Author : Gary Jennings
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2006-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765317513
After the Aztec empire falls to the Spaniards, a young Aztec named Tenamaxtli begins recruiting from among his fellow survivors of the Conquest to once again challenge the Spaniards and restore the Aztec empire.
Author : H. Irving Hancock
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
In 'The High School Boys' Canoe Club' by H. Irving Hancock, readers are taken on an adventurous journey with a group of high school boys who form a canoe club. The book is a perfect blend of thrilling outdoor adventure, teenage friendship, and overcoming challenges. Hancock's writing style is engaging and lively, making the reader feel like they are right beside the boys as they navigate through rivers, face unexpected obstacles, and learn valuable life lessons along the way. Set in the early 20th century, the book captures a sense of nostalgia for a simpler time while still resonating with modern readers who appreciate tales of camaraderie and perseverance. Hancock's attention to detail and descriptive storytelling create a vivid picture of the boys' experiences on the water, making it a compelling read for both young readers and adults interested in coming-of-age stories. Fans of classic adventure literature will especially enjoy this timeless tale of friendship and adventure on the water.
Author : Harrie Irving Hancock
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN :
Author : Chris Ategeka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119817595
Discover the technologies and trends that threaten humanity and our planet--- and how we can rein them back in, together In The Unintended Consequences of Technology: Solutions, Breakthroughs and the Restart We Need, accomplished tech entrepreneur Chris Ategeka delivers an insightful and eye-opening exploration of the challenges and the opportunities at the intersection of technology, society and our planet. Detailing both positive and negative technology use cases that on one hand have made humanity better, but on the other hand pose a serious threat to individuals and groups across the world, the author demonstrates how to avoid allowing powerful technologies to overcome our better natures. In this book, you'll: Discover how the forces of capitalism, greed and the myths that surround meritocracy when combined with exponential technology pose an existential risk for humanity. Explore the many exponential technologies such as gene editing, 5G, behavior modification, cyberspace… that have lots of promise but also uncertainty. Consider the future of humanity we wish to collectively build, and whether we can rebuild a capacity for empathy at scale in our tech tools Perfect for founders, business leaders, executives, managers, Chief Technology Officers, and anyone else [i.e. all human beings] responsible for the use and proliferation of advanced technologies. The Unintended Consequences of Technology is a thought-provoking, must-read resource for those at the forefront of our new technological reality.
Author : Harry Ignatius Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Burma
ISBN :
Author : Sheila Solomon Klass
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1429994932
In the 1700s, women's responsibilities were primarily child rearing and household duties. But Deborah Sampson wanted more from life. She wanted to read, to travel—and to fight for her country's independence. When the colonies went to war with the British in 1775, Deborah was intent on being part of the action. Seeing no other option, she disguised herself in a man's uniform and served in the Continental army for more than a year, her identity hidden from her fellow soldiers. Accomplished writer Sheila Solomon Klass creates a gripping firstperson account of an extraordinary woman who lived a life full of danger, adventure, and intrigue.
Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375899235
Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days. At first Mercy's only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her "English" family. She slowly discovers that the "savages" have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it?
Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0571314651
A timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! in The Bed Book.
Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030779959X
A collection of essential pieces by an American master • “A real contribution to the study of Faulkner’s work.”—Edmund Wilson In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility and obscene crimes. He set this legend in a small, minutely realized parallel universe that he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. No single volume better conveys the scope of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha legend than The Essential Faulkner. The book includes self-contained episodes from the novels The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Sanctuary; the stories “The Bear,” “Spotted Horses,” “A Rose for Emily,” and “Old Man,” among others; a map of Yoknapatawpha County and a chronology of the Compson family created by Faulkner especially for this edition; and the complete text of Faulkner’s 1950 address upon receiving the Nobel Prize in literature. Malcolm Cowley’s critical introduction was praised as “splendid” by Faulkner himself. Also includes: “A Justice” “The Courthouse” (from Requiem for a Nun) “Red Leaves” “Was” (from Go Down, Moses) “Raid” (from The Unvanquished) “Wash” “An Odor of Verbena” (from The Unvanquished) “That Evening Sun” “Ad Astra” “Dilsey” (from The Sound and the Fury) “Death Drag” “Uncle Bud and the Three Madams” (from Sanctuary) “Percy Grimm” (from Light in August) “Delta Autumn” (from Go Down, Moses) “The Jail” (from Requiem for a Nun)
Author : William Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231138840
From Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston to Lionel Trilling and Lou Gehrig, Columbia University has been home to some of the most important historians, scientists, critics, artists, physicians, and social scientists of the twentieth century. (It can also boast a hall-of-fame athlete.) In Living Legacies at Columbia, contributors with close personal ties to their subjects capture Columbia's rich intellectual history. Essays span the birth of genetics and modern anthropology, constitutionalism from John Jay to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Virginia Apgar's test, Lou Gehrig's swing, journalism education, black power, public health, the development of Asian studies, the Great Books Movement, gender studies, human rights, and numerous other realms of teaching and discovery. They include Eric Foner on historian Richard Hoftstader, Isaac Levi and Sidney Hook on John Dewey, David Rosand on art historian Meyer Schapiro, John Hollander on critic Mark Van Doren, Donald Keene on Asian studies, Jacques Barzun on history, Eric Kandel on geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Rosalind Rosenberg on Franz Boas and his three most famous pupils: Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston. Much more than an institutional history, Living Legacies captures the spirit of a great university through the stories of gifted men and women who have worked, taught, and studied at Columbia. It includes stories of struggle and breakthrough, searching and discovery, tradition and transformation.
