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Sarah Long is looking for peace in a broken world. The fact that she helped break it, is only the start of her problems.When Sarah Long gets the message that her sister is alive and needs rescuing, she packs a bag with survival gear, loads a coat with six kinds of weapons, and hopes her pregnancy won't slow her down. It's been three years since the ancient, city-sized ship was discovered. And three years since it turned half the planet into de...

Times are changing inside and outside the Boundary. Many citizens are becoming restless, moving out to resettle the wilderness. Those already outside, especially the once-abandoned children who are now young adults, find having more neighbors brings both blessings and problems. Within the Boundary, President Dahl has renewed his quest for the life-extension formula as he faces reelection. Confident of victory, he is unaware his youngest daught...

For many decades, the White Tower government barricaded the population inside the Boundary, creating an oasis of civilization and stability in a war-ravaged world. Now ambition trumps caution as the Tower begins an expansion campaign, reclaiming abandoned lands and all but enslaving the Wild Children or, as they prefer to be called, the Freeborn - the non-status people it formerly cast out as a useless burden to society. Priscilla, the rebelli...

In a post-war world, where reproduction is strictly controlled and transgressions severely punished, they are society's rejects. Unwanted and unloved, they are raised in an orphanage until age twelve, then taken beyond the Boundary and left to fend for themselves, to survive or perish. One child was different, though he didn't know it. He was wanted, he was loved, and he was hidden for three months. But reason prevailed. A third child mea...

Originally published in 1842, and introduced here by Woodville K. Marshall, this is the only extant report on a sharecropping experiment on a British Caribbean plantation. It supplies details of how the scheme worked (and was expected to work) on the ground. The pamphlet is an argument for the total replacement of wage labour by sharecropping and identifies the advantages that such a substitution could bring.

Continued use of the spectrum is essential to the current and future operations of the energy, water and railroad services, which are vital components of the nation's critical infrastructure. This book examines industry trends and advances in wireless telecommunications technology related to these industries. Key issues are reviewed including congestion, exclusivity, reliance on commercial service, costs, redundancy and band allocation.

Amerika befindet sich mitten in der Depression, die Leute haben kaum Geld, wenig Hoffnung auf Besserung und wenig zu lachen. Ähnlich geht es den drei Männern, die das Schicksal bald zusammen führen soll... Der wohlhabende Selfmademann Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) muss nicht nur den Unfalltod seines Sohnes, sondern auch die Trennung von seiner Frau verarbeiten. Tom Smith (Chris Cooper), ehemaliger Rodeoreiter, ist zu alt für seinen Job, wur...