The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between three men-Robert Oppenheimer, Er
From the award-winning author of The Port Chicago 50 and Newbery Honor Book Bomb comes the story of how an ordinary man exposed two decades of government deception of the American public during the Vi
A Netflix Original series!The second book in the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling series, with over 7 million copies in print!"Terrifyingly fun! Delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs."--Jeff Kinney, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Wimpy KidThe zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies―but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose?Jack, his three best friends (maybe the only people left on Earth), and their pet monster Rover need to get to the bottom of this. Along the way they encounter a lot more than they bargained for, including a giant Wormungulous, a pizza parlor monster hangout, an ancient evil who destroys worlds, and a stereo system that is totally the bomb. Can Jack figure out why the zombies are vanishing . . . before he and his
前陣子台灣流行搶購「雷神巧克力」，要如何向老外介紹這項商品「最夯」呢？可以說This product is the bomb!（這商品最夯！）在路上看到身材不錯、體格健壯的老外，要怎樣用英文讚美呢？可以說You’ve got a nice build.（你漢草不錯。）聚餐時，有人只顧著滑手機，要怎麼叫他不要再玩了呢？就說Don’t be a phubber.（別當低頭族。） 像這類日常生活
London, 1940. As the bombs fall on the city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband
Alpha Force are in the Caribbean, diving, when a sudden oil spill draws them into a new mission. All their skills — powerboating, scuba-diving and jetskiing — are needed when an underwater bomb explod
This book will explode in 5 minutes. NO TIME TO LOSE! Agent Harrier must follow the red wire and defuse the bomb before it’s too late. Will our canine spy extraordinaire save everyone from being blasted to smithereens? And just WHO planted the wretched bomb in the first place?! Be careful not to bark up the wrong tree, Harrier – it looks like something very fishy could be *ahem* apaw .. . This stylish graphic novel is a funny, punny twist on the traditional spy caper. The first in a series by award-winning illustrator Ben Sanders (Clive Penguin), it’s perfect for early readers transitioning from picture books.
Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive―that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony’s creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb, and that Mickey is the only one who’s keeping them from using it. Mickey’s just another colonist now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, he spends his time these days cleaning out the rabbit hutches. It’s not a bad life.It’s not going to last.It may be sunny now, but winter is coming. The antimatter that fuels the colony is running low, and Marshall wants his bomb back. If Mickey agrees to retrieve it, he’ll be giving up the only thing that’s kept his head off of the chopping block. If he refuses, he might doom the
Filled with humour, heart and a touch of the supernatural this first book in a brilliant new series takes you on a non-stop adventure in Antarctica, perfect for the most intrepid of readers!Maisie thinks her dad is the most boring person in the world. For fun he likes to do origami (but only basic triangles) or jigsaw puzzles of a cloudless sky (yep, every piece is blue). He writes cool-sounding books like How To Wrestle A Crocodile and How To Defuse A Bomb, but he’s never actually done any of the awesome things he writes about.But Maisie has to admit weird things happen around Dad. Unexplainable things…When childcare falls through and Dad has to take Maisie to Antarctica to research his next book, How To Survive In Antarctica, Maisie realises there is definitely something unusual about Dad…Maisie is determined to find out the truth about her dad. What she doesn’t realise is that she’ll discover some things about herself and what it really means to be a hero along the way. One thing is
It is 1946, a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and World War II is over. But the U.S. government has decided that further tests of atomic bombs must be conducted. When Bikini Atoll i
A collection of plays from Tricycle Theatre and leading contemporary dramatists, charting the political history of the nuclear bomb and its proliferation over the last seventy years. Includes plays by
妙傳爆趣 Pass the Bomb Junior玩家們傳遞一顆隨時會引爆的「炸彈」，必須說出符合題意的答案才能將它傳給下一位玩家，隨著滴答聲連連作響，考驗著玩家平時對周遭事物的觀察力，以及靈機應變能力。準備好了嗎？炸彈已經在你手上了！ 配件內容場景卡牌 x 55炸彈 x 1 （須自備兩顆AAA電池）遊戲目標被炸到最少次的玩家獲得勝利！ 遊戲資訊：遊戲人數：2人以上遊戲時間：10-15分鐘適合年齡
Nuclear threats have become more dangerous and more complex in recent years. The number of states possessing nuclear weapons now stands at nine. Roughly 25.000 nuclear warheads still remain in the ars
The year is 1955, and there’s nothing that Paul and his best friends, Oz, Arnie, and Crank, love more than horror movies. So when Invasion of the Body Snatchers starts filming in their small Californi
Resisting the Bomb continues the story, begun in the award-winning One World or None, of humanity’s efforts to avert nuclear destruction. Beginning with the catastrophic atmospheric nuclear weapons te
