Author : Duane Schultz
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312093600
During one week in August 1862, in response to government lies and broken treaties, the previously peaceful Sioux rampaged throughout Minnesota leaving hundreds of settlers dead or homeless. With well-researched and insightful narrative, Schultz recounts one of America's most violent events.
Author : Lori Mortensen
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1582462844
A history of the scientific discovery that proved that the Earth spins on its axis traces how Léon Foucault rose from being a mediocre student with poor health to becoming the creator of the historical pendulum at the Academy of Science in Paris.
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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452146837
From two-time Caldecott Winner author-illustrator Sophie Blackall! If You Came to Earth is a glorious guide to our home planet, and a call for us to take care of both Earth and each other. This stunning book is inspired by the thousands of children Sophie Blackall has met during her travels around the world in support of UNICEF and Save the Children. • An engaging storybook about a single curious and imaginative child • Simultaneously funny and touching • Carries a clear message about the need to care for the earth and each other If you come to Earth, there are a few things you need to know. . . We live in all kinds of places. In all kinds of homes. In all kinds of families. Each of us is different. But all of us are amazing. And, together, we share one beautiful planet. This masterful and moving picture book is a visually comprehensive guide to the earth, imbued with warmth and humor. • Ideal for children ages 3 to 5 years old • A great pick for teachers looking for a crowd-pleasing picture book about the world for little students • Perfect for parents, grandparents, and caregivers • You'll love this book if you love books like The Travel Book by Lonely Planet Kids, Atlas of Adventures by Rachel Williams, and If You Lived Here: Houses of the World by Giles Laroche.
Author : Richard Fenning
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1785632450
Richard Fenning has spent three decades advising multinational companies on volatile geopolitics and severe security crises. He was CEO of the British firm Control Risks for 14 years. His career coincided with the glory years of globalization, the rise of China, the tumult of the Middle East wars, a new vicious form of terrorism, the transforming impact of digital technology, and America's retreat from leadership. Offering him a rare insight into what happens when people and organizations come under enormous stress, it dispelled any illusions that the world is ordered, predictable, or fair. But amid the chaos and upheaval, he also found humanity and humor. In a whirlwind tour that takes us from the battlefields of Iraq to the back streets of Bogotà, from the steamy Niger delta to the chill of Putin's Moscow, he looks back with wit and insight on the people and places he has got to know, while also offering some timely thoughts about the relationship between risk and danger in a terrifyingly changeable world.
Author : Kathy Wollard
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761112396
Answers to approximately 135 of kids' science questions about people, animals, and the natural world, such as why cats purr and why our fingers wrinkle in water.
Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811229297
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): “homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language.” As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they’re all next off to Stockholm. With its intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal Wind in the Willows, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork.
Author : Cecil Castellucci
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545388104
A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world."We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings.""I know what I am."Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world -- or, at least, an idea of the world. Then he meets Hooper. Who says he's from another planet. And may be going home very soon.
Author : Duane P. Schultz
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 1992-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312070519
A retelling of the Sioux uprising describes how in one week in August of 1862, the Sioux went on a rampage, leaving hundreds of settlers dead and turning forty thousand into refugees, and discusses the execution of thirty-eight of the Sioux who were invol
Author : Griffin Soderberg
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2020-05-23
Category :
ISBN :
After a devastating storm at sea, nineteen-year-old Eric Quinn finds himself stranded on a mysterious island. With guidance from new companions, he discovers secrets, wonders, and dangers of this island called Ei Deyrnas and will come to find he is not there by accident. The island, trapped beneath a barrier, has let in an outsider to take on trials by the island guardian, Athura. If the outsider is to succeed, then the barrier will be broken and the island, set free. If he cannot, however, complete the trials, then a worse fate awaits.
Author : Chris Seidman
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426759908
So often, our view of the good life is the busy, exhausted, driven, and unhappy life. But what if there was a different way to live--now, not when we get to heaven, but now? A short list of “blessings” called the Beatitudes is Jesus’ declaration of what “the good life” is, and an invitation to immerse ourselves in it. If we understand the Beatitudes, we realize they are less about what we do and more about what God is doing--what God values, how he operates, and what’s he’s up to in our (actually his) world. Authors Seidman and Graves offer a practical guide to changing our course to realize the good life now.
