Download or read book Little Giant written by Carl Albert and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age six, Carl Albert knew he wanted to serve in the United States Congress. In 1947 he realized his dream when he was elected to serve in the House of Representatives alongside John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. In Little Giant, Albert relates the story of his life in Oklahoma and his road to Congress, where after eight years of service he joined its leadership and shaped the legislation known as Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society. In 1971 he began his own Speakership; six years later, when it ended, Congress had been reshaped and had weathered the constitutional crisis of Richard Nixon's "Imperial Presidency."
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Science Facts written by Glen Vecchione and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of fascinating, flabbergasting, and sometimes freaky facts are at your disposal in this fun-sized compendium. Uncover animal oddities, including the fact that certain species of frogs can survive being frozen solid and thawed. Find out how strange people really are: Did you know that the average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime—enough to fill two swimming pools? And there are botanical surprises, such as that bananas are actually herbs, plus science tidbits about the Earth, inventions, computers, and more.
Download or read book The Little Giant written by and published by Laura Geringer Book. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a little giant meets a big dwarf, they realize they are more alike than they seem.
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Whodunits written by Hy Conrad and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better than a police academy course, all 80 of these simple stories show one how to find the culprit while everyone else is confused. As readers explore these fascinating whodunits, they enter a bizarre, glamorous, and dangerous world of mobsters, millionaires, and heiresses--and detectives. 102 illustrations.
Download or read book Tricks Pranks written by E. Richard Churchill and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of over one hundred tricks, including those with cards, money, and other objects.
Download or read book Astronomy written by Melanie Melton Knocke and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book with big information will send kids flying into outer space to explore our fascinating universe. Of course, they’ll learn about the planets, moons, and stars. But this lively information-packed guide also includes fantastic astronomical phenomena that will make a child’s eyes open wide in amazement: everything from black holes to white dwarfs to red giants. The voyage begins in our own solar system, starting with the sun and proceeding from Mercury to Pluto--with the occasional asteroid, comet, and meteor thrown in. Follow a star’s life from beginning to end; do "deep sky” astronomy (the study of objects beyond our system) and have fun observing the heavens through binoculars and telescopes. There’s lots of cool trivia and quizzes throughout, too!
Download or read book The Little Giant of Aberdeen County written by Tiffany Baker and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine perfection. When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated--Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers. Serena Jane's beauty proves to be her greatest blessing and her biggest curse, for it makes her the obsession of classmate Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans who have been doctors in Aberdeen for generations. Though they have long been the pillars of the community, the earliest Robert Morgan married the town witch, Tabitha Dyerson, and the location of her fabled shadow book--containing mysterious secrets for healing and darker powers--has been the subject of town gossip ever since. Bob Bob Morgan, one of Truly's biggest tormentors, does the unthinkable to claim the prize of Serena Jane, and changes the destiny of all Aberdeen from there on. When Serena Jane flees town and a loveless marriage to Bob Bob, it is Truly who must become the woman of a house that she did not choose and mother to her eight-year-old nephew Bobbie. Truly's brother-in-law is relentless and brutal; he criticizes her physique and the limitations of her health as a result, and degrades her more than any one human could bear. It is only when Truly finds her calling--the ability to heal illness with herbs and naturopathic techniques--hidden within the folds of Robert Morgan's family quilt, that she begins to regain control over her life and herself. Unearthed family secrets, however, will lead to the kind of betrayal that eventually break the Morgan family apart forever, but Truly's reckoning with her own demons allows for both an uprooting of Aberdeen County, and the possibility of love in unexpected places.
Download or read book Dinosaurs written by Thomas R. Holtz and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, dinosaurs remain a never-ending source of fascination to children, who just can't get enough of these compelling creatures. Illustrations, picturing over 60 dinosaur types (including some new discoveries that appear here for the first time in a children's book), maps, and a guide to each individual species--plus an overall introduction to fossils--tell youngsters how and why all the dinosaurs developed as they did. Answer exactly the types of question kids want to know: How big were they? What did they eat? Where did they live? What do their names mean? This lively trip back to the Age of the Dinosaurs, from its beginnings in the Triassic period to the great extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, is guided by one of the major authorities in the field, Dr. Thomas Holtz, vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland, whose specialty is the study of carnivorous dinosaurs.
Download or read book Whodunit Mysteries written by Jim Sukach and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solve crimes like a detective; find clues where nobody else would think of looking, trap suspects with their own words - 80 simple stories will show you how to find the culprit while everybody else is completely confused. As you explore these fascinating whodunits, you'll enter a bizarre, glamorous, and dangerous world of mobsters, millionaires and heiresses. Includes a section of solutions to each mystery.
Download or read book Super Little Giant Book of Prehistoric Creatures written by David Lambert and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the development of life in the sea, land, and air, including invertebrates, fish, amphibians, early tetrapods, reptiles, birds, mammals and other prehistoric beings.
Download or read book The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Puzzles written by Diagram Group and published by Sterling. This book was released on 1996 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pit your wits against logic-teasers, matchstick quizzes, number problems, riddles, geometry puzzles, visual conundrums, word wonders, picture problems, mazes, and much more. Some puzzles will seem deceptively easy, while others will boggle even experienced puzzle masters. Perfect for traveling, the beach, study hall, the office, or any time you want to flex your mental muscles.
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Jokes written by Joseph Rosenbloom and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like junk-food snacks, this biggest little collection of jokes has so many irresistible chuckles that we can't laugh at just one... Tourist (to farmer): Lived here all your life? Farmer: Not yet. Father: Bonnie, please take the dog out and give him some air. Bonnie: Sure, Dad. Where's the nearest gas station? Enjoy jokes about teachers, parents, brothers and sisters, doctors and patients, Martians and earthlings. And groaner book-and-author lists (Sport Injuries by Charlie Hawes; Cookouts Italian Style. Plus tongue twisters, shaggy dogs, first dates, and yes, Waiter, There's a Fly in My Soup jokes. 352 pages, 218 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.
Download or read book ABC s for the Little G s written by Little Giants and published by Little Giants | Giant Shorties. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaborative project by Little Giants | Giant Shorties, MiniLicious & David Park. Coloring book fun for the little dunns.
Download or read book The Little Giant Stephen A Douglas written by Jeannette Covert Nolan and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1964 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the United States Senator who debated Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 presidential campaign.
Download or read book The Long Shadow of the Little Giant written by Simon Spillett and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over forty years have elapsed since the death of the British jazz legend Tubby Hayes and yet his story still continues to captivate. Beginning as a precociously talented teenage saxophonist, he took first the local and then the international jazz scene by storm, displaying gifts equal to the finest American jazzmen. He appeared with none other than Duke Ellington and proved almost single-handedly that British jazz need not labour under an inferiority complex. Hayes's triumphs during the 1950s and 60s enabled still later generations of English musicians to take their music onto the world stage. However his story, distorted by the folklore surrounding his tragically early death, aged only 38, has rarely been accurately recorded. Much of what has been written, broadcast and recounted about Hayes has added only confusion to our understanding of his short but brilliant life.In this new, expanded paperback edition, award-winning saxophonist and writer Simon Spillett, widely regarded as the world's leading authority on Hayes and his work, painstakingly outlines a career that alternated professional success and personal downfall. Using credible eye-witness recollection, drawn from conversations with Hayes's family, partners, friends and musical colleagues, unique access to Hayes's own tape, photographic and personal archives - including papers that have only recently come to light - and extensive contemporary research material, Spillett has reconstructed the trajectory of his subject's life both candidly and respectfully.
Download or read book Super Little Giant Book of Secret Codes written by David Lambert and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to create secret codes using symbols, dots, lines, rearranged letters and more.
Download or read book The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Runes written by Sirona Knight and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tap into the age-old, secret power of runes to create a better and more enriching life. Generally associated with the ancient Northern European peoples, runes are magical symbols that convey the story of creation, life, destruction, and rebirth, and how these forces are constantly occurring on many levels of being. Runes connect with your body, mind, spirit, and the environment, and they are ideal for use in psychological integration, spiritual growth, healing, and magic. Learn the history of runes and the meanings and associations of each symbol. Then discover a wide variety of ways to use these tools to find answers to personal questions, increase self-awareness, relieve stress, gain a sense of personal empowerment, clear out blockages in your life, and even foretell future events. Cast and read runes, create runic charms, do runic yoga, and more. As you work with these mystical tools you will find within them the power to transform yourself. Bonus: extensive mythological glossary.
