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Storytime in your language! Discover the magic of reading in over 40 languages; each picture books comes with an English translation to help develop multilingual reading and listening skills.
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This book is intended as a survey of pyramids and possible pyramids worldwide. There are more than 50 different pyramids and sites reviewed.
I've broken this information into three sections as follows:
Best Known Pyramids-Those which are famous throughout the world and almost everyone knows about.
Lesser Known Accepted Pyramids-These are real documented sites which experts agree are real pyramids but not that well known throughout the world.
Possible...
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It begins with a massacre. A crime so brutal and bloody, the local sheriff isn't smart enough to solve it. But when young deputy Dan Caine sees the slaughter for himself--an entire family murdered--he can't let it go. Especially when the eldest daughter is missing. Right there and then, Caine makes a fateful decision: throw away his badge, form a vigilante team, and go after the killers. There's one problem: Who would be crazy enough to join him?...
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'I hadn't been in Hackney for 24 hours but I knew that the way I saw life and people had changed forever. There was such goodness here but there was a sadness I had never imagined before, and it wasn't even lunchtime yet ...'
On a hot summer's day in 1969, fresh-faced 17 year old Nurse Sarah Hill arrives at Hackney General Hospital in London's East End.
Battered suitcase in hand, she takes eager steps in her white calf-length Mary Quant boots towards...
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This is Margaret's story, one of four true stories from the book GI Brides. "Margaret's eyes were on the handsome officers who milled around the US Army headquarters. But it was one young second lieutenant that she particularly looked out for. The room was filled with GIs — some playing pool, some jostling for control of mind to make him hers." An attractive young English girl, Margaret finds herself working at the US Army headquarters in London,...
5) 1964
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Step back in time to 1964, a year of cultural upheaval and political transformation. From the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the United States to the global phenomenon of Beatlemania, this was the year that gave us bold fashion, unforgettable music and social change that continues to shape society across the world today.
While Britain's new Labour government promised the 'white heat of technology', on the world stage 1964 saw the escalation...
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All seems tranquil as newly qualified health visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She's barely out of the car when she's called to assist the midwife with a bride who's gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her adventures begin....
As a health visitor, Nurse Sarah is as green as grass, but she puts her best foot into wellies and braves the mad dogs, killer ganders and muddy...
7) Rae's Story
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This is Rae's story, one of four true stories from the book GI Brides. 'Hey, baby, how about you and me get out of here?' the GI asked Rae. But even if he had been Clark Gable, she wouldn't have given him a second look. He was a Yank, and therefore not to be trusted. After being bombed out of her home in North London, tomboy Rae joins the ATS and is sent to work welding tanks near Nottingham. Despite her dislike of 'Yanks', a GI called Raymond wears...
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The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury.
In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building.
Beginning with an account of John Cadbury, who founded the first Cadbury's...
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St Giles-in-the-Fields: History of a London Parish resurrects a neglected area of Central London, rich in history and incident. St Giles is at the centre of one of the greatest cities in the world - but you've probably never heard of it. But it is an area with a dense and tangled history that tells us a great deal about the experience of living in London across the span of time from the twelfth century to today. This history has rarely been glamorous,...
11) Titanic Lives
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Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, 'Titanic Lives' is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history. The RMS Titanic was built as one of the world's largest and most luxurious liners. A marine Ritz, it was a 45,000-tonne hotel of thin steel plates, travelling at a speed of 21 knots across the North Atlantic. On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage,...
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This is Gwendolyn's story, one of four true stories from the book GI Brides. They sat down together and Ben pulled her close. 'Lyn,' he whispered. 'You know I'm head over heels in love with you. I'll never love anyone else as long as I live.' It was the most romantic thing Lyn had ever heard - and coming from Ben she knew that it was true. Gwendolyn's hometown of Southampton is taken over by the Americans of the 'friendly invasion' as they prepare...
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Today, America's most dangerous enemies are not the terrorists or those wanting to kill us. They are the unseen evil forces that have been slowly depleting us of morality, decency and value in God. Evil has taken a seat not only in our movies, media, music and schools, but in our White House. The Evilution of America has been eroding what our Forefathers fought and suffered to create and is turning the United States into a country void of everything...
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Una de las consecuencias del excesivo uso del patrimonialismo como herramienta de dominación desde el siglo XIX fue la homogeneización y la uniformidad social. Hoy las estrategias giran al reconocimiento de la diversidad en la modernidad neoliberal e intercultural, con una tendencia creciente hacia la patrimonialización de la cultura. Pero al intervenir instituciones y gestores culturales en la declaración patrimonial de prácticas culturales,...
15) Sylvia's Story
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This is Sylvia's story, one of four true stories from the book GI Brides. The room was filled with GIs — some playing pool, some jostling for control of the jukebox, and others taking doughnuts from a silver machine in the corner — while half a dozen young women rushed around serving them. 'So, what can I do?' Sylvia asked, keen to get stuck in. Sylvia is volunteering at a Red Cross Club in the West End when she meets a charismatic Irish-American...
16) One Family's Journey Through Ten Centuries: A social history of the second millennium – Book One
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We trace one family, generation by generation, throughout the one thousand years of the second millennium. The trilogy sets the family within its social environment, describing its migration from the continent, and across England, Scotland, and Ireland to settle in the New World. From that we get a vivid picture of what affected, motivated, worried, and encouraged this Saxon family and how they coped. Since the migration of this family was typical...
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Hemos escuchado, a los estadistas mundiales, hablar de como se cuentan los grandes acontecimientos; el desarrollo de un pais, una plaga, una enfermedad, etc. No se alarme, el sufrimiento del pueblo de Cuba se cuenta en numeros de muertos; por mas de 65 anos. Este pequeno pais es una isla, situada en el caribe, su poblacion ha sido sometida, a la mas terrible de las torturas, solo comparable al exterminio de la poblacion camboyana, por el regimen comunista...
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Covenant with God-a Biblical and Historical View at Healing Our Nation is a labor of love truly focused on returning to God as a nation and examining how our country, which was founded on God's principles and Judeo-Christian values, has gotten off track so significantly and what we need to do as a nation to get back to where God is first in every aspect of our society. Then the covenant our Founding Fathers made with God will be restored, and we can...
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It seems that ever since mankind was kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit, we've been trying to get back in. Or at least, we've been wondering where the Garden might have been. St. Augustine had a theory, and so did medieval monks, John Calvin, and Christopher Columbus. But when Darwin's theory of evolution permanently altered our understanding of human origins, shouldn't the search for a literal Eden have faded away? Not...
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To a lawyer, injustice is the unfair conduct of a trial. This book looks into several notorious cases of supposed injustice, Socrates, Joan of Arc, Charles I, Admiral Byng, Lord Haw-Haw, and the Nuremberg Trials. It looks for answers to the legal question 'was the trial fair?', and the humane question 'was the accused guilty or innocent?'.
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