C. need someone to save them ? and so do Quantum and Woody! Now that the high-tech wristbands that keep their atoms stabilized have become nothing more than fashion accessories, the world's worst superhero team is going where no one has gone before... Into ""The Otherverse!"" Do not attempt to adjust your eyeballs because red-hot rising star Eliot Rahal (The Paybacks) and fan-favorite artist Francis Portela (FAITH) are taking things from zero to Weirdsville as Quantum and Woody tie into, outside of, and in between Valiant's seismic summer event!

Download or read book The Zeronauts written by John Elkington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the Sustainability Barrier. In this book, John Elkington introduces the Zeronauts – a new breed of innovator, determined to drive problems such as carbon, waste, toxics, and poverty to zero – as well as creating the first Zeronaut Roll of Honor, spotlighting 50 pioneers in the field of zero. Zeronauts are innovating in an astonishing range of areas, tackling hugely diverse economic, social, environmental, and governance challenges. To give a sense of progress to date, we zero in on five key challenges (the 5Ps): population growth, pandemics, poverty, pollution, and proliferation. The power of zero has been trumpeted, notably in relation to zero defects. This book spotlights key lessons learned in the field of total quality management – and introduces a five-stage "Pathways to Zero" model, running through from the Eureka! discovery moment to the point where a new way of doing things becomes endemic in the economy. In order to move from incremental to transformative change, we must embrace wider framings, deeper insights, higher targets, and longer time scales. This book investigates some ways in which leading Zeronauts are pushing change in relevant directions, with cases drawn from a spectrum of human activity – from water profligacy to human genital mutilation. If we learn from these pioneers, the twenty-first century could be our best yet.

Download or read book Ninjak 24 written by Matt Kindt and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the mercy of Sandria Darque! As Master Darque fights to return to the land of the living, his former disciple ? the deadly assassin Roku ? will build an army to put him down for good. But not even the Shadow Seven ? the underworld?s deadliest cabal of murderers and mercenaries ? will be enough to assure victory. To truly defeat an undead lord of death and resurrection, she?ll need the complete and unquestioning allegiance of Ninjak...who isn?t interested. But when Darque?s long-missing sister Sandria returns with a gambit that could reveal his greatest weakness, an unholy alliance of light and darkness will be forged that could upset the balance of good and evil once and for all time? ?THE SEVEN BLADES OF MASTER DARQUE? strikes again as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE) and acclaimed artist Marc Laming (Planet Hulk) bring the biggest Ninjak story ever to a dark and terrible boiling point?and reveal the ultimate secret behind his greatest foes!

Download or read book Zero Hour for Gen X written by Matthew Hennessey and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby boomers, utopian Silicon Valley “visionaries,” and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of Things. Soon Gen Xers will be the only cohort of Americans who remember life as it was lived before the arrival of the Internet. They are, as Hennessey dubs them, “the last adult generation,” the sole remaining link to a time when childhood was still a bit dangerous but produced adults who were naturally resilient. More than a decade into the social media revolution, the American public is waking up to the idea that the tech sector’s intentions might not be as pure as advertised. The mountains of money being made off our browsing habits and purchase histories are used to fund ever-more extravagant and utopian projects that, by their very natures, will corrode the foundations of free society, leaving us all helpless and digitally enslaved to an elite crew of ultra-sophisticated tech geniuses. But it’s not too late to turn the tide. There’s still time for Gen X to write its own future. A spirited defense of free speech, eye contact, and the virtues of patience, Zero Hour for Gen X is a cultural history of the last 35 years, an analysis of the current social and historical moment, and a generational call to arms.

Download or read book Ninjak 23 written by Matt Kindt and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! ?THE SEVEN BLADES?OF MASTER DARQUE? begins here! Master Darque ? the sadistic lord of death and resurrection ? wrests to be free once again, but first he must fight for his life. Darque is a target, his powers are weak, and his enemies know it. Now, Darque's own former pupil and Ninjak's ruthless arch-nemesis ? the lethal assassin known as Roku ? has gathered the Shadow Seven together again for the sole purpose of putting Darque down for good. And the only thing holding their uneasy alliance together is a mysterious benefactor from the shadows... Someone who also goes by the name Darque... Everything has led to this? Out of the ashes of BOOK OFDEATH, Ninjak and Master Darque will collide in a punishing circle of death, destruction and hellfire! Join New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (DIVINITY III: STALINVERSE) and blistering artist Marc Laming (Planet Hulk) here for a steelhardened jumping-on point that will leave Valiant?s seven-time Harvey Award nominated series forever scarred!

Download or read book Ninjak 22 written by Matt Kindt and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent might!? Ninjak is on the hunt for the woman who took everything from him ? the sadistic assassin known as Roku! When Roku?s trail leads to a heavily guarded citadel in the Nevada desert, silence is of the essence as Ninjak undertakes a dangerous stealth mission where even the faintest noise could mean execution! But even if Valiant?s top super-spy can reach the woman once known as Angelina Alcott undetected, will he truly be able to face the former love of his life? The Harvey Award-nominated sensation reaches its most innovative chapter yet as New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (4001 A.D.) and visionary artist CAFU (RAI) present a special silent issue with minimal dialogue and groundbreaking visual storytelling!

Download or read book Combined Cycle Systems for Near Zero Emission Power Generation written by Ashok D Rao and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combined cycle power plants are one of the most promising ways of improving fossil-fuel and biomass energy production. The combination of a gas and steam turbine working in tandem to produce power makes this type of plant highly efficient and allows for CO2 capture and sequestration before combustion. This book provides a comprehensive review of the design, engineering and operational issues of a range of advanced combined cycle plants.After introductory chapters on basic combined cycle power plant and advanced gas turbine design, the book reviews the main types of combined cycle system. Chapters discuss the technology, efficiency and emissions performance of natural gas-fired combined cycle (NGCC) and integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) as well as novel humid air cycle, oxy-combustion turbine cycle systems. The book also reviews pressurised fluidized bed combustion (PFBC), externally fired combined cycle (EFCC), hybrid fuel cell turbine (FC/GT), combined cycle and integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) systems. The final chapter reviews techno-economic analysis of combined cycle systems.With its distinguished editor and international team of contributors, Combined cycle systems for near-zero emission power generation is a standard reference for both industry practitioners and academic researchers seeking to improve the efficiency and environmental impact of power plants. - Provides a comprehensive review of the design, engineering and operational issues of a range of advanced combined cycle plants - Introduces basic combined cycle power plant and advanced gas turbine design and reviews the main types of combined cycle systems - Discusses the technology, efficiency and emissions performance of natural gas-fired combined cycle (NGCC) systems and integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) systems, as well as novel humid air cycle systems and oxy-combustion turbine cycle systems

Download or read book Harbinger Renegade 7 written by Rafer Roberts and published by Valiant Entertainment. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving targets! ?MASSACRE? has claimed a life from the Renegades? own ranks? and their new mission starts now: to rally as many psiots to their cause as possible. Now, this damaged team of telekinetic teenagers are off the grid and on the move, traveling America to recruit soldiers for the inevitable war they all see coming. But they are being watched? ?MASSACRE? seeks its next victim as multiple Harvey Award-nominated writer Rafer Roberts (Plastic Farm) and superstar artist Darick Robertson (The Boys, Transmetropolitan) escalate THE ROAD TO HARBINGER WARS 2 to the point of no return?and lead the Renegades toward their most seismic confrontation yet!