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| Author | : Kathy Tyers |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Science fiction |
| ISBN | : 0553505963 |
The sequel to Return of the Jedi. No sooner has the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Empire than they face a new challenge - Ssi-ruuk, a race of cold-blooded reptilian invaders who plan to enslave human minds to pilot their invincible machines of war and destruction.
| Author | : Rosemary Sutcliff |
| Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
| Total Pages | : 83 |
| Release | : 1971-01-01 |
| Genre | : Children's stories |
| ISBN | : 9780241020210 |
SUMMARY: A story about the early Olympic Games which were held every fourth summer in the sacred valley of Olympia.
| Author | : Michael Foreman |
| Publisher | : Pavilion Children's |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2006-10-23 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781843650898 |
A special lavishly illustrated new edition of Michael Foreman's classic story. It's 1914 when everything changes for a group of bys growing up and playing football in the Suffolk countryside. Far away, in a place called Sarajevo, an Archduke has been killed and a web of global events results in a call for all British men to do their duty 'for King and Country' and join the army to fight the germans overseas. The boys sign up for what sounds like an adventure and a chance to see the world. After basic training the boys sail to France where they find themselves fighting on the front line. Living in the trenches in constant fear for their lives is nothing like they expected and only a bombed-out wasteland, no-man's-land, separates their trences from those of their German enemies. Then, on Christmas Day, something remarkable happens as the German and British armies stop fighting and meet in the middle of no-man's-land. The enemies talk, play football and become friends. But the war isn't over, the two sides resume fighting and the group of Suffolk lads are ordered to charge across no-man's-land...
| Author | : Jim Murphy |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2016-04-26 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0545365279 |
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I. On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south. What followed was like a row of falling dominoes as one European country after another rushed into war. Soon most of Europe was fighting in this calamitous war that could have been avoided. This was, of course, the First World War. But who could have guessed that on December 25 the troops would openly defy their commanding officers by stopping the fighting and having a spontaneous celebration of Christmas with their "enemies"? In what can only be described as a Christmas Miracle, this beautiful and heartrending narrative will remind everyone how brotherhood and love for one another reaches far beyond war and politics.
| Author | : Mike McNamee |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2014-07-10 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1317980514 |
This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games. The essays consider a range of topics including critical reflections on nationalism and internationalism within the Olympic movement, sexism in Olympic marketing and sponsorship, the preservation and corruption of Olympism, the underlying ideology of the Olympic Games, the inequalities of perception in ability and disability as it informs our understanding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and comparisons between ancient and modern interpretations of the meaning and significance of the Olympic Games. This book will be of interest to historians, philosophers, and sociologists of sports, as well as to the sporting public who simply want to know more about the grounding ideas behind the greatest show on earth. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
| Author | : Ronald Stuart Thomas |
| Publisher | : Bloodaxe Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781852243616 |
Every new book by R.S. Thomas is a revelation. There is no other voice like his, no other poet who releases the silence out of which language is wrought, and against which its truth echoes. In his eighties at the time of writing, the prophet is not wearied, but still asking difficult questions in his poems. For him, there is no truce with the furies. This collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
| Author | : James Renshaw |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2008-05-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1853996998 |
Offers an introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. This book introduces six key areas of ancient Greece: Greek religion, the Olympic Games, Athenian drama, Athenian society, Athenian democracy, and Sparta. It reflects on some of the social, political and cultural issues of classical Greece.
