Earth Sciences
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne

“Behind the runners are the boxers,” said Plato. “They’re wearing special gloves and bronze helmets.” Jack wrote: “Behind them are the wrestlers,” said Plato. And Jack wrote: When Jack looked ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-07-01 | Author:Jack Higgins

Afterwards, he walked her round to her door. It was snowing just a little and very cold. He said, “Must remind you of home, this weather?” “Home?” She looked blank ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Gary D. Schmidt

On the day before Thanksgiving, we got a postcard from Lucas—still not in his handwriting—that said he was coming home, finally. He'd be back by the middle of December. "Remember, ...
( Category: Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne

Inside the lamplit hut, it was dry and cozy. Jack sat back on his bench. He didn’t dare look at Jeb. “It’s time for our writing lesson now,” Miss Neely ...
( Category: Beginner Readers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne

A woman in a blue bathrobe was sitting on a crumbling stone wall. She was sobbing into her handkerchief. Two boys with dark hair sat next to the woman. The ...
( Category: Beginner Readers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |ru | 2012-04-18 | Author:Edward Humes

TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Pelling, Mark [Pelling, Mark]

Conclusion The aim of this chapter has been to make a claim for transformation as a legitimate element of adaptation theory and practice. In doing so the challenges of escaping ...
( Category: Climatology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Brown, Lester R. [Brown, Lester R.]

* * * Data, endnotes, and additional resources can be found on Earth Policy’s Web site, at www.earth-policy.org. * * * 9 Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy As fossil ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2001-06-11 | Author:Bill Bryson

WHAT HE HAD FOR US THE NEXT DAY was a place called Alpine National Park, and in fact it was even better. Covering 2,500 square miles of eastern Victoria, it ...
( Category: Australian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Amity Shlaes

Eleven: The Siege and the Spruce Washington, D.C. WHAT JUMPED OUT WAS the number. It was $1,841,759,316.80, the total income tax revenues for the fiscal year that had ended in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2000-04-04 | Author:Dean Koontz

SANTORELLI: Pull! BLANE: Oh, wow. SANTORELLI: Mother of God BLANE: Oh, yeah. SANTORELLI: No. BLANE: (childlike excitement) Oh, yeah. SANTORELLI: Susan. BLANE: Now. Look. Santorelli begins to scream. BLANE: Cool. ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:S. C. Gwynne

Coho Smith captured Cynthia Ann as no one else has. Other people saw her as sullen, brooding, unresponsive, detached. Despondent. Even crazy, or at least so far sunk in savagery ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-11-02 | Author:Caroline Alexander

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-12-22 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

One unwelcome novelty of the latter half of the twentieth century, for example, was the race riot, among the most notable being those of Notting Hill in 1958 and of ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Maclean, Norman [Maclean, Norman]

A few summers ago, thirty years after the fire, I sent what I hoped was gentle word through a common friend to a mother of one of the Mann Gulch ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 25,2014 )