Tom Hollinger is back in uniform, helping to rebuild his country following his escape from the zombie-infested Arizona. But his country has other plans for him, and he is sent on a secret mission to Cairo to find the source of the Anno Zombie outbreak a year ago. Leading a band of NATO forces, he heads into the fog-shrouded city to try and find his old commanding officer and the deadly secret to the zombie outbreak. In the ancient city, he finds that the undead hoards are the least of his worries. There is a traitor in his midst, hell-bent on the mission failing. All Tom wants to do is end the zombie menace and get back to his new wife and child once and for all.

Jeb Merryweather has one last chance to get his life back on track after his NFL career was cut short by injury and his life spiralled out of control. Divorced, nearly broke, and just out of rehab, he returns home after seven years to renovate the old church, school and house up Boucher Hill on the outskirts of town. In the school, he finds an ugly old wooden chair. Back in the day, they called it the Pastor’s Chair. It once sat in the corner of the old church school on the hill in Babylon Georgia. A place where naughty children were forced to sit. But no child wanted to sit in it more than once, as it whispered dark evil thoughts into their minds. They did not know the true origins of the chair, or what secret it held. He hadn’t forgotten how small towns like this were built like Venice in Italy, on canals of hidden secrets.

First fire rained from the sky. Then came the dust storms, covering the Tucson and other parts of the world. And out of this dust, the dead rose from their graves to consume the living and increased its undead army. Through this maelstrom of terror, ex-soldier Tom Hollinger races across town to save his son, and then with the help of friends old and new must battle for their lives to escape the horror that has befallen his hometown. He thought he had left behind death and killing when he left the army, he was wrong. His world no longer belongs to the living. A new era has dawned...Anno Zombie

Over the course of nearly half a century, Sam Edwards has led the field of condensed matter physics into new directions, ranging from the electronic and statistical properties of disordered materials to the mechanical properties of granular materials. Along the way, he has provided seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, polymer science, surface science and statistical mechanics. This volume celebrates the immense scope of his influence by presenting a collection of original articles by recognized leaders in theoretical physics, including two Nobel Laureates and a Fields Medalist, which describe the genesis, evolution and future prospects of the various sub-fields of condensed matter theory, along with reprints of a selection of Edwards' seminal papers that helped give birth to the subject. 'Stealing the Gold', Edwards' favourite caricature of the relationship between theoretical physicists and Nature, will be of singular interest to graduate students looking for an overview of some of the most exciting areas of theoretical physics, as well as to researchers in condensed matter physics looking for a comprehensive, broad and uniquely incisive snapshot of their subject at the dawn of the 21st century.

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss both local and global geometrical and topological effects in quantum systems, in the context of the new methods of investigation. The main topics are: non-perturbative methods in quantum theory; geometrical and topological effects in quantum dynamics; group-theoretical and algebraic methods in the theory of quantum systems; quantum systems in external fields and curved spaces; new results: from subnuclear physics to cosmology.

This book collects lecture courses and seminars given at the Les Houches Summer School 2010 on "Quantum Theory: From Small to Large Scales". Fundamental quantum phenomena appear on all scales, from microscopic to macroscopic. Some of the pertinent questions include the onset of decoherence, the dynamics of collective modes, the influence of external randomness and the emergence of dissipative behaviour. Our understanding of such phenomena has been advanced by the study of model systems and by the derivation and analysis of effective dynamics for large systems and over long times. In this field, research in mathematical physics has regularly contributed results that were recognized as essential in the physics community. During the last few years, the key questions have been sharpened and progress on answering them has been particularly strong. This book reviews the state-of-the-art developments in this field and provides the necessary background for future studies. All chapters are written from a pedagogical perspective, making the book accessible to master and PhD students and researchers willing to enter this field.