New Releases by Adam Christopher

April 11th, 1997: An eastbound train heading for Washington D.C. mysteriously derails in a horrific accident, leaving dozens dead or injured. But when one of the bodies is suspected to have been murdered on the train, the only hopes of solving the case rests on the shoulders of a detective, a key witness with amnesia, and another passenger to work together as they seek the truth behind that fateful event, track down the killer, discover what the train was carrying, and if there is a larger and more sinister hand at play.

Over the centuries, in our nation''s times of need, a supernatural force appears to battle back the enemies of the United States: THE SHIELD. Today, the country--the whole world--is on the edge of chaos. The middle class is dying as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Global warming''s effects on the environment are drastic and dramatic, with superstorms and deadly droughts a common occurrence. The government increases its grip on the lives of ordinary people, controlling information and curtailing freedoms and privacy. For some, the government itself has become an enemy of the people, and revolution is on the minds of Americans all across the country. The Shield returns--but what happens when she''s not sure who the enemy is? A modern action and conspiracy thriller by bestselling novelists Adam Christopher and Chuck Wendig featuring the dynamic artwork of David Williams, THE SHIELD: DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION gives readers a topical, relevant and jarring new take on the classic hero. THE SHIELD, VOL. 1: DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION collects the first story arc of the ongoing THE SHIELD comic book series.

Another golden morning in a seedy town, and a new memory tape and assignment for intrepid PI-turned-hitman--and last robot left in working order--Raymond Electromatic. But, in Killing Is My Business, he finds his skills may be rustier than he remembered.

Eine Welt, die von einer tödlichen Seuche heimgesucht wird. Eine skrupellose Regierung, die das Volk mit Hilfe von merkwürdiger neuer Technologie unterdrückt. Ein ehemaliger kaiserlicher Leibwächter, der des Mordes bezichtigt wird. Das ist die Kulisse, vor dem das dystopisch anmutende Action Game DISHONORED spielt. Panini veröffentlicht den ersten offiziellen Roman zur gleichnamigen Steampunk-Game-Reihe von Bethesda.

She has served her country well, fighting for US interests the world over. But when the Shield’s next mission ends in tragedy on American soil—a tragedy televised live to every home in the country—the true nature of Black Seven is revealed as the superhero the world has been waiting generations for becomes… Public Enemy Number 1!

Both married and leading very separate lives. His emotional battle through his divorce and her turmoil with work and the accident. Would their relationship survive these challenges? Would their emotions be strong enough to take their relationship to the next level? It was a warm summer night when their eyes met across a crowded bar. As Demi struggled to recall his name, he disappeared. How little did they know how that brief encounter would influence their lives. How they would support each other through the roller coaster of challenges. Joshua Barnes was a tall, dark, handsome Chief Executive of a successful Finance Institute. He and Demi had first met some years before when they both worked at the same insurance company.

A l''occasion de la sortie du jeu video DISHONORED 2, découvrez le roman qui fait le lien entre ce nouveau jeu et le précédent ! Dix ans après avoir repris son trône, l''Impératrice Emily Kaldwin mène une double vie, régnant sur son empire le jour, s''entraînant aux côtés de son père, le redoutable Corvo Attano, la nuit. Lorsqu''un inconnu masqué doté des pouvoirs qui étaient autrefois ceux de Daud fait son apparition pour prendre la tête de la guilde des assassins, Emily et Corvo devront tout faire pour l''arrêter, sous peine de déclencher une destruction sans pareil. Auteur et éditeur récompensé, Adam Christopher a adapté la série télévisée à succès Elementary sous la forme de novélisations. Son premier roman, Empire State , a été élu Livre de l''année par le magazine SciFiNow et par le Financial Times. Né en Nouvelle-Zélande, Adam vit à présent en Grande-Bretagne. Retrouvez-le en ligne sur www.adamchristopher.ac ou sur Twitter sous le pseudonyme @ghostfinder.

“Daughter of the Revolution, Part 3” Captured by Walter Chase, the Shield is made a surprising offer—an invitation to join his government organization, protecting the country as she was born to do. But as her new missions take her well beyond national borders, the truth slowly dawns and the Shield must face the ultimate question: does she serve the United States of America… or its people?

A strange, shrouded figure appears in Dunwall, seeming to possess powers once wielded by the assassin known as Daud. Faced with the possibility that their deadliest foe has returned, Emily and Corvo plunge headlong into a life-and-death race against time. If they fail to learn the truth about this mysterious enemy, the result could be destruction on an unimaginable scale.

The Chief Financial Officer of a secretive NYC hedge fund has been found murdered—stabbed through the eye with an expensive fountain pen. When Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson discover a link between the victim and a charismatic management guru with a doubtful past, it seems they may have their man. But is the guru being framed? As secrets are revealed and another victim is found murdered in the same grisly fashion, Holmes and Watson begin to uncover a murky world of money and deceit…

A collection of rad tattoos by third generation tattooer and painter Adam France.

NEW ONGOING SERIES FROM DARK CIRCLE! “Daughter of the Revolution, Part 2” Running out of places to hide, the Shield discovers she is not without allies. Detective Nicole Simmons seems to know exactly who—and what—the Shield is, but with the enigmatic government agent Walter Chase closing the noose, the pair faces two difficult questions: why is the Shield back now… and whose side is she really on?

Since the dawn of electronic communication, controversy and debate has constantly surrounded the question: what is the appropriate role of electronic media in society? This dissertation takes a rhetorical approach in exploring the context and controversy surrounding our newest form of electronic communication, the internet. I argue that the internet represents a medium that is facilitating a cultural re-articulation of well-worn myths commonly associated with new technologies. I establish this claim through the exploration of two case studies. In my first case study I address the debate surrounding the 2011 Stop Online Piracy Act and its connection to the myth of the romantic genius. The second case study examines the Federal Trade Commission''s 2015 Net Neutrality Order and its relationship with the myth of democratic access. Within each of these case studies I utilize elements of historical criticism, mythic criticism, and the narrative paradigm to explore the divide between our cultural understanding regarding the myths of commodification and participation. Finally, I place both case studies in conversation with one another and discuss the implications of our evolving articulations of media and American society. I conclude that the internet represents a still evolving technology which comes closer than any medium before it to achieving the lofty goals of democratic participation ascribed to it.

It was just another Tuesday morning when she walked into the office—young, as I suspected they all might be, another dark brunette with some assistance and enough eye black to match up to Cleopatra. And who am I? I''m Ray, the world''s last robot, famed and feared in equal measure, which suits me just fine—after all, the last place you''d expect to find Hollywood''s best hit man is in the plain light of day. Raymond Electromatic is good at his job, the lone employee of the Electromatic Detective Agency—except for Ada, office gal and super-computer, the constant voice in Ray''s inner ear. Ray might have taken up a new line of work, but money is money, after all, and he was programmed to make a profit. Besides, with his twenty-four-hour memory-tape limits, he sure can keep a secret. When a familiar-looking woman arrives at the agency wanting to hire Ray to find a missing movie star, he''s inclined to tell her to take a hike. But she had the cold hard cash, a demand for total anonymity, and tendency to vanish on her own. Plunged into a glittering world of fame, fortune, and secrecy, Ray uncovers a sinister plot that goes much deeper than the silver screen—and this robot is at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Made to Kill is the thrilling new speculative noir from novelist and comic writer Adam Christopher. Ray Electromatic Mysteries Brisk Money Made to Kill Standard Hollywood Depravity Killing is My Business At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

NEW ONGOING SERIES FROM DARK CIRCLE! “Daughter of the Revolution, Part 1” Since the dawn of the republic, whenever her country faces its blackest days, she returns: a spirit of the revolution sent to fight for what is right. But when she reappears for the first time in a generation with no memories—not even of her own identity—and encounters an evil force expecting her arrival, all the Shield can do is… run!

Branded terrorists and on the run from the Fleet, ex-Marines Carmina Serra and Charlie Carter and mining superstar Zia Hollywood crash land on Lucifer, a planet at the end of the universe. Populated by two warring factions a religious cult and a crime syndicate Lucifer is blighted with a spate of murders that threaten to plunge the planet into civil war.

summons to a bullet-riddled body in a Hell’s Kitchen apartment marks the start of a new case for consulting detectives Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson. The victim is a subway train driver with a hidden stash of money and a strange Colombian connection, but why would someone kill him and leave a fortune behind? The search for the truth will lead the sleuths deep into the hidden underground tunnels beneath New York City, where answers—and more bodies—may well await them...

InyGa1-yAs alloys are critical in commercial applications such as high speed transistors, light emitting diodes, solid state lasers, photovoltaics, and photo-detectors. However, the range of compositions used in these applications is often limited to the range of InyGa1-yAs compositions which are lattice matched to elementary or binary semiconductor substrates. Additionally, the integration of InyGa1-yAs based devices on silicon substrates has been limited by complicated processing procedures. In order to resolve these issues we developed two compositionally graded buffer systems to integrate InyGa1-yAs devices on InP and Si substrates. The development of InyGa1-yAs devices on Si substrates also used the direct growth of Ge on Si offcut substrates. InAsxP1-x compositionally graded buffers were investigated for the growth of InyGa1-yAs compositions with lattice constants greater than InP. We report the effects of strain gradient, growth temperature, and strain initiation sequence (gradual or abrupt strain introduction) on threading dislocation density, surface roughness, epi-layer relaxation, and tilt. We find that gradual introduction of strain causes increased dislocation densities (u003e106 cm-2) and tilt of the epi-layer (u003e 0.10°). A method of abrupt strain initiation is proposed which can result in dislocation densities as low as 1.0x105 cm-2 for films graded from the InP lattice constant to InAs0.15P0.85. A model for a two-energy level dislocation nucleation system is proposed based on our results. We demonstrate a method for the growth of InyGa1-yAs devices on Si substrates in a single process run. Two epitaxial layers were used to change the lattice constant from the Si substrate to the InyGa1-yAs lattice constant. The first layer was a Ge layer grown directly on Si. To reduce the threading dislocation density to

Raymond Chandler famously hated science fiction, saying "They pay brisk money for this crap?" However, it has recently come to light that Chandler secretly wrote a series of stories and novels starring a robot detective. He then burnt all the manuscripts and went on writing his noir masterpieces. Unknown to Chandler, his housekeeper had managed to save some of these discarded manuscripts from the grate in his study, preserving the tales for future generations. The first of these stories was recently unearthed by author Adam Christopher. On the topic of how the manuscript made its way from Chandler''s study in California to Christopher''s home in England, Christopher is suspiciously quiet. Ray Electromatic Mysteries Brisk Money Made to Kill Standard Hollywood Depravity Killing is My Business At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Adam Christopher''s dazzling first novel, Empire State, was named the Best Book of 2012 by SciFi Now magazine. Here he explores new dimensions of time and space in The Burning Dark. Back in the day, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine intelligence capable of devouring entire worlds. After saving a planet, and getting a bum robot knee in the process, he finds himself relegated to one of the most remote backwaters in Fleetspace, overseeing the decommissioning of a semi-deserted space station. The station''s reclusive commandant is nowhere to be seen. Persistent malfunctions plague the station''s systems while interference from a toxic purple star makes even ordinary communications problematic. Alien shadows and whispers seem to haunt the lonely corridors and airlocks, fraying the nerves of everyone aboard. Isolated and friendless, Cleveland reaches out to the universe via an old-fashioned space radio, only to tune in to a strange, enigmatic signal: a woman''s voice that echoes across a thousand light-years of space. But is the transmission just a random bit of static from the past—or a warning of an undying menace beyond mortal comprehension? "Builds tension expertly. Claustrophobic in mood but with the scope of great space opera, this is SF you will want to read with the light on."—Library Journal, starred review, on The Burning Dark At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dropped on a frozen planet under suspicious circumstances, a group of marines struggles to discover the true objective of their mission. "Cold War" is a Tor.com Original novelette, set in the same Spider War universe as Adam Christopher''s novel The Burning Dark. “Smart, intricate, and viscerally gripping... Christopher carves a place for himself among the stars of his genre.” —V.E. Schwab, author of Vicious At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ted Hall is worried. He’s been sleepwalking, and his somnambulant travels appear to coincide with murders by the notorious Hang Wire Killer. Meanwhile, the circus has come to town, but the Celtic dancers are taking their pagan act a little too seriously, the manager of the Olde Worlde Funfair has started talking to his vintage machines, and the new acrobat’s frequent absences are causing tension among the performers. Out in the city there are other new arrivals – immortals searching for an ancient power – a primal evil which, if unopposed, could destroy the world! File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Tensile Strength | Dual Identities | The Greatest Show | Bandits ]

Strategies animals use to find and consume food in the face of conflicting forces such as competition and predation are central questions in the fields of ecological theory and management. Whereas theoretical models abound, proper empirical tests of these theories are less abundant. In studying the relationship between food abundance, predation risk, and competition there exists an array of confounding factors, which need to be accounted for by manipulating some aspect of the system. I used a guild of spring migratory ducks as a model system and manipulated food abundance in areas differing in presumed risk to assess the relative effects of food abundance, predation risk, competition, and life history characteristics on foraging strategies used by ducks. Using a randomized block design, I established a pair of 0.4 ha plots (block) in emergent, open water, and forested wetlands in the Wabash River Floodplain in eastern Illinois. I randomly selected one plot within each block to supplement with 2000 kg/ha of corn ( Zea mays ), creating an area of very high duck food abundance next to a control area with no added food. I conducted instantaneous focal animal samples and used video recorders to estimate the proportion of time mallard ( Anas platyrhynchos ), blue-winged teal (Anas discors ), wood duck (Aix sponsa ), ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris ), and lesser scaup (Aythya affinis ) devoted to feeding, identify the specific behaviors used, and estimate feeding stint lengths and frequencies. I used these metrics as an index of risk that ducks were willing to engage in for a known food reward. I predicted that species with a faster life history strategy, factors that increase perceived predation risk (cover, water depth, group size), and increase energetic demand (due to nesting or temperature), would elicit more risk-taking behaviors in ducks. This would be realized by an increase in the proportion of time spent feeding, longer feeding durations, and deeper feeding behaviors in treatment plots compared with control plots. Consistent with my life history prediction, species with a faster life history strategy were willing to engage in more risky behavior (feeding more) for a greater food reward (food treatment). Mallards, lesser scaup, and wood ducks exhibited risk-taking behavior consistent with perceived predation risk. Mallards devoted more time to feeding and used longer feeding stints when in areas with less cover. Alternatively, lesser scaup devoted more time to feeding when in areas of more cover. Wood ducks devoted more time to feeding in treatment plots, when in shallow areas, and larger flocks. When blue-winged teal fed on the surface (eyes above water), they devoted more overall time to feeding indicating that surface feeding is less risky than deeper feeding. Wood ducks and lesser scaup exhibited behavior consistent with an increase in energetic demand as observed by an increase in the proportion of time devoted to feeding later in the spring. I also examined how food abundance influenced aspects of ducks'' foraging niches. I found that dabbling ducks used a greater variety of behaviors (behavior niche breadth) when in treatment plots compared to control plots and also shifted to slightly deeper feeding behaviors in treatment plots. This greater breadth when food was more abundant was due to individuals of the same species diverging from one another, rather than each individual using a broader array of behaviors. Overall, I found substantial variability among and within species in how they manage risk while foraging, although this was partially explained by life history theory, and what types of conditions they perceive as risky. I document the importance of taking the state of the forager (life history, perceived risk, energetic demand) into account when examining patterns of risk-taking.

This textbook features 30 grammar-based exercises for the elementary learner of the English language. Detailed grammar explanations, illustrations, and the answers to the 30 exercises are included.