Zhero

An inspiring and intriguing tale of heroism, Zhero's quest for education and self-worth takes him from the rustic village of Amabra to the cities of Port Harcourt and Lagos. Armed with a determination to succeed against all odds, his quest unearths a malignant problem in the society, which is the degradation and loss of human values. Vincent Egbuson's book is compendium of issues pervading contemporary Nigerian society. It beckons on its readers to emulate acts of kindness and self-sacrifice.

Mutual funds. Savings accounts. The stock exchange. It takes just one cyber attack to crash it all. "Down Time" sees the return of vigilante hacker Scott Mitchell, whose victory against hacker group Black Flag was just a minor setback for the cyber criminals. With a new recruit under his wing, The Salesman is ready to launch another attack in this high-tech serial thriller set in the anonymity of the Dark Web. The National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) in London have joined forces with the FBI to battle a new piece of malicious code threatening to bring the world financial market to its knees. Meanwhile, several elite traders have been found dead in strange circumstances - from heart attacks to kinky sex acts. Could their deaths be connected? "Down Time" is a gripping cyber thriller and the second season of the much acclaimed transmedia project "netwars" based on real facts and cyber-attack scenarios. The project spans multiple story platforms including a fact-based website (www.netwars-project.com) and the interactive graphic novel app "netwars: The Butterfly Attack." This compilation features all six episodes of Season Two. For fans of Dave Eggers, THE CIRCLE; Daniel Suarez, DARKNET; the movie ENEMY OF THE STATE, and espionage and high-tech Thrillers.

In this volume, 27 papers deal successively with thematic aspects of basin formation, case history in extensional and compressional basins (either in the CIS Republics or in their Western counterparts), physical and numerical structural models and other modeling techniques used for petroleum potential appraisal in sedimentary basins. These proceedings are of great interest to all geologists dealing with geodynamics of sedimentary basins, either in academic institutions or in the petroleum industry.

Venice. On a full-moon night, the members of a secret society gather in an ancient palace. Bepi Galvano, luminary of physics, is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday just a few streets away. His neighbors, three brilliant kids, are throwing a big party in his honor. That very night, however, the professor goes missing in circumstances which have yet to be clarified. Perhaps, that mysterious league, the Lunar Society, is the key for the enigma of his disappearance... In a maze-like Venice, three young kids are about to launch into a race against the time. The future of humanity could be hidden in the professor's latest invention, an incredible machine capable of producing green energy from water. It's up to Bepi's kids, now, to follow in his footsteps, and prevent eternal darkness from descending on the world we know.

THE FUTURE OF ENERGY IS GREEN Venice. On a full-moon night, the members of a secret society gather in an ancient palace. Bepi Galvano, luminary of physics, is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday just a few streets away. His neighbours, three brilliant kids, are throwing a big party in his honour. That very night, however, the professor goes missing in circumstances which have yet to be clarified. Perhaps, that mysterious league, the Lunar Society, is the key for the enigma of his disappearance... In a maze-like Venice, three young kids are about to launch into a race against the time. The future of humanity could be hidden in the professor's latest invention, an incredible machine capable of producing green energy from water. It's up to Bepi's kids, now, to follow in his footsteps, and prevent eternal darkness from descending on the world we know.

Selections from a series of reports delivered at the International Seminar "Super-Deep Drilling and Deep Geophysical Research," held in Yaroslavl, Soviet Union, in August 1988, organized jointly by the Ministry of Geology of the USSR and the Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere.