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Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
2) The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and scope--has expanded enormously with each passing year....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mab is the "normal" one, never mind Bourne Memorial High School has banned that term, and besides, she's a stickler for words and definitions and knows normal isn't normal in Bourne. Monday is a stickler for everything else. She doesn't like abbreviations, contractions, lies, typos, or wearing green clothes on yellow days. When the Bourne library shut down--funds desperately needed elsewhere--she stashed the books under her bed, behind the sofa,...
Author
Publisher
Taylor & Francis/CRC Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering fills a need for those seeking insight into the design procedures of the air and missile defense system engineering process. Specifically aimed at policy planners, engineers, researchers, and consultants, it presents a balanced approach to negating a target in both natural and electronic attack environmen.
Author
Language
English
Description
Possums play dead when threatened so Alfred, an unusually nervous possum, avoids attention and even friendship until he meets Sofia, an armadillo who curls into a ball when nervous. Includes facts about the unusual defense mechanisms of animals pictured in the book.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When three men announce that they are suing the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm for reverse sex discrimination - claiming that they were not hired because they were men - Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato are outraged. To make matters worse, their one male employee, John Foxman, intends to resign, claiming that there is some truth to this case. The plaintiffs' lawyer is Nick Machiavelli, who has already lost to Mary once and is now back with a vengeance...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
David Cobb is a lawyer in a small practice with his father in Wilmington, NC; his sister-in-law Katelyn Martin-Cobb is a rising star with a huge firm in Washington, DC--with a move to Chicago in the near future as she climbs the legal ladder. After the family patriarch suffers a debilitating health scare, Katelyn and her husband move to Wilmington where she joins the practice owned by David. Together, they are pulled into a drug patent infringement...
Author
Series
Boy series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Meet Kate Mackenzie. She:
They can. Because:
10) False report
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While Bea Abbot worries that she's lost control of her domestic agency, she's asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric musician falsely accused of murder. She doesn't realize how dangerous this might be until Jeremy--fleeing from attempts on his life--lands on her doorstep.
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