City Of Speed

Author : Alex London
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338830643
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Speed (Battle Dragons #2) written by Alex London and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular aerial races that draw in cheering crowds by the tens of thousands. Abel is at just such a race when he witnesses the unthinkable. A long-shot competitor pulls off an impossible win -- then flies into a destructive rage! Someone in the city is experimenting on dragons: hacking their DNA, rebuilding their bodies, and breaking their minds. Who could be driving the dragons berserk? Abel must find out who's behind the experiments and put a stop to them, and to do so he’ll infiltrate the kins’ underground street races on a long-shot dragon of his own. But with his sister working for a kin, his brother serving the city's secret police, and a bully at school racing for Abel's worst enemies, will Abel find any safety past the finish line?

Author : Joe Scalzo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610608770
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Speed written by Joe Scalzo and published by . This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex London
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338770640
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1) written by Alex London and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. Once, dragons nearly drove themselves to extinction. But in the city of Drakopolis, humans domesticated them centuries ago. Now dragons haul the city’s cargo, taxi its bustling people between skyscrapers, and advertise its wares in bright, neon displays. Most famously of all, the dragons battle. Different breeds take to the skies in nighttime bouts between the infamous kins—criminal gangs who rule through violence and intimidation. Abel has always loved dragons, but after a disastrous showing in his dragon rider’s exam, he's destined never to fly one himself. All that changes the night his sister appears at his window, entrusting him with a secret...and a stolen dragon. Turns out, his big sister is a dragon thief! Too bad his older brother is a rising star in Drakopolis law enforcement... To protect his friends and his family, Abel must partner with the stolen beast, riding in kin battles and keeping more secrets than a dragon has scales. When everyone wants him fighting on their side, can Abel figure out what’s worth fighting for?

Author : Paul Tranter
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128153172
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slow Cities written by Paul Tranter and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability demonstrates, counterintuitively, that reducing the speed of travel within cities saves time for residents and creates more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy environments. This book examines the ways individuals and societies became dependent on transport modes that required investment in speed. Using research from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the book demonstrates ways in which human, economic and environmental health are improved with a slowing of city transport. It identifies effective methods, strategies and policies for decreasing the speed of motorised traffic and encouraging a modal shift to walking, cycling and public transport. This book also offers a holistic assessment of the impact of speed on daily behaviours and life choices, and shows how a move to slow down will - perhaps surprisingly - increase accessibility to the city services and activities that support healthy, sustainable lives and cities. Includes cases from cities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia Uses evidence-based research to support arguments about the benefits of slowing city transport Adopts a broad view of health, including the health of individuals, neighbourhoods and communities as well as economic health and environmental health Includes text boxes, diagrams and photos illustrating the slowing of transport in cities throughout the world, and a list of references including both academic sources and valuable websites

Author : Jim Adkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935906261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Lessons from Speed City written by Jim Adkins and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sybil Rosen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689841515
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speed of Light written by Sybil Rosen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eleven-year-old Jewish girl living in the South during the 1950s struggles with the antisemitism and racism which pervade her small community.

Author : Heather Sappenfield
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0738748250
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life at the Speed of Us written by Heather Sappenfield and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sovern Briggs survives a car crash, she stops talking to seal in the memory of her mother’s life. As conflict with her father builds, Sovern seeks relief in a dangerous boyfriend and in speed’s adrenaline edge. Dyslexia, math, cutting-edge science, genius, and love weave together in a reluctant journey toward acceptance.

Author : Seo Young Park
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501754289
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stitching the 24-Hour City written by Seo Young Park and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stitching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, Dongdaemun has now become iconic for its creative economy, nightlife, fast-fashion factories, and shopping plazas. Seo Young Park follows the work of people who witnessed and experienced the rapidly changing marketplace from the inside. Through this approach, Park examines the meanings and politics of work in one of the world's most vibrant and dynamic global urban marketplaces. Park brings readers into close contact with the garment designers, workers, and traders who sustain the extraordinary speed of fast-fashion production and circulation, as well as the labor activists who challenge it. Attending to their narratives and practices of work, Park argues that speed, rather than being a singular drive of acceleration, is an entanglement of uneven paces of life, labor, the market, and the city itself. Stitching the 24-Hour City exposes the under-studied experiences with Dongdaemun fast fashion, peeling back layers of temporal politics of labor and urban space to record the human source of the speed that characterizes the never-ending movement of the 24-hour city.

Author : Alex London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781338716580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Speed written by Alex London and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular aerial races that draw in cheering crowds by the tens of thousands. Abel is at just such a race when he witnesses the unthinkable. A long-shot competitor pulls off an impossible win--then flies into a destructive rage! Someone in the city is experimenting on dragons: hacking their DNA, rebuilding their bodies, and breaking their minds. Who could be driving the dragons berserk? Abel must find out who's behind the experiments and put a stop to them, and to do so he'll infiltrate the kins' underground street races on a long-shot dragon of his own"--Publisher.

Author : Chris Howard
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062415360
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Speed written by Chris Howard and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An addictive new drug fuels superhuman strength and speed in this action-packed sci-fi thriller that will have fans of Scott Westerfeld and Marie Lu on the edge of their seats. Only those young enough can survive tetra, a dangerous drug that creates a pulse-pounding rush of enormous strength and incredible speed. Seventeen-year-old Alana West has been trained to use tetra so she can pursue the young criminals who abuse its power—criminals like the one who nearly killed her kid brother. On tetra, Alana is unstoppable—an explosive blur as she surges through New York City. But with the clock ticking down to her eighteenth birthday, Alana will soon be too old for the rush . . . when just one more dose will prove deadly. Supported only by her steady handler, Tucker, Alana goes undercover, infiltrating an elite gang of breaknecks to stop their supply of the drug. But when Alana gets trapped on the wrong side of the law, she learns the breaknecks are not quite what they seem—especially Ethan, the boy who seems to see the truth inside her. With her dependency on tetra increasing, Alana must decide where her loyalties lie, before the rush ends. Forever.