2010, ISBN: 9780961751128

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Baen, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. This space adventure further develops McCaffrey's vivid future universe of diversified cultures, technological wonders and twisted, sometimes corrupt, … Mehr…

Baen, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. This space adventure further develops McCaffrey's vivid future universe of diversified cultures, technological wonders and twisted, sometimes corrupt, politics. Space Station SSS-900C, a profitable but out-of-the-way trading and mining center, is attacked by Kolnari, pirates from a planet of sociopa thic exiles. While awaiting the arrival of the Central Worlds' Navy, the in habitants play for time with a major deception planned by Simeon, the shell person operating the station, whose hobby is the study of early warfare, in cluding guerrilla tactics. (Shellpeople, damaged while young by accident or birth defect and encased in life-support systems, are wired into and contr ol sophisticated technology such as space stations, cities and spaceships, while maintaining their own personalities and emotions.) Central to the sch eme is obedience to all the Kolnari's demands while keeping secret the fact of Simeon's existence, since if the Kolnari gained control of the technica lly sophisticated shellperson they would have an intolerable advantage. As Simeon clandestinely builds his trap for the Kolnari, he wistfully watches and encourages a love affair between Channa Hap, the woman he loves and can not have, and a noble refugee. McCaffrey (The Dragonriders of Pern series, The Ship Who Sang ) and Stirling (the Draka series) create vivid heroes and villains in a complex and deadly game., Baen, 1994, 3, Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We can't rely on old habits any longer.Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community (in the neighborhood, but also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Change fundamental change is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance., Times Books, 2010-04, 2.5, Columbia University Press. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, thatll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Columbia University Press, 2.5<

ISBN: 0961751126

[EAN: 9780961751128], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Columbia University Press], Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlight… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780961751128], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Columbia University Press], Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Books<

1985, ISBN: 9780961751128

Columbia University Press, 1985-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-library book - We ship daily + good service buy with confidence, Columbia University Press, 1985-06-01, 3