Author: Allen Graubard
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Free the Children
Author: Allen Graubard
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Roman Architecture! Ancient History for Kids
Author: Left Brain Kids
Publisher: Left Brain Kids
ISBN: 9781683765943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What beautiful architectural pieces! Who built them? This cool educational resource features the best of Roman architecture. It highlights the architectural achievements of these people, which were quite advance for their time. You can still see some of these structures today. What's your favorite among them all? Explore Roman craft. Grab a copy today!
Publisher: Left Brain Kids
ISBN: 9781683765943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What beautiful architectural pieces! Who built them? This cool educational resource features the best of Roman architecture. It highlights the architectural achievements of these people, which were quite advance for their time. You can still see some of these structures today. What's your favorite among them all? Explore Roman craft. Grab a copy today!
The Children of the Pantheon
Author: Mike Wild
Publisher: Abaddon Books
ISBN: 1849973598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
IT ALL ENDS HERE! Kali Hooper knows how to save her world. She must unite the ‘Four’ and the magic they carry with the old Race artefact known as guardian Starlight. But there’s a problem – Kali’s dying, stripped of her essence by Querilous Fitch, who plans to use it and the artefact for his own terrible ends. In the heavens, meanwhile, the final battle between Kerberos and the Hel’ss, and beneath their glow, Twilight goes insane. Gabriella DeZantez, Silus Morlader and Lucius Kane join Kali on a final, explosive journey from the ruins of Scholten to the mysterious Congress of Ether, to the shores of an island of diamond and into the haunted void of the Expanse. Armies will clash. Churches will fall. Men and gods will die. TWILIGHT of KERBEROS: THE FINAL ADVENTURE
Publisher: Abaddon Books
ISBN: 1849973598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
IT ALL ENDS HERE! Kali Hooper knows how to save her world. She must unite the ‘Four’ and the magic they carry with the old Race artefact known as guardian Starlight. But there’s a problem – Kali’s dying, stripped of her essence by Querilous Fitch, who plans to use it and the artefact for his own terrible ends. In the heavens, meanwhile, the final battle between Kerberos and the Hel’ss, and beneath their glow, Twilight goes insane. Gabriella DeZantez, Silus Morlader and Lucius Kane join Kali on a final, explosive journey from the ruins of Scholten to the mysterious Congress of Ether, to the shores of an island of diamond and into the haunted void of the Expanse. Armies will clash. Churches will fall. Men and gods will die. TWILIGHT of KERBEROS: THE FINAL ADVENTURE
Children at War
Author: Peter W. Singer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101970057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine the growing and global use of children as soldiers. P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists. Singer writes about how the first American serviceman killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan—a Green Beret—was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy; how suspected militants detained by U.S. forces in Iraq included more than one hundred children under the age of seventeen; and how hundreds who were taken hostage in Thailand were held captive by the rebel "God's Army," led by twelve-year-old twins. Interweaving the voices of child soldiers throughout the book, Singer looks at the ways these children are recruited, abducted, trained, and finally sent off to fight in war-torn hot spots, from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He writes about children who have been indoctrinated to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; of Iraqui boys between the ages of ten and fifteen who had been trained in military arms and tactics to become Saddam Hussein's Ashbal Saddam (Lion Cubs); of young refugees from Pakistani madrassahs who were recruited to help bring the Taliban to power in the Afghan civil war. The author, National Security Fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World, explores how this phenomenon has come about, and how social disruptions and failures of development in modern Third World nations have led to greater global conflict and an instability that has spawned a new pool of recruits. He writes about how technology has made today's weapons smaller and lighter and therefore easier for children to carry and handle; how one billion people in the world live in developing countries where civil war is part of everyday life; and how some children—without food, clothing, or family—have volunteered as soldiers as their only way to survive. Finally, Singer makes clear how the U.S. government and the international community must face this new reality of modern warfare, how those who benefit from the recruitment of children as soldiers must be held accountable, how Western militaries must be prepared to face children in battle, and how rehabilitation programs can undo this horrific phenomenon and turn child soldiers back into children.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101970057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine the growing and global use of children as soldiers. P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists. Singer writes about how the first American serviceman killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan—a Green Beret—was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy; how suspected militants detained by U.S. forces in Iraq included more than one hundred children under the age of seventeen; and how hundreds who were taken hostage in Thailand were held captive by the rebel "God's Army," led by twelve-year-old twins. Interweaving the voices of child soldiers throughout the book, Singer looks at the ways these children are recruited, abducted, trained, and finally sent off to fight in war-torn hot spots, from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He writes about children who have been indoctrinated to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; of Iraqui boys between the ages of ten and fifteen who had been trained in military arms and tactics to become Saddam Hussein's Ashbal Saddam (Lion Cubs); of young refugees from Pakistani madrassahs who were recruited to help bring the Taliban to power in the Afghan civil war. The author, National Security Fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World, explores how this phenomenon has come about, and how social disruptions and failures of development in modern Third World nations have led to greater global conflict and an instability that has spawned a new pool of recruits. He writes about how technology has made today's weapons smaller and lighter and therefore easier for children to carry and handle; how one billion people in the world live in developing countries where civil war is part of everyday life; and how some children—without food, clothing, or family—have volunteered as soldiers as their only way to survive. Finally, Singer makes clear how the U.S. government and the international community must face this new reality of modern warfare, how those who benefit from the recruitment of children as soldiers must be held accountable, how Western militaries must be prepared to face children in battle, and how rehabilitation programs can undo this horrific phenomenon and turn child soldiers back into children.
SMITE: The Pantheon War
Author: Jack Banish
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506702333
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Millions play Hi-Rez Studios' SMITE--a Massive Online Battle Arena game where gods from any different Pantheons fight it out to determine the fate of both the godly realm, and our own world. Revealed here is the never before told tale of how the conflict between the gods began--from the assassination of Zeus in Olympus, to the goddess Hel tricking Thor into leading an army against her own father Loki, to the death of Ares and the plunging of the Pantheons into all-out war! Be a god. Choose a side. Save the world . . . or destroy it! Millions play the game, and this is the first time the backstory has been told!
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506702333
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Millions play Hi-Rez Studios' SMITE--a Massive Online Battle Arena game where gods from any different Pantheons fight it out to determine the fate of both the godly realm, and our own world. Revealed here is the never before told tale of how the conflict between the gods began--from the assassination of Zeus in Olympus, to the goddess Hel tricking Thor into leading an army against her own father Loki, to the death of Ares and the plunging of the Pantheons into all-out war! Be a god. Choose a side. Save the world . . . or destroy it! Millions play the game, and this is the first time the backstory has been told!
Age of Voodoo
Author: James Lovegrove
Publisher: Solaris
ISBN: 1849974845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Lex Dove thought he was done with the killing game. A retired British wetwork specialist, he’s living the quiet life in the Caribbean, minding his own business. Then a call comes, with one last mission: to lead an American black ops team into a disused Cold War bunker on a remote island near his adopted home. The money’s good, which means the risks are high. Dove doesn’t discover just how high until he and his team are a hundred feet below ground, facing the horrifi c fruits of an experiment blending science and voodoo witchcraft. As if barely human monsters weren’t bad enough, a clock is ticking. Deep in the bowels of the earth, a god is waiting. And His anger, if roused, will be fearsome indeed.
Publisher: Solaris
ISBN: 1849974845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Lex Dove thought he was done with the killing game. A retired British wetwork specialist, he’s living the quiet life in the Caribbean, minding his own business. Then a call comes, with one last mission: to lead an American black ops team into a disused Cold War bunker on a remote island near his adopted home. The money’s good, which means the risks are high. Dove doesn’t discover just how high until he and his team are a hundred feet below ground, facing the horrifi c fruits of an experiment blending science and voodoo witchcraft. As if barely human monsters weren’t bad enough, a clock is ticking. Deep in the bowels of the earth, a god is waiting. And His anger, if roused, will be fearsome indeed.
Child of Intention
Author: Amrita Mohanty
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665593164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The Fae have left earth to humankind many millennia ago, dividing the sister worlds of Beluvial and Earth with the Great Veil. While man has long forgotten their shared history, the Fae have cautiously watched the human world. Keirin, one of the High Fae, has been tasked with monitoring a rare human that unknowingly holds traces of Fae blood. While the Fae world has existed in relative peace for centuries, it has not gone unnoticed that magic has been changing. Over the centuries and the Gods and Goddesses are growing quiet. When Keirin’s charge, Amara, begins displaying signs of transforming into one of the High Fae, he must find a way to protect her while answering the question of why the Fae Gods would choose to favour a human.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665593164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The Fae have left earth to humankind many millennia ago, dividing the sister worlds of Beluvial and Earth with the Great Veil. While man has long forgotten their shared history, the Fae have cautiously watched the human world. Keirin, one of the High Fae, has been tasked with monitoring a rare human that unknowingly holds traces of Fae blood. While the Fae world has existed in relative peace for centuries, it has not gone unnoticed that magic has been changing. Over the centuries and the Gods and Goddesses are growing quiet. When Keirin’s charge, Amara, begins displaying signs of transforming into one of the High Fae, he must find a way to protect her while answering the question of why the Fae Gods would choose to favour a human.
The Children's Book of Moral Lessons
Author: Frederick James Gould
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Pirates of Pompeii
Author: Caroline Lawrence
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444003534
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl, and Lupus the mute beggar boy. When the friends discover that children are being kidnapped from the camps, they start to investigate and soon solve the mystery of the pirates of Pompeii. A terrifically exciting and dramatic story packed with superb historical detail.
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444003534
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl, and Lupus the mute beggar boy. When the friends discover that children are being kidnapped from the camps, they start to investigate and soon solve the mystery of the pirates of Pompeii. A terrifically exciting and dramatic story packed with superb historical detail.
The Lost Children of Wilder
Author: Nina Bernstein
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307787745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. Lowry’s contention was that the system failed the children it was meant to help because it placed them according to creed and convenience, not according to need. The plaintiff was thirteen-year-old Shirley Wilder, an abused runaway whose childhood had been shaped by the system’s inequities. Within a year Shirley would give birth to a son and relinquish him to the same failing system. Seventeen years later, with Wilder still controversial and still in court, Nina Bernstein tried to find out what had happened to Shirley and her baby. She was told by child-welfare officials that Shirley had disappeared and that her son was one of thousands of anonymous children whose circumstances are concealed by the veil of confidentiality that hides foster care from public scrutiny. But Bernstein persevered. The Lost Children of Wilder gives us, in galvanizing and compulsively readable detail, the full history of a case that reveals the racial, religious, and political fault lines in our child-welfare system, and lays bare the fundamental contradiction at the heart of our well-intended efforts to sever the destiny of needy children from the fate of their parents. Bernstein takes us behind the scenes of far-reaching legal and legislative battles, at the same time as she traces, in heartbreaking counterpoint, the consequences as they are played out in the life of Shirley’s son, Lamont. His terrifying journey through the system has produced a man with deep emotional wounds, a stifled yearning for family, and a son growing up in the system’s shadow. In recounting the failure of the promise of benevolence, The Lost Children of Wilder makes clear how welfare reform can also damage its intended beneficiaries. A landmark achievement of investigative reporting and a tour de force of social observation, this book will haunt every reader who cares about the needs of children.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307787745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. Lowry’s contention was that the system failed the children it was meant to help because it placed them according to creed and convenience, not according to need. The plaintiff was thirteen-year-old Shirley Wilder, an abused runaway whose childhood had been shaped by the system’s inequities. Within a year Shirley would give birth to a son and relinquish him to the same failing system. Seventeen years later, with Wilder still controversial and still in court, Nina Bernstein tried to find out what had happened to Shirley and her baby. She was told by child-welfare officials that Shirley had disappeared and that her son was one of thousands of anonymous children whose circumstances are concealed by the veil of confidentiality that hides foster care from public scrutiny. But Bernstein persevered. The Lost Children of Wilder gives us, in galvanizing and compulsively readable detail, the full history of a case that reveals the racial, religious, and political fault lines in our child-welfare system, and lays bare the fundamental contradiction at the heart of our well-intended efforts to sever the destiny of needy children from the fate of their parents. Bernstein takes us behind the scenes of far-reaching legal and legislative battles, at the same time as she traces, in heartbreaking counterpoint, the consequences as they are played out in the life of Shirley’s son, Lamont. His terrifying journey through the system has produced a man with deep emotional wounds, a stifled yearning for family, and a son growing up in the system’s shadow. In recounting the failure of the promise of benevolence, The Lost Children of Wilder makes clear how welfare reform can also damage its intended beneficiaries. A landmark achievement of investigative reporting and a tour de force of social observation, this book will haunt every reader who cares about the needs of children.