Author: Cliff Jacobson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997476835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Justin Cody is failing two classes and is addicted to texting and playing video games. Forced to take a wilderness canoe trip in Canada with his Grandpa Henry, Cody is thrust into a race for survival when the two discover a top-secret drone developed by the U.S. military. Grandpa Henry is kidnapped and Justin--who knows nothing about canoeing and camping--must canoe alone to a distant lake that promises rescue. A riveting high-adventure tale AND a wilderness "skills" book! Learn important outdoor skills: make fire in the rain, storm-proof your camp, tie useful knots, find wild foods that are safe to eat, survive an encounter with a bear or moose, and more!
Justin Cody's Race to Survival!
Author: Cliff Jacobson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997476835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Justin Cody is failing two classes and is addicted to texting and playing video games. Forced to take a wilderness canoe trip in Canada with his Grandpa Henry, Cody is thrust into a race for survival when the two discover a top-secret drone developed by the U.S. military. Grandpa Henry is kidnapped and Justin--who knows nothing about canoeing and camping--must canoe alone to a distant lake that promises rescue. A riveting high-adventure tale AND a wilderness "skills" book! Learn important outdoor skills: make fire in the rain, storm-proof your camp, tie useful knots, find wild foods that are safe to eat, survive an encounter with a bear or moose, and more!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997476835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Justin Cody is failing two classes and is addicted to texting and playing video games. Forced to take a wilderness canoe trip in Canada with his Grandpa Henry, Cody is thrust into a race for survival when the two discover a top-secret drone developed by the U.S. military. Grandpa Henry is kidnapped and Justin--who knows nothing about canoeing and camping--must canoe alone to a distant lake that promises rescue. A riveting high-adventure tale AND a wilderness "skills" book! Learn important outdoor skills: make fire in the rain, storm-proof your camp, tie useful knots, find wild foods that are safe to eat, survive an encounter with a bear or moose, and more!
The Scorpio Races
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407130137
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The ebook of the stunning new novel from the bestselling author of SHIVER, LINGER AND FOREVER. Stay alive, stay astride, stay out of the water... Every November, the Scorpio Races are run beneath the chalk cliffs of Skarmouth. Thousands gather to watch the horses and the sea that washes the blood from the sand. The mounts are capaill uisce: savage water horses. There are no horses more beautiful, more fearless, more deadly. To race them can be suicide but the danger is irresistible. Sean Kendrick knows the dangers of the capaill uisce. With one foot in the ocean and one on land, he is the only man on the island capable of taming the beasts. He races to prove something both to himself and to the horses. Puck Connolly enters the races to save her family. But the horse she rides is an ordinary little mare, just as Puck is an ordinary girl. When Sean sees Puck on the beach he doesn't think she belongs. He doesn't realize his fate will become entwined in hers. They both enter the Races hoping to change their lives. But first they'll have to survive.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407130137
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The ebook of the stunning new novel from the bestselling author of SHIVER, LINGER AND FOREVER. Stay alive, stay astride, stay out of the water... Every November, the Scorpio Races are run beneath the chalk cliffs of Skarmouth. Thousands gather to watch the horses and the sea that washes the blood from the sand. The mounts are capaill uisce: savage water horses. There are no horses more beautiful, more fearless, more deadly. To race them can be suicide but the danger is irresistible. Sean Kendrick knows the dangers of the capaill uisce. With one foot in the ocean and one on land, he is the only man on the island capable of taming the beasts. He races to prove something both to himself and to the horses. Puck Connolly enters the races to save her family. But the horse she rides is an ordinary little mare, just as Puck is an ordinary girl. When Sean sees Puck on the beach he doesn't think she belongs. He doesn't realize his fate will become entwined in hers. They both enter the Races hoping to change their lives. But first they'll have to survive.
I Had to Survive
Author: Roberto Canessa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476765448
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists. Canessa played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. This fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope and determination, solidarity and ingenuity gives vivid insight into a world famous story. Canessa also draws a unique and fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor performing arduous heart surgeries on infants and unborn babies and the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes. Print run 75,000.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476765448
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists. Canessa played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. This fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope and determination, solidarity and ingenuity gives vivid insight into a world famous story. Canessa also draws a unique and fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor performing arduous heart surgeries on infants and unborn babies and the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes. Print run 75,000.
Lena and the Burning of Greenwood
Author: Nikki Shannon Smith
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1663990565
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1663990565
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
Surviving the Toughest Race on Earth
Author: Martin Dugard
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The author, a freelance journalist, describes his experiences as a reporter and participant in the Raid Gauloises, an annual eight- to twelve-day race designed to test the limits of human endurance.
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The author, a freelance journalist, describes his experiences as a reporter and participant in the Raid Gauloises, an annual eight- to twelve-day race designed to test the limits of human endurance.
Finding Hope
Author: Aleksandr Jarid
Publisher: The Blue Print Works Limited
ISBN: 1739231929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A lifetime was spend protecting the people she cared for. The people she loved and those who loved her unconditionally. But now, Sofia hunts her prey that ripped her world apart. She unleashes hell. Time has passed since Sofia lost her father forcing her to go deeper into the deception and infiltrate the Organisation where it all started. Not only does she seek revenge for her father's killer, she now sets on a path to destroy the origin if all pain. Meanwhile Siena finds solace and a way forward to complete her parents legacy but will she understand the consequences of who she trusts?
Publisher: The Blue Print Works Limited
ISBN: 1739231929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A lifetime was spend protecting the people she cared for. The people she loved and those who loved her unconditionally. But now, Sofia hunts her prey that ripped her world apart. She unleashes hell. Time has passed since Sofia lost her father forcing her to go deeper into the deception and infiltrate the Organisation where it all started. Not only does she seek revenge for her father's killer, she now sets on a path to destroy the origin if all pain. Meanwhile Siena finds solace and a way forward to complete her parents legacy but will she understand the consequences of who she trusts?
The World Won’t End
Author: Jessie Jasen
Publisher: Jasen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Ancient Sumerian and Mayan prophecies state that after 2012 an alien race will come to invade Earth. ACIO is a secret agency whose founder Fifteen has dedicated his entire life to developing a time travel technology with which he wants to travel back to the past to save the Earth from an alien invasion. 2016, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina: five mysterious ancient pyramids and an underground labyrinth of tunnels with stones and megaliths that emanate ultrasound frequencies have been discovered near Sarajevo. The tunnels are rumored to have a healing effect on people. Mirsad and Manda are a seventeen-year-old couple in love. When Mirsad’s mother falls ill unexpectedly, they decide to visit the tunnels in a search for an alternative cure. While in the tunnels, the couple discovers a secret chamber with symbols on the walls that correspond to a drawing of an ancient tattoo Manda has on her arm. Their presence activates an interstellar gateway that sends Mirsad and Manda to a future world. 2028, Bearford Falls, United States of America: to prevent the alien invasion, ACIO has instructed the governments to nuke ancient sites across the planet which hold interstellar gateways. The scientists have begun genetically engineering a new race that will be resilient to radioactivity and thus continue the evolution: Homo hibrida, a cross-breed of humans and animals. But Fifteen has made one crucial mistake in his calculations: by nuking ancient sites, he didn’t close the gates for the aliens coming to invade Earth — he opened them. Now it’s up to Mirsad and Manda to change the course of history.
Publisher: Jasen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Ancient Sumerian and Mayan prophecies state that after 2012 an alien race will come to invade Earth. ACIO is a secret agency whose founder Fifteen has dedicated his entire life to developing a time travel technology with which he wants to travel back to the past to save the Earth from an alien invasion. 2016, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina: five mysterious ancient pyramids and an underground labyrinth of tunnels with stones and megaliths that emanate ultrasound frequencies have been discovered near Sarajevo. The tunnels are rumored to have a healing effect on people. Mirsad and Manda are a seventeen-year-old couple in love. When Mirsad’s mother falls ill unexpectedly, they decide to visit the tunnels in a search for an alternative cure. While in the tunnels, the couple discovers a secret chamber with symbols on the walls that correspond to a drawing of an ancient tattoo Manda has on her arm. Their presence activates an interstellar gateway that sends Mirsad and Manda to a future world. 2028, Bearford Falls, United States of America: to prevent the alien invasion, ACIO has instructed the governments to nuke ancient sites across the planet which hold interstellar gateways. The scientists have begun genetically engineering a new race that will be resilient to radioactivity and thus continue the evolution: Homo hibrida, a cross-breed of humans and animals. But Fifteen has made one crucial mistake in his calculations: by nuking ancient sites, he didn’t close the gates for the aliens coming to invade Earth — he opened them. Now it’s up to Mirsad and Manda to change the course of history.
Race Experts
Author: Linda Kim
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620803X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
In Race Experts Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in The Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Mestrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. She was nonetheless commissioned by the Field Museum to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum's new racial exhibition, which became the largest exhibit on race ever installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist. Hoffman's Races of Mankind exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and everyday ideas about race in interwar America. Kim explores how the artist brought scientific understandings of race and the everyday racial attitudes of museum visitors together in powerful and productive friction. The exhibition compelled the artist to incorporate not only the expertise of racial science and her own artistic training but also the popular ideas about race that ordinary Americans brought to the museum. Kim situates the Races of Mankind exhibit at the juncture of these different forms of racial expertise and examines how the sculptures represented the messy resolutions between them. Race Experts is a compelling story of ideological contradiction and accommodation within the racial practices of American museums, artists, and audiences.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620803X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
In Race Experts Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in The Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Mestrović, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. She was nonetheless commissioned by the Field Museum to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum's new racial exhibition, which became the largest exhibit on race ever installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist. Hoffman's Races of Mankind exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and everyday ideas about race in interwar America. Kim explores how the artist brought scientific understandings of race and the everyday racial attitudes of museum visitors together in powerful and productive friction. The exhibition compelled the artist to incorporate not only the expertise of racial science and her own artistic training but also the popular ideas about race that ordinary Americans brought to the museum. Kim situates the Races of Mankind exhibit at the juncture of these different forms of racial expertise and examines how the sculptures represented the messy resolutions between them. Race Experts is a compelling story of ideological contradiction and accommodation within the racial practices of American museums, artists, and audiences.
Yukon Quest
Author: Lew Freedman
Publisher: Epicenter Press
ISBN: 9781935347057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Over beer and hamburgers at the Two Rivers Lodge near Fairbanks, Alaska, a small group of mushers conceived a gutsy idea for a new sled dog race that would be more challenging than any other marathon race in the Far North. In 1984, mushers organized the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Soon, mushers adopted an unofficial race motto, "Survive first, race second." The Quest trail boasts fewer checkpoints, longer wilderness runs, and more campouts. The trail crosses three mountain passes, including the dreaded 3,685-foot Eagle Summit, a killer of mushers' dreams. Outdoor survival skills and self reliance are on a par with commercial sponsorships and high-tech sleds and mushing gear. Yukon Quest is an exciting, inspirational story full of bigger-than-life characters told by Lew Freedman, best-selling author of eight books about sled-dog racing. Includes a list of race champions, names of all finishers, and 16 pages of photos.
Publisher: Epicenter Press
ISBN: 9781935347057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Over beer and hamburgers at the Two Rivers Lodge near Fairbanks, Alaska, a small group of mushers conceived a gutsy idea for a new sled dog race that would be more challenging than any other marathon race in the Far North. In 1984, mushers organized the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Soon, mushers adopted an unofficial race motto, "Survive first, race second." The Quest trail boasts fewer checkpoints, longer wilderness runs, and more campouts. The trail crosses three mountain passes, including the dreaded 3,685-foot Eagle Summit, a killer of mushers' dreams. Outdoor survival skills and self reliance are on a par with commercial sponsorships and high-tech sleds and mushing gear. Yukon Quest is an exciting, inspirational story full of bigger-than-life characters told by Lew Freedman, best-selling author of eight books about sled-dog racing. Includes a list of race champions, names of all finishers, and 16 pages of photos.
Power Of Computational Thinking, The: Games, Magic And Puzzles To Help You Become A Computational Thinker
Author: Peter William Mcowan
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 1786341867
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
From the team behind Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn), The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating fun.Yes, and this book shows you how.Computational thinking has changed the way we all live, work and play. It has changed the way science is done too; won wars, created whole new industries and saved lives. It is at the heart of computer programming and is a powerful approach to problem solving, with or without computers. It is so important that many countries now require that primary school children learn the skills.Professors Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan of Queen Mary University of London have written a unique and enjoyable introduction. They describe the elements of computational thinking — such as algorithmic thinking, decomposition, abstraction and pattern matching — in an entertaining and accessible way, using magic tricks, games and puzzles, as well as through real and challenging problems that computer scientists work on.This book gives you a head start in learning the skills needed for coding, and will improve your real life problem solving skills. It will help you design and evaluate new technologies, as well as understand both your own brain and the digital world in a deeper way.
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 1786341867
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
From the team behind Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn), The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating fun.Yes, and this book shows you how.Computational thinking has changed the way we all live, work and play. It has changed the way science is done too; won wars, created whole new industries and saved lives. It is at the heart of computer programming and is a powerful approach to problem solving, with or without computers. It is so important that many countries now require that primary school children learn the skills.Professors Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan of Queen Mary University of London have written a unique and enjoyable introduction. They describe the elements of computational thinking — such as algorithmic thinking, decomposition, abstraction and pattern matching — in an entertaining and accessible way, using magic tricks, games and puzzles, as well as through real and challenging problems that computer scientists work on.This book gives you a head start in learning the skills needed for coding, and will improve your real life problem solving skills. It will help you design and evaluate new technologies, as well as understand both your own brain and the digital world in a deeper way.