The Might of Doom

The Might of Doom
Author: Dennis R. Shealy
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2012
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 030793019X

A story featuring the intrepid Iron Man finds him matching wits with the villainous genius Dr. Doom in an adaptation of an episode from the popular animated television series.

Masters of Doom

Masters of Doom
Author: David Kushner
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2004-05-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812972155

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

Day of the Night Crawlers: A Branches Book (The Notebook of Doom #2)

Day of the Night Crawlers: A Branches Book (The Notebook of Doom #2)
Author: Troy Cummings
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545493277

Monsters have never been this much fun! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In this second book in the series, Alexander and his new friend, Rip, try to learn more about the monster-filled notebook. They follow clues left by strange worms called night crawlers. It turns out new monsters are in town--giant fish monsters called tunnel fish--and even a fish-kabob monster! This humorous, action-packed book has fun black-and-white illustrations on every page.

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four
Author:
Publisher: Marvel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-01-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780785117049

Presents the adventures of the Fantastic Four's battles with their enemy Von Doom.

The Coffee Table Book of Doom

The Coffee Table Book of Doom
Author: Steven Appleby
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0452298660

This handy guide shows all the ways everyone might cease to exist. It might not be able to save, but it can make Doomsday a lot more fun.

Doom

Doom
Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0593297385

"All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.

One Night in Doom House

One Night in Doom House
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307539172

From R.L. Stine, master horror author of the Goosebumps series and the Fear Street trilogy—now streaming on Netflix—comes another spooky tale! Dragged into a haunted house by his friend Aaron, Max finds some objects that he thinks might help his ghost friends Nicky and Tara. But when he takes them home for further research, he upsets a whole colony of evil ghosts—and sends a crazy human-melting Heat Ghost after the girl of his dreams! When Max realizes what he’s done, he embarks on a wild ride across town to keep the ghost from melting his classmates. Will he make it in time—or will his whole school melt into the ground, with all his friends inside?

The Harrowing of Doom

The Harrowing of Doom
Author: David Annandale
Publisher: Aconyte
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839080523

Our thrilling new line bringing new tales of Marvel’s Super Heroes and villains begins with the infamous Doctor Doom risking all to steal his heart’s desire from the very depths of Hell Notorious villain Doctor Victor von Doom has finally found a solution for his oldest obsession: rescuing his mother’s soul from the clutches of Hell. An alliance with the reclusive sage, Maria von Helm, has provided the key to Doom’s latest invention. Fusing their super-science and sorcery, Doom has created the Harrower, a device that will open a rift and wrench his mother’s soul from the netherworld. Back in the human world, however, rebel forces threaten to overrun Latveria and topple its dark leader – and revolution couldn’t come at a more dangerous time than when the gates of Hell itself have been unlocked.

Day of Doom (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 6)

Day of Doom (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 6)
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545344727

International bestseller David Baldacci pens the stunning conclusion to Cahills vs. Vespers! It started with a kidnapping. A shadowy organization known only as the Vespers snatched seven members of the Cahill family and demanded a series of bizarre ransoms from around the world. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, began a global treasure hunt, determined to bring back whatever Vesper One needed, so long as it kept the hostages safe.But when they deliver the last ransom, Amy and Dan discover Vesper One's terrifying endgame. The objects he demanded are vital pieces in a Vesper plot that will harm millions of innocent people. Now the two siblings and their friends are in an all-out sprint to stop Vesper One . . . before the whole world goes BOOM.

Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom

Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom
Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442452633

When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.