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Mr. Haldane's Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me somewhat sceptical.
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. Icarus, having been taught to fly by his...
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My name is Icarus for a reason.
If there's a way to screw up a plan, I'm your man.
Case in point:
Falling for the man I'm supposed to seduce and ferry to his death.
I mentioned my name is Icarus, right?
Coming October 2023, an all-new paranormal romantic suspense series from Layla Reyne.
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The story of Icarus leaves us wishing to equip our children with the character and skills to navigate through life and change course when flying too close to the sun. In today's world, young adults face unprecedented distractions and instantly gratifying messaging that challenge anyone's ability to focus, decide and/or execute a game plan for launch. Students, parents, mentors, and mentees may find themselves disoriented. "Icarus 2.0, parachute included"...
26) The Icarus Boy
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THE ICARUS BOY is a mystery thriller starring former Boston police detective Nick Magill. When a phone call pulls him from his new life as an artist into a race to save a troubled college kid, Magill must try to stop a monstrous killer who leaves a trail of victims from Boston to Cape Cod. During the chase, Magill is forced to revisit his childhood in an alcoholic home, the past trauma of his police work, and the betrayal by the love of his life....
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This book was written to bring to everyone's attention our obsession with technology, which is destroying our planet's biosphere and will eventually, in the author's opinion, bring about the extinction of most species on Earth, both plant and animal, including, of course, our own. Clinging onto the belief that we will soon develop some new technology that will provide us with a free and unlimited source of energy and "save" us is just pure folly....
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Nosy Crow Ltd
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2019
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Izzy LOVES all the stories the Ancient Greeks told! She can't wait to tell her friends about Icarus, who was a TOTAL NUMPTY, and the Trojan Horse, which ended a war and wasn't even REAL! So pull up a plinth and enjoy all the DRAMA of the original Greek myths, as told by Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham, in collaboration with the British Museum. Now with even more SANDALS! Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart...
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Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly--when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret ... that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists...
31) The Icarus twin
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Icarus saga volume 2
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Baen Publishing Enterprises
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[2023]
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"For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they quietly work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Roarke and Selene...
32) Kid Icarus
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Video Project
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2008.
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Eighteen year-old Leigh lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of Los Angeles, he goes to community college, has no real friends, no girlfriend, and works part-time at The Home Depot. With an obsession for Steven Spielberg and enrolled in a film production class at his local college, he is sure all his misery can change, so he sets out to make his cinematic masterpiece, "Enslavence". He hopes this film is his ticket out of a mundane life and into...
33) I… For Icarus
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Kino Lorber
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1979.
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Français
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Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
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It's Clara who's desperate to enter the labyrinth and it's Clara who's bright, strong, and fearless enough to take on any challenge. It's no surprise when she's chosen. But so is the girl who has always lived in her shadow. Together they enter. Within minutes, they are torn apart forever. Now the girl who has never left the city walls must fight to survive in a living nightmare, where one false turn with who to trust means a certain dead end.
35) Project Icarus
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An old enemy, a new threat, and a secret that could tear the world apart.
Hostage negotiator Ethan Munroe is called urgently to a developing crime scene. A serial killer is holding a young girl hostage, and, inexplicably, demands his attendance.
Events quickly spiral out of control, and the security of Ethan's life is stripped away, as he is thrown headlong into a perilous world of deception, espionage and danger, lurking deep within the shadows...
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Will Saris, a recent graduate of the Space Fleet Academy, teams up with the owner of a supply depot and a princess to get revenge on a barbaric alien king and recover the mythical Eye of Icarus, which foretells future events through five Seers. Will's nack for tactical strategies leads his crew on the Luna C and his new friends to a double life as space raiders and Fleet personnel.
Will's life becomes more complicated when he falls in love with...
37) Island of Icarus
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Field Journal of Jonathan Orms, 1893
En route to polite exile in the Galapagos Islands (field work, to quote the dean of my university), I have found myself marooned on a deserted tropical paradise. Deserted, that is, except for my savior, a mysterious American called Marcus. He is an inventor-and the proof of his greatness is the marvelous new clockwork arm he has created to replace the unsightly one that was ruined in my shipboard mishap.
Marcus...
38) When Icarus Fell
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The proposal for a wind turbine in a rural American town brings together the interlocking stories of an eclectic group of strangers
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A queer and anti-establishment retelling of the fall of Icarus.
The Elysians are here to protect us. They uphold order, they keep citizens safe... unless you are their kid. When you are the child of an Elysian you get to see what they are truly like. You get to see their fears, their anger, their hatred. You get to be subjected to their wants and whims. Most importantly, you get to be trained by the 'best of the best' to become an Elysian yourself....
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#1 The Abraaj Group was indicted in April 2019 by the District Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York. The group was accused of securities fraud, wire fraud, racketeering conspiracy, money laundering, theft of public funds, and theft of employee pension plans.
#2 The indictment against the Abraaj Group pointed to the fact that the underlying funds and portfolio companies were doing well, and that no money was missing or unaccounted...
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