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The black flag: true tales of twentieth-century piracy
Par James G Hepburn. 1994
Piracy died with the skull and crossbones: the world's navies have made the sea safe. Think again. Not so safe…
for the Sunning, caught in a nightmare on the China seas, nor for passengers on the Morro Castle, sunk in flames off the New Jersey coast with the loss of 134 lives. Nor for the Khalis III, found abandoned in the Bahamas, a corpse floating in the wreckage, the deck splattered with blood. This book shows that piracy is very much alive. 1994.The Bible doesn't say that: 40 biblical mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings
Par Joel M Hoffman. 2016
Hoffman explores what the Bible meant before it was misinterpreted over the past 2,000 years. He walks the reader through…
dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible, covering the morality, lifestyle, theology, and biblical imagery. 2016.The Bible's cutting room floor: the Holy Scriptures missing from your Bible
Par Joel M Hoffman. 2014
The Bible you usually read is not the complete story. Some holy writings were left out for political or theological…
reasons, others simply because of the physical restrictions of ancient bookmaking technology. At times, the compilers of the Bible skipped information that they assumed everyone knew. Some passages were even omitted by accident. Here Dr. Joel M. Hoffman gives us the stories and other texts that didn't make it into the Bible. 2014.The Bible: As If For The First Time (Spirituality and the Christian life series #Vol. 1)
Par H. A Nielsen. 1984
The annals of Tacitus: Excerpts
Par Cornelius Tacitus. 1992
Roman politician’s classic history of Rome from A.D. 14 when Tiberius became emperor to A.D. 68 when Nero committed suicide.…
Describes corruption, scandals, wars, poisonings, and murders that were part of imperial life. 1992. Uniform title: Annales.The ancient Egyptian book of the dead
Par Raymond O Faulkner, Carol Andrews. 1985
The "Book of the Dead" is the name given to a collection of religious and magical texts from Ancient Egypt.…
Their aim was to secure for the deceased a satisfactory afterlife, and to give him the power to leave his tomb when necessary. In this book, the text translated is that found in the papyrus prepared for the scribe Ani. 1985.The 100-minute Bible
Par Michael Hinton. 2005
The 100-Minute Bible picks out the principal stories of the life and ministry of its central character, Jesus Christ. The…
social and theological context of these stories is provided by outlining the ups and downs of the history of his nation, the Jews. It then proceeds to record the story of the growth of Christianity during the first century; firstly amongst the Jews themselves; then amongst the other peoples living in Israel and then throughout the eastern Mediterranean, even as far as Rome. 2005.Ten thousand scorpions: the search for the Queen of Sheba's gold
Par Larry Frolick. 2002
In 1996, a geology team was looking for gold deposits in the remote Yemeni desert when they stumbled upon ancient…
mine tunnels. Were these primitive Iron Age ruins the source of the Queen of Sheba's gold? Larry Frolick travelled into the desert, from Yemen to the Highlands of Ethiopia, where the ruins of the great port city of Ephesus now lie inland, and finally deep in the heart of Sheba's mystery. 2002.Terra: tales of the earth : four events that changed the world
Par Richard Hamblyn. 2009
Blending history, science and eye-witness accounts, and arranged in chapters corresponding to the four elements (earth, air, fire and water),…
Hamblyn explores the relationship between the planet and its humans. With the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the weather-panics of the summer of 1783, the eruption of Krakatau in 1883, and the Hilo tsunami of 1946, he reminds us of the earth's unimaginable force and describes what happens when that force is unleashed. 2009.Terror on the seas: true tales of modern-day pirates
Par Daniel Sekulich. 2009
Award-winning journalist investigates high-seas piracy, incidents of which occur on a near-daily basis worldwide and can involve detention, robbery, and…
violence. Interviews professional mariners, victims, and even perpetrators themselves to uncover the inner workings of criminal enterprises and gauge international economic and security threats in the early twenty-first century. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2009.Sept brèves leçons de physique
Par Carlo Rovelli, Patrick Vighetti. 2015
Avec les mots de l'écrivain, le talent du poète, Carlo Rovelli nous fait apercevoir le mystère du monde, la beauté…
du monde, une beauté à couper le souffle. Ces sept leçons donnent un aperçu rapide des aspects les plus importants et fascinants de la grande révolution qui a bouleversé la physique au XXe siècle, et surtout des questions et des mystères que cette révolution a soulevés. Elles nous emmènent dans le monde enchanté des grandes idées de la physique actuelle : de la relativité générale d'Einstein à la physique quantique, des particules élémentaires à l'architecture de l'Univers, de la gravité quantique à la nature du temps et de la conscience. 2015.Seul autour du monde sur un voilier de onze mètres: relation du voyage
Par Joshua Slocum, Paul Budker. 2000
Sur la trace de Nives: récit
Par Erri De Luca, Danièle Valin, Nives Meroi. 2006
Erri De Luca accompagne la célèbre alpiniste italienne Nives Meroi dans l'une de ses expéditions himalayennes. Réfugiés sous la tente,…
en pleine tempête, ils engagent une conversation à bâtons rompus. Dans ce lieu magique à la jonction entre le ciel et la terre, où la beauté des montagnes contraste avec la violence des conditions climatiques, les récits d'altitude de la jeune femme sont une trame où se tissent réflexions et souvenirs de l'auteur autour du métier d'écrire et de la Bible. 2006, c2005. Titre uniforme: Sulla traccia di Nives.Survivors: into the wilderness (Mission impossible)
Par Jim Pipe. 2011
Highlights some extreme survival stories of adventurers who met with disaster, from being adrift on the ocean to getting lost…
in the Sahara Dessert. Explains the split-second decisions that make the difference between living and dying. And find out what to do if you’re lost in the jungle, the mountains, or in the middle of the ocean. Grades 3-6. 2011.Tales from the West Coast: smugglers, sea monsters, blushing brides and other stories
Par Adrienne Mason. 2003
From record-breaking tea clippers to rum runners and sea monsters, life on the west coast has never been dull. Rich…
in seafaring legend and adventure, these stories will take you on a voyage of discovery into the past and around the world. 2003.Tales from the galley: stories of the working waterfront
Par Doreen Armitage. 2007
Doreen Armitage, author of "Around the Sound" (DC25120) returns with a fresh collection of salty tales from a varied collection…
of men who earn their living in, on or beside the sea. Some of these stories involve momentous events with sinking ships and loss of life, but most simply recount everyday happenings. c2007.Tales mummies tell
Par Patricia Lauber. 1985
Discusses the human mummies of Egypt and how they were preserved, the discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia and…
the mummies of Peru. For junior and senior high readers. 1985.Takeoff!: the story of America's first woman pilot for a major airline
Par Bonnie Tiburzi. 1984
The author describes how she was hired by a major airline and gives details of her career as flight engineer…
and co-pilot. She includes some of the harassment she and other female pilots have faced. 1984.Survivors!: true death-defying escapes
Par Larry Verstraete. 2003
Think about your worst fears - being attacked by a wild animal, swept away by a killer storm, trapped in…
a wrecked car or a burning building. Here are 29 stories of real people who survived life-threatening situations. Each section includes Survival Tips that give readers essential information about what to do in dangerous circumstances. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Bestseller 2005. 2003.Shackleton's boat journey: the narrative from the Captain of the Endurance
Par Frank Arthur Worsley. 2001
Worsley was the captain of the Endurance, the boat Ernest Shackleton and his men were on while attempting an Antarctic…
expedition in 1914. When the Endurance became trapped in ice, which eventually crushed the ship, the expedition became one of survival as the crew camped on a giant drifting ice floe. Eventually, Shackleton took five men, Worsley included, on an 800-mile journey on the open seas to get help on inhabited South Georgia Island. 2001.