Author : Jessica Freeburg
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1491484543
"In a narrative nonfiction format, follows people who experienced the Holocaust"--
Author : Christy Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2022-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538153581
Christy Martin spent most of her life hiding. For someone who for two decades was the most famous female fighter in the world, that wasn't easy. This book is the extraordinary tale of a female athlete's rise to become the fighter who legitimized women in combat sports and the personal turmoil she hid from the world.
Author : B. Dexter Hoyos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9004160760
A major rebellion against Carthage of mercenary troops and oppressed North African subjects almost ended her existence, a story vividly recorded by the historian Polybius. "Truceless War" reconstructs what happened and why, and the role of Carthage's rescuer Hamilcar Barca.
Author : Anthony Netboy
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fisheries
ISBN :
Complete story of the salmon and their fishing in the Atlantic & pacific oceans.
Author : Gwynne Dyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 178074059X
An essential, terryfying, and insightful analysis of a world plunging into crisis arrives in mass market paperback Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Any of the expected consequences of climate change could - as Gwyne Dyer argues - tip the world towards chaos and conflict. Bold, unflinching, and based on extensive research, Climate Wars is an essential guide to the future of our planet that grippingly reveals just how far world powers are likely to go to ensure their own survival in an increasingly hostile environment.
Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1626864225
A humorous guide to surviving in the wilderness, that also might make you want to avoid the wilderness forever. For more than twenty-five years, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has helped you learn amazing things you didn’t know. Now, Uncle John will show you how to do things you didn’t know how to do . . . and probably should never, never, never actually do, unless you’re in a survival situation and really, really, really need to do. It’s How to Fight a Bear . . . and Win. A new approach to survival guides and how-to books, this book provides step-by-step instructions for how to make do in any rugged terrain. But if you’re expecting “how to start a fire,” think again. This isn’t the kind of book that will tell you how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together—it will tell you how to make a fire using a car battery. It will also tell you: · How to swing from a vine like Tarzan · How to land an airplane in an emergency · How to fight a bear . . . and win · How to perform emergency surgery in the woods · How to identify what insects you can—and cannot—eat And lots, lots more
Author : Bev Sellars
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889229723
Price Paid untangles truth from some of the myths about First Nations and addresses misconceptions still widely believed today. The second book by award-winning author Bev Sellars, Price Paid is based on a popular presentation Sellars often told to treaty-makers, politicians, policymakers, and educators. The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America's indigenous peoples have contributed to the rest of the world. It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights. The result is a candidly told personal take on the history of Aboriginal rights in Canada and Canadian history told from a First Nations point of view.
Author : Michael J Tougias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1681771713
On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board. Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old Lucille. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea that two torpedoes were heading their way. When the ship exploded, chaos ensued—and each family member had to find their own path to survival. Including original, unpublished material from Commander Wurdemann’s war diary, the story provides balance and perspective by chronicling the daring mission of the U-boat—and its commander’s decision-making—in the Gulf of Mexico. An inspiring historical narrative, So Close to Home tells the story of the Downs family as they struggle against sharks, hypothermia, drowning, and dehydration in their effort to survive the aftermath of this deadly attack off the American coast.
Author : Tom Waldron
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2005-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806526584
On a warm spring morning in May 1986, twelve crew members were crossing the Atlantic on perhaps the most historically accurate sailboat of its day, the Pride of Baltimore. The wind was brisk, the mood was relaxed: they were on the journey home. Within hours, a sudden, fierce storm would overwhelm the ship, leaving four sailors dead and eight locked in a terrifying battle against the sea.
Author : Liivo Niglas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,47 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1527541401
The book is centred on a fascinating personality, a Western Siberian indigenous poet, reindeer herder and ecological activist, who, in his 40s, made the choice to live in the forest with reindeer. There, he struggled with oil giant LUKoil to ensure his reindeer the possibility to live. A series of essays reflect on his awareness and construction of self and culture, his complex relations with the oil industry, and his native spirituality. It presents insights into what it means to be an indigenous intellectual in post-Soviet Russia at the beginning of the 21st century. Yuri Vella (1948-2013) is not an ordinary representative of his people, but he shows one of the possible forms indigenous leadership could take in Russia, if it aims at giving indigenous peoples the possibility in the near and far future to shape a sustainable relation to nature and their neighbours.
