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The desperate battle to save mankind from extinction reaches the darkest hour. Earth''s space fleet is cutoff and hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned. Running for their very lives, can human ingenuity and sheer determination, turn the tide of battle and overcome overwhelming odds? The fate of mankind hangs in the balance as the war between man and alien machines reaches the turning point that will determine whether man or machine will survive.

This story is told by man from Earth named Ivan Dixon. Ivan tells his story in the first person of an accidental meeting with an alien race that has provided planetary protection for Earth for a very long time. Understandably, Ivan would accept the job of coordinating the protection of this, and several other worlds, from invasion or extermination. During his journey, Ivan will make new friends and save planetary civilizations, all with the help of a member of a machine race and a highly advanced interstellar ship. Written from Ivan’s perspective, the man from Earth will play matchmaker to a good friend desperately in need to exercise and prove his abilities. Also, Ivan’s new duties will take him to unexplored worlds and push him to work through dangerous alien contacts. Nothing can prepare the human for what he’ll encounter, but he will have the support of Tar, his android mentor, and an intelligent saucer with few if any limitations. Written for all age groups.

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Before the revolution, the Shah of Iran seemed invincible. The world watched in awe as he commanded a huge army and oversaw an economy awash with billions of dollars of oil revenues. The regime''s secret police had crushed communist opposition and the Shah appeared to have bought off the conservative Muslim clergy inside the country. On the international stage, Iran had become an invaluable ally to the West during the Cold War. But village streets spoke of a different country - people derided the Shah as an American lackey and blamed him for economic inequality, for spending recklessly on lavish parties and for ignoring the Muslim majority. When a volcanic religious revolution erupted, led by a fiery cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini, the Shah was forced off the throne and into exile. How did it all go so wrong? Brilliantly brought to life by the Sunday Times bestselling author Scott Anderson, this gripping behind-the-scenes narrative reveals how the Iranian Revolution was as world-shattering an event as the French and Russian revolutions, and how its repercussions are still felt around the world today. In the Middle East, in India, in Southeast Asia, and now in Europe and the United States, the hatred of economically-marginalized, religiously-fervent masses for a wealthy secular elite has led to violence and upheaval - and Iran was the template.

Death seems to Robert "Ziggy" Zigstrom to be the only option left in his worthless life. He''s been kicked out of the Navy, served time in the brig, lost his job, and worst of all, lost his woman. Then in the middle of a suicide attempt in his beat up trailer in the California desert, he is rescued by a crippled up ex-hit man who just may give Ziggy a new shot at life

Keywords: geostatistics, soil carbon, spatial models, DEM, LiDAR.

This dissertation addresses the problem of using multiple, simultaneous observations of mesospheric airglow emissions to estimate key intrinsic parameters of atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs). As AGWs propagate through the mesosphere, they spatially and temporally perturb mesospheric airglow emissions, which, from the ground, can be imaged using large-format CCD cameras retrofitted with spectroscopic optics. By observing the emission perturbations from different vantage points, information can be inferred about the vertical wave structure using tomographic and parameter estimation techniques. In this dissertation, the problem is analyzed using standard tomography techniques to produce a reconstruction that can be used to estimate vertical wave structure. Next, a tomography scheme that works in the Fourier domain is developed to take advantage of the wave perturbation''s Fourier sparseness. Then, a parameter estimation (PE) technique is developed to infer the key AGW parameters directly from the data, followed by an in-depth analysis of the error from this estimation method. Finally, the PE method is applied to real data collected by the University of Illinois remote sensing team in June 2007.

Geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring technologies have been used to inform safety, operational, and treatment decisions for unstable slopes. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program''s NCHRP Synthesis 554: Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring documents and synthesizes the state of practice for implementation and use of advancements in unstable slope instrumentation and monitoring by state departments of transportation over approximately the last decade. The types of instrumentation and monitoring technologies range from devices installed on or in slopes to remote-sensing methods from ground, aerial, or satellite-based systems.