![]() ![]() ![]() "Well-researched, entertaining, and packed with facts." - Booklist "The book’s format may be a good match for those with shorter attention spans, and permits it to be gratifyingly capacious in what it covers." - New York Times Book Review "Critical, respectful, engaging: exemplary history for children." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review ![]() Don't miss History Smashers: The Mayflower, Women's Right to Vote, Pearl Harbor, and Titanic. No joke.ĭiscover the nonfiction series that smashes everything you thought you knew about history. But the Revolutionary War didn't officially start for more than a year after Prescott's ride. It was actually a man named Samuel Prescott who succeeded, alerting townspeople in Lexington and then moving on to Concord. The truth is, dozens of Patriots rode around warning people about the Redcoats' plans that night. WRONG! Paul Revere made it to Lexington, but before he could complete his mission, he was captured! On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode through Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, shouting, "The British are coming!" to start the American Revolution.RIGHT? The fun mix of sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels make this perfect for fans of I Survived! and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth behind the Revolutionary War with beloved educator/author Kate Messner. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kostova was intent on writing a serious work of literature and saw herself as an inheritor of the Victorian style. The Historian has been described as a combination of genres, including Gothic novel, adventure novel, detective fiction, travelogue, postmodern historical novel, epistolary epic, and historical thriller. She worked on the book for ten years and then sold it within a few months to Little, Brown and Company, which bought it for US$2 million. ![]() Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Țepeș and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. The Historian is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. Although the book is a vampire novel, Kostova promised herself "that only a cup of blood would be spilled" in the novel. The Historian's first edition cover shows a blood red curtain with a snippet of a picture of a man's face laid across it. ![]() ![]() ![]() After meeting Michelle, it seems Dani begins to shed her girly girl persona and learns she must take a more proactive (*coughs* kick ass) approach to her well-being if she is to survive. This installment came packed with lots of action and more gore than its predecessor, White Belt. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Yellow Belt. Looking for help and shelter, they figure their best plan is to alert the authorities at the nearest police station, but things start to get real as Dani is faced with some difficult choices about whom to trust as she makes her way through ground zero of the Zombie Apocalypse with her new companion. In this installment, Dani and Michelle make their way out of the highway rest area that has been over run by the eaters. White Belt has an average rating of 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.53 on Goodreads and Yellow Belt has an average rating of 5.0 on both sites. In the meantime, you guys have been reading and reviewing. ![]() The series of short stories that follow Dani’s fight through the Zombie Apocalypse continues in Yellow Beltby Faye McCray. I have been working hard putting the final touches on Orange Belt and Black Belt, the final two installments in Dani's story. If we get them before they turn, they stay down… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gradient boosting, which is a supervised sequential ensemble learning algorithm with weak prediction submodels (typically decision trees), was applied to predict mortality. Age, sex, variables in the modified frailty index, Deyo's Charlson co-morbidity index ( ≥2), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and prognostic nutritional index at baseline were analysed. This was a retrospective observational study that included patients admitted to nine public hospitals for heart failure from Hong Kong between 20. ![]() We hypothesized that an electronic frailty index developed using machine learning can improve short-term mortality prediction in patients with heart failure. However, assessment of frailty status is time-consuming, and the electronic frailty indices developed using health records have served as useful surrogates. Frailty may be found in heart failure patients especially in the elderly and is associated with a poor prognosis. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the first-edition dust jacket did not carry a separate copyright notice. ![]() To Kill a Mockingbird was first published in 1960 the hardcover book itself carried a copyright notice, so its contents remain copyrighted.
![]() ![]() ‘The conversations are sparkling, gripping and word-perfect. And there’s no-one better placed than Alison Weir to restore her to her rightful place’ SARAH GRISTWOOD ![]() ‘Katharine Parr deserves better than to be known just as Henry VIII’s sixth wife – the one who survived. Renowned, bestselling historian Alison Weir reveals a warm, clever woman of great fortitude who rose boldly to every turn her life took. But Katharine is hiding another secret in her heart, a deeply held faith that could see her burn… She becomes Henry’s sixth wife – a queen and trusted friend. Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a. Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII's sixth and final. She cannot refuse him… or betray that she wanted another. Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife by Alison Weir: 9781101966655 : Books. Now Katharine is free to make her own choice. This novel will enthral and inspire, just as much as it will break your heart’ TRACY BORMANĪlison Weir, historian and author of the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling SIX TUDOR QUEENS series, recounts the story of Henry VIII’s last wife – Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him. ‘This brilliant series has brought Henry VIII’s six wives to life as never before. ‘A detailed and convincing portrait of an extraordinary life… this series is a serious achievement’ THE TIMES ![]() ![]() And from hence it is that kings, whose power is greatest, turn their endeavours to the assuring it at home by laws, or abroad by wars: and when that is done, there succeedeth a new desire in some, of fame from new conquest in others, of ease and sensual pleasure in others, of admiration, or being flattered for excellence in some art or other ability of the mind. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power, but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more. ![]() So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. Selections from Thomas Hobbes's The Leviathan (1651): ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, made in 1968, was based on Ian Fleming's book. Sadly Ian Fleming never saw the finished books as he died of a heart attack a couple of months before publication. He wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car in 1962. Ian Fleming was born in 1908 and died in 1964. It must have created a deep impression on the young Ian Fleming because when, forty years later, he decided that he would write a story for his small son Caspar about a car that could fly, he described a magnificent green car with 'rows and rows of gleaming knobs on the dashboard', 'a cream-coloured collapsible roof' and huge exhaust pipes of 'glistening silver'. It belonged to an eccentric racing driver called Count Louis Zborowski. When he was still a boy at school he had been to visit a house in Kent where there was a very fast and very noisy racing car. Ian Fleming had a passion for cars, and in the James Bond books he wrote wonderful descriptions of cars such as a Bentley Continental and an Aston Martin. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was a complete story which is always enjoyable but it also leaves lots of room for the story to continue which it does with the second book, Daemons are Forever. Eddie then spends the remainder of the book trying to determine what is really going on culminating with a big discovery and in the process turning the family upside down. ![]() He soon discovers that he has become an outcast when he is chased while leaving the family’s estate by various creatures including Elves, UFO’s, attacking Cars and dragons who he manages to evade after a pretty intense fighting scene. In this book, Eddie is introduced working for the family but maintaining distance from the family. We learn what the Droods are all about, first what they appear to be and then what they are really about and we learn how the world functions and about all the various creatures and beings that exist in this world. Green’s writing is amusing, but sometimes also a little silly while still being entertaining. The protagonist is Eddie Drood, a member of the Drood family. Eddie has been taught all his life, that the purpose of the Drood’s is to defend the world against various evils and the family is capable of doing this through the use of living armour that when activated makes the individual virtually indestructible*. ![]() This is a different twist on modern fantasy. ![]() Greenįirst book in the Secret Histories Series Buy a discounted Paperback of The Man with the Golden Torc online from. The Man With the Golden Torc by Simon R. Booktopia has The Man with the Golden Torc, Secret Histories by Simon R Green. ![]() ![]() The book brings to life the chemistry that brings us to life. a dramatically revisionist account origins of life * New Yorker *Ī thrilling tour of the remarkable stories behind the discoveries of some of life's key metabolic pathways and mechanisms. this is a book filled with big ideas, many of which are bold instances of lateral thinking * New Scientist *īold. ![]() One of the most creative of today's biologists. Publisher: Profile Books Ltd ISBN: 9781788160551 Number of pages: 400 Weight: 320 g Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 28 mm Edition: Main MEDIA REVIEWS It connects the origin of life with the devastation of cancer, the first photosynthetic bacteria with our own mitochondria, sulphurous sludges with the emergence of consciousness, and the trivial differences between ourselves with the large-scale history of our planet. To understand this cycle is to fathom the deep coherence of the living world. ![]() At its core is an amazing cycle of reactions that uses energy to transform inorganic molecules into the building blocks of life - and the reverse. In Transformer, Nick Lane turns the standard view upside down, capturing an extraordinary scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight. A better question goes back to the formative years of biology: what processes animate cells and set them apart from lifeless matter? Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago. 'One of my favourite science writers' Bill Gatesįor decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. ![]() |