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The premise that the reader must accept is that there were three Atomic bombs built to be dropped on Japan. Two exploded but the one dropped on Tokyo did not and was recovered by Japanese nationalists who now plan to detonate it in a large city of one of the countries that fought them in World War Two.

Set in Ottawa and Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, this is about the Japanese terrorists and another group from Europe who have a grudge against a particular Canadian spy joining forces to extort money from western governments by threatening to explode the bombs over major Canadian cities.CSIS agent Neill MacLeod is being forced to retire when thousands of fuel bundles are stolen from the Pickering, Ontario CANDU reactors and a ransom note is left behind. He knows one of the conspirators is after him and he goes underground to stop the renegades.

Some of the methods he use reminded me of James Bond. He also has access to a super computer that can also almost think and give him answers to problems. As well, he finds an attractive spy to assist him.

Fun read especially because it takes place in the city I live in.
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lamour | Feb 19, 2024 |
This is an excellent introductory field guide to the birds of British Columbia. It's a pocket-sized book that contains large, full-colour illustrations that clearly identify the important field marks, and is packed with information on the birds' natural history, habitat, and nesting habits. The only catch? It only includes 83 species (that's why it's called the "compact guide"). I wouldn't recommend this to experienced birders, of course, but if you're looking for a non-intimidating, easy to understand introduction for someone who doesn't know much about birds or is new to BC, the Compact Guide to British Columbia Birds would be an excellent choice.… (mais)
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Heather39 | Sep 23, 2020 |
Thinner, ricketier and less glossynice than the Vancouver counterpart they had up here at the cabin (it is called “Pepperland” and it is beautiful! The hippies left an amazing miniature legacy of beautiful rural retreats scattered around our part of the world, and I am glad to take them presumptuously as a part of my common patrimony), this book was still actually more of an interesting read, because of the accessible-detailed discussion of Victoria habitat regions (dry coastal forest, what we had all over the city before the brown man, full of arbutus and Garry oak, and which the brown man then transformed into Garry oak meadow and the white man into condos; coastal rainforest, outside town and all over the island, with the Doug firs and hemlock and pine and spruce we know well; coast; open ocean; wetlands [e.g. Swan Lake]; estuary [e.g. Goldstream]). So interesting! So although the pictures don’t pop as much and the book may be slightly less usefully arranged as an actual field guide, imma still give it the same amount of bones as the Vancouver guide because of those happy edutaining moments. It didn’t tell me about the birds I saw today either, though—I think they were feral turkeys, which I’m pretty sure is what everyone means when they talk about wild turkeys out here (wrongly?), and my confusion just came because a turkey up until now always looked like something fat and baleful you see at the Saanich fair, or like something fat and delicious you see stuffed with delicious times on Thanksgiving.… (mais)
 
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MeditationesMartini | Aug 28, 2010 |
This is probably the best-pitched level of bird guide that I know of—it’s from the same series as the Birds of Coastal British Columbia of Acorn, Baron, and Nordhagen that I have previously used, and in that sense is equally excellent (although I wonder why they decided to do without the waterproofness and stitched biunding this time), but it has a lot more birds that you might possibly see around here but are not common enough in the province as a whole to make the BC guide. It taught me that those amazing birds with the tiger stripes and leopard spots on different parts of their body that Jason is so into in his yard in North Van are Northern Flickers, and it didn’t teach me what that orange bird with the red patches I saw that one day when I pledged myself to try to make things right with Heidi was (I’m starting to think it was a well-wishing spirit, or just a hallucination), and it taught me that to find out what was up with those crazy birds I saw today on vacation on Galiano I would have to go to a book that talked about birds of Victoria rather than Vancouver, because that’s the way the habitats break down. It taught me a lot of things! That’s a good-a guidebook-a.… (mais)
 
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MeditationesMartini | Aug 28, 2010 |

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17
Membros
174
Popularidade
#123,126
Avaliação
½ 3.7
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5
ISBN
30

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