The descent of the child

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Rob Williams & D'Israeli

When a strange plague gives every human being on the planet special powers, it's seen as the next step in human evolution. But hope quickly turns to terror, as every war, terrorist attack, every crime, every simple street argument escalates a truly horrific point. The world is tearing itself apart--every trouble spot becomes a monstrous war zone and nuclear Armageddon looms. The plague MUST be cured if humankind is to survive. The key lies in the blood of the only human being who DIDN'T get powers when the plague hit. A downtrodden, recently divorced New York plumber named Michael Fisher. The most ordinary man alive has suddenly become the most extraordinary person on Planet Earth. Giant baseball players, grannies aging in reverse, a talking Grizzly bear. That's nothing out of the Ordinary!

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Allen W. Johnson & Timothy Earle

"By combining an original thesis and a representative body of ethnographic data, this ambitious work seeks to describe and explain the growth in complexity of human societies." "Its emphasis is on the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution, which the authors explain in terms of a coherent theory of political economy -- defined as the mobilization and exchange of goods and services between families. The authors show that the interconnected processes of technological change and population growth are the motor of social change, resulting in three related processes -- intensification, integration, and stratification -- that transform human societies over time. The validity of their theory rests on evidence drawn from 19 case studies that range widely over time and space." "For this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case materials to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that applies their theoretical perspective to the problems of change since the industrial revolution and the globalization of trade and political influence. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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Melinda Metz

Michael is having flashbacks of his escape from the underground compound and only Cameron, the mysterious girl he met there, seems to understand him.

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Mark Shulman

Fillmore the boy and Geary the robot, who live on Planet Zada, take their robotic dog Sbot to other planets so that he can learn to act like a real dog.