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It’s the 22nd century. The galaxy has opened up to humanity as a hyperactive beehive of stargates and new technologies, and we suddenly find ourselves in a vast playground of different races, environments, and cultures. There’s just one catch: We are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain, and there’s only one way for humanity to move up - by becoming mercenaries. In every mercenary’s life, though, there comes a time when things go wrong and even the best laid plans go awry.

Reactor is a limited series telling the story of Maureen Kearney, an Irish trade unionist who found herself at the centre of a French nuclear scandal. When Maureen blew the whistle on the secret international trade of state nuclear technology, she became the subject of threats, culminating in a vicious personal assault when she refused to back down. In a series of conversations at her home in France, Maureen takes us on her journey from Ireland to France, tracing her career, the attack itself and the reaction of the police, followed by her fight for justice as she battled against the French ...

Jan Tenner junior und Tanja sind für die Oberwelt verschollen, und in Westland herrscht nun das blanke Chaos. Können unsere Freunde mit Hilfe von Lara und Zeno wieder an die Oberfläche und den Silbervogel mit Mimo retten? Es wird schwer für unsere Freunde, denn nun beginnt... DER STURM AUF DIE ZEITBASTION.

Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer - a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.

Arguably the most intellectual, creative, cosmopolitan, and curious of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin is the only top-tier Founder not to have served as president. Despite not becoming the Chief Executive, Franklin played an active role in American politics and served the aspiring and young United States in the key European capitals. His prodigious reading and appetite for learning are epic. As he did in works about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Kevin J. Hayes interprets the life and mind of Franklin through what he read.