Download or read book A Smart Kids Guide to Dreamy Deserts and Tempting Tropical Islands written by Liam Saxon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Smart Kids Guide presents: Dreamy Deserts and Tempting Tropical Islands Are your children curious about Dreamy Deserts and Tempting Tropical Islands? Would they like to know how much of the planet's land surface is desert? Have they learnt what sub-tropical deserts are or what a tropical island is? Inside this book, your children will begin a journey that will satisfy their curiosity by answering questions like these and many more! Dreamy Deserts and Tempting Tropical Islands will allow your child to learn more about the wonderful world in which we live, with a fun and engaging approach that will light a fire in their imagination. We're raising our children in an era where attention spans are continuously decreasing. A Smart Kids Guide provides a fun, and interactive way of keep your children engaged and looking forward to learn, with beautiful pictures, coupled with the amazing, fun facts. Get your kids learning today! Pick up your copy of A Smart Kids Guide To Dreamy Deserts and Tempting Tropical Islands book now! Table of Contents Chapter 1- How Much of the Planet's Land Surface is Desert? Chapter 2- What are Sub-Tropical Deserts? Chapter 3- How Many Countries Have An Area That Lies Within the Sahara? Chapter 4- How Much Rainfall Does the Kalahari Desert Get? Chapter 5- What Animals Live in the Gibson Desert? Chapter 6- How Many Square Kilometres is the Gobi Desert? Chapter 7- What Mountain Range is to the West of the Patagonian Desert? Chapter 8- How was the Great Basin Desert Formed? Chapter 9- What is the Most Famous Feature in the Colorado Plateau Desert? Chapter 10- What Does the Word Arctic Mean? Chapter 11- What is the Yearly Precipitation in the Antarctic? Chapter 12- How Long can the Sand Dunes of the Namib Desert Be? Chapter 13- What is the Scientific Classification of a Desert? Chapter 14- What is the Rub 'Al-Khali? Chapter 15- What is the Highest Recorded Temperature in the Mojave Desert? Chapter 16- How Many Deserts Does Australian Have? Chapter 17- What are Cold Winter Deserts Also Known As? Chapter 18- What is the "Door to Hell"? Chapter 19- What is the Average Temperature in a Polar Desert in the Warmest Month? Chapter 20- What is the Sand Like in Cool Coastal Deserts? Chapter 21- What is a Tropical Island? Chapter 22- What is the Highest Point in Bali? Chapter 23- What are the Names of Tahiti's Volcanos? Chapter 24- Where is Tristan Da Cunha Located? Chapter 25- How Big is Tioman Island? Chapter 26- How Long is Palawan Island? Chapter 27- What Famous Movie was Filmed on Kauai? Chapter 28- Where are the Whitsunday Islands? Chapter 29- What is the Capital of St. Bart's? Chapter 30- How Many People Live on Tetepare Island? Chapter 31- How Many Rivers are There on the Island of Dominica? Chapter 32- What Pirate Based Himself on Isla De Providencia? Chapter 33- What was the Ancient Name of the Island of Bora Bora? Chapter 34- What is the Population of Koh Samui? Chapter 35- How Wide is the Island of Roatan? Chapter 36- What Island Group is Aitutaki Part Of? Chapter 37- How Much Does it Cost to Stay on Mnemba Island for a Night? Chapter 38- How High are the Volcanic Peaks of St. Lucia? Chapter 39- How Many Islands Make Up the Seychelles? Chapter 40- How Did Ascension Island Get its Name?
Download or read book A Smart Kids Guide to Tempting Tropical Islands and Wacky Weather written by Liam Saxon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Smart Kids Guide presents: TEMPTING TROPICAL ISLANDS AND WACKY WEATHER Are your children curious about Tempting Tropical Islands and Wacky Weather? Would they like to know what the highest point in Bali is? Have they learnt where the Whitsunday Islands are or what solar power is? Inside this book, your children will begin a journey that will satisfy their curiosity by answering questions like these and many more! TEMPTING TROPICAL ISLANDS AND WACKY WEATHER will allow your child to learn more about the wonderful world in which we live, with a fun and engaging approach that will light a fire in their imagination. We're raising our children in an era where attention spans are continuously decreasing. A Smart Kids Guide provides a fun, and interactive way of keep your children engaged and looking forward to learn, with beautiful pictures, coupled with the amazing, fun facts. Get your kids learning today! Pick up your copy of A Smart Kids Guide To TEMPTING TROPICAL ISLANDS AND WACKY WEATHER book now! Table of Contents Chapter 1- What is a Tropical Island? Chapter 2- What was the Ancient Name of the Island of Bora Bora? Chapter 3- What are the Names of Tahiti's Volcanos? Chapter 4- Where is Tristan Da Cunha Located? Chapter 5- How Much Does it Cost to Stay on Mnemba Island for a Night? Chapter 6- What Famous Movie was Filmed on Kauai? Chapter 7- What is the Capital of St. Bart's? Chapter 8- How Many People Live on Tetepare Island? Chapter 9- What Pirate Based Himself on Isla De Providencia? Chapter 10- What is the Highest Point in Bali? Chapter 11- What is the Population of Koh Samui? Chapter 12- How Wide is the Island of Roatan? Chapter 13- What Island Group is Aitutaki Part Of? Chapter 14- How Big is Tioman Island? Chapter 15- How Long is Palawan Island? Chapter 16- How High are the Volcanic Peaks of St. Lucia? Chapter 17- Where are the Whitsunday Islands? Chapter 18- How Many Islands Make Up the Seychelles? Chapter 19- How Many Rivers are There on the Island of Dominica? Chapter 20- How Did Ascension Island Get its Name? Chapter 21- What is Weather? Chapter 22- What is Climate? Chapter 23- What Causes Lightning? Chapter 24- What is Used to Measure Sunlight? Chapter 25- What is Rain? Chapter 26- How is Temperature Measured? Chapter 27- What is a Weather Front? Chapter 28- What is a Tornado? Chapter 29- What is Solar Power? Chapter 30- What is Wind? Chapter 31- What is Wind Speed? Chapter 32- What is a Storm? Chapter 33- What Are Hailstones? Chapter 34- What Are Clouds? Chapter 35- What is Snow? Chapter 36- What is Humidity? Chapter 37- What is Fog? Chapter 38- What is an Ice Storm? Chapter 39- What is Meteorology? Chapter 40- What Are Wind Farms?
Download or read book A Smart Kids Guide to Terrific Tourism and Tempting Tropical Islands written by Liam Saxon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Smart Kids Guide presents: TERRIFIC TOURISM AND TEMPTING TROPICAL ISLANDS Are your children curious about Terrific Tourism and Tempting Tropical Islands? Would they like to know what tourism is? Have they learnt where the Whitsunday Islands are or how long Palawan island is? Inside this book, your children will begin a journey that will satisfy their curiosity by answering questions like these and many more! TERRIFIC TOURISM AND TEMPTING TROPICAL ISLANDS will allow your child to learn more about the wonderful world in which we live, with a fun and engaging approach that will light a fire in their imagination. We're raising our children in an era where attention spans are continuously decreasing. A Smart Kids Guide provides a fun, and interactive way of keep your children engaged and looking forward to learn, with beautiful pictures, coupled with the amazing, fun facts. Get your kids learning today! Pick up your copy of A Smart Kids Guide To TERRIFIC TOURISM AND TEMPTING TROPICAL ISLANDS book now! Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1-What is the History of Tourism? Chapter 2- What are Some Popular Pieces of Tourist Gear? Chapter 3- Do Tourists Experience Health Benefits from Traveling? Chapter 4- What is the Longest Commercial Flight in the World? Chapter 5- What are Some Exotic Places that Tourists Stay When Traveling? Chapter 6- Where Should I Visit if I Want to See Volcanoes? Chapter 7- Do Tourists Travel to Antarctica? Chapter 8- What is the Most Visited Historic Site in the World? Chapter 9- What is World Tourism Day? Chapter 10- Why Do People Like to Travel? Chapter 11- Why is Travel Important to People? Chapter 12- What are the Other Benefits of Travel? Chapter 13- Tell Me a Little Bit About Air Travel Chapter 14- Where Do Tourists Sleep When They Travel? Chapter 15- What is The Most Visited Country in the World? Chapter 16- Tell Me About the Eiffel Tower Chapter 17- The Trevi Fountain Chapter 18- Tell Me About Disney World Chapter 19- Where Else Can I Find Disney World Besides Florida? Chapter 20- What is a Tropical Island? Chapter 21- What was the Ancient Name of the Island of Bora Bora? Chapter 22- What are the Names of Tahiti's Volcanos? Chapter 23- Where is Tristan Da Cunha Located? Chapter 24- How Much Does it Cost to Stay on Mnemba Island for a Night? Chapter 25- What Famous Movie was Filmed on Kauai? Chapter 26- What is the Capital of St. Bart's? Chapter 27- How Many People Live on Tetepare Island? Chapter 28- What Pirate Based Himself on Isla De Providencia? Chapter 29- What is the Highest Point in Bali? Chapter 30- What is the Population of Koh Samui? Chapter 31- How Wide is the Island of Roatan? Chapter 32- What Island Group is Aitutaki Part Of? Chapter 33- How Big is Tioman Island? Chapter 34- How Long is Palawan Island? Chapter 35- How High are the Volcanic Peaks of St. Lucia? Chapter 36- Where are the Whitsunday Islands? Chapter 37- How Many Islands Make Up the Seychelles? Chapter 38- How Many Rivers are There on the Island of Dominica? Chapter 39- How Did Ascension Island Get its Name?
Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Download or read book The Android s Dream written by John Scalzi and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner John Scalzi, a wild-and-woolly caper novel of interstellar diplomacy A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most . . . unusual . . . way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: a type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinare, who, with the help of a childhood friend turned artificial intelligence, scours the earth looking for the rare creature. But there are others with plans for the sheep as well. Mercenaries employed by the military. Adherents of a secret religion based on the writings of a 21st century SF author. And alien races, eager to start a revolution on their home world and a war on Earth. To keep our planet from being enslaved, Harry will have to pull off a grand diplomatic coup, a gambit that will take him from the halls of power to the lava-strewn battlefields of alien worlds. There's only one chance to get it right, to save the life of the sheep—and to protect the future of humanity. Other Tor Books The Android’s Dream Agent to the Stars Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Fuzzy Nation Redshirts 1. Lock In 2. Head On The Interdepency Sequence 1. The Collapsing Empire 2. The Consuming Fire Old Man's War Series 1. Old Man’s War 2. The Ghost Brigades 3. The Last Colony 4. Zoe’s Tale 5. The Human Division 6. The End of All Things At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Albion s Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Download or read book Democracy and Education written by John Dewey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1916 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
Download or read book A Death in the Rainforest written by Don Kulick and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost), this is an excellent choice.” —The Washington Post As a young anthropologist, Don Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can’t study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely, and he found himself inexorably drawn into their world, and implicated in their destiny. Kulick wanted to tell the story of Gapuners—one that went beyond the particulars and uses of their language—that took full stock of their vanishing culture. This book takes us inside the village as he came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a tropical rainforest. But A Death in the Rainforest is also an illuminating look at the impact of Western culture on the farthest reaches of the globe and the story of why this anthropologist realized finally that he had to give up his study of this language and this village. An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogation of what it means to study a culture, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that is on the verge of disappearing forever.
Download or read book A Little History of the World written by E. H. Gombrich and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.
Download or read book Butcher and Beast written by Angie Mar and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fashionably photographed book that’s as high-rolling and unapologetically carnivorous as [the Beatrice Inn].”—The New York Times Book Review IACP AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW The Beatrice Inn’s presence in New York City spans close to a century, and its history is ever changing, from one of New York’s first speakeasies, frequented by Fitzgerald and Hemingway, to a beloved neighborhood Italian restaurant to one of the city’s most notorious night clubs. Angie Mar purchased the Beatrice Inn in 2016 and led the storied landmark into its next chapter. Mar transformed the space and the menu into a stunning subterranean den where guests are meant to throw caution to the wind and engage in their most primal of senses. Pete Wells, in his rave two-star New York Times review, summed it up best: “It is a place to go when you want to celebrate your life as an animal.” Now, in Mar’s debut cookbook, the Beatrice Inn experience will resonate with readers no matter where they live. Butcher and Beast invites readers into this glamorous, gutsy, and forever-nocturnal world. Mar’s unconventional approach to flavor profiles are captured in over 80 recipes, including Milk-Braised Pork Shoulder, Duck and Foie Gras Pie, Venison Cassoulet, and Bone Marrow–Bourbon Crème Brûlée. Throughout are also essays on Mar’s controversial and cutting-edge dry-aging techniques, her adoration of Champagne, the reality of what it takes to lead in the New York City restaurant scene, and the love and loyalty of her tight-knit family. Visually arresting photography shot entirely on Polaroid film captures the elegant and ever-opulent world of the Beatrice Inn.
Download or read book Dreamtime written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making the ordinary appears wondrous.
Download or read book The Dream Machine written by M. Mitchell Waldrop and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet—and shifted our understanding of what computers could be. Behind every great revolution is a vision and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. He did not design the first personal computers or write the software that ran on them, nor was he involved in the legendary early companies that brought them to the forefront of our everyday experience. He was instead a relentless visionary that saw the potential of the way individuals could interact with computers and software. At a time when computers were a short step removed from mechanical data processors, Licklider was writing treatises on "human-computer symbiosis", "computers as communication devices", and a now not-so-unfamiliar "Intergalactic Network." His ideas became so influential, his passion so contagious, that Waldrop called him "computing's Johnny Appleseed. In a simultaneously compelling personal narrative and comprehensive historical exposition, Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could be. Included in this edition are also the original texts of Licklider's three most influential writings: 'Man-computer symbiosis' (1960), which outlines the vision that inspired the personal computer revolution of the 1970s; his 'Intergalactic Network' memo (1963), which outlines the vision that inspired the internet; and "The computer as a communication device" (1968, co-authored with Robert Taylor), which amplifies his vision for what the network could become.
Download or read book Complexity written by M. Mitchell Waldrop and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Alcoholics Anonymous written by Bill W. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
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Download or read book Unbroken written by Laura Hillenbrand and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.”—New York “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”—People “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.”—The Washington Post “Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times.”—The Dallas Morning News “An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel.”—Washingtonian “[Hillenbrand tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.”—Time “Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
