Author: Yetti Frenkel
Publisher: Snow Tree Books
ISBN: 0974900613
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Trudy is a naive house cat who follows her mistress to the market in a quest for adventure. She steals a fish and is chased down to the docks where she meets Albi, a cunning, seafaring cat. Albi knows a landlubber when he sees one, and he cons Trudy out of her fish by telling her a yarn with a surprise ending.
Trudy and the Captain's Cat
Author: Yetti Frenkel
Publisher: Snow Tree Books
ISBN: 0974900613
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Trudy is a naive house cat who follows her mistress to the market in a quest for adventure. She steals a fish and is chased down to the docks where she meets Albi, a cunning, seafaring cat. Albi knows a landlubber when he sees one, and he cons Trudy out of her fish by telling her a yarn with a surprise ending.
Publisher: Snow Tree Books
ISBN: 0974900613
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Trudy is a naive house cat who follows her mistress to the market in a quest for adventure. She steals a fish and is chased down to the docks where she meets Albi, a cunning, seafaring cat. Albi knows a landlubber when he sees one, and he cons Trudy out of her fish by telling her a yarn with a surprise ending.
Child of the Holocaust
Author: Elizabeth Kata
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448215595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Orphaned by the holocaust that consumed Germany during World War II, Hans Herman Baum has no clue to his identity other than a battered name tag. He cannot remember either his parents or his home – his only memories are of many other faceless, homeless children who never smiled or laughed. Brought to live in New York with his great-aunt Trudy, the frightened, bewildered child that was Hans becomes Harm, the warm friendly boy who gradually grows in self-confidence within the close community of the street. But when the tragedy of his past comes back to haunt him, he must try to understand what it truly means to be a child of the holocaust.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448215595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Orphaned by the holocaust that consumed Germany during World War II, Hans Herman Baum has no clue to his identity other than a battered name tag. He cannot remember either his parents or his home – his only memories are of many other faceless, homeless children who never smiled or laughed. Brought to live in New York with his great-aunt Trudy, the frightened, bewildered child that was Hans becomes Harm, the warm friendly boy who gradually grows in self-confidence within the close community of the street. But when the tragedy of his past comes back to haunt him, he must try to understand what it truly means to be a child of the holocaust.
Merchant Vessels of the United States...
Author: United States. Coast Guard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
The Emperor of All Maladies
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439170916
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439170916
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
Book Description
Big Nate Blasts Off (Big Nate, Book 8)
Author: Lincoln Peirce
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008145016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The 8th title in the New York Times bestselling Big Nate series! With a new crush, and the annual Mud Bowl coming up, can Nate make a good impression without slipping up?
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008145016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The 8th title in the New York Times bestselling Big Nate series! With a new crush, and the annual Mud Bowl coming up, can Nate make a good impression without slipping up?
A Measure of My Days
Author: David Loxterkamp
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874518856
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A family physician describes the universal struggle with adversity and discovers strength through work, faith, community, and love.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874518856
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A family physician describes the universal struggle with adversity and discovers strength through work, faith, community, and love.
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Author: Elizabeth Coatsworth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0027197107
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A cat looks on as her master, a poor Japanese artist, works on a painting commissioned by a high priest. The artist must paint all the animals blessed by Buddha except cats, which have been excluded from paradise. Despite the risk, the compassionate artist decides to include a cat in his painting and is rewarded. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0027197107
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A cat looks on as her master, a poor Japanese artist, works on a painting commissioned by a high priest. The artist must paint all the animals blessed by Buddha except cats, which have been excluded from paradise. Despite the risk, the compassionate artist decides to include a cat in his painting and is rewarded. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.
A Memory of Ice
Author: Elizabeth Truswell
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760462942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the Southern Ocean. The departure of the Glomar Challenger from Fremantle took place 100 years after the HMS Challenger weighed anchor from Portsmouth, England, at the start of its four-year voyage, sampling and dredging the world’s oceans. Sailing south, the Glomar Challenger crossed the path of James Cook’s HMS Resolution, then on its circumnavigation of Antarctica in search of the Great South Land. Encounters with Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the US Exploring Expedition and Douglas Mawson of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition followed. In the Ross Sea, the voyages of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror under James Clark Ross, with the young Joseph Hooker as botanist, were ever present. The story of the Glomar Challenger’s iconic voyage is largely told through the diaries of the author, then a young scientist experiencing science at sea for the first time. It weaves together the physical history of Antarctica with how we have come to our current knowledge of the polar continent. This is an attractive, lavishly illustrated and curiosity-satisfying read for the general public as well as for scholars of science.
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760462942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the Southern Ocean. The departure of the Glomar Challenger from Fremantle took place 100 years after the HMS Challenger weighed anchor from Portsmouth, England, at the start of its four-year voyage, sampling and dredging the world’s oceans. Sailing south, the Glomar Challenger crossed the path of James Cook’s HMS Resolution, then on its circumnavigation of Antarctica in search of the Great South Land. Encounters with Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the US Exploring Expedition and Douglas Mawson of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition followed. In the Ross Sea, the voyages of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror under James Clark Ross, with the young Joseph Hooker as botanist, were ever present. The story of the Glomar Challenger’s iconic voyage is largely told through the diaries of the author, then a young scientist experiencing science at sea for the first time. It weaves together the physical history of Antarctica with how we have come to our current knowledge of the polar continent. This is an attractive, lavishly illustrated and curiosity-satisfying read for the general public as well as for scholars of science.
U.S. Navy Cold Weather Handbook for Surface Ships
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cold adaptation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cold adaptation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description