Stax, an enlisted 3rd class Naval Yeoman gets conscripted for the first ever exploration of the red planet. His presence on the expedition brought immediate objections from the nine chosen military officers who lead the exploration. The strong resentment only feeds Stax's already rebellious attitude. Along with the nine officers and Stax, the team has ten civilian. A miscalculated Mars Storm wreaks havoc on expedition’s spacecraft, the Demios II. At the same time Stax and one of the civilians gets caught in a storm, and come across a powered down alien spaceship. The alien computer aboard the discovered ship declares Stax as the Overseer, leading to deadly consequences for some of the crew. Through a mishap in the Alien ship’s engine, the officers and civilians, along with Stax are taken to the center of a war torn and desperate galaxy.
Sam and Billy form their own rock group with Billy as lead singer and Sam on guitar. In one uncontrollable moment Billy takes Sam's guitar and lets rip... with unbelievable results This book is intended for ages 7-9.
Evie has transformed from a shy girl into a smart, confident explorer. While on a recent visit to her grandpas farm, Evie was introduced to Angelina, a magical telescope who helped her learn all about the wonders of the night sky. Now Evie is on a quest to grow her passion for science and share her knowledge of astronomy with others. As she settles back into the classroom, Evie studies her astronomy books by day and captures the beauty of the skies at night. After she overcomes her fear of public speaking, Evie seizes the opportunity to host a new childrens television science program. As she becomes known as Sky Princess, her newfound fame leads to other challenges and opportunities. With help from her friends and family, Evie eventually becomes a popular university professor who loves changing the lives of her students. But little does she know that her life is about to change as well after she encounters a great mystery and must determine how to answer the most important question of her professional life. Evie, the Star Princess shares the coming-of-age tale of a young and passionate astronomer as she matures into a college professor and faces an intriguing mystery.
A New York Times bestseller Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide. More than a century old, the game of baseball is resistant to change—owners, managers, players, and fans all hate it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolve—to compete with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain America’s Pastime it must adapt. Perhaps no one knows this better than Bud Selig who, as the head of MLB for more than twenty years, ushered in some of the most important, and controversial, changes in the game’s history—modernizing a sport that had remained unchanged since the 1960s. In this enlightening and surprising book, Selig goes inside the most difficult decisions and moments of his career, looking at how he worked to balance baseball’s storied history with the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future. Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir, For the Good of the Game chronicles Selig’s career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating account of the frequently messy process involved in transforming an American institution. Featuring an all-star lineup of the biggest names from the last forty years of baseball, Selig recalls the vital games, private moments, and tense conversations he’s shared with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls he’s made. He also speaks candidly about hot-button issues the steroid scandal that threatened to destroy the game, telling his side of the story in full and for the first time. As he looks back and forward, Selig outlines the stakes for baseball’s continued transformation—and why the changes he helped usher in must only be the beginning. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs.
A personal training manual for executives discusses how to develop the inner resources of the mind to enhance leadership and decision-making abilities and work more efficiently
Do You: Harbor guilt or grudges from past relationships? Feel plagued by thoughts of regret? Think "Oh, no, not again!" when personal problems arise? Wonder why life hasn't turned out the way you wanted? Feel anxious or depressed about your future? Seem to be less happy as time goes by? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, this book can help you make peace with your past -- here and now. The past lives on in everything we think, feel, say, and do. Medical studies show that adults who've had adverse or traumatic past experiences are much more vulnerable to life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. Now, world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Harold Bloomfield, bestselling author of Making Peace with Your Parents and Making Peace with Yourself, offers practical, scientifically proven techniques that can help you heal the wounds of the past; transform feelings of pain, shame, and blame into high self-worth; and reawaken to the magic and joy of being alive.
Intended for professional users of 3D Studio MAX, this combined volume text includes over 50 step-by-step tutorials explaining how maximize the software for the best results possible.
Six seasons of bloopers, flubs, technical screw-ups, and picayune plot discrepancies for discriminating fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation Stardate 41153.7-46999.9 Starship Enterprise, Registry NCC-1701D We’re watching you. . . Is there a control panel inside the turbo lift? (No . . . except in the episode “Brothers”) Do or don’t personnel have to tap their badge to access their communicator? (Only when the writers feel like it) Yes, we’re fans. But we’re not unobservant. Some of us even have Vulcanlike logic. Author Phil Farrand figures that even if you love somebody, you can tell them about that dab of mustard on their upper lip. So here’s a compendium for Trekkers who are unafraid of pointing the finger at oversights, and who know it’s great fun to find the sloppy mistakes (or cost-cutting cheating) in a show that takes itself very seriously. So get your VCR ready and your mind set for hours of enjoyment and mental stimulation with: • Plot oversights • Production problems • Changed premises • Equipment oddities • Trivia questions • Fun facts • Covers every show for the first six seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation • And more!
The Rough Guide to Belgium and Luxembourg" gives readers all of the details on the best cities from Brussels to Brugges and then on to Luxembourg. Also included is information on the best hikes up the green hills of the Ardennes. 36 maps and plans.
Looks at the history of the greatest performances by pitchers in the history of baseball including perfect games, near-misses, no-hitters, and the 20-strikeout games, highlighting such pitchers as Johnny Vander Meer, Nolan Ryan, and Roger Clemens.
We all know that money won is twice as sweet as money earned, and there are plenty of books that will help you if you want to mortgage the house to take on the $30-$60 table at the Mirage or the Taj Mahal; but most of us are looking for a friendlier species of the game, a chance to test our luck in the enjoyable company of friends, and, if we are favored with good fortune and they are not, to really, really rub their noses in it. Dealer's Choice is the ultimate guide to the world of low stakes poker, where fun and bragging rights count as least as much as the final tally. Starting with the elementary principles every beginner will need to know before swimming with the sharks-betting, bluffing, and the hierarchy of hand values-Dealer's Choice also includes invaluable tips on how to host the perfect poker evening (the relative merits of chips versus coins, what food to serve) as well as fascinating sidebars (great poker hands in cinema, trivia, unspoken laws of the game) and hilarious profiles of archetypal poker characters-the kinds of oddball one is bound to encounter sooner or later across the green felt. Every conceivable variety of poker is discussed in each of its variants, from established favorites like Baseball and Follow the Queen to truly esoteric mutations of the authors' own invention such as Frankenstein, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and Hamlet (i.e., Jacks are low, Queens are wild, Kings dead). Renowned illustrator Phil Foglio has enlivened the text with spectacular line drawings. With worldwide interest in poker at unprecedented peak, Dealer's Choice gives casual players the chance to re-create, right in their living rooms, the excitement of the World Series of Poker... except without the five million dollar jackpot-but pizza and beer aren't bad either.
This latest AA restaurant guide includes a number of new features including a London street atlas, expanded wine information, and insider information on every restaurant included in the guide.
This is an in-depth exploration of two of the Mediterranean's most popular holiday islands, with plenty of information for package holiday-makers and independent travellers alike. It includes details of hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and beaches.
Rates the chemical ingredients and mechanical properties of 97 marine products, ranging from varnishes and wood sealants to cleaners and polishes, to enable boaters to select safer products to minimize their impact on the environment.
The Old World charm of Quebec, the fabulously beautiful north country, the arts in Banff, the urban sophistication of Toronto and Montreal--all are covered in this real guide.
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