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It was a time of international tensions, a time of hope and
fear--when rock 'n' roll, UFOs, and the Communist menace
preoccupied America; the first time in history when human beings
had the power to destroy their world.
It was a time when heroes were needed more than ever.
Evil is loose in the world. As the United States and the Soviet
Union race to build their nuclear stockpiles, two extraordinary men
are called upon to form an uneasy alliance. Studies in
opposites--shadow and light--a Dark Knight and a Man of Steel must
overcome their mutual distrust to battle a darkness that threatens
humankind. And when the paths of these titans cross, a bold and
exciting new chapter of history will be written . . . and nothing
will ever be the same.
Collected for the first time, these three previously unpublished Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune universe. Spanning space and time, Sands of Dune is essential reading for any fan of the series.
The world of Dune has shaped an entire generation of science fiction. From the sand blasted world of Arrakis, to the splendor of the imperial homeworld of Kaitain, readers have lived in a universe of treachery and wonder.
Now, these stories expand on the Dune universe, telling of the lost years of Gurney Halleck as he works with smugglers on Arrakis in a deadly gambit for revenge; inside the ranks of the Sardaukar as the child of a betrayed nobleman becomes one of the Emperor's most ruthless fighters; a young firebrand Fremen woman, a guerrilla fighter against the ruthless Harkonnens, who will one day become Shadout Mapes.
They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now
they are Dr. Rachel Dycek's adin: surgically transformed beings who
can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still
exiles, unable ever again to breath Earth's air . . . And they are
still pawns. For the adin exist to terraform Mars for human
colonists, not for themselves. Creating a new Earth, they will
destroy their world; killed by their own success. Desperate, adin
leader Boris Tiban launches a suicide campaign to sabotage the Mars
Project, knowing his people will perish in a glorious, doomed orgy
of mayhem. Unless embattled, bitter Rachel Dycek can find a miracle
to save both the Mars Project and the race she created.
IT IS THE FUTURE - AND THE DEAD WALK THE STREETS. Resurrection,
Inc. found a profitable way to do it. All it took was a
microprocessor brain, a synthetic heart and blood, and a viola!
Anyone with the price could buy a Servant with no mind of its own
and trained to obey any command. But for every Servant created,
Resurrection, Inc.'s profits became everyone's else's loss. Some
take to rioting in the streets, their rampages ruthlessly ended by
heavily armed Enforcers, eager for the kill. Others join the ever
growing cult of Neo-Satanism, seeking heaven in the depths of hell.
Only one man tries to save the world. He is the last hope for the
living. His name is Danal, he's dead - but he remembers.
Everything.
Stunning psychic science thriller by the bestselling author of
X-Files: Ground Zero and X-Files: Ruins. Atlas is a struggling
colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by
Truthsayers. Trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas - a
telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty -
Truthsayers are justice. Infallible. Beyond appeal. Troy Boren is
falsely accused of murder. He put his trust in the young Truthsayer
Kalliana, until, impossibly, she convicts him. Her power is fading
and nobody can work it out. A conspiracy is taking place that
threatens to destroy their world from within. For without truth and
justice, Atlas will certainly fall.
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Dune: House Harkonnen Vol. 1
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson; Illustrated by Michael Shelfer
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Discover the crucial backstory of House Atreides’ bitter rivals
that no Dune fan will want to miss! Delve into the past of Gurney
Halleck, Leto Atreides, Lady Jessica, and Liet Kynes, and discover
how the complex and brutal machinations of House Harkonnen shaped
their future! What difficult choices will tear Leto apart as Baron
Harkonnen plots against not just House Atreides, but the Bene
Gesserit and the Emperor himself? And who watches Duke Atreides
from afar? This dangerous figure holds untold significance for his
future and lineage… The second NYT Bestselling prequel to Dune is
adapted for the first time by award-winning novelists Brian Herbert
and Kevin J. Anderson and artist Michael Shelfer (Domino),
unveiling a closer look at the rising conflict between beloved
characters and bitter villains. Collects Dune: House Harkonnen
#1-4.
"Knock your socks off service doesn't just happen. It requires
coaching on an ongoing basis. Now, thanks to authors Kristin
Anderson and Ron Zemke, supervisors have a practical guide to the
day-to-day challenges that arise in training superior customer
service people. This newest "Knock Your Socks Off" book explains
how to help frontline employees hone their skills, maintain the
motivation to perform, and meet new situations head-on. The authors
present a model for successfully coaching anyone, anywhere, and
they show readers how to apply it in familiar coaching situations.
Everyone can appreciate Zemke and Anderson's strategies for
handling the toughest coaching problems. And they will learn a most
important new skill - teaching employees to be peer coaches, a
growing need in the current era of teams and of doing more with
less."
Real estate is sold as a much safer investment than the constantly
fluctuating stock market. Share price volatility is compared
unfavourably with the steadier and impressive gains made from real
estate which is, we are told, 'as safe as houses'. As millions of
Americans - and countless others in the Western world - have
recently found to their cost, house prices can also suddenly and
dramatically drop. Yet no other text on real estate, either current
or from the past, mentions this fact, reinforcing the perception
that real estate is an almost risk-free investment. Now for the
first time, and long overdue, a book that details and explains the
cyclical nature of real estate. The latest real estate downturn in
the USA (and in other countries) is just one of many that have
occurred since 1800 with astonishing regularity. This book is the
story of the American experience of those downturns: the move out
of recession, how the banking system facilitates that move, the
boom and the characters that shaped it, the bust and accompanying
bank failures, and then the recession, or worse, depression. This
is always followed by a new cycle repeating each phase again,
varied only by the new ways bankers find to avoid the regulations
put in place after each collapse to ensure it will never happen
again. The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking explains, quite
simply, how the real estate cycle originates, offers a fascinating
study of US history to illustrate the stages through which each
cycle passes, then explains why this cycle of boom and bust must
repeat, given present economic conditions. Real estate can only be
a truly winning investment if you know the cycle. For investors,
the author has designed an 18-year Real Estate Clock which plots
the progress of the cycle, with tell-tale signs so that investors
can recognise exactly where they are in the cycle at any point in
time and so help them decide whether to invest, sit tight or sell.
He has refined this clock over a period of many years and those who
have attended his courses have found it an invaluable and
remarkably accurate guide for their investment strategies, not only
in real estate. With its invaluable insights and practical
guidance, The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking is a book for
both novice and experienced investors alike who want to know why
the real estate cycle moves as it does, learn how this movement can
be forecast well in advance, and more importantly, wish to learn
how to profit from this knowledge. A must read for any serious
investor.
Two powerful stories set during the pivotal Battle of Arrakeen set
during the original Dune! UNCOVER THE UNTOLD STORIES OF THE BATTLE
OF ARRAKEEN! Jopati Kolona is one of the Sardaukar: the emperor's
elite military unit. The Sardaukar are unbeatable, unbending in
their devotion, and feared throughout the galaxy. Tasked with
overthrowing the Atreides stronghold on Dune for his master, Jopati
will be forced to choose between duty and forgiveness. Meanwhile,
as Paul Atreides meets his destiny in battle, Sgt. Vitt must use
his family's gift of storytelling as a Jongleur to transport his
men from their tomb to their homeworld of Caladan. Can Vitt
mentally transport them back to the lushness of Caladan and give
them the gift of hope in the darkness? Collects Dune: Blood of the
Sardaukar #1 & Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas #1.
It is eighty-three years after the last of the thinking machines
were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took
the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of
a new Imperium. Great changes are brewing that will shape and twist
all of humankind.
The war hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on politics and
Salusa Secundus. The descendants of Abulurd Harkonnen Griffen and
Valya have sworn vengeance against Vor, blaming him for the
downfall of their fortunes. Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the
Bene Gesserit School on the jungle planet Rossak as the first
Reverend Mother. The descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma
Cenva have built Venport Holdings, using mutated, spice-saturated
Navigators who fly precursors of Heighliners. Gilbertus Albans, the
ward of the hated Erasmus, is teaching humans to become
Mentats...and hiding an unbelievable secret.
The Butlerian movement, rabidly opposed to all forms of "dangerous
technology," is led by Manford Torondo and his devoted Swordmaster,
Anari Idaho. And it is this group, so many decades after the defeat
of the thinking machines, which begins to sweep across the known
universe in mobs, millions strong, destroying everything in its
path.
Every one of these characters, and all of these groups, will become
enmeshed in the contest between Reason and Faith. All of them will
be forced to choose sides in the inevitable crusade that could
destroy humankind forever....
In DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad'Dib, the second of three
volumes adapting Frank Herbert's Dune, young Paul Atreides and his
mother, the lady Jessica, find themselves stranded in the deep
desert of Arrakis. Betrayed by one of their own and destroyed by
their greatest enemy, Paul and Jessica must find the mysterious
Fremen, or perish. This faithful adaptation of the 1965 novel,
Dune, by Brian Herbert, son of Frank Herbert, and New York Times
bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson, continues to explore Paul's
journey as he evolves from boy to mysterious messiah. Illustrated
by Raul Allen and Patricia Martin, this spectacular blend of
adventure and spirituality, environmentalism, and politics is a
groundbreaking look into our universe and is transformed by the
graphic novel format into a powerful, fantastical tale for a new
generation of readers.
The Black Stallion meets Tamora Pierce in this adventure-filled
middle grade novel about a young stable girl who discovers a secret
that endangers her beloved horse and threatens her future.Sonnia
loves horses more than anything. She works at her family's
struggling pony ride business but dreams of the beautiful steeds in
the royal stables, especially Ricochet, who she's been slowly
saving money to buy--even though she knows people from her
impoverished neighborhood are rarely so lucky. Then Ricochet is
moved to the racetrack across town, and Sonnia lands a job there.
Now, she can see Ricochet every day and earn enough money to buy
him in no time--all while helping her family with her new wages!
She even joins the junior racing cadre to train to become a jockey.
But then she uncovers their secret pastime: competing in the Night
Ride, a dangerous and highly illegal race in the darkest hours
before dawn. Every race puts the horses at risk. Sonnia wants to
protect the horses she's grown to care for, but she's only a kid
from the poor side of town--considered expendable, just like the
horses. If she just keeps her head down, soon she can buy Ricochet
and get him out of there--and keep supporting her family. But would
she be able to live with herself?
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Princess of Dune
Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
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R780
R602
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At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, "Chapterhouse: Dune, " a
ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy,
fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used
genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's
past--including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica--to use their
special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.
Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden
in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, "Sandworms of Dune "will
answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two
decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future
of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz
Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine.
This breathtaking new novel in Frank Herbert's Dune series has
enough surprises and plot twists to please even the most demanding
reader.
The Color of Language helps to shed new light on the
intersectionality of language, race and identity by offering
readers a unique multi-perspective approach to the proscription of
identity when language and culture have a direct impact on the
understanding of race and ethnicity. Using the lens of
Afrocentricity, Womanist pedagogy and Foster et al.’s Heuristic
for Thinking about Culturally Responsive Teaching (HiTCRiT) as an
important pedagogical tool, Kami Anderson discusses
raciolinguistics and its implications as a tool for language
activism for Black students in the foreign language classroom,
demonstrating how supremacist notions of language have often
hindered the success of Black students in this area. Engaging in
Afrocentric language activism to challenges hegemonic notions, The
Color of Language explores the inclusion of Afrolatino culture as a
means of offering new pedagogical solutions that can foster
language equity for African American students in the foreign
language classroom today.
The first graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking
science-fiction classic by Frank Herbert-now in a deluxe
collector's edition Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction
masterpiece set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal
interstellar society, tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and
his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis. A stunning
blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics,
Dune is a powerful, fantastical tale that takes an unprecedented
look into our universe, and is transformed by the graphic novel
format. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's adaptation retains
the integrity of the original novel, and Raul Allen and Patricia
Martin's magnificent illustrations, along with cover art by Bill
Sienkiewicz, bring the book to life for a new generation of
readers. A national bestseller, Dune: The Graphic Novel, is now
available in a deluxe collector's edition with an increased trim
size of 7 1/2" x 11 1/4", printed on high-quality matte art paper
in a faux-cloth slipcase with gold foil stamping tip-on cover.
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