Book Description
Travel from the peaks of the tallest mountains to the depths of the lowest valleys to discover what each layer contains. Learn how people live in various environments and altitudes on Earth.
Author : Catherine Chambers
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512411795
Travel from the peaks of the tallest mountains to the depths of the lowest valleys to discover what each layer contains. Learn how people live in various environments and altitudes on Earth.
Author : Catherine Chambers
Publisher : Hungry Tomato (R)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512406201
Travel from the tops of skyscrapers to the depths of the subway system of a bustling city! Find out how people make use of each layer along the way.
Author : Catherine Chambers
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ™
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512409316
Teeter on the edge of outer space with the Stickmen. Then fly down, down, down to atmospheric layers that wrap around Earth. Follow the Stickmen to view the galaxies through the Hubble Space Telescope and stop by the International Space Station. The Stickmen will take you on a tour of satellites in orbit, aircraft riding jet streams, and storms in the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. With phenomenal facts, cool diagrams, and photos from space, this will be a dizzy, action-packed ride!
Author : Catherine Chambers
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512420018
Splash with the Stickmen at the sea's surface, and then dive down through the darkening zones and into the abyss. But don't stop there! Follow the Stickmen to snorkel around coral gardens, find creatures that make their own light, and dive 7 miles down to the deepest trench. The Stickmen have plenty of oxygen (and wild facts) to keep you alert as you float past coral gardens, pods of humpback whales, robotic submarines, and the weirdest creatures of the deep.
Author : Catherine Chambers
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512419990
Slide down through the layers of planet Earth, from mountaintops to molten core. Follow the Stickmen to trek down a glacier, descend into a canyon, and burrow down to the base of a volcano. On the way you'll see bears and snow leopards, geysers and giant machines, and tectonic plates grinding into each other. But don't be afraid—you're with the Stickmen, who'll show you just what makes Earth so amazing!
Author : Catherine Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781910684467
Author : Catherine Chambers
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512419966
Teeter on the edge of outer space with the Stickmen. Then fly down, down, down to atmospheric layers that wrap around Earth. Follow the Stickmen to view the galaxies through the Hubble Space Telescope and stop by the International Space Station. The Stickmen will take you on a tour of satellites in orbit, aircraft riding jet streams, and storms in the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. With phenomenal facts, cool diagrams, and photos from space, this will be a dizzy, action-packed ride!
Author : David G. Schwartz
Publisher : Gambling Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781939546098
Dealing in a casino presents challenges and rewards not seen in many workplaces. With hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake every minute, table games pits are high-stress workplaces. Managing a workforce of dealers and attending to the needs of players brings stresses of its own. In 2015, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Center for Gaming Research received a grant from the UNLV University Libraries Advisory Board that enabled it to undertake an oral history project intended to capture the stories of table games managers, including both those currently working in the field and those who have retired. Drawn from these interviews, Tales from the Pit provides an overview of how the interviewees felt about a variety of topics, ranging from their experiences breaking in as new dealers to their transitions to management and the changes the industry has seen over their careers. The current and former managers speak candidly about the owners, bosses, dealers, and players who made each day challenging. This book illuminates the past several decades of casino history through the words of those who lived and made it.
Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1603095071
Discover the astonishing first prose novel from the legendary author of Watchmen and From Hell — an epic yet intimate portrait of a single English town across the whole span of human history. The precursor to Jerusalem. In a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over the span of six thousand years. Their narratives are woven together in patterns of recurring events, strange traditions, and uncanny visions. First, a cave-boy loses his mother, falls in love, and learns a deadly lesson. He is followed by an extraordinary cast of characters: a murderess who impersonates her victim, a fisherman who believes he has become a different species, a Roman emissary who realizes the bitter truth about the Empire, a crippled nun who is healed miraculously by a disturbing apparition, an old crusader whose faith is destroyed by witnessing the ultimate relic, two witches, lovers, who burn at the stake. Each interconnected tale traces a path in a journey of discovery of the secrets of the land. Throughout, the image of the fire resonates between the tales, while Moore finds a different voice for each character – though most are inherently duplicitous in some manner, leading to a further commentary on the disparity between myth and reality, and which is more likely to endure over time. Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (USA) and Knockabout (UK). With a new cover design by John Coulthart.
Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429982217
Second in the Rifters Trilogy, Hugo Award-winning author Peter Watts' Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir. This is the way the world ends: A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe—voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction—and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who'd inadvertently released it from three billion years of solitary confinement. The resulting tsunami killed millions. It's not as through there was a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage. Unless, of course, you miss the target. Now North America's west coast lies in ruins. Millions of refugees rally around a mythical figure mysteriously risen from the deep sea. A world already wobbling towards collapse barely notices the spread of one more blight along its shores. And buried in the seething fast-forward jungle that use to be called Internet, something vast and inhuman reaches out to a woman with empty white eyes and machinery in her chest. A woman driven by rage, and incubating Armageddon. Her name is Lenie Clarke. She's a rifter. She's not nearly as dead as everyone thinks. And the whole damn world is collateral damage as far as she's concerned. . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.