The Lincoln lawyer
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An iconoclastic idealist runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car in this...
Great Victorian Inventions: Novel Contrivances and Industrial Revolutions
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Who invented the flying machine? Was the Titanic really the first 'unsinkable' ship? How would one...
Phil Leader (619 KP) rated Dragonsdawn (Pern: Dragonriders of Pern, #6) in Books
Nov 12, 2019
Teased by the end of The White Dragon, this is a full-blown science fiction novel. The various plot points don't just cover the details of the human habitation and the devastating impact of Thread on an unprepared populace, but also provides dramatic tension in the greed of a small number of the colonists in trying to secure what riches there are on the planet.
This is a more-or-less essential read for anyone who enjoys the Pern novels, so much of the way the later society works, and the dragons themselves, are explained. It is not perfect, however. It is a pretty much by-the-numbers story, with a lot of the outcomes already known and some of the sub plots are superfluous and slow some parts down too much. Also the need to namecheck every Weyr and reference from the original novels is a little tiresome - and unnecessary.
Still, a solid entry on the impressive list of novels that does deliver what it promises.
Report of the FAO/Nepad Workshop on Climate Change, Disaster and Crises in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector in West and Central Africa: ACCRA, Ghana, 1-2 November 2012
Food and Agriculture Organization
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The purpose of the regional workshop on climate change, disasters and crises in the fisheries and...
Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare: 6th International Conference, MobiHealth 2016, Milan, Italy, November 14-16, 2016. Proceedings: 2017
Giuseppe Andreoni, Paolo Perego and Giovanna Rizzo
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This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference...
