Military Engineering

Elijah: I thought that I knew it all. Until they turned me into a machine and wanted to use me as a weapon. I found love. But as usual, it was time for me to run. Until she found me and told me the impossible. That she was carrying my baby.

In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper outlined his world-changing theory of general relativity. Until then Einstein's masterpiece of time and space had been trapped behind the physical and ideological lines of battle, unknown. Eddington realised the importance of the letter - perhaps Einstein's esoteric theory could not only change the future of science but also restore the world of cooperative international science in a time of brutal war.

Most people don't realize that during the war in Europe in the 1940s, it took an average of six support soldiers to make the work of four combat soldiers possible. Most of what's available in the literature tends toward combat narratives, and yet the support soldiers had complex and unique experiences as well. This audiobook is based on personal correspondence, and it is primarily a memoir that creates a picture of the day-to-day realities of an individual soldier told in his own words.

Written by the Officer Commanding and former Red 1 Team Leader, Wing Commander David Montenegro, and full of never-before-shared tales from pilots past and present, this thrilling history is both a faithful record and a fascinating account of not only what it takes, but what it means, to be a Red Arrow.

Internationally renowned political commentator Noam Chomsky examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post-9/11 world. Noam Chomsky is the world's foremost intellectual activist. Over the last half century, no one has done more to question the great global powers who govern our lives, forensically scrutinizing policies and actions, calling our politicians, institutions and media to account. The culmination of years of work, Who Rules the World? is Chomsky's definitive intellectual investigation into the major issues of our times.

Jeff Appelquist has traveled to all 50 of the United States, myriad foreign countries, and six continents. He has survived three years in the Marine Corps infantry; a violent rock slide on Mount Kilimanjaro; a Force Nine gale in a sailboat on the Atlantic Ocean; a frozen regulator while wreck-diving deep in icy Lake Superior; and a ghostly encounter with a Confederate soldier on Little Round Top at Gettysburg. He is a student of history who teaches leadership. He is an international sportsman who loves the outdoors. And he is deeply concerned about the state of our beloved Earth.

After 10,000 years of war, humanity has obtained its wish - crusading the Milky Way. My name was Argo Herrero. I'm now Lynx, my code of war. Planetary system after planetary system, we've slain all intelligent species once alive in our galaxy. All but one, the last intelligent species left to be purged by our ranks. What will become of us when we've purged the whole galaxy? I don't know, but I'm afraid of what we'll become, of what I've already become.

Short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time. Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back and that she can rebuild her husband piece by piece.

My name is Argo Herrero. I'm ready to enlist, sign the contract to serve for 10 years under the ally ranks. Enlisting is the only way to free myself from the hands of the totalitarians, to fight for freedom itself. The allies assure me citizenship and a decent salary after 10 years of service. The Megachine are strong. Undefeated. Unrivaled. They have wiped out the ally drone force and are moving in for the final blow. First they took Europe, then Asia. With the help of the Chavistas, they conquered Latin America.

What if a society banished its worst nightmare to the far edge of the solar system, destined to sip dregs of light and struggle for the barest living? What if that life thrived, grew, learned, and became far more than anyone ever expected, yearning to return to the sun? What if it didn't share your moral compass in any way? The Glittering Edge duology describes the clash of forces when an advanced society that has filled a solar system with flesh-and-blood life meets the near-AIs it banished long ago.

Rick Walker, an armed forces exploration engineer under the Armitage Corporation, travels to an array of amazing worlds for research and military purposes. His job entails many dangers, and he has been involved in many harsh battles during his service, but nothing would prepare him for what was to come next. Upon visiting Sable during one of his missions, a barren wasteland world covered in thick sand and desert rock, he stumbles upon an entire army of the disgusting Grameen.

Kosmos 954 and Operation Morning Light: The History of Efforts to Contain Radioactive Debris Spread Across Canada by a Soviet Satellite examines how the satellite malfunctioned, the disastrous results, and efforts to clean up the radioactivity.

A battle cruiser is forced to engage its star drive to keep from being destroyed at the end of a battle, not knowing where they will end up. Damaged and ending up in Earth’s solar system, with no communication with their home world and no parts, they have to wait until the Earth’s technology advances enough to help them. Then, far from the world of Darrk, it’s up to the last engineer to repair the ship and get them home.

Infantry Clone Jace Rojas and CBI Marshal Onima Gwok have uncovered a sinister plot, but in the quest for more answers, all they find are new questions. As they continue the investigation into the murder of the business executive, more evidence of a vast conspiracy to topple the government using clones emerges.

After the start of World War II, a small group of former lighthouse engineers were instrumental in completing a Top Secret mission to develop a brand new technology that would radically improve a ship or plane's ability to navigate with accuracy, called LORAN (Long Range Navigation). This technology is largely credited with turning the tides of battle, and helping secure an Allied victory.

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.

Before the time of man, according to the ancient legends, the gods walked the earth. The Egyptians had a name for this time. They called it "Zep Tepi" - the first time. That time is where this story began. Five Moons: Zep Tepi picks up the story 10,000 years later.... It all started with an emergency call from a world at the farthest edges of explored space. “You are our only hope,” they tell Dallas Blake and the crew of the Five Moons. A deadly virus will kill them all if the Five Moons doesn’t get the vaccine to them right away.

Discover a world beyond what you can imagine in P.S. Power's thrilling new adventure. Jacob Hines is thrust into a mysterious and strange walled community where secrets are kept and dangers lurk around every corner. Accused of the murder of his parents, Jake is taken in by his grandparents, or so it seems. With a mysterious power living inside of him, Jake must fight to protect the secrets of the world and his own mind. Will he be able to escape this impossible world before it's too late? If you enjoyed Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, then you'll love P.S. Power's new novel. Buy now ...

Things always go wrong when you try to be God. In the case of Reinhardt Base, the Coalition's attempts have now cost them an entire planet. Now the survivors are just trying to get out with their lives. Can they do it? Read Flight From Reinhardt today!

USA Bestselling Author May McGoldrick writing as Jan Coffey A nuclear submarine cuts silently through the waters of the North Atlantic, commandeered by two-dozen armed terrorists. The target: New York City. Fighting for their lives aboard the hijacked submarine, Commander Darius McCann and Ship Superintendent Amy Russell have only one hope for survival. With the lives of millions at stake, they must play a dangerous game of cat and mouse where capture would mean certain death. On land, two NCIS investigators are working feverishly to learn the details of the hijacking in time to stop the ...