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Author : Kenneth R. Timmerman
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781400053698
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Countdown to Crisis written by Kenneth R. Timmerman and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Updated with a brand-new chapter"--Cover.
Author : Alexander Larman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250274850
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Crown in Crisis written by Alexander Larman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling and definitive account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936 On December 10, 1936, King Edward VIII brought a great international drama to a close when he abdicated, renouncing the throne of the United Kingdom for himself and his heirs. The reason he gave when addressing his subjects was that he could not fulfill his duties without the woman he loved—the notorious American divorcee Wallis Simpson—by his side. His actions scandalized the establishment, who were desperate to avoid an international embarrassment at a time when war seemed imminent. That the King was rumored to have Nazi sympathies only strengthened their determination that he should be forced off the throne, by any means necessary. Alexander Larman’s The Crown in Crisis will treat readers to a new, thrilling view of this legendary story. Informed by revelatory archival material never-before-seen, as well as by interviews with many of Edward’s and Wallis’s close friends, Larman creates an hour-by-hour, day-by-day suspenseful narrative that brings readers up to the point where the microphone is turned on and the king speaks to his subjects. As well as focusing on King Edward and Mrs. Simpson, Larman looks closely at the roles played by those that stood against him: Prime minister Stanley Baldwin, his private secretary Alec Hardinge, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang. Larman also takes the full measure of those who supported him: the great politician Winston Churchill, Machiavellian newspaper owner Lord Beaverbrook, and the brilliant lawyer Walter Monckton. For the first time in a book about the abdication, readers will read an in-depth account of the assassination attempt on Edward’s life and its consequences, a first-person chronicle of Wallis Simpson’s scandalous divorce proceedings, information from the Royal Archives about the government’s worries about Edward’s relationship with Nazi high-command Ribbentrop and a boots-on-the-ground view of how the British people saw Edward as they watched the drama unfold. You won’t be able to put down The Crown in Crisis, a full panorama of the people and the times surrounding Edward and the woman he loved.
Author : Lester Bauman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950791507
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Countdown written by Lester Bauman and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was A.D. 284. Christians were enjoying a time of peace in the Roman Empire. But would it last?
Author : Deborah Wiles
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545455499
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Countdown written by Deborah Wiles and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman's life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war. Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems that the whole country is living in fear. When President Kennedy goes on television to say that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, it only gets worse. Franny doesn't know how to deal with what's going on in the world -- no more than she knows how to deal with what's going on with her family and friends. But somehow she's got to make it through. Featuring a captivating story interspersed with footage from 1962, award-winning author Deborah Wiles has created a documentary novel that will put you right alongside Franny as she navigates a dangerous time in both her history and our history.
Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465038867
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book July 1914 written by Sean McMeekin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict -- much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events. As acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might have been avoided entirely had it not been for a small group of statesmen who, in the month after the assassination, plotted to use Ferdinand's murder as the trigger for a long-awaited showdown in Europe. The primary culprits, moreover, have long escaped blame. While most accounts of the war's outbreak place the bulk of responsibility on German and Austro-Hungarian militarism, McMeekin draws on surprising new evidence from archives across Europe to show that the worst offenders were actually to be found in Russia and France, whose belligerence and duplicity ensured that war was inevitable. Whether they plotted for war or rode the whirlwind nearly blind, each of the men involved -- from Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold von Berchtold and German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov and French president Raymond Poincaré- sought to capitalize on the fallout from Ferdinand's murder, unwittingly leading Europe toward the greatest cataclysm it had ever seen. A revolutionary account of the genesis of World War I, July 1914 tells the gripping story of Europe's countdown to war from the bloody opening act on June 28th to Britain's final plunge on August 4th, showing how a single month -- and a handful of men -- changed the course of the twentieth century.
Author : Geoff Johns
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Countdown to Infinite Crisis (2005-) #1 written by Geoff Johns and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you knew about the DC Universe changes and it all begins right here with a prelude issue to the DCU mega-event INFINITE CRISIS! Superstar writers Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka and Judd Winick team with a bevy of artists for a story that alters the very face of the DC Universe for years to come!
Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316236500
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Countdown written by Alan Weisman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a restored, healthy planet-only in harmony, not mortal combat, with the rest of nature. But with a million more of us every 4 1/2 days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, and with our exhaust overheating the atmosphere and altering the chemistry of the oceans, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. For this long awaited follow-up book, Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth -- and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful. By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative presence, Countdown reveals what may be the fastest, most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our lives and our destiny.
Author : Robert Lattés
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483138321
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Energy: The Countdown written by Robert Lattés and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy: The Countdown considers the possibility that a catastrophic energy crisis might become inevitable and could explode even before any comprehensive emergency plans are concerted. The goal is to raise with both public opinion and decision-makers the consciousness that there exists a real threat to human society in the form of a looming energy crisis. This book is comprised of 11 chapters and begins by emphasizing energy as the oxygen of economic life, an essential requirement for the development of modern society, and how a shortage or limitation of energy resources can seriously endanger the world's economic development. The constraints that will limit the supply of certain types of energy are highlighted, along with the importance of long-term planning. The next section deals with the politics of energy, paying particular attention to the oil crisis and its impact on international relations since October 1973, along with the nuclear power crisis and the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The relationship between geopolitics and energy policy and the nature of the energy problem are also discussed, together with energy sources such as coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy. The final chapter assesses the economic effects of a massive increase in oil prices. This monograph will be of interest to energy policymakers and government officials.
Author : Shanna H. Swan
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982113669
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Count Down written by Shanna H. Swan and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing—and endangering—human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan. In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe—but the story didn’t end there. It turns out our sexual development is changing in broader ways, for both men and women and even other species, and that the modern world is on pace to become an infertile one. How and why could this happen? What is hijacking our fertility and our health? Count Down unpacks these questions, revealing what Swan and other researchers have learned about how both lifestyle and chemical exposures are affecting our fertility, sexual development—potentially including the increase in gender fluidity—and general health as a species. Engagingly explaining the science and repercussions of these worldwide threats and providing simple and practical guidelines for effectively avoiding chemical goods (from water bottles to shaving cream) both as individuals and societies, Count Down is at once an urgent wake-up call, an illuminating read, and a vital tool for the protection of our future.
Author : Colin Mason
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136555110
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The 2030 Spike written by Colin Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
Author : Michael Anthony Steele
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1669031764
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Countdown Crisis written by Michael Anthony Steele and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2024 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gamer squad is on an Open World quest to save Atlantis from sea monsters, but thirteen-year-old Kai is uncomfortable with his vital role in this game, and worried about an upcoming oral presentation at school.
Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312427900
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (279 download)
Download or read book The World Without Us written by Alan Weisman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence
Author : Ron Marz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781401217983
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Search for Ray Palmer written by Ron Marz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and illustrated by Various Cover by Greg Tocchinni Collecting the six specials that feature the exploits of the Challengers of the Beyond as they seek out Ray Palmer across the many worlds of the Multiverse! Advance-solicited; on sale July 2 - 160 pg, FC, $17.99 US
Author : Greg Cox
Publisher : Ace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780441020539
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Countdown written by Greg Cox and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues the showdown between the warring god races of the heavenly New Genesis and the hellish Apokolips, both of whom are targeted by a power-hungry conspiracy that is haphazardly countered by five unlikely heroes.
Author : Chris Rylander
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062120131
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Countdown Zero written by Chris Rylander and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chris Rylander, author of the breakout hit the Fourth Stall saga, comes the second book in the Codename Conspiracy series, a funny and clever mash-up of middle grade school story and spy adventure. Ever since Carson Fender was let go by the secret agency that had enlisted his services to help foil a nefarious plot perpetrated by one of their former agents, he's been back to hanging with his friends, pulling pranks, and not having to lie to everyone about how he's spending his days. And that's for the best, isn't it? Of course, this was all before a note showed up in his school lunch, informing him that Agent Nineteen had three days left to live, and that there might still be someone inside the Agency working against them. Carson has always been able to rely on his friends—but what happens when there's no one left to trust?
Author : James D. Prescott
Publisher : Prescott Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781926456249
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Extinction Countdown (Ancient Origins Series Book 2) written by James D. Prescott and published by Prescott Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jack Greer's startling discovery beneath the Gulf of Mexico proved to the world we were not alone in the universe. But when images from the Voyager I space probe reveal an alien doomsday ship hurtling toward the earth, the human race seems marked for extinction. As news of the approaching ship spreads panic around the globe, signs of a sinister plot begin to emerge. One which threatens to unravel the already fragile fabric of society and everything Jack and Dr. Mia Ward have fought for. But could a mysterious signal emanating from inside Greenland's ice sheet hold the promise of unlocking the secrets hidden within our genome and preventing humanity's destruction? From the frozen fields of Greenland to the bustling Indian subcontinent and the cobbled streets of Rome, the race is on to stop the deadliest countdown to extinction the human race has ever known.
Author : Gordon G. Chang
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409064395
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Showdown written by Gordon G. Chang and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear Showdown published by Asia expert, Gordon Chang, was of the first books to exploire the full extent of the North Korean nuclear threat, its origins, international implications, and solutions. The United States is the mightiest nation in history, yet for six decades one of the world's weakest states has challenged the superpower and kept it at bay. Today, that country also threatens to change the course of human events with an act of unimaginable devastation. Nuclear Showdown analyses the failed society that has become the gravest threat to America and international order: North Korea. Chang's insightful book reveals the full horror of the crisis threatening to turn Asia into the world's next battleground. How can North Korea be stopped? No one seems to have an answer. For more than half a century, policymakers have failed when it comes to subjugating Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il. Nuclear Showdown proposes a solution that can defuse the standoff once and for all.
