Extreme Science

Joanna Errington-Flynn is a normal 15-year-old, except that she's a witch from the future. Since she was sent back from her parents' future, she has saved both their lives and the world itself. Now she wants nothing more than to return home to her own time. When a pair of demon-summoning idols goes missing, her mother needs Jo's help to recover them. If the demon lord succeeds in his plans to collect the complete set, Elk City is doomed.

An artifact is creating hordes of mindless undead minions in Elk City. Paramedic Dean Flynn once again gathers his human and supernatural friends to band together and find the source. With the future of the city at risk, failure is not an option for Dean and his comrades. Dean's friends have their own problems. His ex-partner is struggling with her recent change into a vampire. She has to find a way to overcome her bloodlust if she's ever going to return to the streets again as a paramedic. If she doesn't find a way to succeed, it could be a matter of life and death.

Der kanadische Philosoph Alain Deneault stellt sich der wohl bedrohlichsten aller Bedrohungen: der Mittelmäßigkeit. Die Mittelmäßigkeit schmückt sich selber zwar mit Bildern der Macht, hat aber nicht mehr zu bieten als Konformismus, das Bedienen von Software oder die Einhaltung von Grundsatzwerten. Wir leben in einer Welt, in der eine mediokre Ordnung zum Modell für die gesamte Gesellschaft erhoben wurde und in der Denkfaulheit belohnt wird. Dabei wird nicht etwa Spitzenleistungen und Elitenbildung das Wort gesprochen. Vielmehr geht es in dieser scharfen Analyse um die Ermutigung zum Gebrauch des eigenen Verstandes.

This book tells the unbelievable story of Rosco McGlashan's life, cars and motorsports career. It is a fearless story of guts, grit, and extreme determination. Quitting is not in this man's motor sports DNA. Rosco is an Aussie drag racing champion, land speed record holder and motor racing legend. His early years were extreme, leaving home and school at twelve to start his motor racing career. He fought everyone and everything and, at 17, ended up in prison and even solitary in extreme conditions.

Martin Debes beschreibt anhand von Thüringen, warum die großen Volksparteien an Boden verlieren, das Vertrauen in demokratische Prozesse und staatliche Institutionen schwindet und Politik zu einem Schauplatz von Extremisten und Karrieristen wird. Sein Buch ist die Geschichte eines Landes, das Experimentierfeld extremer politischer Kräfte war und wieder geworden ist.

Paramedic Dean Flynn works every day to heal the creatures of myth and legend in Elk City. When a human hate group declares war on his patients, Dean, with his angel girlfriend and the vampire lord of Elk City, must work with all the forces of good to fight terrorists hidden in their midst. Even after getting framed for murder, Dean uses magic, prophecy, and all his paramedic skills to save his patients. With his lifelong dreams shattered and taken away from him, will he have the strength to make the choice when the time comes to fulfill his destiny?

The American Adrenaline Narrative considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To explore these themes, Kristin J. Jacobson defines and compares adrenaline narratives by a range of American authors published after the first Earth Day in 1970, a time frame selected as a watershed moment for the contemporary American environmental movement.

Politics has changed. Five years ago Britain had a coalition government built on compromise. Now the Conservatives rule unchallenged, a chasm has opened up between Left and Right and the centre ground is deserted. Nick Clegg knows the volatile state of modern politics better than anyone else.

In the age of the Web, smartphones, and social networks, every action an organization takes can be exposed and critiqued in real time. If you treat one customer unfairly, produce one shoddy product, or try to gouge one price, the whole world may find out in hours, if not minutes. Don Peppers and Martha Rogers argue that the only sane response to these rising levels of transpar­ency is to protect the interests of customers proac­tively - even if that requires spending extra money in the short run to preserve your reputation and cus­tomer relationships in the long run.

When extreme religious fundamentalists known as the Phineas Priesthood led by Ezekiel Yates and his three cousins, target Xantara Pembroke because they believe she is a witch, they launch a major conflict between unworldly disciples of good and evil. This action-packed thriller shows the twists and turns of both sides as they try to destroy or save the souls of Earth. Imogene is the daughter of Xantara, a Guardian of Avebury Circle, an ancient monument near Stonehenge.

The cop swallowed hard to keep his last meal from making a surprise reappearance. In his years on the force, he had seen plenty of things, but never anything like this. That gaping maw of spoiled flesh tested the limits of his sanity, and he couldn't tear his eyes away from it. The woman's cold, black heart was clearly visible through the opening in her chest cavity. It wasn't beating. Her lungs were both collapsed. She wasn't breathing. Yet she wouldn't release her grip on his ankle.

In Extreme Wine, wine economist and best-selling author Mike Veseth circles the globe searching for the best, worst, cheapest, most expensive, and most over-priced wines. Mike seeks out the most outrageous wine people and places and probes the biggest wine booms and busts. Along the way he applauds celebrity wines, tries to find wine at the movies, and discovers wines that are so scarce that they are almost invisible.

New paramedic Dean Flynn is fresh out of the academy. When he gets assigned to the unknown backwater ambulance Station U, he wonders what he did wrong. Then he learns his patients aren't your normal 911 callers. Dean and his partner, Brynne Garvey, serve the creatures of myth and legend in Elk City. With patients who are vampires, werewolves, fairies, and more, will Dean survive his first days on the new job? Will his patients?

Acht Arme, drei Herzen und eine Seele! Der heimliche Star der Meere: der Oktopus. Er kann 1600 Küsse auf einmal verteilen, er kann mit seiner Haut schmecken, Farbe und Form ändern und sich trotz eines Körpergewichts von 45 Kilogramm durch eine apfelsinengroße Öffnung zwängen. Und nicht nur seine körperlichen Superkräfte machen den Achtarmigen zu einem Wunderwesen der Meere. Kraken sind vor allem schlau. Sie können schummeln und tricksen, spielen, lernen, sie können Menschen erkennen und Kontakt aufnehmen.

In 2008, Lynn Barber's passion for birding led her to drive, fly, sail, walk, stalk, and sit in search of birds in 25 states and three provinces. Traveling more than 175,000 miles, she set a 21st century record at the time, second to only one other person in history. Over 272 days, Barber observed 723 species of birds in North America north of Mexico.

"Экстремальная археология" - фантастический роман Артема Каменистого, третья книга цикла "Альфа-ноль", жанр ЛитРПГ, попаданцы, темное фэнтези.

Throughout history humans have been challenging themselves against each other. Who could be the fastest? The strongest? The cleverest? While this was going on some other people decided to create epic contests that were… well, a little bit more unusual. Welcome to the extraordinary world of competitions, introduced by podcaster and expert fact-finder Anna Goldfield!

If climate catastrophes like Hurricane Sandy seem to be on the rise, it’s for a reason. The likelihood of these extreme weather events are increasingly being tied to man-made global warming, mostly through overproduction of carbon dioxide. It’s no longer an abstract idea; it’s being felt locally, on every level. Climate Change and Extreme Weather gives you the tools to better understand what’s behind climate change, what might be in store during the coming decades, and how we can begin to reverse the detrimental effects mankind has had on the atmosphere.

Alex has a crush on the new teacher’s assistant, and he’s finally worked up the nerve to approach her. Too bad she’s crossed the University’s star player, and Duncan Shaw has no choice but to make her disappear. He plans to lay the blame on the local urban legend, but tonight he just might learn that some legends are real.

El minimalismo extremo es una forma de vida que consiste en reducir al máximo las posesiones materiales. Puede llegar hasta el punto de cubrir solo las necesidades más básicas. Es una práctica que busca liberarse del apego a lo material, simplificar la vida y centrarse en lo que realmente importa: las experiencias, las relaciones, el bienestar personal, y el cuidado del planeta.