Seven Possibilities For A Room With A View

A TIME OF CORRUPTIONZenacon-Global Inc, a US Corporation, is one of the largest multinational global conglomerates in the world. Both the corporation and the main board members are under investigation for serious fraud, and other irregular activities by the IRS, the Security Exchange Commission and the CIA. Building seven is where the investigation into Zenacon-Global Inc is being carried out. It is where all of the incriminating evidence is being held. The building and its contents have to be destroyed and Worldwide Executive Management mercenaries are hired to do the job.A TIME FOR DESTRUCTIONDr Casey Hart, an explosives expert who specialises in demolishing high-rise buildings in built-up areas, is forced to plan the destruction of building seven. The world watched as the twin towers crashed to the ground virtually in free-fall. Then seven hours later, building seven implodes into its own footprint, collapsing in just seven seconds. No fire could have caused such a failure. Only one thing could Nano Thermate, used as part of a controlled demolition.A TIME FOR JUSTICEThe heads of Zenacon-Global Inc instruct Worldwide Executive Management to use their Black Eagles mercenaries to eliminate Hart and destroy all evidence. An assassination attempt fails to kill Hart and he flees for his life. The Excalibur Foundation, an organisation that seeks justice for political victims, steps in to save Hart. Dan Pierce, a former French Foreign Legion sniper, is contracted for his second assignment: to save Hart and secure the incriminating evidence. In a dramatic twist, Federal accident investigator Grace Garcia and Katie Jackson, a reporter for the Daily Globe, also have damaging evidence against Zenacon. Dan has their lives in his hands, he just has to find and rescue them...

A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family 1888–1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. Spanning almost a century, the history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.

This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of Columbia University and sponsored by NYU since 2008, are investigating all aspects of social life and material culture at the administrative center of ancient Trimithis. The excavations so far have focused on three areas of this very large site: a centrally located upper-class fourth-century AD house with wall paintings, an adjoining school, and underlying remains of a Roman bath complex; a more modest house of the third century; and the temple hill, with remains of the Temple of Thoth built in the first century AD and of earlier structures. Architectural conservation has protected and partly restored two standing funerary monuments, a mud-brick pyramid and a tower tomb, both of the Roman period. This volume presents and discusses the architecture, artifacts and ecofacts recovered from B2 in a holistic manner, which has rarely before been attempted in a full report on the excavation of a Romano-Egyptian house. The primary aim of this volume is to combine an architectural and material-based study with an explicitly contextual and theoretical analysis. In so doing, it develops a methodology and presents a case study of how the rich material remains of Romano-Egyptian houses may be used to investigate the relationship between domestic remains and social identity.

A familiar story told anew. The life of the leader of a prosperous civilization is coming to an end. This advanced society, born from slavery, searches for a leader in the most unlikely of places. Candidates from earth are chosen and tested, and one stands out from the others. Each contender will find that leadership is never easy and freedom is seldom free. A woman emerges who can lead her people, negotiate with the established inter traders, and deal with societies yet capable of working with offworld civilizations. This leader never expected to meet a race bent on war and conquest. Living within a thriving secret city on an ancient world known as Tiffina pushes this strong and independent woman to challenge a way of life never discussed during her interview. And, finding support within her new society only opens the door to new adventures. Written for all ages.

For centuries, individuals have strived for "the good life:" the ability to provide for oneself and one's family, make meaningful contributions to society, and enjoy culture and nature, among other happy pursuits. The wisdom to achieve this great life is contained in The Literature of Possibility, a digital collection featuring a new introduction that brings Tom Butler-Bowdon's 50 Classics series

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.