Zac Power: Fossil Fury
Title | Zac Power: Fossil Fury PDF eBook |
Author | H. I. Larry |
Publisher | Hardie Grant Egmont |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2010-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1742730205 |
Another thrilling Zac Power adventure! Zac knows the dinosaurs died out millions of years ago. So why would a crazy scientist claim that he's brought one back to life?
Fossil Fury
Title | Fossil Fury PDF eBook |
Author | H. I. Larry |
Publisher | Hardie Grant Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781742975177 |
In March 2006, dastardly villains and evil masterminds around the world got a rude shock. They met their match in the form of a 12 year-old boy. Zac Power rose through the ranks of the GIB, regularly saving the world and doing his homework. He was a boy spy with his priorities straight. Zac Power got boys reading. He was the first to tap into the high-octane action, low word count, reluctant reading genre for boys in a cool and meaningful way. He built boys' reading confidence and fostered a love of words. Zac Power was just a silhouette, but he represented so much more. He resonated with boys: they imagined that they were Zac, or they could one day join Zac Power on a mission! They yearned for every detail about his world, they speculated about what he might look like, and they begged for more information about the elusive H.I. Larry. In April 2013, it's time to meet the boy behind the silhouette as we re-launch Zac Power for a new generation of readers.
Fossil Fury
Title | Fossil Fury PDF eBook |
Author | H.I. Larry |
Publisher | Hardie Grant Publishing |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2013-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1743580223 |
Dr Drastic is claiming he’s cloned a dinosaur.Can Zac escape the flesh-eating plants inDrastic’s BioDome to find out the truth?
Art Crime in Context
Title | Art Crime in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Oosterman |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2022-11-23 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 3031140842 |
This book brings together empirical and theoretical case-study research on art and heritage crime. Drawn from a diverse group of researchers and professionals, the work presented explores contemporary conceptualisations of art crime within broader contexts. In this volume, we see ‘art’ in its usual forms for art crime scholarship: in paintings and antiquities. However, we also see art in fossils and in violins, chairs and jewellery, holes in the ground and even in the institutions meant to protect any, or all, of the above. And where there is art, there is crime. Chapters in this volume, alternatively, zoom in on specific objects, on specific locations, and on specific institutions, considering how each interact with the various conceptions of crime that exist in those contexts. This volume challenges the boundaries of what we understand as “art and heritage crimes” and displays that both art, and criminality related to art, is creative and unpredictable.
The Dinosaur Artist
Title | The Dinosaur Artist PDF eBook |
Author | Paige Williams |
Publisher | Hachette Books |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 2018-09-11 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0316382507 |
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot). In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.
On the Sleeve at Fifty
Title | On the Sleeve at Fifty PDF eBook |
Author | Jesse C. Robison |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 2005-11 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1599260859 |
The book compiles poetry written in the last ten years. The poetry deals with many subjects including child abuse, the beauty of nature, people who touch me, and other matters of inspiration. The book is a journey of the soul.
The Complete Guide to Colorado's Wilderness Areas
Title | The Complete Guide to Colorado's Wilderness Areas PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Pearson |
Publisher | Big Earth Publishing |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781565795167 |
Since the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, Congress has designated 41 wilderness areas in Colorado, totaling some 3.4 million acres ranging from desert sagebrush to alpine crags. In addition, other undeveloped areas and national parklands have been proposed for wilderness status. In its newly revised second edition, The Complete Guide to Colorado's Wilderness Areas continues to serve as the foremost guide to these magnificent wild places.