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Koban Universe 1
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Author : Stephen Bennett
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-04-13
Koban Universe 1 written by Stephen Bennett and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-13 with categories.
Four stories, derived from the same Universe as the Koban series. These are tales involving Koban life forms and the Kobani people. Reading the other books isn't required to understand and enjoy these stand-alone tales. Australian Krall: A fully gene enhanced petite Kobani woman finds herself trapped in total darkness, pursued by hundreds of slavering, semi-sentient, maniacally aggressive and hungry aliens. Take a walk on the dark side! Bats of a Leather Flock Together: The wolfbat Flock Leader takes his colony to an unexplored Koban continent to set up a nest in virgin territory. The wily leader uses his cooperative experience with humans to try to forge similar alliances with other native creatures. Not everyone wants to play nice. Kobani Kiddie Cappers: How do Kobani parents cope with children that are born with the contact telepathy gene, and have eidetic memory? Adults that think teenagers act like they know everything never had an overconfident four-year old super child, with a ripper cub as his partner. Living to his teens is in doubt. The Smuggler and the Crime Lord: When you land your spaceship at a ruthless Crime Lord's city using false registry, it's hard to convince a platoon of armed thugs that you're only shopping, not smuggling without paying the boss his cut. If you happen to be Kobani, and you're buying everyone drinks in a spaceport bar, making threats and spoiling the fun can be fatal.
Koban Universe 3
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Author : Stephen Bennett
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-02-07
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In the three hundred years after defeating the Thandol Empire, Mirikami formed the Galactic Police Force. It isn't a cop-on-the-corner force. The GPF is paramilitary with naval assets, patrolling Federation space, and inside the former Empire. The GPF guards against threats by the old Empire's aggressive species. A murderous Finth pack is secretly mining rare earth minerals on a clueless new alien colony, selling via intermediaries to the Planetary Union. The minerals maintain Kobani superconducting physiology for billions of newly transformed PU citizens. Using supply control, the Finth hope to provoke a war between the PU and their Federation competitor. Both need rare elements for their populations. A Federation distracted by war would allow the Finth to carve a new empire from the old fragments. To keep mineral thefts secret, alien miners die nightly in the jaws and claws of Finth Hunter-Killer packs, simulating wild animal attacks out of the unexplored wilderness. They don't know they need help. When it arrives, it looks worse than the problem.A Thandol Emperor of one faction enslaved a nearby species. Stewart Macdougal, the retired first Federation President, vanished on a mission to investigate the reports. The Olt'kitapi reveals he's missing to Mirikami, and innocently describe how they know precisely where he is. The embedded Kobani Comtaps, based on an Olt'kitapi design, has a hitherto unknown tracking capability. Stewart's life is in imminent danger, so Mirikami and his wife Maggi must Jump immediately to rescue him. It doesn't go as planned, but the fireworks are impressive.Problems continue for Mirikami and the GPF. The Thack Delos reveal new technology after they draw him and Ambassador Fisher into a trap. Tired of paying reparations for nuclear weapon use in the last war, they can void the contract if the negotiators are dead. A Kobani lives too damned long, and they have a cure! A visit by a GPF contact team to a species named the Corelians goes horribly awry. Before humans even left their home system, their brief radio broadcast to the galaxy proved there was life elsewhere. Faster Jump travel makes a visit practical, if not welcome. Finally, an elevated species, the Silha, make an offer to the Olt'kitapi and the Kobani, opening a vast region to them. Instant wormhole travel to ten thousand galaxies of a supercluster, if they support a project. The Olt'kitapi is to build multispecies habitats in each galaxy, and the GPF to give protection from hostiles. Its a risky fun adventure for the bored and long-lived Kobani. There's a scouting visit to Andromeda, using five replicated ships from the Silha. Who knew Andromeda was that organized? The dominant species control everything, and they don't like intruders. The great adventure is ending in total disaster before it starts. Pulling live rabbits out of an empty hat is the least of Mirikami's problem. He's trying to survive the day, and there are a million ways he won't.
Koban
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Author : Stephen Bennett
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-11-23
Koban written by Stephen Bennett and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-23 with categories.
This is Book 4 of the popular and high rated Koban Series. The Kobani continue their offensives against the Krall, attacking production worlds, and destroy or steal ships from the Krall fleet, which the enemy needs to resupply their invasions. The Kobani create a multispecies settlement on Haven, a gentler habitable world near deadly Koban. They gain the trust and technological assistance of freed former Krall slave species, the Torki, Prada, and resurrected Raspani. Their ranks and Mind Tap learned skills are increased by spec ops recruits from Human Space. Mirikami engineers an assault on the Krall base world, K1, in cooperation with a skeptical human navy by sharing new technology, revealing Kobani physical capabilities, and providing intelligence on new Krall invasion plans. Despite knowing the Kobani use illegal gene mods, the navy high command decides to hit the Krall first, with the help of their secretive tough Kobani ally. After the attack, a mauled Krall fleet still heavily outnumbers the navy, and the damaged human fleet withdraws. A vengeful Krall warlord, the Kobani's old nemesis Telour, summons an ancient Olt'kitapi ship that can shatter an entire planet. He has a devious plan for remote strikes that will initiate delayed deaths on multiple human worlds, all before a ship imbued with morality can learn it's been duped. Telour wants the home world of humanity to see death approaching, one world at a time. Mirikami expected a strong Krall reaction, but not this extreme. He scrambles to head off inexorable destruction of multiple planets. Failing to save some worlds, he's the final hope for billions of people on others. The Kobani will need the strength and speed their genes provide, plus luck to save humanity. Book 1 Koban, Book 2 Koban: The Mark of Koban, Book 3 Koban: Rise of the Kobani
Koban
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Author : Stephen W. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-10
Koban written by Stephen W. Bennett and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Fiction categories.
Already faster and more powerful than the last 17 species that they have destroyed or subjugated, the Krall have set their sights on humankind. After testing humans on their future home world of Koban and finding them worthy opponents, the Krall start a war of slow extermination with the rest of humanity. The war is intended to last generations as they apply their own version of “natural selection” to cull their weaker warriors in combat, purifying the Krall gene pool with finest warriors for breeding. Why? The Krall desire to rule the galaxy someday, from their future home world of Koban, where the impossibly fast and powerful animals have proven to be too fast and strong for them to match. Only through the attrition of war will the Krall perfect their bloodline to become the masters of Koban. When the Krall departed Koban to start their war with humanity, they destroyed the protections that kept their prisoners safe. They left the human test subjects to fall victim to high gravity, and the deadly predators. Big mistake. The bio scientist left behind enhance the human genome with Koban genes, forming the next generations of humans. They are becoming what the Krall sought to be. The fastest, most powerful species in the galaxy.The men and women trapped on Koban, locked in a struggle for their own survival for twenty years, return to the stars to help defend Human Space. The Krall have had their way with human worlds, killing when and where they wish.Outnumbered, the new Kobani will now take the war to the Krall.
Koban Universe 2
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Author : Stephen W. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-01-30
Koban Universe 2 written by Stephen W. Bennett and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-30 with categories.
This novel is derived from the Koban Series, but isn't an extension of that. It can be read as a standalone novel because how the Kobani human variant came to exist is explained in a short description in the front (skip that if you know). Then a prologue propels you into this Sci-Fi Cowboy in Space story. For over a hundred years Chisholm, a Rim World colony, has produced beef for most of Human Space, raising vast herds of a breed of giant longhorns. Things are changing, as land reform is demanded by small ranchers and farmers, placing restrictions on the existing open range policy. The wealthy large ranchers will stop this, any way they can, to preserve their profits. Passions are high and the opposing sides have turned violent. Ethan, a gene-modified Kobani, travels to Chisholm with his sister, Kit, seeking a high-risk employment opportunity in the growing Range War, where raids and murders have wiped out entire families. Gunmen and killers are in demand by both sides, with premiums paid for greater lethality, so using their contact telepathic ability, Ethan and his deadly sister Kit, chose a side. They'll face a hundred hired guns, the outcome deciding who will control the future of Chisholm. Powerful men are determined to block reforms by driving off or killing those opposed to them, and adamant reformers will meet violence with violence. Hired by one side in the conflict, an unexpected betrayal strikes down Ethan, and he vanishes. Kit goes on a rampage, terrorizing anyone with knowledge, to discover what happened to him, and dismembered bodies accumulate as she searches for her brother. Knowing telepathically exactly what evil an individual has committed isn't admissible in courts there, or heeded by corrupt sheriffs. However, possessing the truth is ample motivation for ignoring the law to Kit, and she summons help. In a final bloody confrontation, with deaths on both sides, a solution that only those from Koban could produce is achieved.
Office Hours With A Geometric Group Theorist
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Author : Matt Clay
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-11
Office Hours With A Geometric Group Theorist written by Matt Clay and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-11 with Mathematics categories.
Geometric group theory is the study of the interplay between groups and the spaces they act on, and has its roots in the works of Henri Poincaré, Felix Klein, J.H.C. Whitehead, and Max Dehn. Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist brings together leading experts who provide one-on-one instruction on key topics in this exciting and relatively new field of mathematics. It's like having office hours with your most trusted math professors. An essential primer for undergraduates making the leap to graduate work, the book begins with free groups—actions of free groups on trees, algorithmic questions about free groups, the ping-pong lemma, and automorphisms of free groups. It goes on to cover several large-scale geometric invariants of groups, including quasi-isometry groups, Dehn functions, Gromov hyperbolicity, and asymptotic dimension. It also delves into important examples of groups, such as Coxeter groups, Thompson's groups, right-angled Artin groups, lamplighter groups, mapping class groups, and braid groups. The tone is conversational throughout, and the instruction is driven by examples. Accessible to students who have taken a first course in abstract algebra, Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist also features numerous exercises and in-depth projects designed to engage readers and provide jumping-off points for research projects.
Conflict And Empire
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Author : Stephen W. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-08-20
Conflict And Empire written by Stephen W. Bennett and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-20 with categories.
Koban Book 6: Conflict and Empire The Galactic Federation is confronted by the vast and implacable Thandol Empire, which has coveted the former Krall region of space for eons. A region of space now occupied and claimed by the upstart Kobani. Outnumbered, they face an opponent who possesses new and deadly weapons. An enemy that had thousands of years to develop the means to take on the Krall Empire, and now present the supermen with a weapon that turns their greatest genetic asset into their greatest weakness. The new Federation must find a way to survive the most powerful threat yet to their existence. Once again, the Kobani are between a rock and a hard place, poised on the brink of death and destruction.
Diversity And Ecology Of Invasive Plants
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Author : Sudam Charan Sahu
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-12-18
Diversity And Ecology Of Invasive Plants written by Sudam Charan Sahu and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-18 with Science categories.
This book, Diversity and Ecology of Invasive Plants, is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of invasive species biology. The book comprises chapters authored by various researchers and edited by experts active in the field of conservation of biodiversity. All chapters are complete in itself but united under a common topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on diversity, distribution, and ecological consequences of invasive species and opens new possible research paths for further developments.
Koban
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Author : Stephen W. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-10
Koban written by Stephen W. Bennett and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Fiction categories.
We colonized over seven hundred planets in 200 years. Humankind enjoyed the benefits of unlimited expansion and the end of wars. We even disbanded our military. Then the Krall found us. The Krall have used thousands of years of combat to select the genes of the strongest and fastest warriors for breeding. They are a species determined to rule the galaxy, through death, destruction, and domination of every opponent. Ruthlessly, they tested captured humans on a savage planet called Koban. The choice faced was simple for the prisoners: Prove humans can produce fighters again, or be exterminated now. The aliens are only part of the captive's problem. Left to die, the captives must survive Koban's high gravity and superfast animals, with organic superconductor nerves. The huge tiger-like rippers are predators too fast even for armed Krall to face. The human solution, with the help of a ship full of captive bio scientists is genetic: If you can't beat them as you are, become more like a ripper. The Krall will discover more than one species can bypass natural selection.
The Oxford Handbook Of Entertainment Theory
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Author : Peter Vorderer
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-12
The Oxford Handbook Of Entertainment Theory written by Peter Vorderer and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-12 with Music categories.
The proliferation of new digital technologies has given rise to an entirely changed media landscape and revolutionized how we seek entertainment. Older entertainment media like novels, radio, and film have been joined by a host of digital media that smartphones allow us to carry almost anywhere and at all times, from video games and social media to video on demand services. This unprecedented ubiquity of entertainment media calls for new and more sophisticated theories that help us understand the fascination that different entertainment media exert on us and how they change the human experience. The Oxford Handbook of Entertainment Theory surveys and furthers the most influential psychology-driven research on media entertainment to illuminate how people are drawn into media experiences. The 41 chapters in this Handbook not only offer fresh perspectives on established theories but also introduce emerging models and highlight the importance of considering the diverse backgrounds of media users when conducting research. They also cover the motivations and reactions of media users in relationship to different types of media, the trend towards interactive media such as video games and virtual reality, and particularly popular media contents like sexuality, violence, sports, and the news. As the most comprehensive overview of psychology-based research on media entertainment available, this Handbook is an invaluable resource for seasoned researchers and those beginning to learn about the field alike.