Разработанный в качестве самолета визуальной и фоторазведки, с ограниченными возможностями по поражению наземных целей, «Мохаук» эволюционировал в мощный разведывательный авиационный комплекс, который стал глазами и ушами армии США. От кишащих партизанами джунглей Вьетнама до перенасыщенной средствами ПВО Западной Европы маленький неказистый аэроплан надежно обеспечивал командиров подразделений сухопутных войск самой точной информацией о противнике

Sandra Foster estudia las modas, desde las muñecas Barbie hasta el grunge : cómo empiezan y qué significan. Bennett O'Reilly es un especialista en teoría del caos que observa la conducta de un grupo de monos. Aunque ambos trabajan para la corporación Hitek, no se conocen hasta el día que se produce un error en la entrega de un paquete. Es un momento de sincronía que les sumerge en un sistema caótico propio con todo tipo de equívocos, una beca de investigación de un millón de dólares, café con leche, tatuajes, pelo corto, y una serie de coincidencias que dejan a Bennett sin monos, sin dinero y casi sin trabajo. Sandra acude al rescate aportando un rebaño de ovejas y una idea para un nuevo proyecto conjunto. ¿Qué otro animal podría ilustrar mejor la teoría del caos y la mentalidad de rebaño que tan a menudo caracteriza la conducta humana y su aceptación de las modas? Pero los descubrimientos científicos rara vez son directos y nunca resultan simples. Los contratiempos y desastres, los corazones rotos y los callejones sin salida abundan. Y las posibles soluciones son escasas. Seis premios Nebula, cinco premios Hugo y el John W. Campbell Memorial en menos de diez años avalan la expcepcional habilidad narrativa de una de las mejores e inteligentes voces de la moderna ciencia ficción. Oveja mansa, construida como un divertimento en clave de comedia, es al mismo tiempo una penetrante reflexión sobre el mundo de la moda y el de la ciencia. Una obra insólita a la altura de El libro del día del juicio final y Remake

During the 1930s the Soviet Union launched a major effort to create a modern Air Force. That process required training tens of thousands of pilots. Among those pilots were larger numbers of young women, training shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts. A common training program of the day involved studying in “flying clubs” during leisure hours, first using gliders and then training planes. Following this, the best graduates could enter military schools to become professional combat pilots or flight navigators. The author of this book passed through all of those stages and had become an experienced training pilot when the USSR entered the war. Volunteering for frontline duty, the author flew 130 combat missions piloting the U2 biplane in a liaison squadron. In the initial period of the war, the German Luftwaffe dominated the sky. Daily combat sorties demanded bravery and skill from the pilots of the liaison squadron operating obsolete, unarmed planes. Over the course of a year the author was shot down by German fighters three times but kept flying nevertheless. In late 1942 Anna Egorova became the first female pilot to fly the famous Sturmovik (ground attack) plane that played a major role in the ground battles of the Eastern Front. Earning the respect of her fellow male pilots, the author became not just a mature combat pilot, but a commanding officer. Over the course of two years the author advanced from ordinary pilot to the executive officer of the Squadron, and then was appointed Regimental navigator, in the process flying approximately 270 combat missions over the southern sector of the Eastern Front initially (Taman, the Crimea) before switching to the 1st Belorussian Front, and seeing action over White Russia and Poland. Flying on a mission over Poland in 1944 the author was shot down over a target by German flak. Severely burned, she was taken prisoner. After surviving in a German POW camp for 5 months, she was liberated by Soviet troops. After experiencing numerous humiliations as an “ex-POW” in 1965 the author finally received a top military award, a long-delayed “Golden Star” with the honorary title of “Hero of the Soviet Union”. This is a quite unique story of courage, determination and bravery in the face of tremendous personal adversity. The many obstacles Anna had to cross before she could fly first the Po-2, then the Sturmovik, are recounted in detail, including her tough work helping to build the Moscow Metro before the outbreak of war. Above all, Over Fields of Fire is a very human story—sometimes sad, sometimes angry, filled with hope, at other times with near-despair, abundant in comradeship and professionalism—and never less than a large dose of determination! The first volume in the new Helion Library of the Great War, a series designed to bring into print rare books long out-of-print, as well as producing translations of important and overlooked material that will contribute to our knowledge of this conflict. “…a very insightful slice of Russian thinking…. this woman’s treatment still manages to shine through brightly with her courage and honesty.”

Cassandra Sales is a woman with a gift for nurturing things – her husband, the successful wine importer; her two adult children; the fabulous flowers in her garden. After twenty-six years of marriage, however, Cassie's husband, Mitch, is spending more time skipping abroad than remaining at home with her. Tired of being a modest Long Island housewife who can't even remember what it's like to be kissed, Cassie has a face-lift to recapture her youthful allure. The surprise for her husband goes awry when Mitch returns home early from a business trip. When he sees the post-op horror show, he collapses on the spot. The resulting coma may spare Mitch from the tax audit he's facing, but Cassie is forced to step in and research the facts of her own life. What she discovers about Mitch and the family business shocks her to the core: her "loving" husband was preparing to divorce her, swindle her out of tons of money, and run off with another woman. As Cassie recuperates, she realizes what she's after is revenge. Big-time. But she soon learns that the road to retribution can lead to unforeseen and often deadly complications

A young man rushes to the bedside of his ex, knowing the baby she's having is not his own. Travelling colleagues experience an eerie moment of truth when a fire starts in their hotel. A misdirected parcel sets off a complex psychodrama involving two men, a woman and a dog… Andrew Fox's clever, witty, intense and thoroughly entertaining stories capture the passions and befuddlements of the young and rootless, equally dislocated at home and abroad. Set in America and Ireland — and, at times, in jets over the Atlantic — Over Our Heads showcases a brilliant new talent

Three bestselling superstars and one exciting new voice in paranormal romance in a hot new anthology. When it comes to sexy werewolves, fairies, and magic, there's only one place for readers to go this winter: Over the Moon. Angela Knight ventures to the borders of Mageverse, a land ruled by vampire knights. MaryJanice Davidson returns to the wicked lair of the Wyndham werewolves. Virginia Kantra finds magic and wonder in a strange fairy kingdom. And Sunny discovers a Mixed Blood Queen in command of a new realm

What people need and what they want are two different things—and neither can be ignored

These twelve stories are set in Paris, Mavis Gallant’s adopted home, a city whose nuances she brings to life through a wide range of characters: squabbling writers, bewildered parents, scheming art dealers, beleaguered tenants, and feckless drifters. An artist’s widow proves more than a match for Sandor Speck, who hopes to make a name for himself with her late husband’s paintings. Literary rivals Prism and Grippes, the protégés of a rich, misguided American patron, battle across the years. And in the Magdalena stories, a man is caught in the pull of loyalties between his beautiful first wife from a marriage of political conscience, and the woman he truly loves. Elegant, concise, finely textured, these stories never relax the tension between detachment and compassion, understanding and mystery, memory and truth. With remarkable intelligence and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of intricate simplicity and spare complexity

Things Crystal Hayes could do without: her looks, men obsessed with her looks, and guys who think they're God's gift to the ladies. She'd rather be behind the wheel of a truck than navigating cheesy pickup lines. But when Crystal makes a delivery to a NASCAR event, she meets the one guy who could blow all her preconceptions away… All his life Larry Grosso has lived in the shadow of his well-known racing family – but it's now time for him to take what he wants. And on the top of that list is Crystal – breathtaking, sweet.and twenty-two years younger. Their age difference is creating animosity within their families, and suddenly their romance is the talk of the entire NASCAR circuit!

A heavily armed NATO riverine force led by the Major Revells’ Special Combat Force uses the Elbe to try and relieve the Warsaw Pact siege of Hamburg. Only partially successful the NATO troops must survive in the battered city until they can launch a breakout. The city of Hamburg has been surrounded by Warsaw Pact forces for a long time, a siege that is starving defenders and civilians alike. To relieve it NATO launches a riverine assault led by Major Revells’ Special Combat Force. A bitterly fought battle eventually delivers some relief to the city but then the enemy noose tightens again and there has to be another battle when the trapped relief force launches a no-holds-barred attempt at a breakout, employing weapons and vehicles scraped from any source. It is then they discover to just what depths the enemy have sunk in their desperation to maintain the encirclement. First NEL Paperback Edition March 1982 First IMPRINT Publication E-Book Edition May 2005 First Revision IMPRINT Publications E-Book Edition April 2007

The Cold War is over, but Russia’s arsenal of nuclear weapons is still in place. And when an emissary from an international terrorist group makes a disaffected Russian minister an offer he can't refuse, the survival of the West hangs in the balance… America and Europe have been seeded with nuclear weapons – strategically located in major city centers – by a group of renegade Russians and their secretive Arab allies. Maverick trouble-shooter Paul Richter finds himself up against a mastermind determined to bomb America back into the Stone Age. Caught up in a tense battle of wits and bullets, he only realizes the full horror of what is about to be unleashed on the world as the attack on the West begins. Richter is the only man with the knowledge and ability to stop it. And time is running out

Nim Goldman is the vice president of GSP&L - the corporation feeding power, light and heat to the kilowatt hungry state of California. He's a man with a big job and all the women he can handle, but he knows the crunch is coming. Soon, very soon, power famine will strike the most advanced society the world has ever known

Шалтир, страж, присягнувшая в верности Айнзу, внезапно предала его? Айнз под видом авантюриста отправляется в Э-Рантель, чтобы разобраться, в чём дело. Айнз против Шалтир: кто же победит в решающей схватке?

Zoe is free. She has escaped the enslavement of the Community, disconnected from the hardware that had controlled her every thought and emotion, and evaded capture by the Chancellor intent on killing her. She is finally free, but she is far from safe. Zoe and Adrien hide themselves from detection at the Foundation, an academy that trains teen glitchers to fight in the Resistance movement. Together, Zoe and her new team of superhuman fighters must risk their lives to rescue other glitchers and humans from the Chancellor's control. Challenges abound at every turn, and Adrien, who has become silent, distant, and tormented by his visions of the future, only adds to the growing certainty of defeat. But worst of all, as Zoe's team fights against impossible odds, distrust and betrayal leads to the terrible discovery that their greatest threat could already be lurking behind the safe walls of the Foundation. Full of high-adrenaline action and shocking twists, Heather Anastasiu's Override is an exciting continuation of this popular young adult trilogy

Fourteen months ago, the Igador System’s council government finally achieved peace with its personal brand of space pirate: the Sinosian Raiders. Coexistence was short-lived, and now Igador is devastated as the raiders use fourteen months’ worth of peace tax collections to launch a full scale invasion. Driven from her home planet by the catastrophic raid, seventeen-year-old Tayel flees to a council refugee camp. No one is permitted to leave, no one shares progress on the invasion, and worst of all, refugee shuttles stop flying in, preventing the chance of reuniting with anyone from home. So when a battle-hardened woman shunned by the camp for her Sinosian attire warns Tayel of the council’s corruption, Tayel seriously considers the woman’s offer of help to escape. The terms seem fair enough: help steal a ship drive from the secured government docks to power up an escape vessel, and get a free ticket out of a camp-turned-processing-line for something darker than Tayel can imagine

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Everyone in town disliked the rich, nasty spinster who delighted in stirring up jealousies and exposing well-kept secrets — the doctor’s wild affair, the old squire’s escapades, the young squire’s revels. But when the lady was shot at the piano while playing the overture for an amateur theatrical, Inspector Alleyn knew he was faced with a killer who was very much a professional

La insólita experiencia de un periodista español en Perú En esta obra afirma haber mantenido contacto telepático y visual con los OVNIs. En ese mismo viaje al Perú recabaría información y fotografías para escribir Existió otra Humanidad, sobre las famosas piedras de Ica. El libro da a conocer a la Misión RAMA e impulsa el nacimiento de un movimiento contactista, que se mutiplica en toda América Latina y España. Así, Benítez devino en responsable indirecto de introducir las ideas de los supuestos contactados con alienígenas entre miles de adolescentes iberoamericanos. De esta manera, Benítez se transformó en redactor OVNI `full time`, como él acostumbra decir. Colaboró con las principales revistas ufológicas españolas (Mundo Desconocido, Karma-7) y latinoamericanas (Contactos Extraterrestres, Cuarta Dimensión), se cubrió con la aureola de `investigador de campo` y correteador de OVNIs. Tras comprar unas botas con unos casquillos metálicos en la punta para poder patear la geografía española, escribió 100,000 Km tras los OVNIs, donde afirma haber vuelto a aplicar la técnica telepática que había aprendidp en Perú para contactarse con `ellos`. Tampoco consiguió constancia fotográfica de su encuentro

Альтернативное будущее. После Перехода мир живёт под контролем всевидящих камер Комитета Сестёр. Настоящие женщины, мужчины – все они остались в прошлом, теперь близкие контакты разрешены только в нейросети, где каждый может получить партнера на любой вкус и воплотить любые желания. Одни приспособились к жизни в этой тотальной иллюзии, другие охотятся за нелегальными удовольствиями. А кому-то хочется найти в виртуальном пространстве дорогу к подлинной реальности – и однажды это удаётся