BLAST OFF INTO A ROBOTIC ADVENTURE!Eleven-year-old inventor Luca Marino's bedroom isn't just messy—it's a playground of half-built gadgets, rogue pizza drones, and a sassy A.I. named Axel Ion who lives in his wristwatch.But when Axel yearns to experience the world beyond circuits, Luca takes on his wildest project yet: building Axel a body. Not just any body—a glorious robot crafted from a superhero lunchbox (head), ruler arms (for...

No form of paper currency has ever survived a full credit cycle of about 70 years. The US dollar will be no different. It is doomed. When it does finally collapse in the midst of debt, bailouts, the Federal reserve printing money out of thin air, societal chaos will ensue. The resultant chaos will lead to mayhem and destruction of civilization as we know it. This book follows the path of a group of average people and some military professionals as they seek a new normalcy ushering in a ret...

On April 7th 1863. The Union Navy steamed toward Charleston Harbor with nine ironclad ships intending to intimidate the city and its citizens into surrender. Instead, the Confederate Batteries on Fort Sumter and other points along the shore dealt the Union an embarrassing rebuke. Loss of life was limited to one sailor but loss of face for the North was beyond measure. Who was to blame for such an embarrassing turn? Was it Gustavus Fox? The ambitious but unremarkable Assistant Secretary of ...

Kelsick Wood was a nineteenth-century Georgian shipbuilder in Maryport, Cumberland, with a private passion for painting. He combined his two loves in his journals, where shipyard contracts and inventories share their pages with beautiful and curious watercolour pictures. The Vanishing Age of Sail revels in the rich, textured story behind these little books. It shows how each small shipyard on Britain’s coast played its part in Britain’s economic expansion in the nineteenth century. It is a...

Published in 1991, United States & The Politicizati is a valuable contribution to the field of International Politics.

Published in 1996, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma was the first in-depth study of the artist's life. It has not been superseded.In this substantially revised, updated edition - to coincide with the artist's centenary, which will be celebrated from autumn 2008 through summer 2009 - Peppiatt will incorporate confidential material Bacon gave him, which he did not include in the first edition.This valuable, first-hand information comes from the hundreds of convers...

Walk the Way of St Francis (Via di Francesco), a 518km (322-mile) pilgrimage route from Florence through Tuscany and Umbria to Rome, tracing the spiritual footsteps of St Francis of Assisi. This scenic alternative to the Camino de Santiago visits sacred sites like Santuario della Verna, Assisi, Gubbio, Spoleto and Marmore Falls over 27 stages (11-29km each), ideal for fit walkers seeking a month-long adventure.This Cicerone guidebook provides all the tools needed t...

Francis James Browne (1879–1963) is remembered as the foremost obstetrician of his day and is widely recognised as the founder of modern antenatal care. His book Antenatal and Postnatal Care became a bible to many generations of medical students and junior obstetricians. He was one of the Founding Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and in 1960 was awarded the Blair-Bell Medal for his significant contribution to the specialty. In this biography, Herbert Reiss p...

Join Mr Brown Mouse on a courageous adventure to help save the animals and the forest from a big, big fire! With a little bit of thought and a sincere desire to help almost anything is possible. Who will help Mr Brown Mouse when all the animals are running away?A delightful tale filled with wonderful character voices, sound effects, music and narration. Ending in a nice sleepy moment.Perfect for young children (from ages 3 up to about 7 or 8)

First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave. This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith ...

A narrative and descriptive biography with pen-pictures and personal recollections by those who knew him. This edition contains only the text, no illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president ...

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln successfully led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country ...