Download or read book Landmarks Historic Sites of Long Island written by Ralph F. Brady and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's Long Island is long on history from land to sea! Ralph Brady covers well known and unknown sites, events, homes, places and people. Everyone lucky enough to live on Long Island already knows that it's like nowhere else in the world. From lighthouses and a one-hundred-year-old carousel to World War II camps and missile sites, Long Island native Ralph Brady reveals the secrets to what makes this little-big island so special with a tour of some of Nassau and Suffolk's most historic locations. Walt Whitman, William Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt and many others occupied remarkable homes around the island. Charles Lindbergh made his historic flight to France from what is now a shopping mall. For many years, a Long Island factory gave the world the game of Scrabble. Even the waters teem with history, with the modern submarine making its start off the coast. Come explore these and other settings from Long Island's past.
Download or read book Landmarks written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. Praise for Robert Macfarlane: 'He has a poet's eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy' John Banville, Observer "I'll read anything Macfarlane writes" David Mitchell, Independent 'Every movement needs stars. In [Macfarlane] we surely have one, burning brighter with each book.' Telegraph '[Macfarlane] is a godfather of a cultural moment' Sunday Times
Download or read book The Big Book of Concepts written by Gregory Murphy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand new objects and events. Concepts are also relevant to understanding domains such as social situations, personality types, and even artistic styles. Yet like other phenomenologically simple cognitive processes such as walking or understanding speech, concept formation and use are maddeningly complex. Research since the 1970s and the decline of the "classical view" of concepts have greatly illuminated the psychology of concepts. But persistent theoretical disputes have sometimes obscured this progress. The Big Book of Concepts goes beyond those disputes to reveal the advances that have been made, focusing on the major empirical discoveries. By reviewing and evaluating research on diverse topics such as category learning, word meaning, conceptual development in infants and children, and the basic level of categorization, the book develops a much broader range of criteria than is usual for evaluating theories of concepts.
Download or read book Writing the Big Book written by William H. Schaberg and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of writing and producing the"Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous, told through extensive access to the group's archives. Alcoholics Anonymous is arguably the most significant self-help book published in the twentieth century. Released in 1939, the “Big Book,” as it’s commonly known, has sold an estimated 37 million copies, been translated into seventy languages, and spawned numerous recovery communities around the world while remaining a vibrant plan for recovery from addiction in all its forms for millions of people. While there are many books about A.A. history, most rely on anecdotal stories told well after the fact by Bill Wilson and other early members—accounts that have proved to be woefully inaccurate at times. Writing the Big Book brings exhaustive research, academic discipline, and informed insight to the subject not seen since Ernest Kurtz’s Not-God, published forty years ago. Focusing primarily on the eighteen months from October 1937, when a book was first proposed, and April 1939 when Alcoholics Anonymous was published, Schaberg’s history is based on eleven years of research into the wealth of 1930s documents currently preserved in several A.A. archives. Woven together into an exciting narrative, these real-time documents tell an almost week-by-week story of how the book was created, providing more than a few unexpected turns and surprising departures from the hallowed stories that have been so widely circulated about early A.A. history. Fast-paced, engaging, and contrary, Writing the Big Book presents a vivid picture of how early A.A. operated and grew and reveals many previously unreported details about the colorful cast of characters who were responsible for making that group so successful.
Download or read book Alexander the Great written by John Gunther and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some say he was the greatest warrior in history, building an empire that extended from Europe to Africa and on to India and Central Asia. In a stirring narrative, famed historian John Gunther tells the story of Alexander the Great who, at only age 21, became King of Macedonia and set off on a 12-year journey to conquer the known world and extend the boundaries of Greek civilization. Gunther takes us from Alexander’s boyhood to his victory over the Persian Empire, and, in vivid detail, describes Alexander’s battles, as well as the palace intrigues that surrounded him.
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.
Download or read book Alexander the Great written by and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of one of the most successful military leaders of all time.
Download or read book Landmarks of the World written by Abi Daker and published by Lark Books (NC). This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your own creative spin on renowned architectural masterpieces! Landmarks of the World lets you color in famous religious buildings, museums, seats of government, castles, and more across the globe. From the the ancient grandeur of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, to the iconic spires of Antoni Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, to Frank Lloyd Wright's stunning Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, each structure is inspirational.
Download or read book Great American Buildings written by Masahiro Chatani and published by Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International : Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America. This book was released on 1991 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides simple paper models of the Chrysler Building, Trump Tower, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Capitol Building, Golden Gate Bridge, and other structures
Download or read book The Big Book of the Continental Op written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op—one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works have been lauded for almost one hundred years by fans, and his novel The Maltese Falcon was adapted into a classic film starring Humphrey Bogart. One of Dashiell Hammett's most memorable characters, the Continental Op made his debut in Black Mask magazine on October 1, 1923, narrating the first of twenty-eight stories and two novels that would change forever the face of detective fiction. The Op is a tough, wry, unglamorous gumshoe who has inspired a following that is both global and enduring. He has been published in periodicals, paperback digests, and short story collections, but until now, he has never, in all his ninety-two years, had the whole of his exploits contained in one book. The book features all twenty-eight of the original standalone Continental Op stories, the original serialized versions of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, and previously unpublished material. This anthology of Continental Op stories is the only complete, one-volume work of its kind.
Download or read book Landmarks of the World written by Helen Chapman and published by Collins Big Cat. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pyramids in Egypt to the Sydney Opera House, landmarks have been built all over the world. Find out what makes them so special. - Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms. - Text type--an information book. - A map of the world on pages 22 and 23 shows the location of all the landmarks. - Curriculum links--Geography: "The location and characteristics of a range of the world's most significant human and physical features."
Download or read book The Big Book of the UK written by Imogen Russell Williams and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome... Fáilte... Croeso... Fair faa ye... to the United Kingdom! The Big Book of the UK introduces readers to customs and culture of the United Kingdom. Learn about the sport of "dwile flonking" and find out where black diamonds come from. Meet the supernatural animal that haunts the Scottish Highlands and discover the British sweets that helped Hillary and Tenzing scale Everest. Filled with facts about wildlife, food, sports, geography, language and some very silly place names, this book will help you uncover national secrets and unearth local legends from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Download or read book Big Book of Landmarks written by Dottie's Crazy Dot-to-Dots and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains all the puzzles from two of our popular books combined: Dot-to-Dot Landmarks for Adults & Dot-to-Dot Beautiful Landmarks, for much less than the cost of buying them separately. Enjoy! Relieve your stress with dot to dot books for adults! This extreme dot to dot book will help you unwind at the end of the day. You'll never get bored with the wide range of landmarks to discover. Guess the landmark as the image takes shape! The puzzles range from 171 - 889 dots. This book also has a download page at the end where you can print out the pages of the book and connect the dots as many times as you would like for free! Skillfully constructed puzzles Stress Relief: Relax & Enjoy! Variety: Puzzles from 171 - 889 dots See how many you recognize! Answer Key at the end Puzzles go in order of least to most complicated, so you can choose how complicated of a puzzle you would like to do and improve as you go along. We don't want to give them all away, but here are a few of the 40 landmarks in this book: Big Ben, St. Basil's Cathedral, Lombard St (San Francisco), the Grand Canyon, Santorini, the Taj Mahal and the Empire State Building.
Download or read book Landmarks of Tomorrow written by Peter F. Drucker and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmarks of Tomorrow forecasts changes in three major areas of human life and experience. The first part of the book treats the philosophical shift from a Cartesian universe of mechanical cause to a new universe of pattern, purpose, and process. Drucker discusses the power to organize men of knowledge and high skill for joint effort and performance as a key component of this change. The second part of the book sketches four realities that challenge the people of the free world: an educated society, economic development, the decline of government, and the collapse of Eastern culture. The final section of the book is concerned with the spiritual reality of human existence. These are seen as basic elements in late twentieth-century society. In his new introduction, Peter Drucker revisits the main findings of Landmarks of Tomorrow and assesses their validity in relation to today’s concerns. It is a book that will be of interest to sociologists, economists, and political theorists.
Download or read book Unofficial Doctor Who the Big Book Of Lists written by Cameron K. McEwan and published by Race Point Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whovians rejoice! Blogtor Who is back... Known for his popular lists, Cameron K. McEwan, author of The Who's Who of Doctor Who, is back with a book that compiles loads of fun facts and never-before-heard tidbits about the Whoniverse. (It's bigger on the inside!) Pour over loads of fascinating lists about the TARDIS, Gallifrey, and Daleks, as the fandom unites in epic appreciation for The Doctor. Organized by theme, Doctor Who: The Big Book of Lists will cover everything over the past fifty years of the epic series including: doppelgangers, popular locales, regenerations, Gallifrey adventures, highest-rated episodes, plots, characters and loads more. Accompanied by the incredible Doctor Who artwork of Andrew Skilleter and loaded with weird and interesting facts and quizzes, this is the perfect gift item for the timelord lover in your life. Lists include: - Actors who have appeared in Star Wars and Doctor Who - Doctor Who film references - Top 10 Kisses of the Doctor - Dopplegangers in Doctor Who - American Guest Appearances - Food and Drink in Doctor Who - "Other" Doctor Who stories (prequels, minisodes, etc...) - Regeneration Stories - Gallifrey Adventures - Alien Team-ups - People Who Came Back From The Dead - TARDIS consoles - Weirdest TARDIS dematerialisations - Highest-Rated TV Episodes - Lowest-Rated TV Episodes Now in the second half of its century, the BBC's sci-fi classic, Doctor Who is a geek's dream TV show and this book is loaded with over 1000 facts and trivia. So grab your sonic screwdriver and unlock secrets of show that makes us excited to be a part of this wibbly-wobbley galaxy.
Download or read book My Big Book of Our Amazing World written by and published by Tormont. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - a 12-page board book available in 2 sizes: giant (15 3/4" 22 3/4") and mid-size (11 1/4" 16 3/8")- 9 colorful maps- hundreds of pictures with amazing facts and figures about places far and near
Download or read book Ben s Dream written by Chris Van Allsburg and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lulled to sleep by the rhythm of the rain as he studies for his geography test, Ben dreams that his house is set adrift on a 'round-the-world course, carrying him past the incredible structures that are merely pictures on the pages of his book. "The story idea . . . is illustrated in the artist's meticulous drawings, marvels of symbolism, reality, imagination, and perspective".--"Publishers Weekly".
