Ekaterina leaves Russia to pursue her education in the United States. She falls in love with the country and overstays her invitation. She becomes an illegal immigrant and tries to find her place in a society alien to her. She makes new friends, finds different jobs and comes across new love interests but nothing seems to help her with her immigrant status.....
This book looks at life-or-death decisions firefighters make battling fire. Life-or-death decisions isn't a term firefighters use in the firehouse, but it is exactly what we do every day when we advance a hoseline into a deadly, uncontrolled environment of a flaming, smoke-filled room, or crawl down a superheated hallway about to flash over.....Read more abo...
Tens of billions of years of cosmic evolution, and an unbroken chain of life going all the way back to the first living cell to get here. And for what? So that humans can destroy themselves, taking the entire biosphere with them? No! It’s time to discover a simple and powerful truth: everything is going according to plan. What if every human being were just ...
Tens of billions of years of cosmic evolution, and an unbroken chain of life going all the way back to the first living cell to get here. And for what? So that humans can destroy themselves, taking the entire biosphere with them? No! It’s time to discover a simple and powerful truth: everything is going according to plan. What if every human being were just ...
