SAMMY TSUNAMI and the WORLD CLEAVER


Book Description

The much-awaited sequel to "Sammy Tsunami and the Shadow Arrow" is finally here! Sammy Tsunami Is tall, thin and twelve with a touch of the weird and the strange. His life near the end of the sixth grade has settled back into what passes for normal. That is, until a mysterious stranger blows into town and threatens to unleash the World Cleaver What this awful sounding mystery is exactly, nobody knows. But vague clues lie in the dream country of Strangea, which Sammy visits in his sleep. Only that, he isn't really dreaming it up. Especially the part where a runaway comet is on a dangerous collision course to end all that is.




Sammy Tsunami and the World Cleaver


Book Description

The much-awaited sequel to "Sammy Tsunami and the Shadow Arrow" is finally here! Sammy Tsunami Is tall, thin and twelve with a touch of the weird and the strange. His life near the end of the sixth grade has settled back into what passes for normal. That is, until a mysterious stranger blows into town and threatens to unleash the World Cleaver What this awful sounding mystery is exactly, nobody knows. But vague clues lie in the dream country of Strangea, which Sammy visits in his sleep. Only that, he isn't really dreaming it up. Especially the part where a runaway comet is on a dangerous collision course to end all that is.




Whose Reality Counts?


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This book is a sequel to Rural development : putting the last first (AL. 1719, BRN 32006). It explores methods and approaches of participatory rural appraisal (PRA), which, because of its wide application, should, according to the author, be changed to participatory learning and action (PLA).




Snow Crash


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THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state. This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future. 'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson 'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review 'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed' Washington Post 'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair




We Are Everywhere


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We Are Everywhere is a whirlwind collection of writings, images and ideas for direct action by people on the frontlines of the global anticapitalist movement. This is a movement of untold stories, because those from below are not those who get to write history, even though we are the ones making it. We Are Everywhere wrenches our history from the grasp of the powerful and returns it to the streets, fields and neighbourhoods where it was made.




PTL


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PTL traces the lives of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, from humble beginnings to wealth, fame, and eventual disgrace after revelations of a sex scandal and massive financial mismanagement.




Season of the Witch


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The critically acclaimed, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller—a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph. Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving metropolis.




Adirondack Rock


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A comprehensive guide to rock climbing and bouldering in the Adirondack Park in New York State. Included are 1,923 routes on 242 cliffs, and more than 350 boulder problems in 6 areas.




Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary


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Building on the success of her prior book, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses, author Dorothy Devney Richmond helps learners attain a strong working vocabulary, no matter if they are absolute beginners or intermediate students of the language. She combines her proven instruction techniques and clear explanations with a plethora of engaging exercises, so students are motivated and hardly notice that they are absorbing so much Spanish. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary also includes basic grammar and structures of the language to complement learners’ newly acquired words. "Vocabulary Builders" help students add to their Spanish repertoire by using cognates, roots, suffixes, prefixes, and other "word-building" tools.




On Being a Photographer


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This is a book on how to think and act like a photographer, culled from practical experience and from the lives of many fine photographers past and present.