Download or read book The Doomsday Bug written by T. R. Remington and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jonas Allen has been with the Center for Disease Control almost sixteen years. For most of his career, he’s been “in the trenches.” In 1997, he was in Zaire, investigating a monkey pox outbreak. He assisted investigators at the World Health Organization during the Uganda Ebola outbreak of 2000. He has studied West Nile, SARS, and H1N1, and he was even on-site after the Haitian earthquake of 2010. Jonas has been a firsthand witness to countless medical emergencies, any one of which could have spelled disaster for humanity. Each time, mankind dodged the fatal bullet—until now. Nothing could have prepared Jonas and his team for the nightmare that is about to unfold. People start exhibiting symptoms of violent psychosis. They cannot escape madness, and neither can the people around them. Deep within the infected minds of these victims, two organisms struggle to survive, and Jonas must race against time to identify the culprits and stop a rage pandemic. Atlanta is under siege. The CDC has become a refuge and possibly humanity’s last hope for survival. However, the solution to the pandemic may be more terrifying than the disease itself.
Download or read book Kit Marlowe and the Doomsday Bug written by C A Lockwood and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an initiation test to steal a priceless Fabergé egg, Kit Marlowe finds himself enrolled in a spy school for the descendants of famous families, based in the heart of London. It turns out his father’s ‘office job’ is a cover – he’s actually a spy – and Kit’s whole family have been lying to him about their past. As the school term starts, Kit joins his friends – Abigail Newton, Max Faraday, Eddie Austen and Leila Wedgewood – to learn all there is to know about espionage. His language skills may be unparallelled, but can he pass cryptanalysis, camouflage, hacking and forgery lessons? And as if school wasn't interesting enough, Kit manages to fall foul of a Russian oligarch, Mikhail Pasternak, after stealing a vial of Doomsday bugs which was hidden inside the jewel Kit was forced to steal. When Kit learns that Pasternak plans to indoctrinate leading figures from around the world to create a legion of death, he chooses to thwart the Russian and pits himself against a very dangerous and frightening adversary. In a thrilling climax, Kit faces Russian assassins that have broken into the school looking for Kit and the bugs. The game is on and Kit needs all his new skills to save his own life and those of his closest friends… C A Lockwood's debut novel takes a light-hearted and humorous look at the perils of being a not-so-normal teenager. Taking inspiration from Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood and Co. novels and Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series, The Doomsday Bug is the first of a trilogy of fast-paced thrillers that will appeal to readers aged 12 years and older.
Download or read book The Doomsday Code written by Sara Yager and published by Sandstone Books. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The Doomsday Code] captivates the reader right out of the gate." -The BookLife Prize "A fast-paced thriller [injected with] modern technology that a geek would gobble up and the uninitiated would be enthralled..." -BestThrillerBooks "A riveting novel with an important wake-up call . . ." -Readers' Favorite Humanity's greatest discovery . . . OR OUR LAST? In an artificial intelligence lab in Shanghai, something has gone terribly wrong. Days after a major breakthrough in machine learning, CyberGen Industries' lead AI scientist is dead—and their precious prototype has vanished into ether. An investigation reveals that, against all odds, the lab's “unhackable” system has been breached. The discovery, an algorithm mimicking human intelligence, is growing quickly—becoming more cunning and unpredictable with each passing hour. Soon its capabilities will eclipse its creators entirely. Who stole it? And more troubling, what do they plan to do with it? Ex-NSA hacker Adrian Pryor may be the only person on the planet capable of reining it in. He spent his career keeping the world safe, a vigilance for which he paid an enormous, personal price. Adrian knows there are people who will stop at nothing to control the powerful technology. He must find a way to do the impossible: to stop them, and to outmaneuver a rival more clever, more powerful, and more alien than anything he has ever seen. Grounded in real-world science, Sara Yager’s wildly inventive debut brings advanced AI to life, illuminating a frightening, all-too-real truth about the future: we are one breakthrough away from inventing ourselves out of existence.
Download or read book The Lost Coast Conspiracy written by Robert Banks Hull and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trav helps his old Coast Guard buddy find a mysterious box that has been hidden away for nineteen years in a cave embedded in the cliffs along that very coast. This discovery places the unwitting Trav and Carol in the crosshairs of the notorious and ruthless Al Kemp, whose resources and cunning put any would-be adversaries at a decided disadvantage. Can Carol and Trav stop terrorists from using the contents of that mysterious box to exterminate the entire population of San Francisco? This dynamic duo saved the Golden Gate Bridge and Ingall's Shipyard from terrorist attacks, but this time it's more than the old battle of good and evil, it's a race against Doomsday. Facing two deadly opponents, including the KGB and a unique, world-threatening weapon, Trav and Carol will not come away unscathed.
Download or read book The House of Bug Representatives and Bug Immigration Reform written by Heather Bankrupt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is a humorous look at immigration reform through bug lenses. Houseflies, crickets, cockroaches, and ants entered one Nevada home, and the homeowner wanted them to leave or be removed. She considered their entry illegal and their presence unlawful. The Bug House representatives overheard her threats and enacted immigration reform legislations. Have we done better or worse?
Download or read book Apocalypse Any Day Now written by Tea Krulos and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone always seems to be talking about the end of the world—Y2K, the Mayan apocalypse, blood moon prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you name it. In Apocalypse Any Day Now, journalist Tea Krulos travels the country to try to puzzle out America's obsession with the end of days. Along the way he meets doomsday preppers—people who stockpile supplies and learn survival skills—as well as religious prognosticators and climate scientists. He camps out with the Zombie Squad (who use a zombie apocalypse as a survival metaphor); tours the Survival Condos, a luxurious bunker built in an old Atlas missile silo; and attends Wasteland Weekend, where people party like the world has already ended. Frightening and funny, the ideas Krulos explores range from ridiculously outlandish to alarmingly near and present dangers.
Download or read book Panicology written by Simon Briscoe and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Freakonomics, a smart, "pop" guide for determining the real level of danger behind many media-hyped...
Download or read book Burroughs Unbound written by S. E. Gontarski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to contributing significantly to the growing field of Burroughs scholarship, Burroughs Unbound also directly engages with the growing fields of textual studies, archival research, and genetic criticism, asking crucial questions thereby about the nature of archives and their relationship to a writer's work. These questions about the archive concern not only the literary medium. In the 1960s and 1970s Burroughs collaborated with filmmakers, sound technicians, and musicians, who helped re-contextualized his writings in other media. Burroughs Unbound examines these collaborations and explores how such multiple authorship complicates the authority of the archive as a final or complete repository of an author's work. It takes Burroughs seriously as a radical theorist and practitioner who critiqued drug laws, sexual practice, censorship, and what we today call a society of control. More broadly, his work continues to challenge our common assumptions about language, authorship, textual stability, and the archive in its broadest definition.
Download or read book The Caribbean Affair written by Gary Paul Stephenson and published by Pharos Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Man's continuing battle to save the Environment takes a final deadly twist...... An assault by the United States Presidents private army on his mansion leads Axmann to develop his plans for his final assault on the leaders of the free world. With London still reeling from a devastating nuclear attack and the last weapon secured and Axmann's father killed, Charles Langham sets Sundancer, on course for a quiet break in St Thomas, in the Caribbean. At Marge's request he agrees to view and sample the reefs and deep trench drops for any signs of environmental damage. Charles Langham arranges for his children to leave their orangutan and Tiger sanctuaries and join them on Sundancer to plan their next project based on Turtle recovery and Coral Reef restoration. The morning after arriving in St Thomas, Charles notices an American carrier fleet lying outside the harbour. Sundancer leaves harbour to deploy the submersible over different reefs when the Captain they notice a high speed launch heading erratically to the Island. A meeting of International Politicians on the Island is interrupted with murderous intent as Thomas uncovers a dastardly plot. Can Charles keep clear of this latest attack?
Download or read book Epidemics written by Sarah Dry and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challenges for local, national and international bodies. All too often, responses can become restricted by implicit assumptions about who or what is to blame that may not capture the dynamics and uncertainties at play in the multi-scale interactions of people, animals and microbes. As a result, policies intended to forestall epidemics may fail, and may even further threaten health, livelihoods and human rights. The book takes a unique approach by focusing on how different policy-makers, scientists, and local populations construct alternative narratives-accounts of the causes and appropriate responses to outbreaks- about epidemics at the global, national and local level. The contrast between emergency-oriented, top-down responses to what are perceived as potentially global outbreaks and longer-term approaches to diseases, such as AIDS, which may now be considered endemic, is highlighted. Case studies-on avian influenza, SARS, obesity, H1N1 influenza, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and haemorrhagic fevers-cover a broad historical, geographical and biological range. As this book explores, it is often the most vulnerable members of a population-the poor, the social excluded and the already ill-who are likely to suffer most from epidemic diseases. At the same time, they may be less likely to benefit from responses that may be designed from a global perspective that neglects social, ecological and political conditions on the ground. This book aims to bring the focus back to these marginal populations to reveal the often unintended consequences of current policy responses to epidemics. Important implications emerge - for how epidemics are thought about and represented; for how surveillance and response is designed; and for whose knowledge and perspectives should be included. Published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Download or read book The Second Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK written by Arthur Jean Cox and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m pleased to continue our Science Fiction Novel MEGAPACK® series with another collection of great SF novels, published originally between 1959 and 2011. Fans of classic science fiction with enjoy this set. A highlight is The Asteroid Murder Case, by the late Arthur Jean Cox, which is based on a story by Ross Rocklin. (See Jean’s introduction for more information). Also included are: Not in Solitude, by Kenneth F. Gantz First on the Moon, by Jeff Sutton The Organ Farm, by John Boyd. If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Download or read book The Adding Machine written by William S. Burroughs and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining."—Chicago Sun-Times Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust. He ruminates on science and the often dubious paths into which it seems intent on leading us, whether into outer or inner space. He reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cut-up" method, and discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and work. As satirist and parodist, William Burroughs has no peer, as these varied works, written over three decades, amply reveal.
Download or read book The Atlantic Affair written by Gary Paul Stephenson and published by Pharos Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Man's continuing battle to save the Environment takes another deadly turn... Philanthropist Billionaire Charles Langham uses his high tech organization to fight for environment. Using his considerable wealth he created an organization with the aim of reversing the effect of man on his environment by regenerating rain forests, reversing high extinction rates and fighting famine in a sustainable way.
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plague Wars written by Tom Mangold and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter 2001
Download or read book Chaparral Serendipity written by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn and published by PHOENIX SOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, INC.. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cities of the Red Night written by William S. Burroughs and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel of the Red Night trilogy: “The most complete and most devastatingly sardonic statement of William Burroughs’s apocalyptic vision” (Newsday). Drawing freely from science fiction, hardboiled mystery, drug culture, and grotesque horror, William Burroughs trailblazed his own literary form, made famous with such classic novels as Naked Lunch. Considered by many to be his masterpiece, Cities of the Red Night is the first novel of his final trilogy, followed by The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands. Ranging across time and space, the kaleidoscopic narrative drops readers into a richly imagined alternate history. Our point of entry is the visionary pirate colony of Captain James Mission, who forged a society free of prejudice and oppression. From the 18th century we shuttle into the future, where a detective is on the hunt for a missing boy. Meanwhile, young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, and the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with a radioactive virus.
