A delightful collection of old Greek myths and legends. Kingsley's first book for children, it discusses various aspects of natural history along with the myths. Captivating!
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425007600
Category: Fiction
Page: 220
View: 854
A delightful collection of old Greek myths and legends. Kingsley's first book for children, it discusses various aspects of natural history along with the myths. Captivating!
Northmen are driven on the left, Craw hasto charge down off the Heroes to regain
the situation. The villagenearlyfalls, but StrangerComeKnocking turns up in the
nick of time, there'san assault onMeed's headquarters at the inn, and he's killed.
Author: Joe Abercrombie
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575100729
Category: Fiction
Page: 560
View: 259
This enhanced eBook contains: # An introduction from Joe Abercrombie # The full text of THE HEROES # THE HEROES Audio edition # A critical afterword from the editor Plus: # THE FOOL JOBS short story, featuring characters from THE HEROES # A 20,000 word 'planning' document which contains all of Joe's behind-the-scenes notes, plans and timeline for THE HEROES # A before-and-after chapter showing the first draft, the last draft, and many stages in between if one of the most critical chapters of the book # A full behind-the-scenes interview with Joe Abercrombie covering the writing process, the importance of maps, the genesis of and influences on the novel, the six main characters and their story arcs, and the cover . . . amongst other things! # 'Blog archive' - all of Joe's blog posts from the period when he was writing THE HEROES. This is half-diary, half book progress updates, and includes illustrations, links to interviews, events, award ceremonies and reviews of games and books from Joe as well as incidents from his life # Cover file: view the several elements of the cover in all their final and rough stages, plus the different stages the cover itself went though during the design process. Comes with commentary from Joe Abercrombie, Dave Senior, Didier Graffet and Laura Brett - teh design team that won a publically-voted design award for the cover of BEST SERVED COLD # A full author biography, and an author photo gallery
Love, Mona Richard ran his fingers softly over the photograph of the little girl and
her mother. She was still beautiful. As he had done many times since, he recalled
her last words to him. The veterans returned home from the war and the heroes ...
Author: Ron Mielech
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480932671
Category: Fiction
Page: 344
View: 343
The Heroes of ‘45 by Ron Mielech The Heroes of ‘45 by Ron Mielech is an enchanting tale of historical fiction; however, this could very easily be a story told about life in a small Kentucky town during the war. The action takes place in 1945, following thirteen-year-old Richard Townsend. During the war, Richard’s father, C.F., continues his legal practice on the home front, while others of Richard’s family and friends are serving their country at war. Richard is pleased that his father is safe but is disappointed that he has not served in the military. Richard could not possibly have known at the beginning of summer how much his life would change. Through a course of events that took place by summer’s end, he would realize that you don’t have to fight a war to be a hero. He witnessed the heroic acts of others, including his father. Once he realized all of the truly good things his father did for others, he was proud to follow in his footsteps. And then, came the end of the war and life went on and the past gave way to the future.
We also note that the heroes in the early decades of our survey were exclusively
men. By the 1910s, professional athletes (baseball players, mainly) were also
identified as heroes, for their prowess on the field.4 As the First World War moved
...
Author: Professor of Political Science Bruce Peabody
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199982961
Category:
Page: 264
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From the men and women associated with the American Revolution and Civil War to the seminal figures in the struggles for civil and women's rights, Americans have been fascinated with icons of great achievement, or at least reputation. But who spins today's narratives about American heroism, and to what end? In Where Have All the Heroes Gone?, Bruce Peabody and Krista Jenkins draw on the concept of the American hero to show an important gap between the views of political and media elites and the attitudes of the mass public. The authors contend that important changes over the past half century, including the increasing scope of new media and people's deepening political distrust, have drawn both politicians and producers of media content to the hero meme. However, popular reaction to this turn to heroism has been largely skeptical. As a result, the conversations and judgments of ordinary Americans, government officials, and media elites are often deeply divergent. Investigating the story of American heroes over the past five decades provides a narrative that can teach us about such issues as political socialization, institutional trust, and political communication.
... deck lights. At least rainbows are present; although ah've never seen one at
night. As the ice slithered by her, a soft break in the motion of the. Page. ship
jostled her and broke their kiss. And with it, 407. Summon. the. Heroes.
MichaelSchade.
Author: Michael Schade
Publisher: Lulu
ISBN: 0973792701
Category:
Page: 640
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As Valusha, Kokoro, the princess of Candrah, wandered the Anchorage without regard for anyone but herself. All that changed on her wedding day when an exile, a former general from the prison world Nemesis, Shikisha Shippai, attacked. Forced through a unstable space-time portal, she crashed onto Akamon, the world below, a millenia later. Her first discovery, a prophecy that declared that she would die if she sought to rule. So she hid. She lived a lie about who she was unaware that a delicate balance broke the day she vanished. One that had to be restored soon or total destruction would fall on both worlds. So with her immortal father, her friend Naiusa and an unlikely ally Tolaris, she begins the journey of restoration. One that changes everyone it meets, and everything it touches. For without the heroes of old, the Yatsarim, there is only dark failure. It is time to Summon the Heroes!
But Zetes and Calais rose up sadly and said, „Farewell now, heroes all; farewell,
our dear companions, with whom we played on Pelion in old times; for a fate is
laid upon us, and our day is come at last, in which we must hunt the whirlwinds ...
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129149412X
Category: Fiction
Page: 290
View: 139
The heroes - inspiration for my generation and all others. Excitement and insight for children of all ages in Kingsley's masterly reselling s
schools. Centuries later, medieval Europeans adopted and repeated them as
well. In this way these trulytimeless tales eventually passed into the lore and in
homes and other informal settings and taught in was slain by the hero Perseus.
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0756544807
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 64
View: 256
Describes the origins, personalities, and special powers of the Greek mythical heroes, including such figures as Heracles, Theseus, Perseus, and Oedipus.
PART I HOW THE CENTAUR TRAINED THE HEROES ON PELION I have told
you of a hero who fought with wild beasts and with wild men; but now I have a
tale of heroes who sailed away into a distant land, to win themselves renown for
ever ...
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359919715
Category:
Page: 279
View: 133
The stories of Perseus, Theseus, and Jason, famous tales of heroism and bravery, of men who loved their country and dared to do more noble deeds than most men.
History does not furnish us with an account of any war, which has called forth a
purer patriotism, a holier love of liberty, or loftier sentiments of duty and devotion
to the public good, than have characterized the heroes who were engaged in our
...
Author: Rufus Wheelwright Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Albany (N.Y.)
Page: 870
View: 970
Heroes? Towards the end of February, after eight weeks detention in the
Tandjung Pagar Headquarters of the Naval Kempei Tai, the Rimau prisoners,
whose deaths were so desired by the Seventh Area Army, were still alive. The
fact that they ...
Author: Lynette Silver
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473814898
Category: History
Page: 314
View: 216
On September 11, 1944, the British submarine "Porpoise" slipped quietly from Fremantle Harbour, bound for Indonesia. It was carrying the 23 Australian and British members of Operation Rimau who, under the leadership of the remarkable Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon of the Gordon Highlanders, intended to repeat the successful Jaywick raid of 1943 by blowing up 60 ships in Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour, 19 days later, the preliminary part of the operation successfully completed, the submarine commander bade farewell to the raiders at Pedjantan Island, promising to return to pick them up in 38 days' time. A handful of Chinese and Malays and the conquering Japanese were the only people ever to see the 23 men again. According to the scant official post-war record, the mission was an utter failure. All of the party were captured of killed - ten of them beheaded in Singapore only five weeks before the Japanese surrender in, it was claimed, a ceremonial execution. The fate of eleven of the others remains officially unknown. After a 31 year search, Major Tom Hall, with the assistance of writer Lynette Silver, has overturned the official version and uncovered the truth. Aided by thousands of Japanese and Allied documents and by the first-hand accounts of several Indonesians and Malays, sole witnesses to the events of 1944, they have established the fate of every member of the party and unravelled the story of "The Heroes of Rimau" - a story that has for 45 years been all but lost, distorted by hearsay and fantasy, by military cover-ups and conspiracy, by official bungling, ineptitude and apathy. This book not only chronicles a feat of extraordinary daring in the face of overwhelming odds - a gripping tale of inspired courage, self-sacrifice and eventual tragedy - it also exposes the appalling sequence of events which has, until now, resulted in the shameful suppression of the truth about one of the most amazing stories to emerge from World War II.
... truly have been a man apart. — extract from Dr. Jameson's Journals, Complete
Adventures of Palgrave Reverence. CHAPTER SEVEN SHUDDERMEN A gentle
cough behind Mears startled him. NIGHT OF THE HEROES | 49 PART TWO ...
Author: Adrian Cole
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 143444855X
Category: Fiction
Page: 180
View: 573
Assigned to administer the closure of a crumbling inner city Athenaeum, Mears finds himself caught up in an extraordinary cross-worlds venture, where the heroes of his comic books, pulp magazines, and fantastic novels fill its landscape. His only route back to the sanity of his own world lies in coordinating these disparate heroes into an unlikely team, banding them to oppose a fiendishly evil master-mind's plot to unleash unspeakable dark gods upon the world. Drawn from a vast trove of pulp and super-hero sources, from H. Rider Haggard through Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft and Sax Rohmer, NIGHT OF THE HEROES plunges the reader into a bizarre world where anything ever read about becomes very much alive -- and invariably kicking!
Heroes and Helpers ! Circle the pictures of heroes . Hint : They are all heroes ! O
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Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 9780635010940
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 48
View: 372
Ages 5-12; Chocked full of puzzles, crosswords, mazes, dot-to-dot, word search, and many educational activities that help explain the contributions of heroes and helpers. 48 Reproducible pages.
Author: T. H. Baughman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803261631
Category: History
Page: 160
View: 197
Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. ø Borchgrevink returned to Antarctica in 1899 with a party that was the first to winter over on the continent. Regrettably, bad weather and unscalable mountains limited their forays inland. Borchgrevink's survival was proof that with adequate supplies, the Antarctic winter was survivable, and that with a better geographic position, the enormous unknown of the continent could be investigated. ø Borchgrevink galvanized the British geographical authorities who had come to consider polar exploration their exclusive province. Led by Sir Clements Markham of the Royal Geographic Society, the British keenly felt his blow to their national pride delivered by an explorer they regarded as an arrogant upstart. The RGS pushed forward with its plans, and a tragic competition to be the first to reach the South Pole was set in motion between the British and the Scandinavians. ø This work is anøaccount of the first tentative human gropings in Antarctica, concentrating on the coalescing of official and popular attitudes that later resulted in the polar races of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, which dominate the story of the "Heroic Era" of Antarctic exploration, from 1901 to 1922.
PART VI WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES . And now I wish that I could
end my story pleasantly ; but it is no fault of mine that I cannot . The old songs end
it sadly , and I believe that they are right and wise ; for though the heroes were ...
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Mythology, Greek
Page: 320
View: 267
... other citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its capital Sarajevo, the teachers
and students of Treca Gimnazija have endured unprecedented suffering during
the war, 1992-1995, the kind of suffering that earned them the title of heroes and
...
Author: David M. Berman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847695683
Category: History
Page: 195
View: 579
Shelled into ruins at the onset of the Bosnian War (1993), Treca Gimnazija, a high school in central Sarajevo, became a Owar school, O adapting to wartime conditions by conducting classes in the dispersed basement classrooms in neighborhoods across the city. Education scholar David M. Berman, who interviewed many of Treca GimnazijaOs students, teachers, and administrators during the siege of Sarajevo, 1992-1995, as well as after the war, chronicles the human drama of everyday life in a high school operating under the constant threat of enemy guns and mortar fire. The real story of the siege of Sarajevo, put in educational terms, is the localized adaptation of the staff and students of the school who implemented administrative resolutions and directives to keep the physically damaged school open. These educators and students of Treca Gimnazija, one of 13 secondary schools that were destroyed during the siege, tell the stories of their own personal war in the Obattle for the mindO and chronicle their shared experience in this important and inspiring book
He will not put his name and dignity at risk for a decision based on pride. It
happens quite often in football that the losing side points his finger towards the
referee.” “But it can get quite painful if you feel you. 195 The Heroes ofWorld Cup
1966.
Author: Max Palme
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491893184
Category: Fiction
Page: 300
View: 351
Football is today a significant part of every culture. It is a language without borders. Football can fulfill what people need when it comes to excitement. Today, football in general and the World Cup in particular are means to connect people together, regardless of their race, religion, job, social class, or nationality. In 1966, when the whole world had its eye on England for the World Cup, I had not been born yet. However, it became my favorite World Cup as I grew older and turned into an enthusiastic football fan. World Cup 1966 was a tremendous event that united people across the globe at a time when the world was torn apart between the capitalist and Communist parties, a time when peace seemed like an unreachable dream, a time when your skin color decided your faith, and a time when Vietnam was losing her children to a never-ending war. World Cup 1966 offered the world a moment to breathe! It was the first time the tournament was broadcast on live television, providing millions of football fans the opportunity to forget about their problems for a little while. Four hundred million people worldwide witnessed the moment when England, the mother of modern football, was crowned the champion. It was the victory that still remains England's most celebrated victory in football. by retelling this story, I hope to bring back a part of these unforgettable memories.
The key to successful coloring is to choose a limited color palette that's not too
complex. Here we have used earthy and neutral tones that all work together
nicely. step 5 Ink your character with clean, sharp lines. 15 DRAWING THE
HEROES IN ...
Author: Frances Lee
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1448864321
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 32
View: 299
Provides step-by-step instructions on drawing the main character of a graphic novel or comic, providing examples of heroes, including a caped superhero and good cop.
John Fleming (incumbent of Ventry.) THE FALLEN ANGELS. THE HEROES OF
MYTHOLOGY, THE SAME WITH "THE SONS OF.
Author: John Fleming (incumbent of Ventry.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Author: Ed Youngblood
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 9780760315958
Category: Transportation
Page: 156
View: 673
One-hundred years of Harley-Davidson is often reduced to a tale of a machines. Equally fascinating, and often overlooked, are the men and women behind the machines. The Harley and Davidson founder, the engineers, the racers, the designers, the dealers, the flesh-and-blood heroes made the company and the bikes the success they are today. This book was written in cooperation with the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum to accompany an exhibit that opened in 2003. After a brief introduction, the book is divided into three sections; 1. Heroes of H-D; 2. Exhibition catalog; 3. H-D historical overview.
Paranormal Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Romance Adventure Series Colleen
Gleason. EMBRACE THE NIGHT THE HEROES OF NEW VEGAS COLLEEN
GLEASON Embrace the Night © 2010, 2017 Colleen Gleason This title.
Author: Colleen Gleason
Publisher: AVID PRESS
ISBN: 1929613555
Category: Fiction
Page: 383
View: 536
From New York Times bestselling author Colleen Gleason: Book Two of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Heroes of New Vegas series. "Sexy, violent, electrifying...[An] edgy, page-turning series...Brilliantly conceived and executed." -- Library Journal "For those of us who like our paranormal romance on the urban, edgy side, Colleen Gleason delivers." -- Lara Adrian “Colleen Gleason's vision of the future is dark, complex, and sharply original." -- Nalini Singh Everything they knew is gone... Five men emerge from the remnants of destruction with extraordinary new powers. They are humankind's last hope, but they cannot survive this devastated world alone. Simon Japp's violent past will haunt him forever. But when he somehow travels through time to a dark future where civilization is all but destroyed, he sees an opportunity for redemption. As he becomes familiar with this new, overgrown world of jungle-like cities and overgrown shopping malls, Simon is determined to help the Resistance movement against the immortal Strangers--the repressive, controlling race that has taken over civilization. He can't afford to be distracted, even by the beautiful, soft-spoken woman who haunts his thoughts. Sage Corrigan is the product of a rigid cult that has militant initiatives to repopulate the world in order to rebuild civilization. She's learned not to trust, but there's something about Simon and his empty, haunted eyes that tug at her heart. When they must pose as husband and wife to infiltrate the cult, they find that their staged affection is only hiding the real heat boiling beneath the facade....and when Simon must confront his past once again, he must make a decision between what's right...and what his heart desires.