Christopher Murney
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 48
Formats
Description
Who Hasn't Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond--whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history--explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Maximum overdrive (1986, 98 min.) : For three horrifying days, the Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet. The comet's magnetic fields cause all the machines to suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree. Now it's up to a small group of people trapped at a desolate truck stop to defeat the killer machines.
Raw deal (1986, 106 min.) : A suspended FBI agent becomes trapped in a deadly game against...