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Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of warfare, detailing major developments and inventions. Discusses how warfare will further evolve in years to come with the use of robots, smart bombs, and GPS technology. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
4) Nine
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Language
English
Description
"Lucy doesn't remember anything, even whether or not she likes milkshakes. All she remembers is that Olivia told her to run. When she encounters Zoe, a waitress at a small town diner, who has her own hidden past, Lucy instinctively trusts her. Powerful people are after Lucy, though, and as the girls continue to flee from the unknown, it seems Lucy may not be an innocent child. Her skills are more fitting for a hardened military veteran than a young...
5) Canary girls
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Language
English
Description
Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants. Each...
Author
Publisher
Zenith Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 392 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. It is an account of where those weapons came from, how the technology surprisingly and covertly spread, and who is likely to acquire those weapons next and most importantly why. The authors' examination of post Cold War national and geopolitical issues regarding nuclear proliferation and the effects of Chinese...
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Language
English
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An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As a budding spy, what better way to conceal your clandestine activities than to miniaturize your secret agent arsenal? Hide a mini catapult in a breath mint tin. Turn a Tic Tac case into vest-pocket candy shooter. Or transform a milk jug cap into a fake wristwatch that launches tiny paper darts... John Austin provides detailed, step-by-step instructions with diagrams to show.. how to build 35 different spy weapons and surveillance tools, using common...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes a pirate's job of stealing from other ships when they seize it. Contains information on their weapons such as swords, firearms, cannons, and their hand-to-hand combat with daggers. Concludes with data on the ship and its parts as well as descriptions of a variety of ships many pirates captured.
13) Prickly animals
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to prickly animals such as the sea urchin, hedgehog, porcupine, and thorny devil, and explore how they use spines to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
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Description
Describes and explains trivia pertaining to the various branches of the armed forces. Includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
16) Horned animals
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to horned animals such as the kudu, yak, and cape buffalo, and explore how they use their horns to defend themselves against predators. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
17) Ball lightning
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen's quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely...
18) The devil's hand
Author
Series
Terminal list volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's been twenty years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient - learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He's a young, popular, self-made visionary . . . but he's also a man with a secret. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the characters of fantasy & folklore and places them in historical context. This series explores the characters who populate the world of fantasy and folklore. Elves, dragons, fairies, and other figures are placed in historical context for lovers of fantasy. Exploring these persistent characters throughout literature also serves as an excellent introduction for readers who are just discovering this favorite genre.
20) The superdeep
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1984, virologist Anna Fedorova was recruited for a government team dispatched to the experimental borehole in Kola after various researchers vanished. The Soviets feared that lethal biologics were being secretly developed there, and the investigators would discover to their terror just how much those fears were justified.