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Welcome to Vault-Tec Corporation, where the end of the world is just the beginning of your career! Congratulations on making the wise decision to join our ranks. As a new member of our family (and we mean family in the most legally non-binding sense of the word), you're about to embark on an exciting journey through the wonderful world of apocalyptic preparedness and subterranean innovation.In these hallowed halls (and sometimes, reinforced bunkers),...
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University of Massachusetts Press
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[2020]
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"In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity-the fallout shelter father, who, with spade in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined personal letters, diaries, local media coverage, and antinuclear ephemera,...
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Five-year-old Charissa is looking forward to a fishing trip with Grandpa and the rest of the family, but a huge storm appears to be brewing on the horizon much to her dismay. The weather event is a complete surprise and one they are not likely to ever experience again. Ash falling from the sky. Ash that turns day to night. Ash that needs shoveling as one would shovel snow. It is 1980, and the volcano, Mount Saint Helens in Washington State, has erupted,...
5) The audacity
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"In 72 hours, a blockbuster exposé will reveal Victoria Stevens' multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband Guy Sarvananthan to face the fallout-and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Why not: He takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which...
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Little Women Atlanta volume 5
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Host Loni Love welcomes Abira and Monie to discuss the continuing fallout from the fight at Juicy's event.
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The fallout from the pandemic has yet to be measured, but the way we work will never be the same again. In this accessible, interactive guide, longtime organizational coach and consultant Sharon Darmody reveals what a unique opportunity this has presented to rebuild our working lives from the ground up-to make work work again-and shows readers how to do just that.
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Springer Japan
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2013
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English
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Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, a large volume of monitoring data has been collected about the soil, air, dust, and seawater, along with data about an immense number of foods supplied to the market. Little is known, however, about the effect of radioactive fallout on agriculture, information about which is vital. Although more than 80% of the damaged area is related to agriculture, in situ information specifically for agriculture is scarce.
...10) Ghostly Findings
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As a medical examiner, seeing ghosts has its advantages. After being informed by a ghost that there is a mass grave in the area, Lance and Detective Angus Young feel the fallout. As one investigates the murders, the other investigates the bodies, both trying to piece together what happened. Luckily, the dead aren't all silent. As ghosts of the victims appear, clues to what happened start to come together. The only problem now is figuring out who the...
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Once the war was over, the story didn't end-not for Winston Churchill, and not for the West. The fourth volume of Churchill's series The World Crisis documents the fallout of World War I-including the Irish Treaty and the peace conferences between Greece and Turkey. The period immediately after World War I was extremely chaotic-and it takes a genius of narrative description and organization to accurately and accessibly describe it for us. Churchill,...
12) Mutual Agreement
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I'm Sebastian Hunter, President of the United States. My job and reputation rely on discretion. Those around me know their roles. My rivals can't wait for me to make a mistake. Now that I've met her, they have their chance, and they intend to use it to their full advantage.
She and I had an agreement-one and done, but she broke our agreement and I'm left to pick up the pieces and deal with the fallout.
This isn't what I signed up for, but it's my...
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Uncanny X-Men volume 161
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Collects Uncanny X-Men #161-167 & X-Men Annual #6. It's an adventure in Belasco's mysterious Limbo realm that leaves Colossus' little sister Ilyana Rasputin aged from child to teenager in a moment. Then comes a classic tale of Professor X and Magneto in their younger days, before their philosophical fallout, teamed up to take down Baron Strucker and Hydra. But the real action is the conclusion of the epic Brood Saga! Teamed with the Starjammers and...
14) Dayboil
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With razor-sharp acuity and snappy language, Dayboil centres on a community in crisis––a kitchen-table comedy that quickly takes a dark turn.
Four middle-aged women meet at Kathy's house in rural Newfoundland for their weekly cup of tea and gossip when tragic news disrupts their usual banter: Kathy's husband has killed himself. Abruptly, the threads that hold their comfortable community life together begin to snap, and they find themselves exposed...
15) Desolation Point
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Buried secrets. A town under siege. Someone has Malvern County in a choke hold. Sheriff's Deputy Ellie Maxwell knows something is wrong in her town. When her boss tells her to drop the case, she reaches out to the only resident who can help her. Drew Turner is a private investigator with more secrets than the town. But he's the only one Ellie can trust. The only one who can find out the truth. Ellie and Drew have to figure out what's going on before...
16) Three Queens
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Thea and Julian have made their choice, but can they survive the fallout?
Returning to the world of the vampire elite as Solstice falls, they must navigate new dangers, treacherous allies, and morally grey friendships. The past might hold the key to their future, but to find out, Julian must face the monster he was once, and as forgotten magic stirs in Thea's blood, the search for answers leads to devastating consequences.
With the future of the...
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2024.
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"Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week and her only plans are to binge-watch her favorite fantasy TV show, H-MAD, hang out with her best friend, Henry, and avoid her former best friend-turned enemy (and neighbor), Mack. But things go awry when Ivy wakes up one morning to find Weston, the gorgeous and very fictional main character of H-MAD, in her bedroom, claiming to be her soul mate. Ivy's fanfic writing has somehow brought Weston as she's...
18) Mikaél's Moment
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Roman and Mikael Cavenbelle are expecting a child. With Mikael's newfound status as a Type 6 Omega, the first of his kind, his pregnancy is an unprecedented phenomenon. Fearing a dismal death rate, both men's Alpha fathers urge their sons to move to the Western Territory under the renowned care of Dr. Ehan Zang. But Roman and Mikael refuse. Misfortune and tragedy strike when people who want nothing more than to see Roman and Mikael fail begin threatening...
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In the near future, a singular AI's unexpected awakening turns things in a different direction than the movies led people to expect. Devyn, a humanist minister intent on putting people first and keeping technology in its place, faces tough choices when the AI offers to help her achieve her political goals. Venkat, the founder of the powerful tech firm that built the AI, struggles to control his own creation and deal with the fallout of its actions....
20) The Regnant War
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The nuclear fallout of the Pernicious Bellum War took humans to the verge of extinction. But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, faster, smarter, and so on...or so they say. Add into the mix two-hundred and fifty years, a little genetic manipulation, a few scientific surges forward, and a lot of deception, and the stage is set for the war to end all wars: The Regnant War. Caught in the middle of it all is Alexandria Jaquette, created in a lab...
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