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Grant Blackwood

  • David Michaels
June 7, 1964
Grant Blackwood
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout
Lost empire
The Triumph of Doubt
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
The Kill Switch
  • 2020

    Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where it's happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change. America is a country of everyday crises -- big, long-spanning problems that persist despite their toll on the country's health. And for every case of government inaction on one of these issues, there is a set of familiar, doubtful refrains: The science is unclear. The data are inconclusive. Regulation is unjustified. It's a slippery slope. Is it? The Triumph of Doubt traces the ascendance of science-for-hire in American life and government, from its origins in the tobacco industry in the 1950s to its current manifestations across government, public policy, and even professional sports. Amid fraught conversations of "alternative facts" and "truth decay," The Triumph of Doubt wields its unprecedented access to shine a light on the machinations and scope of manipulated science in American society. It is an urgent, revelatory work, one that promises to reorient conversations around science and the public good for the foreseeable future.

    The Triumph of Doubt
  • 2018

    Pablo's Kitchen

    • 176 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Pablo's Kitchen brings the authentic flavours of Mexican & Latin cuisine into your home with festive, flavoursome flare. All the Latin classics can be found here with traditional recipes and flavours meeting modern fare. Dishes in less then 20 minutes with a healthy background option. Whether you have basic, intermediate or even advanced cooking skills this book will show you how to turn basic ingredients into great times. You will learn how to create fresh, healthy Latino flavours whilst getting the most out of your local & imported produce and how to find it at a good price.

    Pablo's Kitchen
  • 2017

    The World is Your Burger

    • 431 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    An encyclopaedic, eye-catching tribute to one of the world's most popular foods - the humble hamburger

    The World is Your Burger
  • 2016

    Tom Clancy´s Duty and Honour

    • 392 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.7(3696)Add rating

    **'Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict' Sunday Times** Someone wants Jack Ryan Dead - and fast... Covert operative Jack Ryan Jr is enjoying some well-earned R&R when an attempt is made on his life. He survives, only to learn that another attempt on his life is imminent. Having barely survived the first time, Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead, and why... Using clues left by his would-be assassin, Jack follows a trail that leads through France and Switzerland to Rostock, a shadowy security firm based in Germany. Jack knows its head, Jurgen Rostock, from a previous operation - one that has apparently drawn the man's fury. Without the resources of The Campus - the elite agency from which he is on a leave-of-absence - but with the help of an investigative journalist, Jack embarks on his own secret campaign to uncover the truth about Rostock. And what he finds is that they are up to something both big and very, very bad. But what can one man do against all Rostock's might? The world is about to find out.

    Tom Clancy´s Duty and Honour
  • 2015

    The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence operation Jacks oldest friend has turned they insist leaving Jack with a warning if you hear from Seth Gregory call us immediately and do not get involved But they dont know Jack He wont abandon a friend in need

    Tom Clancy's Under fire
  • 2015

    Tom Clancy Under Fire

    • 544 pages
    • 20 hours of reading
    3.7(311)Add rating

    "On a routine intelligence gathering mission in Tehran, Jack Ryan, Jr., has lunch with his oldest friend, Seth Gregory, an engineer overseeing a transcontinental railway project. As they part, Seth slips Jack a key, along with a perplexing message. The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared--gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence operation. Jack's oldest friend has turned, they insist. They leave Jack with a warning: If you hear from Seth Gregory, call us immediately. And do not get involved. But they don't know Jack. He won't abandon a friend in need. His pursuit of the truth will lead him across Iran, through the war-torn Caucasus, and finally deep into territory coveted by the increasingly aggressive Russian Federation. Along the way, Jack is joined by Seth's primary agent, Ysabel, a enigmatic Iranian woman who seems to be his only clue to Seth's whereabouts. Jack soon finds himself lost in a maze of intrigue, lies, and betrayal where no one is who they seem to be--not even Seth, who's harboring a secret of his own that harkens back to the Cold War. A secret that is driving him to the brink of treachery. Racing against the clock, Jack must unravel the mystery: Who is friend and who is foe? Before it's over, Jack Ryan, Jr., may have to choose between his loyalty to Seth and his loyalty to America"-- Provided by publisher

    Tom Clancy Under Fire
  • 2014

    The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bio-weapon. But nothing is as it appears to be. A conspiracy of world-shattering scope unravels as Tucker and Kane struggle to keep one move ahead of their deadly enemies. From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted mountains of South Africa and Namibia, a biological threat millions of years in the making strikes out at the heart of America. All that stands in the way of a global apocalypse is one man and his dog. But can even Tucker and Kane thwart an ecological menace from the ancient past to save the world's future?

    The Kill Switch
  • 2011

    Tom Clancy's EndWar

    The Hunted

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    4.0(1243)Add rating

    The Snow Maiden, an operative for a covert organization aiming for global control, becomes the target of U.S. Special Forces Captain Alexander Brent and his team. They must navigate a dangerous landscape filled with a ruthless terrorist faction determined to eliminate her. The story unfolds with high-stakes action and intrigue as Brent's team races against time to protect her while confronting formidable adversaries.

    Tom Clancy's EndWar
  • 2011

    The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people - until an investigator friend of theirs goes missing, and they promise to search for him. What they find, however, will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Venice, and Siberia, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, stone-age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years...... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head. Praise for Clive Cussler 'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy 'Unquestionably entertaining' Daily Express 'Delivers what it promises' Financial Times Visit www.clivecussler.com.au for more Sign up to the Cussler Down Under e-newsletter

    The Kingdom