Military Engineering

After more than 100 years of peace, Erde must prepare for war for the first time in over a century. The only problem is, they don’t know how. Because they are small in number, they are forced to learn and become experts on things they know nothing about - and fast! Under threat from the Royals, the Vitruvians, and the Null, TARA (and its Makerspace) has been converted to accommodate warcraft, combat training, psychological warfare, espionage, and interrogation.

Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy was a series of glamorous air contests, popularly known as races, that captivated both sides of the Atlantic. While there were many other aviation competitions, the Schneider proved to be, after a rocky start, by far the most memorable attracting a hugely popular and glamorous following whether Trophy races were held in Monaco, the Venice Lido, the Solent or Chesapeake Bay.

In der Dunkelheit des Imperium Nihilus, wo eine halbe Million Welten vom schummrigen Licht des Heiligen Terra abgeschnitten ist, wird ein neues Leuchtfeuer geboren. Der Rote Engel ist in eine unvorbereitete Galaxis zurückgekehrt, und überall folgen seine verstreuten Söhne dem Aufruf zum Blutbad. An Bord der Bezwinger, des bösartigen Flaggschiffes der World Eaters, bemüht sich Kossolax der Abgeschworene, selbst ernannter Lordregent der XII., den alten Traum der Legion aufrechtzuhalten.

James Norman Hall arrived in Paris with the intention of joining the Foreign Legion. After a chance meeting with the man who was to become his good friend, he suddenly found himself signing papers to serve in the Lafayette Escadrille, that corps of American adventurers who fought in the skies above France before the U.S. entered WWI. Hall kept a diary of his experiences and from it he extracted this narrative.

Hidden, buried deep within the government's archived files of failed military experiments lays a troubling secret. For years, 1953 to 1972 to be exact, a team of doctors and scientists tried unsuccessfully to alter test subjects, hoping to build living, organic weapons for the future. Eventually the project was disbanded, labeled an abject failure - but they were wrong - it just took the passage of time and altered DNA.

Les grands drames vécus lors d'une guerre relèguent habituellement les événements moins tragiques, au second rang. Bien que ces derniers passent inaperçus durant les combats, ils ne méritent pas moins d'être connus du public à cause du sentiment de bienveillance, de compassion, d'amour et d'innombrables preuves d'humanité dont ils ont fait preuve. Ce livre audio ne s'attarde donc pas sur les protagonistes des grandes batailles.

He was the saddest god of all. Here he was, a fertility god and he had no mate. It was time to go on missions if he wanted any hope of finding his one at all. This mission could be wonderful or go all to hell. Which one would it be? Rose had been here so long, she barely remembered a life before. When the gods came to save them, will they all manage to escape? Has Rose done the right thing and helped everyone she cares about? Why does one of the gods make her feel so crazy?

For three years teenage supersoldier Ryn Whittaker served as a Citadel, guarding the Battle Ground Rift site - one of 14 mysterious and unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate Earths. But everything changed when Ezra Massad came tumbling out of The Rift. Together, Ryn and Ezra began to unravel the mysteries of the Allied Rift Coalition. And what they discovered started a civil war.

Es ist das Jahr 2101. Ein außer Kontrolle geratener technischer Virus verwandelt Menschen in hyperfunktionale Cyborgs, die dem Willen der künstlichen Intelligenz KAMI gehorchen. In Sperrzonen eingepfercht, werden sie von Supersoldaten bekämpft, die man weltweit als Stars feiert. Doch die Mauern beginnen zu bröckeln. Sekten beten KAMI als Maschinengott an. Und während der Kampf zwischen Menschheit und Technologie hin und her wogt, versuchen vier junge Erwachsene, den Untergang ihrer Zivilisation zu verhindern.

As I recall, it all started with a mystical dream. I awoke from that dream only to find that we had a mission the Five Moons could not handle. Can you even believe that? The Five Moons. So it was that my father brought me over the quantum portal to a secret - a whole new ship - the Green Jinn. Everything about the Green Jinn was an illusion, and nobody even knew that she existed. Admiral Dallas Blake made me captain of the Green Jinn. I am Chon ko Gonin.

Chon Ko Gonin, Captain of the Green Jinn, ventured into unexplored territory in search of a wanted interplanetary criminal with the best of intentions. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Right from the start, the Green Jinn found itself dragged into battle to save an ancient people from Merc invaders. Ancient forces of good, and evil fought for control of Sibyl's Orb and dragged Chon ko Gonin into the middle of it.

Nous sommes à l'aube du 6 juin 1944. Il est six heures du matin lorsque les forces alliées débarquent sur les plages de Normandie. L'enjeu est de taille : il s'agit de porter un coup fatal au IIIe Reich d'Adolf Hitler et de libérer les territoires occupés. Le jour le plus long vient tout juste de se lever. Ce livre audio vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur : le contexte politique et social de l'époque ; les acteurs majeurs du conflit ; le déroulement du débarquement et sa chronologie ; les raisons de la victoire alliée.

It's 2049, and the survival of the human race is at risk. Earth's inhabitants must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots - to be incubated, birthed and raised by machines. But there is yet one hope of preserving the human order-an intelligence programmed into these machines that renders each unique in its own right - the Mother Code.

Als Afghanistan-Veteran Daniel Markis in seinem Haus bewaffnete Eindringlinge vorfindet und eine Schießerei einsetzt, muss er erstaunt mit ansehen, wie die Wunden einer Frau vor seinen Augen verheilen. Was macht diese Frau so besonders? Bald erfährt er das Geheimnis: Ein Wunder der Wissenschaft, lange vergessen und verloren geglaubt seit dem Untergang der Sowjetunion, wurde wieder entdeckt - und es wird die Welt für immer verändern.

Tiger has lost almost everything. Her village. Her community. Her father. But her brother, Tarren, who has been kidnapped by the deadheads that razed her village, still lives. With only the loyal but enigmatic old man, Sai, to guide her into the nightmare-jungle that was once North America, Tiger must face her greatest fears in a race to save her brother before he is lobotomized, even while the world around her is bled dry by Those That Watch.