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| Author | : Nick Earls |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2012-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0702248789 |
Lexi and Al Hunter are twins with almost nothing in common aside fromtheir parents and their birthday. At school Lexi hangs with her friends in the cool crowd, while Al hides in the library reading about history, battles, and faraway places. When the twins stumble upon an old dictionary, their world as they know it changes. They are blasted into history to hunt down the words that threaten to vanish from our past and present. Their lives and the future of the world are at stake. Can they find a way back home? Or will they be trapped in the past forever? Now more than ever, they need to depend on each other if they want to survive. Amysterious, action-packed series for the word nerd in us all."
| Author | : Nick Earls |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0702250732 |
From award-winning author Nick Earls and illustrator Terry Whidborne comes the second book in a mysterious, action-packed series for the word nerd in us all. In their previous adventure, Lexi and Al thought they had seen it all ? time travel, epic battles, ancient cities on the point of collapse, the invention of the telephone and ? vomiting rats. But nothing could prepare them for the realisation that their missing grandfather is a word hunter too and has been lost in the past. Only Lexi and Al can save him. But how do you find someone in 3,000 years of history? With more battles, more action and more words, these hunters are discovering history like never before, as they search for their grandfather ? the lost hunter.
| Author | : Hannah Sarvasy |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2018-02-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027264449 |
In Word Hunters, eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightened the world to the inner workings of languages in remote communities of Africa (West, East, and South), Amazonia, the Arctic, Australia, the Caucasus, Oceania, Siberia, and East Asia. They report some linguistic eureka moments, but also discuss cultural missteps, illness, and the other challenges of pursuing linguistic data in extreme circumstances. They write passionately about language death and their responsibilities to speech communities. The stories included here—the stuff of departmental and family legends—are published publicly for the first time.
| Author | : Neal Bascomb |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2013-08-27 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0545562392 |
A thrilling spy mission, a moving Holocaust story, and a first-class work of narrative nonfiction. This Sydney Taylor Book Award- and YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award-winning story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale! In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imagination. This is the thrilling and fascinating story of what happened between these two events. Illustrated with powerful photos throughout, impeccably researched, and told with powerful precision, THE NAZI HUNTERS is a can't-miss work of narrative nonfiction for middle-grade and YA readers.
| Author | : Laurens de Groot |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2014-01-02 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1472903668 |
'As the rest of the world stood by and watched, Laurens risked everything to defend these extraordinary mammals from extinction. A truly powerful and inspiring story.' Susan Sarandon Laurens de Groot was a detective for the Dutch police, specializing in organized crime and environmental pollution. He was rapidly promoted through the ranks, but became increasingly disillusioned with failed prosecutions and minimal prison sentences. But although as a detective there was little he could do to stop the truly big criminals, there was a more radical option – direct action, not necessarily within the law. Laurens leaves his job, sells up, travels to Australia and joins Sea Shepherd, an international organization protecting marine wildlife. He soon finds himself in the middle of the war against the Japanese whaling fleet operating in the Antarctic whale sanctuary. As the Japanese hunt whales, Laurens and the Sea Shepherd crews hunt them. Their boats are tiny for the wild Southern Ocean, and as well as dealing with the extreme weather they are repeatedly attacked by the Japanese crews and nearly shipwrecked by ice. On one mission, their boat is rammed, cut in two and sunk by a whaling ship. This is war, with no quarter given. Hunting the Hunters is an action-packed and timely account of one man's extraordinary life, as well as an ongoing battle against a powerful nation determined to get its way no matter the cost. It's an important subject, one that a lot of people care about, and as Laurens tells the story in his own words this is a compelling and insightful book.
| Author | : Nick Earls |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0702250767 |
From award-winning author Nick Earls and illustrator Terry Whidborne comes the third and final book in a mysterious, action-packed series for the word nerd in us all. The final battle is coming, the grey-robes are armed and dangerous and ready for war. Lexi, Al and their friends are ready too ? or as ready as they can be. The journey so far has been harder than they imagined ? they have fought ancient warriors, searched long-lost cities for clues, and trained night and day for the moment when they face their arch enemy. But will it be enough? Can they defeat him and save the English language forever? In this amazing last adventure, Lexi and Al plunge back into the past to fight for English, and to discover that language isnOCOt the only thing worth fighting for."
| Author | : Mel Odom |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2003-07-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0765304805 |
Facing the risks of nineteenth-century sailing, including pirates and unscrupulous captains, a young mate sets his sights on a whale with an unusual reputation and finds his crew stalked by a menacing force.
| Author | : Nick Earls |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Children's stories |
| ISBN | : 9780702249594 |
The final battle is coming, the grey-robes are armed and dangerous and ready for war. Lexi, Al and their friends are ready too - or as ready as they can be. The journey so far has been harder than they imagined - they have fought ancient warriors, searched long-lost cities for clues, and trained night and day for the moment when they face their arch enemy. But will it be enough? In this amazing last adventure, Lexi and Al plunge back into the past to fight for English, and to discover that language isn't the only thing worth fighting for.
| Author | : José Ortega y Gasset |
| Publisher | : Wilderness Adventures Press |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9781932098532 |
This is the classic treatise on hunting, written by Spain's leading philosopher of the 20th century. Reprinted with permission from Scribner, this edition features handsome new illustrations. The author explains the reason why humans hunt, as well as the ethics of hunting.
| Author | : James Davison Hunter |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2010-04-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0199745390 |
The call to make the world a better place is inherent in the Christian belief and practice. But why have efforts to change the world by Christians so often failed or gone tragically awry? And how might Christians in the 21st century live in ways that have integrity with their traditions and are more truly transformative? In To Change the World, James Davison Hunter offers persuasive--and provocative--answers to these questions. Hunter begins with a penetrating appraisal of the most popular models of world-changing among Christians today, highlighting the ways they are inherently flawed and therefore incapable of generating the change to which they aspire. Because change implies power, all Christian eventually embrace strategies of political engagement. Hunter offers a trenchant critique of the political theologies of the Christian Right and Left and the Neo-Anabaptists, taking on many respected leaders, from Charles Colson to Jim Wallis and Stanley Hauerwas. Hunter argues that all too often these political theologies worsen the very problems they are designed to solve. What is really needed is a different paradigm of Christian engagement with the world, one that Hunter calls "faithful presence"--an ideal of Christian practice that is not only individual but institutional; a model that plays out not only in all relationships but in our work and all spheres of social life. He offers real-life examples, large and small, of what can be accomplished through the practice of "faithful presence." Such practices will be more fruitful, Hunter argues, more exemplary, and more deeply transfiguring than any more overtly ambitious attempts can ever be. Written with keen insight, deep faith, and profound historical grasp, To Change the World will forever change the way Christians view and talk about their role in the modern world.
