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3) Lifeboat 12
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his ten-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism-based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors-shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin's theory of evolution, put our view of the history of our solar system, of the Earth and of humanity on a completely new basis-and caused an uproar that is still going on today.
Worlds...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015, c2013.
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"While on vacation with their parents, Matthew Homes and his older brother sneak out in the middle of the night. Only Matthew comes home. Ten years later, Matthew tells us, he has found a way to bring his brother back.... What begins as the story of a lost boy turns into the story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night, and in the years since, to himself and his family." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxv, 623 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human destiny. As the author examines the connected stories...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xv, 486 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xviii, 1031 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this, the first-ever comprehensive biography of the Reichsführer-SS, leading German historian Peter Longerich puts every aspect of Himmler's life under the microscope. Masterfully interweaving the story of Himmler's personal life and political career with the wider history of the Nazi dictatorship, Longerich shows how skillfully he exploited and manipulated his disparate roles in the pursuit of his far-reaching and grandiose objectives. In the...