Science Crisis

Caesar Guevara finds himself back in a rundown L.A. neighborhood following the death of his daughter and a bitter divorce. When all seemed hopeless, an unexpected visitor offers him a chance to find his way back. What begins as a spirited hunt for a precious artifact in the jungles of Peru eventually mushrooms into a crisis of epic proportion. After the ancient tribal artifact is removed from a newly discovered temple, the four elements are unleashed with devastating results, and a full-blown war erupts between the forces of good and evil.

Earth is cold and dark, its environment ravaged by Sleer technology. A cell of desperate human freedom fighters suddenly strike out and kill the Sleer occupiers’ top general. Sleer forces in orbit bombard Earth, and each attack prompts another escalation. The Unified Earth Fleet no longer has a choice: they must re-take the orbital ring around Earth or humanity will perish.

A Ph.D. biochemist and immunologist goes through the data on one of the greatest public policy disasters in human history—the lockdown response to COVID. How deadly was COVID originally and after it had evolved for a year or two? How many COVID deaths were prevented by the lockdowns? How many people did the lockdowns throw into depression? How many people did the lockdowns kill by deaths of despair? But the good news from the lockdowns is it shows citizens are willing to make enormous sacrifices for their society and that we can transform society on a dime.

In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town’s growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly wasn’t enough. The men plotted to bomb a mosque, aiming to kill hundreds and inspire other attacks against Muslims in America. But they would wait until after the presidential election, so that their actions wouldn’t hurt Donald Trump’s chances of winning.

Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, though, we fail to address the greatest risk—the peril posed by our own behavior. Jon Danielsson argues that critical risk is generated from within, through the interactions of individuals and perpetuated by their beliefs, objectives, abilities, and prejudices.

This trilogy contains the books: Dungeon Player, Dungeon Crisis, and Dungeon Guild. Join Devin and Krista as they embark on a journey to explore the newest full-immersive, virtual-reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Glendaria Awakens! Their experience soon turns grim as they are put in charge of running their own dungeon in the game. Now they must figure out how to survive waves of players trying to steal their Dungeon Core, all the while dealing with psychotic Dungeon Guardians and powerful guilds.

As Leia must deal with a new threat to the fragile alliance that binds the New Republic, Lando becomes a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of unknown origin. The ship is following an unstoppable path to its homeworld, destroyed by Imperial forces. Luke continues his quest to learn more about his mother among the Fallanassi, where his every belief about the use of the Force is about to be challenged.

Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat. As a former Imperial governor takes his battle to the runaway Qella spaceship, Luke's continuing search for his mother brings him dangerously close to Nil Spaar's deadly forces. And as the Yevetha close in on the forces of the New Republic, Luke takes a desperate gamble with an invisible weapon.

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 is still a live and divisive issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, shapes the identity and politics of modern Turkey, and has consumed the attention of U.S. politicians for years.

Greedy Bastards tells the story of Sheryl and her new team’s uphill battle to turn around San Antonio city government. She takes you behind closed doors to share the hard changes she made and the strategies she used to create mutually beneficial solutions to the city’s biggest problems. Many of the issues Sheryl found in San Antonio are present in cities across the US. Packed with wins and losses, lessons learned, and pitfalls encountered, Greedy Bastards is a guidebook for any city official tasked with turning around a struggling city.

The crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers marked the fourth systemic transformation of capitalism since the late 18th century. Capitalism was not destroyed by the crisis, but it was irrevocably changed. This provocative audiobook shows how the forces that precipitated the financial meltdown of 2007-2009 are now creating a new and stronger version of the global capitalist system. This system will continue to be led and shaped by the U.S. if its businesses and politicians play their cards well.

For five years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. She traveled extensively (to refugee camps in Lebanon, religious schools in Pakistan, prisons in Amman, Ashqelon, and Pensacola) and discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common.

More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately reminded her of jihadist militants. Now, years of attacks committed by extremists radicalized online—including at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and mosques in New Zealand, as well as the Capitol siege—have brought home the danger. From ISIS to QAnon, Saints and Soldiers pinpoints the approaches needed for a new era in which arrests and military campaigns alone cannot stop never-before-seen threats.

On November 4, 1979, "student" supporters of the Ayatollah seized the U.S. Embassy with over sixty hostages. Although the Cold War was in full swing, the Iran hostage crisis was a watershed for the United States. Detachment A had been established in Berlin early in the Cold War to harass and delay any Soviet military advance west. This Special unit trained relentlessly for every aspect of unconventional warfare, and was later assigned a second mission of counterterrorism. Veteran and historian James Stejskal details Det A's unique and integral role in Operation Eagle Claw.

This audiobook tells the story of a supervillain called "The Crisis" and his best friend, an assassin named "Poison" as they carve out a living in a dystopian future. Crisis is on the run from the FBI, including a sexy metahuman agent with whom he might be in love. Along the way, they run into a genius Russian cyborg, a pink-haired exotic dancer who wants to become a supervillain, a superhero with an MBA from Wharton who can lift a skyscraper, and many others.

Three years after the Monster Massacre, members of Rebecca’s old wolf pack have begun to go missing without a trace. The world has undergone many changes in the years since monsters came out of the shadows. An anti-monster group known as the Black Hand has started to organize across the United States. In response, pro-monster organizations have been growing in numbers and militancy. Targeted killings of suspected monsters and their allies, monsters spirited away in the dead of night, and the beginnings of pro-monster legislation are all signs of a cosmic shift on the horizon.

A brutal civil war threatens to tear the Movi Kingdom apart. EarthGov’s presence on the Sleer’s former capital is endangered as refugees seek aid, loyalist navy fleet commanders demand tribute, and rebel commanders roam the stars looking for support or vengeance. The Unified earth Fleet needs information and sends the UES Gauntlet into the fray to seek allies.

Caesar, Galton, and Fiero set sail aboard the inter-island freighter the Lucky Lady, and their search for the Sacred Scroll leads them to the Bermuda Triangle, the gateway to a captivating underwater paradise filled with beautiful women. As the fate of the world still hangs in the balance, the heroic trio band together to stop the destruction before the powers of the scroll are unleashed.

In this book, the Crisis ex-girlfriend gets super powers and swears revenge on him, working for the arch villain Doctor Gloom, whom the Crisis has upset from time to time. At the same time The Crisis, his wife Delphi, cohorts in crime Poison and Stiletto have been forced to flee the country and join Dr. Impossible where he has become the Supreme Dictator for Life in Thailand. Of course this prompts an all out superhero invasion funded by the multinational corporations Crisis and the gang have been waging war against.

Hijinx ensue.

This is a sequel to The Crisis. In this audiobook, the assassin Poison, the former FBI telepath Delphi and the pink haired villainess Stiletto deal with the fallout from their previous adventures. An extremely powerful superhero comes looking for revenge after a humiliating viral video. Also, they have to deal with their decision to wage war against the extremely powerful multinational corporations that rule their world from behind the scenes.