Realistic thriller crackling with action & danger as an asteroid threatens the Earth & dedicated astronauts & scientists try to save the planet LOOMING DESTRUCTION FROM SPACE! It&s the beginning of a new golden age of space exploration Finally humanity is taking the commercialization of space to the next level—mining asteroids The new gold rush of the commercial space era has begun Another commercial venture an attempt to put a hotel on the Moon is seeking the space tourism gold of the ultra wealthy & it seems as if the dream of finally sending people to Mars is finally going to happen using a ship propelled by a powerful nuclear rocket But space travel isn’t cut & dry & there is nothing routine about it In order to mine an asteroid the goal is to bring it closer to Earth but orbital mechanics are tricky & close to Earth proves to be far too close for comfort—with looming destruction from space about to become a grim reality Now astronauts scientists engineers & people in all the burgeoning space businesses must team together to stop the asteroid before it is too late for humanity & the planet it calls home About the Author Travis S Taylor Ph D is the co-creator & star of the National Geographic Channel’s hit series Rocket City Rednecks & can be seen on the Weather Channel on 3 Scientists Walk into a Bar Taylor is a physicist who has worked on various programs for the Department of Defense & NASA for the past twenty years His expertise

Includes:: advanced propulsion concepts very large space telescopes space-based beamed energy systems future combat technologies & next generation space launch concepts Taylor is also the author of pulse-pounding cutting edge science fiction with the Tau Ceti Agenda series including One Good Soldier The Tau Ceti Agenda One Day on Mars & Trail of Evil as well as his ground-breaking Warp Speed series with entries Warp Speed & The Quantum Connection Les Johnson is a NASA physicist & author By day he serves as the Deputy Manager for the Advanced Concepts Office at the NASA George C Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama In the early 2000s he was NASA’s Manager for Interstellar Propulsion Research & later managed the In-Space Propulsion Technology Project He was technical consultant for the movie Lost in Space & has appeared on the Discovery Channel series Physics of the Impossible in the “ How to Build a Starship” episode He has also appeared in three episodes of the Science Channel series Exodus Earth He is the author of novel Back to the Moon coauthored with Travis S Taylor & the coeditor of the sciencescience fiction collection Going Interstellar

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Realistic thriller crackling with action & danger as an asteroid threatens the Earth & dedicated astronauts & scientists try to save the planet LOOMING DESTRUCTION FROM SPACE! It&s the beginning of a new golden age of space exploration Finally humanity is taking the commercialization of space to the next level—mining asteroids The new gold rush of the commercial space era has begun Another commercial venture an attempt to put a hotel on the Moon is seeking the space tourism gold of the ultra wealthy & it seems as if the dream of finally sending people to Mars is finally going to happen using a ship propelled by a powerful nuclear rocket But space travel isn’t cut & dry & there is nothing routine about it In order to mine an asteroid the goal is to bring it closer to Earth but orbital mechanics are tricky & close to Earth proves to be far too close for comfort—with looming destruction from space about to become a grim reality Now astronauts scientists engineers & people in all the burgeoning space businesses must team together to stop the asteroid before it is too late for humanity & the planet it calls home ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Joachim a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind
- his children friends enemies lovers & regrets
- to start a new life in America He comes back with a team of new burlesque strip-tease performers whom Joachim has fed fantasies of a tour of France & Paris! Actor Director Mathieu Amalric won the Best Director award at last years Cannes Film Festival for this candid portrait into the world of the real burlesque

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A strikingly original debut from a tremendous new talent Robert Moor explores how trails help us understand the world from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents & oceans from migration routes to the Internet For seven years Moor travelled the globe exploring trails of all kinds He learned the tricks of master trail-builders hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails & traced the origins of our road networks Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science history philosophy & nature writing in every chapter This deep search for meaning introduces the reader to experts who work with trails of all kinds outrageous anecdotes from his own experiences & spectacular descriptions of landscapes & animal behaviour On Trails gives an eye-opening tour leaving us with a much richer prismatic take on what we constantly take for granted how we get where we're going ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER' These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century & all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat but it does instruct In the twentieth century European democracies collapsed into fascism Nazism & communism These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people promised to protect them from global existential threats & rejected reason in favour of myth European history shows us that societies can break democracies can fall ethics can collapse & ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances History can familiarise & it can warn Today we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century But when the political order seems imperilled our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny Now is a good time to do so ...

The highly anticipated cookbook from Jeremy Fox the California chef who is redefining vegetable-based cuisine with global appeal Known for his game-changing approach to cooking with vegetables Jeremy Fox first made his name at the Michelin-starred restaurant Ubuntu in Napa Valley Today he is one of America's most talked-about chefs celebrated for the ingredient-focused cuisine he serves at the Los Angeles restaurant Rustic Canyon Wine Bar & Seasonal Kitchen In his first book Fox presents his food philosophy in the form of 160 approachable recipes for the home cook On Vegetables elevates vegetarian cooking using creative methods & ingredient combinations to highlight the textures flavours & varieties of seasonal produce & including basic recipes for the larder ...

Translated by JJ Graham revised by FN Maude Abridged & with an Introduction by Louise Willmot On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war Carl von Clausewitz a Prussian soldier had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which swept across Europe between 1792 & 1815 His response was to write a comprehensive text covering every aspect of warfare On War is both a philosophical & practical work in which Clausewitz defines the essential nature of war debates the qualities of the great commander assesses the relative strengths of defensive & offensive warfare &
- in highly controversial passages
- considers the relationship between war & politics His arguments are illustrated with vivid examples drawn from the campaigns of Frederick the Great & Napoleon Bonaparte For the student of society as well as the military historian On War remains a compelling & indispensable source

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ON WAR is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war both in its internal dynamics & as an instrument of policy Since the work's first appearance in 1832 it has been read throughout the world & has stimulated generations of soilders statemen & intellectuals from Marx & Bismarck to Raymond Aron ...

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons & Persons one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of reasons & rationality & a critical examination of three systematic moral theories
- Kant's ethics contractualism & consequentialism
- leading to his own ground-breaking synthetic conclusion Along the way he discusses a wide range of moral issues such as the significance of consent treating people as a means rather than an end & free will & responsibility On What Matters is already the most-discussed work in moral philosophy its publication is likely to establish it as a modern classic which everyone working on moral philosophy will have to read & which many others will turn to for stimulation & illumination

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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale & Alias Grace What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood & the development of her writing career Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction & poetry have used to explain
- or excuse!
- their activities looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume what roles they have chosen to play In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book's title if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted' who is doing the giving & what are the terms of the gift? Margaret Atwood's wide & eclectic reference to other writers living & dead is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences as a writer both in Canada & on the international scene The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose & the pleasures of writing & by a deep familiarity with the myths & traditions of western literature

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