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Before dying in that South American jungle, Jesse extracted a promise that won't let Tanner rest until it's ful lled-no matter what it costs him. ![]() ![]() One year ago on a mission gone wrong, Tanner James failed to save the life of Jesse, his Army Ranger teammate. ![]() A promise forces two men to bare themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moore was nominated for two Eisner Awards for his work on The Walking Dead, (2004: "Best New Series", and 2005: Best Cover Artist ). Although Moore ceased regular interior artist duties on The Walking Dead with #6, he continued to contribute to the title as cover artist through issue #24, and also illustrated the covers for the first four collected volumes of the series. Shortly afterward, they launched Brit and The Walking Dead at Image Comics. Moore studied drawing, painting, and printmaking at the University of Louisville while working on Battle Pope, though he left his studies before obtaining his degree to pursue his career as a comic book illustrator, when he and Kirkman were asked to produce work for the Mattel-licensed Masters of the Universe property. Together, Moore and Kirkman launched the Funk-O-Tron small press publishing label in 2000, and its flagship title, Battle Pope. In 7th grade History class, Moore met Robert Kirkman, who would later become a long-time partner in creating comics. His single mother raised him and his younger brother with a good deal of help from her parents, who nurtured his love of drawing from a very early age. 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![]() ![]() ![]() Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.Īnd thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.Īll he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish.Įxcept that right now, he doesn't know that. Number-One Audible and New York Times Audio Best SellerĪ lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian. Winner of the 2022 Audie Awards' Audiobook of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bottom line is that he believes in "treatment" for those who commit crimes. For those who do not have "correctable" problems, he actually uses the work "warehouse" for their fate. He admits that frontal lobotomies were a clumsy early attempt to do this, but he feels science is much more advanced now and continues to advance every day. When he has you hooked, he launches into a treatise about how the criminal justice system should be used to correct our brains for he assumes that criminal activity is the result of a brain not functioning correctly. He explains how we become "wired" for routine actions, such as driving to work, and can put forward little effort on accomplishing such things. For example, he outlines research on split brain patients and the difference between the right and left sides. How does he do this? He strings together an a serious of interesting tidbits about how the brain is controlled by chemistry and its hardwiring. Just as he describes how magic tricks deceive the brain, Eagleman uses this entertaining little book to advocate for a social and justice system that disregards civil rights. Eagleman uses a "slight of hand" writing style. Let me move on to the more interesting stuff. However, it reads more like a series of interesting essays on neuroscience rather than a book. On a literary note, this book is entertaining. ![]() |