Download or read book Maxwell s History of the World in 366 Lessons written by M. J. Trow and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Maxwell is the History teacher you wish you’d had. If you meet anyone (and you will) who says ‘I hate History. It’s boring,’ they weren’t taught by Mad Max. Many of you will know him as the crime-solving sleuth (along with his police-person wife, Jacquie) in the Maxwell series by M.J. Trow (along with his non-policeperson wife, Carol, aka Maryanne Coleman – uncredited!) but what he is paid to do is teach History. And to that end has brought – and continues to bring – culture to thousands. In his ‘blog’ (Dinosaur Maxwell doesn’t really know what that is) written in 2012, the year in which the world was supposed to end, but mysteriously didn’t, you will find all sorts of fascinating factoids about the only important subject on the school curriculum. So, if you weren’t lucky enough to be taught by Max, or you’ve forgotten all the History you ever knew, here is your chance to play catch-up. The ‘blog’ has been edited by Maxwell’s friend, the crime writer M.J. Trow, who writes almost as though he knows what the Great Man was thinking. As Maxwell himself has been known to say – Spooky!

Download or read book Fyre Stone The Resurrection Men written by Steve Downes and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two in the Fyre & Stone series. Sebastian Fyre and John Stone are reluctantly reunited when they are hired by an aristocrat who believes he is going to be the victim of a murder. Deep in the heart of rural Ireland, where a thin veneer of the modern world covers centuries of superstition, Fyre and Stone find themselves embroiled in a set of mysterious murders and disappearances. Dark forces are at work, and have set in motion a dangerous and deadly chain reaction…

Download or read book Always in the Dark One Woman s Search for Answers from a Family Shrouded in Secrets written by Diane Harding and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always in the Dark: One Woman's Search for Answers from a Family Shrouded in Secrets is a deeply moving memoir that tells of secrets, scandal and survival. After her parents emigrated post war, Diane spends her idyllic and cosy childhood in Cape Town, which is ruined at the age of three after the arrival of a visitor. Her roller coaster existence and mother’s mental breakdown when she is eight adds to her confusion. Her father works for Cadbury’s and after securing a transfer with the company, the family move back to England when she is fourteen. With each new move, of which there are many, Diane prays that happiness will return to her parents’ marriage. It is obvious her home life is a weird one and it is only after her mother’s death that she rummages through her secret box and unearths a wealth of staggering information she does not know exists. But Diane is a young child when it all begins and the fact she has lived her life to the point of naivety is beyond baffling. And because of the hurt and embarrassment her shocking revelation is not something she wants to share with her husband. The search for the truth sends Diane on numerous missions to talk to many people only to discover that she is the last to know about her dysfunctional family. Her goal is to hear an apology for her ruined childhood.

Download or read book Chasing the Beast written by Russell Brown and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when a maniac with a gun is threatening your life? Simple, you chase after him! Danny is angry, frustrated and hurt. One moment he’s looking forward to spending the day having fun, the next he’s watching in horror as his dad is shot and killed by a guy in a blue coat. In a single devastating moment his life is torn to pieces. Now all he wants is justice, but to get that he has to catch the guy, and that means chasing him all over the countryside, stealing a combine harvester, a touch of breaking and entering and a near death experience. Chasing the Beast is a story of love and loss and strange men in pin-striped suits. Will Dan catch the beast or will the beast catch him?

Download or read book Fyre Stone The Spectre Games written by Steve Downes and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book one in the Fyre & Stone series. Two men from the same city, but very different worlds. Sebastian Fyre is a wealthy young Lord with an unshakable belief that he can communicate with the dead. John Stone is a tough policeman who grew up in the Victorian slum tenements of the city he now patrols. A series of brutal murders across the city throw these two men into a reluctant and volatile partnership. Fyre and Stone attempt to hunt down a conspiracy of killers, while trying to avoid becoming prey themselves.

Download or read book They Told Us It Was Haunted written by Amy-Brooke Odell and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two got together when they both had another. One took out their anger from the loss of a lover. The last one tried to hang on to what was losing ground, and when it couldn’t be stopped? He decided to tear it down. All their lives they’ve heard of the horrors of the old Doris House. Nine years ago, best friends; Derek, Ellie, Whitney, and Jackson decided to finally go inside, to find out if the haunting tales were true. Nine years ago, they emerged from the house with their secrets intact, but their friendship forever fractured. They’ve moved on with their lives; but now that Ellie has returned, so have their secrets. Revenge is coming to collect for their past misdeeds, but how can they save themselves if they can’t trust each other? Maybe the stories they grew up with are true, and the house really is home to something sinister, or maybe there is someone out there who knows everything.

Download or read book Let s Write Right An Aspiring Authors Guide to Writing Self Publishing and Traditional Publishing written by Merle Erith and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one can teach anyone else to write; you either can, or you can't do it. But it is possible to help someone to write better, and this is what this book is about. It is full of handy hints, written in an accessible way which will also, hopefully, make you smile. What it isn't full of is tables, rules and 'do it this way or else'! Written anonymously by an author of dozens of books and editor of hundreds more, Let's Write Right will show you how to set out a document, how not to annoy publishers and agents and how to make your book, whatever its genre, just the very best it can possibly be.

Download or read book The Winds of Change Making Peace with Asperger s written by Keiron Austwick and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Winds of Change: Making Peace with Asperger's is the ultimate feel good story of living with a condition that affects one in a hundred people. This fictionalised account, mirroring aspects of the author's own experiences, shines a light on life with Asperger's and how it affects those diagnosed with it, their co-workers, their friends and their family. Rhys, who struggles with his condition, will discover that 2018 becomes the defining year of his life and, with the love and support of his family, finds that his world is changing for the better and that it really is possible to make peace with Asperger's.

Download or read book Other Mothers written by Caroline Lowrie and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hospital. Two missing infants. Three decades apart. When a newborn is snatched from the Maternity Unit at St Catherine’s Hospital, a desperate police hunt ensues. Only a small window of opportunity exists in which to identify a suspect and bring the baby back safely. Detective Sergeant Meg Wiley, close to retirement and panicking about what she’ll do with her empty days, reluctantly joins the search, but she’s haunted by her memories. Feeling estranged from her partner Emma, she struggles to concentrate on the job. She soon discovers, however, that the past is a key. Her history will unlock the mystery that surrounds the disappearance of not one, but two babies. ★★★★★ - 'Beautifully written, a page-turner to the very end.' - Bethan White, author of Fade

Download or read book Us vs the Rest of the World written by Julia Cowan and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Maddie knows about loss. Still coping with the death of her father, her world starts to go horribly wrong in more ways than she could have imagined. The adults who have always defined her are acting strange and then… are simply not there at all. Now living with her older sister and a small group of friends, they must work together to find depths of resilience as their community battle to survive. There must be an answer to the chaos that is erupting around them – it is just a matter of finding it.

Download or read book Air Power For Patton s Army The XIX Tactical Air Command In The Second World War Illustrated Edition written by David N. Spires and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 3 charts, 28 maps and 88 photos. This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during the war, the combination of the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton and the XIX Tactical Air Command led by Brig. Gen. Otto P. Weyland proved to be the most effective allied air-ground team of World War II. The great success of Patton’s drive across France, ultimately crossing the Rhine, and then racing across southern Germany, owed a great deal to Weyland’s airmen of the XIX Tactical Air Command. This deft cooperation paved the way for allied victory in Western Europe and today remains a classic example of air-ground effectiveness. It forever highlighted the importance of air-ground commanders working closely together on the battlefield.

Download or read book New York School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning written by Scott Alan Metzger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive review of the research literature on history education with contributions from international experts The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning draws on contributions from an international panel of experts. Their writings explore the growth the field has experienced in the past three decades and offer observations on challenges and opportunities for the future. The contributors represent a wide range of pioneering, established, and promising new scholars with diverse perspectives on history education. Comprehensive in scope, the contributions cover major themes and issues in history education including: policy, research, and societal contexts; conceptual constructs of history education; ideologies, identities, and group experiences in history education; practices and learning; historical literacies: texts, media, and social spaces; and consensus and dissent. This vital resource: Contains original writings by more than 40 scholars from seven countries Identifies major themes and issues shaping history education today Highlights history education as a distinct field of scholarly inquiry and academic practice Presents an authoritative survey of where the field has been and offers a view of what the future may hold Written for scholars and students of education as well as history teachers with an interest in the current issues in their field, The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning is a comprehensive handbook that explores the increasingly global field of history education as it has evolved to the present day.

Download or read book A People s History of the World written by Chris Harman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes. An “indispensable volume” on class and capitalism throughout the ages—for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and history as it truly was (Howard Zinn) From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the human race. Eschewing the standard accounts of “Great Men,” of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep across the centuries in the tradition of “history from below.” In a fiery narrative, he shows how ordinary men and women were involved in creating and changing society and how conflict between classes was often at the core of these developments. While many scholars see the victory of capitalism as now safely secured, Harman explains the rise and fall of societies and civilizations throughout the ages and demonstrates that history moves ever onward in every age. A vital corrective to traditional history, A People's History of the World is essential reading for anyone interested in how society has changed and developed and the possibilities for further radical progress.

Download or read book Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research written by Rona F. Flippo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source available for college reading and study strategy practitioners and administrators. In this thorough and systematic examination of theory, r

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Download or read book Kinetic Theory Of Gases The An Anthology Of Classic Papers With Historical Commentary written by Stephen G Brush and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces physics students and teachers to the historical development of the kinetic theory of gases, by providing a collection of the most important contributions by Clausius, Maxwell and Boltzmann, with introductory surveys explaining their significance. In addition, extracts from the works of Boyle, Newton, Mayer, Joule, Helmholtz, Kelvin and others show the historical context of ideas about gases, energy and irreversibility. In addition to five thematic essays connecting the classical kinetic theory with 20th century topics such as indeterminism and interatomic forces, there is an extensive international bibliography of historical commentaries on kinetic theory, thermodynamics, etc. published in the past four decades.The book will be useful to historians of science who need primary and secondary sources to be conveniently available for their own research and interpretation, along with the bibliography which makes it easier to learn what other historians have already done on this subject.