Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789839961744
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Lat 30 Years Later
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789839961744
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789839961744
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Kampung Boy
Author: Lat
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781596431218
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781596431218
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.
Missouri Boy
Author: Leland Myrick
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781596431102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
An autobiographical account of twin boys growing up in a small town in Missouri.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781596431102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
An autobiographical account of twin boys growing up in a small town in Missouri.
Longitude
Author: Dava Sobel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Mat Som
Author: Lat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789679695267
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789679695267
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East-India Company, and of the Native States on the Continent of India
Author: Edward Thornton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Australian Monthly Weather Report and Meteorological Abstract
Author: Australia. Bureau of Meteorology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Southern Tibet
Author: Sven Hedin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tibet (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tibet (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Annual Report of the Railroad Retirement Board
Author: United States. Railroad Retirement Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Book of V.
Author: Anna Solomon
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 125025700X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day. Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she’s grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires, while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife in 2016. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington D.C. But one night he demands a humiliating favor, and her refusal to obey changes the course of her life—along with the lives of others. Esther is a fiercely independent young woman in ancient Persia, where she and her uncle’s tribe live a tenuous existence outside the palace walls. When an innocent mistake results in devastating consequences for her people, she is offered up as a sacrifice to please the King, in the hopes that she will save them all. In Anna Solomon's The Book of V., these three characters' riveting stories overlap and ultimately collide, illuminating how women’s lives have and have not changed over thousands of years.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 125025700X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day. Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she’s grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires, while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife in 2016. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington D.C. But one night he demands a humiliating favor, and her refusal to obey changes the course of her life—along with the lives of others. Esther is a fiercely independent young woman in ancient Persia, where she and her uncle’s tribe live a tenuous existence outside the palace walls. When an innocent mistake results in devastating consequences for her people, she is offered up as a sacrifice to please the King, in the hopes that she will save them all. In Anna Solomon's The Book of V., these three characters' riveting stories overlap and ultimately collide, illuminating how women’s lives have and have not changed over thousands of years.