Download or read book Steel Pelicans written by Des Hunt and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes friendship and loyalty can be dangerous things - especially when combined with fireworks and bombs, as Pelly discovers. The Waikato Heads have never been more dangerous ... Inseparable best friends Dean and Pelly frequently get up to no good. Dean is a dare-devil, and Pelly always seems to end up going along for the ride. Dean's amateur bomb-making is one step too far, and is soon followed by a bombshell of another sort: Pelly's parents are shifting the family back to New Zealand. Via email and Skype they arrange for Dean to visit in the school holidays. In the meantime, Pelly and his new friend Afi have stumbled upon drug ring operating between their school and near Afi's beach bach. the pair are well on the way to collecting the evidence they need to bust the operation, when Dean joins them from Australia. Pelly might have changed, but devil-may-care Dean most certainly hasn't. In no time at all, Dean's bomb-making obsession threatens not only the investigation but also lives.Ages: 9+
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Download or read book Pelican s Landing written by Gerri Hill and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high-powered high life loses all its allure in the face of family tragedy. A return to the Gulf Coast life and a chance to reconnect and reclaim what really matters leads to unexpected passion and a final chance at true love in this tumultuous summer romance from best-selling author Gerri Hill!
Download or read book Smile Stealers The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry written by Richard Barnett and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive and startling international review of the evolution of dentistry from the Bronze Age to the present day, presented in a gorgeous package This achingly fascinating book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, featuring captivating, grim illustrations of the tools and techniques of dentistry through the ages. It charts the changing social attitudes toward the purpose and practice of dentistry from the crude and painful endeavors of early civilizations to the fluoridated water, cosmetic surgery, and heightened expectations of today. Organized chronologically, The Smile Stealers interleaves beautiful and gruesome 3D objects, technical illustrations, and paintings from the Wellcome Collection’s unique medical archive of material from Europe, America, and the Far East with seven authoritative and eloquent themed articles from medical historian Richard Barnett. Including previously unseen illustrations, this comprehensive review of the development of the trade and discipline of dentistry covers topics as diverse as the very first dentures, the smile revolution in eighteenth-century portraiture, and the role of dentistry in forensic science. The Smile Stealers is guaranteed to appeal to those who see the beauty in medicine and biology as it probes the growth of dentistry.
Download or read book A Scientific Romance written by Ronald Wright and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critically acclaimed and bestselling novel, Ronald Wright has fashioned a story for our times, an unforgettable chronicle of love, plague and time travel in the tradition of Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Handmaid's Tale.
Download or read book A Gift of the Emperor written by Therese Park and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World War II, Soon-ah, 17, is among a class of Korean schoolgirls abducted by Japanese troops to serve as comfort women. A Japanese reporter falls in love with her, they manage to escape and are rescued by the U.S. Navy.
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Download or read book Antique Medical Instruments written by Elisabeth Bennion and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates the design and development of medical, surgical, and dental instruments, functional aids, medicine receptacles, and infant and invalid feeding utensils from the Middle Ages to 1870
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Download or read book Ballparks of North America written by Michael Benson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What grandstand collapsed during a game, killing twelve? How high is the Green monster in Fenway? In what park was the outfield fence only 187 feet from home plate? Ballparks of North America is a comprehensive encyclopedia of the grounds, yards and stadiums used for organized baseball from the invention of the sport in the 1840s to the year 1988. Entries, listed alphabetically by community, cover everything from cornfields to Yankee Stadium. Each entry gives the location of the park, who played there and when, home run dimensions, seating capacity, architectural comments, attendance records, and anecdotes. More than 100 photos and drawings are included, some rare.
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