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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1903 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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(5 Audio CDs) Fans of Robinson's submarine thrillers will be delighted with this latest. It is discovered that Ravi Rashood - America's nemesis, the former SAS officer who is now the head of Hamas - has hatched a diabolical plot againstthe West: to fire a nuclear headed guided cruise missile - Scimitar SL-2, named for the curved sword of the Muslim warrior Saladin - into Cumbre Vieja. Retirement to Admiral Morgan is not a welcome prospect, and sure enough the former National Security Advisor sniffs out the diabolical plot against the U.S. Morgan find himself battling his greatest enemy yet, racing against time to locate Rashood, the silent, underwater marauder, and stop him before the unimaginable occurs. David McCallum masters the pace and action as a potential geologic disaster looms. He reels off details of the vast mobilization of the Navy's assets, complete with search coordinates, military hardware, and other jargon. David McCallum masters the pace and action as a potential geologic disaster looms. He reels off details of the vast mobilization of the Navy's assets, complete with search coordinates, military hardware, and other jargon. McCallum commands the sudden shifts of action and reaction, and he conveys both subtle menace and spoken outbursts with superb skill, and understatement. Listeners won't want to miss a single word. ... Read more

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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant promised great things for the old Soviet Union. Then disaster struck, spreading deadly radiation over Europe. Today, Chernobyl is a symbol of nuclear power gone bad. What really happened in 1986, what has happened since, and what does the future hold. ... Read more