This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.

You've got your topic and explored all kinds of sources. Now what do you do? Organize your information! The more organized your information is, the easier the writing process will be. Discover ways you can organize information as you're doing your research. Learn how to take good notes, how to use quotes, and much more.

Nicholas Spencer, the director of the medical company Gen-stone, disappears in a plane crash en route to Puerto Rico days before the FDA denies approval for the company's promising new cancer therapy. It is then discovered that he had looted the company of huge sums of money. Despite her dislike for Spencer's wife, Lynn, who also happens to be her stepsister, reporter Marcia "Carly" DeCarlo uses her investigative skills to uncover a sinister and fraudulent...

Discusses how to use the library to do research.

Super Smart Information Strategies: Team up Online provides students with practical information for online collaboration. Readers are encouraged to think critically as they conduct research, collaborate with fellow students and present their findings in new and different ways.

Examines a number of secret and sometimes unnerving scientific projects and experiments that have been done in the past that have given the modern world things like rockets, NASA, black ops tools, and important technology for the military.

Presents a practical guide to writing a research paper that discusses choosing a topic, doing research, taking notes, and citing sources. Includes a glossary and further resources.

A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,”...

Researching and writing can be fun. But how do you know you're quoting and summarizing properly in your written work? Discover how to understand public domain, how to cite a source, and how to use someone else's words appropriately in your papers and projects.

In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister--as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...