The Cave That Shouldn't Collapse
Title | The Cave That Shouldn't Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Brezenoff |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1434232271 |
Egg finds out that caves are a perfect place for a mystery.
Field Trip Mysteries: The Cave That Shouldn't Collapse
Title | Field Trip Mysteries: The Cave That Shouldn't Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Brezenoff |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2014-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 143429885X |
Edward "Egg" Garrison thought the field trip to the caverns would be a great place to take pictures. It turns out it's the perfect place for a mystery!
The Symphony That Was Silent
Title | The Symphony That Was Silent PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Brezenoff |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2011-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1434232263 |
On a class trip to the symphony, James "Gum" Shoo and his friends solve the mystery of the stolen flute.
Field Trip Mysteries: The Ghost Who Haunted the Capitol
Title | Field Trip Mysteries: The Ghost Who Haunted the Capitol PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Brezenoff |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2014-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1434298795 |
In Washington, D.C. on a field trip, Egg Garrison and his friends solve a haunting mystery.
The Cave
Title | The Cave PDF eBook |
Author | José Saramago |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2003-10-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547537980 |
An unassuming family struggles to keep up with the ruthless pace of progress in “a genuinely brilliant novel” from a Nobel Prize winner (Chicago Tribune). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices. Marçal works there as a security guard, and Cipriano drives him to work each day before delivering his own humble pots and jugs. On one such trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. People prefer plastic, apparently. Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and Cipriano and Marta set to work—until the order is cancelled and the penniless trio must move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their new apartment, Cipriano and Marçal investigate; what they find transforms the family’s life, in a novel that is both “irrepressibly funny” (The Christian Science Monitor) and a “triumph” (The Washington Post Book World). “The struggle of the individual against bureaucracy and anonymity is one of the great subjects of modern literature, and Saramago is often matched with Kafka as one of its premier exponents. Apt as the comparison is, it doesn’t convey the warmth and rueful human dimension of novels like Blindness and All the Names. Those qualities are particularly evident in his latest brilliant, dark allegory, which links the encroaching sterility of modern life to the parable of Plato’s cave . . . [a] remarkably generous and eloquent novel.” —Publishers Weekly Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
The Fall: Revelation and Dust
Title | The Fall: Revelation and Dust PDF eBook |
Author | David R. George |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2013-08-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476722307 |
WELCOME TO THE NEW DEEP SPACE 9. After the destruction of the original space station by a rogue faction of the Typhon Pact, Miles O’Brien and Nog have led the Starfleet Corps of Engineers in designing and constructing a larger, more advanced starbase in the Bajoran system. Now, as familiar faces such as Benjamin Sisko, Kasidy Yates, Ezri Dax, Odo, and Quark arrive at the new station, Captain Ro Laren will host various heads of state at an impressive dedication ceremony. The dignitaries include not only the leaders of allies—such as Klingon Chancellor Martok, Ferengi Grand Nagus Rom, the Cardassian castellan, and the Bajoran first minister—but also those of rival powers, such as the Romulan praetor and the Gorn imperator. But as Ro’s crew prepares to open DS9 to the entire Bajor Sector and beyond, disaster looms. A faction has already set in action a shocking plan that, if successful, will shake the Alpha and Beta Quadrants to the core. And what of Kira Nerys, lost aboard a runabout when the Bajoran wormhole collapsed? In the two years that have passed during construction of the new Deep Space 9, there have been no indications that the Celestial Temple, the Prophets, or Kira have survived. But since Ben Sisko once learned that the wormhole aliens exist nonlinearly in time, what does that mean with respect to their fate, or that of the wormhole...or of Kira herself?
Understanding Collapse
Title | Understanding Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Guy D. Middleton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2017-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110715149X |
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.