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Anthrax. Smallpox Incurable and horrifying Ebola-related fevers. For two decades, while a fearful world prepared for nuclear winter, an elite team of Russian bioweaponeers began to till a new killing field: a bleak tract sown with powerful seeds of mass destruction--by doctors who had committed themselves to creating a biological Armageddon. Biohazard is the never-before-told story of Russia's darkest, deadliest, and most closely guarded Cold War secret.

No one knows more about Russia's astounding experiments with biowarfare than Ken Alibek. Now the mastermind behind Russia's germ warfare effort reveals two decades of shocking breakthroughs...how Moscow's leading scientists actually reengineered hazardous microbes to make them even more virulent...the secrets behind the discovery of an invisible, untraceable new class of biological agents just right for use in political assassinations...the startling story behind Russia's attempt to turn a sample of the AIDS virus into the ultimate bioweapon. And in a chilling work of real-world intrigue, Biohazard offers us all a rare glimpse into a shadowy scientific underworld where doctors manufacture mass destruction, where witnesses to errors are silenced forever, and where ground zero is closer than we ever dared believe.
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The authors explain their theory that sub-atomic particles from exploded stars have more effect on the climate than manmade CO2. Their conclusion stems from Svensmark's research which has shown the previously unsuspected role that cosmic rays play in creating clouds. During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds--and a warmer world. The theory, simply put here but explained in fascinating detail, emerges at a time of intense public and political concern about climate change. Motivated only by their concern that science must be trustworthy, Svensmark and Calder invite their readers to put aside their preconceptions about manmade global warming and look afresh at the role of Nature in this hottest of world issues..
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'Before you make up your mind about climate, change you are advised to read this controversial and compelling book' Nexus Magazine New evidence based on Henrik Svensmark's scientific research prompts questions to be raised about the role of man made carbon dioxide in global warming. The sun, stars and cosmic rays have often been overlooked but in this radical new book they are placed centre stage in the climate change debate..
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Motivate students with high-interest fiction from master authors

• Motivate struggling readers with high-interest stories at ten reading levels
• Improve vocabulary and comprehension skills
• Encourage writing in response to reading

One of our classic best-sellers, Goodman's Five-Star Stories, supplements any literature curriculum or stands on its own by providing interesting fiction at just the right reading levels. Adapted well-known short stories by traditional authors and newer multicultural authors entice even struggling readers with tales of adventure, derring-do, and surprise. Vocabulary in context, cloze passages, and critical thinking exercises help readers improve their understanding of the narrative text..
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Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivion–and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare, hard-to-find collaborations of cosmic terror are back in print, including

• Wentworth’s Day A fellow figures his debt to a dead man is null and void, until he discovers just how terrifying interest rates can be.

• The Shuttered Room A sophisticated gentleman must settle his grandfather’s estate, only to find that the house shelters dark secrets.

• The Dark Brotherhood A beautiful woman and her companion meet the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, in a tale as terrifying as anything Poe himself ever created.

• Innsmouth Clay A sculptor returns from Paris to create a statue not entirely of this world–and not at all under his control.

• Witches’ Hollow A new schoolteacher puts his soul in peril while trying to save one of his students from a ravenous creature..
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What do Ted Williams, Michael Jackson, Larry Flynt, Timothy Leary, Kenneth Kimes, Peter Sellers, Mohammed Ali, and Paris Hilton's dog all have in common? According to Alcor Life Extention, all have considered "cryonic suspension" as an alternative to burial or cremation. From internal Alcor documents, the official OR log and Larry Johnson's never-before-disclosed secret interview recordings, learn the entire tragic story of the mistreatment of Ted Williams, American hero and baseball legend. As shocking, disgusting, ridiculous, and horrifying as some of this may seem, this book is not based on a true story or inspired by a true story--it is a true story..
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Are you one of the millions of television and movie viewers who scours the shelves for Mafia movies—both new and old? Do you ever wonder how much of these Hollywood dramas are real? Do they accurately capture this remarkable—and often sordid—world?

The Everything® Mafia Book takes you away from fiction and tabloid and introduces you to the true-life accounts of the major players in the American Mafia. From Al Capone to John Gotti, you’ll learn to separate truth from myth and gain a better understanding of America’s most notorious crime families.

Features colorful information on:

·The Sicilian Mafia
·The Mustache Petes
·The "real" Untouchables
·The mob and politicians
·The five New York "Families"
·Infamous rats

Packed full of real-life photographs and up-to-date gangster information, The Everything® Mafia Book will have you understanding—and speaking—Mob "Slanguage" in no time!.
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Klatu, Lek, and Ploo head back to Groom Lake to fix their busted spaceship But the spaceship is gone--it's been taken to Area 51. There's nothing for the aliens to do other than sneak in and search for it. Instead they find something they weren't looking for--the Great Ones! The mythic missing Looglians Org, Murkel, Shemp, and Kurth crashed at Roswell New Mexico in 1947, and have been in the deep freeze ever since. Can our three wacky alien kids rescue them?

Dan Greenburg brings his trademark quirkiness and humor to the third book in his newest chapter book series..
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Even now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, when science has largely replaced superstition as our way of viewing the world, who among us does not hesitate, however briefly, before entering a darkened room? Who does not feel an involuntary shiver at the sound of footfalls somewhere back there? Who does not wonder, even fleetingly, if the spirits of the dead might still wander the earth? Who does not feel a jolt of primal fear at things that go bump in the night?

For all these reasons and more, stories of ghosts, unexplained happenings, and the supernatural remain among the most popular and enduring tales in all of world literature. Now The Lyons Press presents CLASSIC GHOST STORIES, a chilling collection of some of the very best tales of mystery and imagination ever penned, by some of the finest writers the world has ever produced. So curl up in a comfortable chair, turn on a few more lights to chase away the shadows, and prepare to be scared silly. These are delightfully creepy tales that have stood the test of time, from such stellar authors as:
Ambrose Bierce
Edgar Allan Poe
Edith Wharton
E.F. Benson
Guy de Maupassant
William Fryer Harvey
Charles Dickens
Amelia B. Edwards
M.R. James
Algernon Blackwood
Rudyard Kipling
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Mary E. Wilkins
...and many more
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