Author: Eric Stevens
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 147473250X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
When a group of bullies decide they own the local skatepark, Conner and his best friend, Hannah, are forced to practise elsewhere. Conner and Hannah have to outsmart the bullies if they want to practise for the upcoming competition. Because in the end, the fight for the skatepark will come down to the ultimate battle of the boards.
Board Battle
Author: Eric Stevens
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 147473250X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
When a group of bullies decide they own the local skatepark, Conner and his best friend, Hannah, are forced to practise elsewhere. Conner and Hannah have to outsmart the bullies if they want to practise for the upcoming competition. Because in the end, the fight for the skatepark will come down to the ultimate battle of the boards.
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 147473250X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
When a group of bullies decide they own the local skatepark, Conner and his best friend, Hannah, are forced to practise elsewhere. Conner and Hannah have to outsmart the bullies if they want to practise for the upcoming competition. Because in the end, the fight for the skatepark will come down to the ultimate battle of the boards.
Brown V. Board of Education
Author: Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780531112304
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Describes the people playing major roles in the battle for desegregation, the smaller court cases that led up to Brown v. The Board of Education, and the results and repercussions of the case.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780531112304
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Describes the people playing major roles in the battle for desegregation, the smaller court cases that led up to Brown v. The Board of Education, and the results and repercussions of the case.
Ender's Game
Author: Christopher Yost
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
ISBN: 9780785135814
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's a war coming. The same aliens who almost destroyed Earth once are coming back to get the whole job done this time. But we aren't going to just sit and die. The international military is taking our best and brightest to mold them into the finest military minds ever - and they're taking them young.
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
ISBN: 9780785135814
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's a war coming. The same aliens who almost destroyed Earth once are coming back to get the whole job done this time. But we aren't going to just sit and die. The international military is taking our best and brightest to mold them into the finest military minds ever - and they're taking them young.
Chess Target Practice
Author: Bruce Pandolfini
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671795007
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
No matter where your opponent lands his piece on the board, Chess Target Practice will teach you how to successfully attack his position. By analyzing each and every square, Bruce Pandolfini helps players learn the appropriate tactics to zero in on the target and move in for the kill. Book jacket.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671795007
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
No matter where your opponent lands his piece on the board, Chess Target Practice will teach you how to successfully attack his position. By analyzing each and every square, Bruce Pandolfini helps players learn the appropriate tactics to zero in on the target and move in for the kill. Book jacket.
The Echo of Battle
Author: Brian McAllister Linn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons, doctrine, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee a future victory. In the face of radically new ways of waging war, Brian Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day. He explores the army's forgotten heritage of deterrence, its long experience with counter-guerrilla operations, and its successive efforts to transform itself. Distinguishing three martial traditions--each with its own concept of warfare, its own strategic views, and its own excuses for failure--he locates the visionaries who prepared the army for its battlefield triumphs and the reactionaries whose mistakes contributed to its defeats. Discussing commanders as diverse as Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Colin Powell, and technologies from coastal artillery to the Abrams tank, he shows how leadership and weaponry have continually altered the army's approach to conflict. And he demonstrates the army's habit of preparing for wars that seldom occur, while ignoring those it must actually fight. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, The Echo of Battle provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons, doctrine, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee a future victory. In the face of radically new ways of waging war, Brian Linn surveys the past assumptions--and errors--that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day. He explores the army's forgotten heritage of deterrence, its long experience with counter-guerrilla operations, and its successive efforts to transform itself. Distinguishing three martial traditions--each with its own concept of warfare, its own strategic views, and its own excuses for failure--he locates the visionaries who prepared the army for its battlefield triumphs and the reactionaries whose mistakes contributed to its defeats. Discussing commanders as diverse as Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Colin Powell, and technologies from coastal artillery to the Abrams tank, he shows how leadership and weaponry have continually altered the army's approach to conflict. And he demonstrates the army's habit of preparing for wars that seldom occur, while ignoring those it must actually fight. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, The Echo of Battle provides an unprecedented reinterpretation of how the U.S. Army has waged war in the past and how it is meeting the new challenges of tomorrow.
North Carolina Reports: Devereux & Battle's Law
Author: North Carolina. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Battle Stations for All
Author: United States. Office of War Information
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cost and standard of living
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
LAXTON'S PRICE BOOK FOR ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS,ENGINEERS & CONTRACTORS 1879
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Battle for the Bird
Author: Kurt Wagner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668017377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Now known as X, Twitter’s messy history—including Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, its outsized cultural impact, and its significant role in shaping how the world gets its news—is thoroughly and entertainingly revealed in this “absolute triumph of reporting and storytelling” (Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author). Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter’s everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world’s most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey’s triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @RealDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird exposes the messy reality and relentless challenges that come with building a global social network. This is the “meticulous and riveting account” (Emily Chang, host of Bloomberg’s The Circuit) of the fight over the world’s most influential social media platform. Now, for the first time—through deeply sourced, exclusive interviews—you will discover how the visionary promises of one iconoclast gave way to the darker, yet-to-be-defined motives of another, upending the virtual status quo and impacting the flow of news and information to the masses.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668017377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Now known as X, Twitter’s messy history—including Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, its outsized cultural impact, and its significant role in shaping how the world gets its news—is thoroughly and entertainingly revealed in this “absolute triumph of reporting and storytelling” (Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling author). Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter’s everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world’s most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey’s triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @RealDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird exposes the messy reality and relentless challenges that come with building a global social network. This is the “meticulous and riveting account” (Emily Chang, host of Bloomberg’s The Circuit) of the fight over the world’s most influential social media platform. Now, for the first time—through deeply sourced, exclusive interviews—you will discover how the visionary promises of one iconoclast gave way to the darker, yet-to-be-defined motives of another, upending the virtual status quo and impacting the flow of news and information to the masses.
The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything
Author: Gordy Slack
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470379316
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A compelling eyewitness account of the recent courtroom drama in Dover, Pennsylvania that put evolution on trial. Journalist Gordy Slack offers a riveting, personal, and often amusing first-hand account that details six weeks of some of the most widely ranging, fascinating, and just plain surreal testimony in U.S. legal history—a battle between hard science and religious conservatives wishing to promote a new version of creationism in schools. During the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Areas School Board trial, the members of the local school board defended their decision to require teachers to present intelligent design alongside evolution as an explanation for the origins and diversity of life on earth. The trial revealed much more than a disagreement about how to approach science education. It showed two essentially different and conflicting views of the world and the lengths some people will go to promote their own. The ruling by George W. Bush-appointed Judge John Jones III was unexpected in its stridency: Not only did he conclude that intelligent design was religion and not science and therefore had no place in a science classroom, he scolded the school board for wasting public time and money. A sophisticated examination of the deep cultural, religious, and political tensions that continue to divide America, The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything is also journalist Gordy Slack’s personal and engaging story of the high drama and unforgettable characters on both sides of the courtroom controversy. Gordy Slack (Oakland, CA) has been writing about science and evolutionary biology for 15 years. He is a regular commentator on KQED, an affiliate of NPR, and his articles have appeared in Mother Jones, Salon.com, Wired, California Wild, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470379316
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A compelling eyewitness account of the recent courtroom drama in Dover, Pennsylvania that put evolution on trial. Journalist Gordy Slack offers a riveting, personal, and often amusing first-hand account that details six weeks of some of the most widely ranging, fascinating, and just plain surreal testimony in U.S. legal history—a battle between hard science and religious conservatives wishing to promote a new version of creationism in schools. During the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Areas School Board trial, the members of the local school board defended their decision to require teachers to present intelligent design alongside evolution as an explanation for the origins and diversity of life on earth. The trial revealed much more than a disagreement about how to approach science education. It showed two essentially different and conflicting views of the world and the lengths some people will go to promote their own. The ruling by George W. Bush-appointed Judge John Jones III was unexpected in its stridency: Not only did he conclude that intelligent design was religion and not science and therefore had no place in a science classroom, he scolded the school board for wasting public time and money. A sophisticated examination of the deep cultural, religious, and political tensions that continue to divide America, The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything is also journalist Gordy Slack’s personal and engaging story of the high drama and unforgettable characters on both sides of the courtroom controversy. Gordy Slack (Oakland, CA) has been writing about science and evolutionary biology for 15 years. He is a regular commentator on KQED, an affiliate of NPR, and his articles have appeared in Mother Jones, Salon.com, Wired, California Wild, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications.