Pirates Ahoy!

Pirates Ahoy!
Author: Scholastic Books
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439839921

"Based on the new movie from Warner Home Video!"--Cover.

American Emperor

American Emperor
Author: David O. Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439160325

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades. In 1805, the United States was not twenty years old, an unformed infant. The government consisted of a few hundred people. The immense frontier swallowed up a tiny army of 3,300 soldiers. Following the Louisiana Purchase, no one even knew where the nation’s western border lay. Secessionist sentiment flared in New England and beyond the Appalachians. Burr had challenged Jefferson, his own running mate, in the presidential election of 1800. Indicted for murder in the dueling death of Alexander Hamilton in 1804, he dreamt huge dreams. He imagined an insurrection in New Orleans, a private invasion of Spanish Mexico and Florida, and a great empire rising on the Gulf of Mexico, which would swell when America’s western lands seceded from the Union. For two years, Burr pursued this audacious dream, enlisting support from the General-in-Chief of the Army, a paid agent of the Spanish king, and from other western leaders, including Andrew Jackson. When the army chief double-crossed Burr, Jefferson finally roused himself and ordered Burr prosecuted for treason. The trial featured the nation’s finest lawyers before the greatest judge in our history, Chief Justice John Marshall, Jefferson’s distant cousin and determined adversary. It became a contest over the nation’s identity: Should individual rights be sacrificed to punish a political apostate who challenged the nation’s very existence? In a revealing reversal of political philosophies, Jefferson championed government power over individual rights, while Marshall shielded the nation’s most notorious defendant. By concealing evidence, appealing to the rule of law, and exploiting the weaknesses of the government’s case, Burr won his freedom. Afterwards Burr left for Europe to pursue an equally outrageous scheme to liberate Spain’s American colonies, but finding no European sponsor, he returned to America and lived to an unrepentant old age. Stewart’s vivid account of Burr’s tumultuous life offers a rare and eye-opening description of the brand-new nation struggling to define itself.

Ahoy, Pirate Pete

Ahoy, Pirate Pete
Author: Nick Sharratt
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2007
Genre: Pirates
ISBN: 9780763637514

"Ahoy, matey! Come sail the ocean blue with pirate Pete" (publisher).

Ahoy There! Pirates Can Listen

Ahoy There! Pirates Can Listen
Author: Tom Easton
Publisher: Wayland
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780750296250

This funny story about pirates will also show how important it is to listen. The pirate crew of the 'Golden Duck' are excited about going into Port Pegleg to spend their gold coins. However, no one listens to Captain Cod's warning about his old enemy, Captain Blackears and his Horrid Pirates, who want to steal the pirate crew's treasure and hold the pirates for ransom. Has not listening to Captain Cod put the pirates in danger? If so, can good listening save them? The books in the 'Pirates to the Rescue' series are designed to help children to recognise the virtues of generosity, honesty, politeness and kindness. Reading these books with children will help them to understand that their actions and behaviour have a real effect on people around them. The books will help young readers to recognise what is right and wrong and what to do when faced with difficult choices. Notes for parents, guardians and teachers are included at the end of the story to help give starting points for discussion and follow-up activities to help encourage positive behaviour.

Pirate Ships

Pirate Ships
Author: Rosalyn Tucker
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1491421134

"Informative text and full-page photos describe different kinds ships used by pirates"--

Atlas of the Far East and Southeast Asia

Atlas of the Far East and Southeast Asia
Author: Felicia Law
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2008
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 140483883X

Features maps and information about the countries, geography, ecology, population, customs, transportation, and economy of the Far East and Southeast Asia.

Pirate Treasure

Pirate Treasure
Author: Rosalyn Tucker
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1491421142

"Introduces young readers to what pirates considered as treasure, where they hid it, and the people still trying to find it"--

Digital Play

Digital Play
Author: Stephen Kline
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780773525917

In a marketplace that demands perpetual upgrades, the survival of interactive play ultimately depends on the adroit management of negotiations between game producers and youthful consumers of this new medium. The authors suggest a model of expansion that encompasses technological innovation, game design, and marketing practices. Their case study of video gaming exposes fundamental tensions between the opposing forces of continuity and change in the information economy: between the play culture of gaming and the spectator culture of television, the dynamism of interactive media and the increasingly homogeneous mass-mediated cultural marketplace, and emerging flexible post-Fordist management strategies and the surviving techniques of mass-mediated marketing. Digital Play suggests a future not of democratizing wired capitalism but instead of continuing tensions between "access to" and "enclosure in" technological innovation, between inertia and diversity in popular culture markets, and between commodification and free play in the cultural industries. -- publisher description.

The Weapon Director

The Weapon Director
Author: Richard Sj Gough
Publisher: Authors On Line Ltd
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780755200764

Richard Gough was just 23 years old when the Falklands conflict took place in 1982. He was the youngest weapons director to take part in the conflict, seeing combat onboard the Type 21 frigate, HMS Ardent. Six years later as a Chief Petty Officer he protected British shipping in the Iran and Iraq tanker wars that disrupted the Gulf region for nearly ten years. His final work with the Royal Navy was to direct the acceptance firings of the fleets latest missile system, Vertical Launch SeaWolf, onboard the Type 23 frigate HMS Norfolk. His book explores the role of the weapon director in the fleet as well as revealing what it's really like to be a sailor in the modern Royal Navy.

All the Silent Spaces

All the Silent Spaces
Author: Christine Ristaino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1631525700

In September 2007, Christine Ristaino was attacked in a store parking lot while her three- and five-year-old children watched. In All the Silent Spaces, Ristaino shares what it felt like to be an ordinary person confronted with an extraordinary event—a woman trying to deal with acute trauma even as she went on with her everyday life, working at a university and parenting two children with her husband. She not only narrates how this event changed her but also tells how looking at the event through both the reactions of her community and her own sensibility allowed her to finally face two other violent episodes she had previously experienced. As new memories surfaced after the attack, it took everything in Ristaino’s power to not let catastrophe unravel the precarious threads holding everything together. Moving between the greater issues associated with violence and the personal voyage of overcoming grief, All the Silent Spaces is about letting go of what you think you know in order to rebuild.