The accessible compendium of polymers in carbon nanotubes (CNTs)Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-extremely thin tubes only a few nanometers in diameter but able to attain lengths thousands of times greater-are prime candidates for use in the development of polymer composite materials. Bringing together thousands of disparate research works, Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites: Manufacture, Properties, and Applications covers CNT-polymers from synthesis to potential applications, presenting t...

There are forces at play.Forces that can prevent massacres...or cause them. Stop murderers in their tracks...or inspire them. Save the world...or destroy it.A doctor and his family are about to discover these forces. They are going to play a role in a future that needs changing but seems unyielding. And they are going to learn more about our world than they ever imagined – or ever wished to know.A propulsive novel both enormous in scope and intensely personal in its...

Once every generation comes a story of the world on the brink that has such scope, such imagination, such humanity that readers can only gasp at the vision. ONLY SOME CAN HEAR MY VOICE is this generation's. Set just a few years in the future, it imagines a world where tensions have risen to the point where any number of events could lead to cataclysmic results. Into this world come two mysterious figures claiming to be oracles. The worlds they're predicting are vastly different, but their ...

This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm.Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentismFocuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constr...

Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic qualit...

In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canonto his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence continues to play as both the level of violence and the gendered depictions of violence have evolved, many of the contributors come to the conclusion that King’s films have grown more violent over...

There are forces at play. Forces that can prevent massacres...or cause them. Stop murderers in their tracks...or inspire them. Save the world...or destroy it.A doctor and his family are about to discover these forces. They are going to play a role in a future that needs changing but seems unyielding. And they are going to learn more about our world than they ever imagined – or ever wished to know.A propulsive novel both enormous in scope and intensely personal in its stakes, THE UNYIELDING...

Tales from the future! A special new Kickstarter edition of the Future Sci-Fi Tales anthology series features six tales of sci-fi.Read about galactic mercenaries, forbidden love, mechs, mighty planet protectors, aliens, and more!Here we go! This is the 6th book in the sci-fi anthology book line and man is this a big one! I first started Future Sci-Fi Tales back in 2017 which consisted of my own stories. Since then, it's been opened up to other fantastic creators throughout ...

A nerve-shredding action thriller from the author of Redemption , "a gifted story-teller . . . His plots keep your imagination running in overdrive" ( Euro Crime).With no money and no prospects, hacker Alex Yates's life is going nowhere until he is given a lucrative but dangerous offer—£100,000 to breach the Central Intelligence Agency's network and recover a file known as the "Black List."At first relucta...

The Nostalgist: A Tor.Com Original from Daniel H. Wilson.With EyesTM and EarsTM, everything can look and sound just fine, just like it used to be; it's a shock when they break down, though.This story has been adapted into a short film of the same name, directed by Giacomo Cimini and starring Lambert Wilson and Samuel Joslin.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Intelligence officer Alex Hawke takes on power-hungry Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is wielding a terrifying new weapon, in the latest adrenaline-fueled thriller in Ted Bell’s New York Times bestselling series.In corrupt Russia, an erratic Vladimir Putin is determined to forge his country into a formidable superpower once again. He intends to redraw the map of Europe, and will go to impossible extremes to realize his fantasies—including shooting down a civilian air...

1937- Amelia Earhart vanishes somewhere over the Pacific, giving rise to one of history’s most confounding puzzles. When searchers believe they have found the location of Earhart’s crash-landing, Navy SEALs Dane Maddock and Bones Bonebrake are sent on a covert mission to locate Earhart’s crashed Electra aircraft and recover its contents. But nothing is ever easy for Dane and Bones. They soon find themselves facing off against mercenary forces, deadly creatures, and nature itself. J...