All Set to Fall Off the Edge of the World
Author : William Scammell
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN :
Falling Off the Edge of the World
Author : Shelly Anderson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1304059839
Book Description
What would tempt a young woman to run off to a country she knew almost nothing about? I was that young woman. Fleeing a bitter divorce and my safe, but mundane, life I accepted a job in Saudi Arabia, a country that by all reports was the most austere on earth. I ran headlong into an unexpected adventure that would change my life forever. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - mysterious, beautiful and dangerous. A land of stunning desert landscapes where modern ways co-exist uneasily with ancient traditions. An enigma of a place where the state executioner is revered, where beautiful women shroud themselves in black, and ferocious desert sandstorms turn high noon into darkest night. Somewhere along the way I fell in love with the Middle East and its people, their proud history, and their gracious hospitality. This is my story.
Over the Edge of the World
Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0061865885
Book Description
“A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage. Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.
The Dragon at the Edge of the World.
Author : Charles White
Publisher : Charles White
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0578024683
Book Description
An irreverent look at the first contact between Vikings and indians. ... The special Viking rowing song: Oh we'll sail away/ For a year and a day/ But it's not for gold or plunder, / Yeah we'll sail around/ 'Til we sink and drown/ And our mighty ship goes under, / Oh we'll make the gray whale tremble, / Our weapons bright we pledge, / We'll sail around 'til we sink and drown/ But we won't fall off the edge / -Two Viking brothers are lost in the New World; one loses his ship in a dice game with the Mohawks.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Author : Sally Cline
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0571309399
Book Description
Zelda Fitzgerald, along with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald, is remembered above all else as a personification of the style and glamour of the roaring twenties - an age of carefree affluence such as the world has not seen since. But along with the wealth and parties came a troubled mind, at a time when a woman exploiting her freedom of expression was likely to attract accusations of insanity. After 1934 Zelda spent most of her life in a mental institution; outliving her husband by few years, she died in a fire as she was awaiting electroconvulsive therapy in a sanatorium. Zelda's story has often been told by detractors, who would cast her as a parasite in the marriage - most famously, Ernest Hemingway accused her of taking pleasure in blunting her husband's genius; when she wrote her autobiographical novel, Fitzgerald himself complained she had used his material. But was this fair, when Fitzgerald's novels were based on their life together? Sally Cline's biography, first published in 2003, makes use of letters, journals, and doctor's records to detail the development of their marriage, and to show the collusion between husband and doctors in a misdirected attempt to 'cure' Zelda's illness. Their prescription - no dancing, no painting, and above all, no writing - left her creative urges with no outlet, and was bound to make matters worse for a woman who thrived on the expression of allure and wealth.
The Kaleidoscopic Worlds of Poe Black
Author : Mark Roland Langdale
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1805147528
Book Description
What would you do if you lost yourself in another world? Orphan Poe Black finds himself lost in a forest inside an attic fighting both real and imaginary entities from the spirit world. Here he meets a young girl, named Sorrow, who he shares a connection with. Two is better than one and they forge ahead together, aware of the danger that creeps ever closer toward them. Set in Finland, just after the covid pandemic, this dark and supernatural, fairy tale follows Poe Black as he manoeuvres through three entirely different worlds, the real world, a parallel world and the spirit world. Can Poe and Sorrow defeat the dark and mysterious entity and make their way back to the so called real world or will they be stuck in the other realms for all eternity?
My Diary from the Edge of the World
Author : Jodi Lynn Anderson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144248389X
Book Description
Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this “heartfelt, bittersweet, and ever-so-clever coming-of-age fantasy” (School Library Journal, starred review) named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice. Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood has lived in Cliffden, Maine, her whole life. She’s a typical girl in an atypical world: one where sasquatches helped to win the Civil War, where dragons glide over Route 1 on their way south for the winter (sometimes burning down a T.J. Maxx or an Applebee’s along the way), where giants hide in caves near LA and mermaids hunt along the beaches, and where Dark Clouds come for people when they die. To Gracie it’s all pretty ho-hum…until a Cloud comes looking for her little brother Sam, turning her small-town life upside down. Determined to protect Sam against all odds, her parents pack the family into a used Winnebago and set out on an epic search for a safe place that most people say doesn’t exist: The Extraordinary World. It’s rumored to lie at the ends of the earth, and no one has ever made it there and lived to tell the tale. To reach it, the Lockwoods will have to learn to believe in each other—and to trust that the world holds more possibilities than they’ve ever imagined.
Mechatronics Volume 2
Author : Jeffrey Johnson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 1995-07-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080529763
Book Description
Mechatronics is the fusion of mechanics and electronics in the design of intelligent machines. This textbook is concerned with the concepts and techniques of artificial intelligence needed for the design of machines with advanced intelligent behaviour. It explores the topics of pattern recognition, neural networks, scheduling, reasoning, fuzzy logic, rule-based systems, machine learning, control and computer vision.This student guide shows how fifty years of research into artificial intelligence (AI) have borne fruit in the design of better and more intelligent machines. The twin objectives of the text are: to explain the theory of the mainstream ideas of AI and to show how these ideas can be applied in practical engineering situations.
Crispin: At the Edge of the World
Author : Avi
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423140702
Book Description
In this riveting sequel to the Newbery-Award winning Crispin: The Cross of Lead--the second book in a planned trilogy--Avi explores themes of war, religion, and family as he continues the adventures of Crispin and Bear. The more I came to know of the world, the more I knew I knew it not. He was a nameless orphan, marked for death by his masters for an unknown crime. Discovering his name- Crispin-only intensified the mystery. Then Crispin met Bear, who helped him learn the secret of his full identity. And in Bear-the enormous, red-bearded juggler, sometime spy, and everyday philosopher-Crispin also found a new father and a new world. Now Crispin and Bear have set off to live their lives as free men. But they don't get far before their past catches up with them: Bear is being pursued by members of the secret brotherhood who believe he is an informer. When Bear is badly wounded, it is up to Crispin to make decisions about their future-where to go, whom to trust. Along the way they become entangled with an extraordinary range of people, each of whom affects Crispin and Bear's journey in unexpected ways. To find freedom and safety, they may have to travel to the edge of the world-even if it means confronting death itself.
From Ken's Desk
Author : Ken Griffith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1479766259
Book Description
Lets face it, we are always selling. Every day we sell ourselves. Problem is we often sell ourselves short. While my book and seminars have a tilt towards selling, it is my belief that the greatest scourge of this world today is not any disease or poverty but of one of poor or low self esteem Whether you are looking to become a great sales person, lead sales teams, or simply desire to become the person you always wanted to be, this book is a must read. Think about how much time you spend in the shower and cleaning up to go to work, and what it would do for you if you spent that same amount of time each day on your brain. Born in 1960 Ken grew up with his two brothers by the great work of their single mom. At age six his mom remarried and settled in to the middle class life. Dad an electrician and mom and administrative clerk meant money was OK but not plentiful. We never went without and always had enough to eat even when wanting more at dinner my mother would tell me I had had enough to eat, so I must of. After 15 years in the normal work force aka. A JOB, he decided a new direction. Sixteen years of studying leaders in business and politics, thirteen years studying the human mind/behaviour, being twice elected candidate for the federal seat in parliament, and an undying drive to prove his self worth, Ken eventually came to run the largest sales office, for the largest retailer of energy in all of North America, leading a team of forty consultants with a gross yearly sales of over $25mil. He created a level of passive income that allows his to focus is on his true passion teaching others. Seminars such as Steps to Career Success*, Be The One, Ignorance on Fire, Follow Your Dreams No Matter, What Would You Do If You Couldnt Fail?, and Follow the Leader - Mentorship, Ken has helped hundreds realized their true potential and made that disconnect form the usual motivational seminars to real everyday life success. Ken founded KSG in Motion Inc. in 2006 with the belief in the ingrediences for that success coming from Knowledge, Service, and Gratitude. * Steps to Career Success is an intense two hour course/seminar and has attracted the highest rating among all who have attended. A must in personal and professional development.
