Author : Terry Schott
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category :
ISBN :
Humanity Survived... Barely, and thanks to networks of gigantic Tower systems created to surround small villages with a protective barrier of lethal energy. It kept everything out. And everyone in. Sixteen years have passed, and a girl born the night the world fell apart learns that she has a strange talent. The Towers can speak. and she is the only one who can hear them...
Author : Robert Andrews
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671866525
A network of terrorists is about to unleash an invisible weapon capable of mass destruction, and it is up to former CIA agent Bradford Sims to extinguish the already-lit fuse before it is too late. Original.
Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429939958
The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic foldout spreads-- the vertiginous drama of Petit's feat. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal, the winner of the 2004 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books, and the winner of the 2006 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.
Author : Rose Macaulay
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590170588
Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.
Author : Judy D. Wood
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Building failures
ISBN : 9780615412566
"Summary: To determine what happened on 9/11, all available evidence must be considered. We cannot pick and choose which observable facts we may want to explain and then ignore the others. Any explanation must consider all the available evidence... None of the facts, events, anomalies, or phenomena that have been listed, discussed, and analyzed in this book can be explained by airliner crashes, jet fuel fires, or any scheme of controlled demolition. A comparison of the 911 evidence collected with the evidence of results produced by the well-established Hutchison Effect shows that a similar technology was employed in the destruction of the towers..."--P. 483-484.
Author : Jim O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0451532775
Discover the true story of the Twin Towers—how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed. When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed the New York City skyline dramatically. Offices and corporations moved into the towers—also known as the World Trade Center—and the buildings were seen as the economic hub of the world. But on September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack toppled the towers and changed our nation forever. Discover the whole story of the Twin Towers—from their ambitious construction to their tragic end.
Author : Carol Gaskin
Publisher : Troll Communications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780816775972
As Lifin, a young elf, the reader makes decisions controlling his search through the five Forbidden Towers for the herb that will cure his people of the eleven plague.
Author : Adrian Kerson
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780679853329
True stories of the bombing of the world trade center in 1993.
Author : Kelly Cordes
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1938340345
Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959. Since then a debate has raged, with world-class climbers attempting to retrace his route but finding only contradictions. This chronicle of hubris, heroism, controversies and epic journeys offers a glimpse into the human condition, and why some pursue extreme endeavors that at face value have no worth.
Author : Bud Goldstone
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892364916
"The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia are one of the unique treasures of Los Angeles and the product of one man's obsession. Rodia, a poor Italian immigrant, settled in a sleepy railway junction south of downtown in 1921 and spent the next thirty-four years single-handedly assembling a frenzy of shapes and color. Rising to one hundred feet, the towers were built without machine equipment, scaffolding, bolts, rivets, welds - or plans!" "Bud Goldstone, who knew Rodia personally, and Arloa Paquin Goldstone have worked to preserve the towers since 1959. They tell the exciting story of how the towers were first rescued from demolition by the City of Los Angeles itself and then saved from natural and man-made disasters. They present new biographical information about Rodia and his innovative techniques and discuss the towers as art, as architecture, and as a singular expression of urban culture in Southern California."--Page 4 of cover.
