A World of Her Own

A World of Her Own
Author: Michael Elsohn Ross
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1613744382

A World of Her Own profiles 24 fascinating women from as the 1800s through today who have lived lives of exploration and adventure. These daring women represent various eras, cultures, races, and economic backgrounds but all overcome many obstacles to satisfy their curiosity, passions, and, often, drive to protect nature and cultures. Readers will meet women who face deadly weather conditions and endure leeches, days on end without showers, and questionable cuisine in the pursuit of discovery—women such as Eleanor Creesy, who lived a life at sea as a ship’s navigator in the 1800s; Kate Jackson, an insatiable investigator of venomous snakes whose work has led her to remote Africa and Latin America; and Constanza Ceruti, the world’s only female high-elevation archeologist, who carries out important excavations on some of the Earth’s highest peaks in dangerously thin air and subzero temperatures. These and 21 other remarkable women are introduced through profiles informed by not only historical research but also original interviews with many intriguing modern explorers who provide inspiration to any young woman today interested in nature, animals, science, adventure, the environment, and physical challenge. Michael Elsohn Ross is a naturalist, science educator, and award-winning author of over 40 books for children, including Salvador Dali and the Surrealists, Sandbox Scientist, and Snug As a Bug. He lives and works in Yosemite National Park.

The Slime Beast

The Slime Beast
Author: Guy N Smith
Publisher: Black Hill Books
Total Pages: 123
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1907846026

Professor Lowson is searching the Wash for King John's lost treasure. Instead he awakes a reptilian creature buried in the mud, which seems to have arrived on this planet in a meteorite. It starts wandering around, killing and eating anybody it comes across. Lowson wants to capture it alive, his companions want to kill it before it kills anyone else. Soon the locals are involved and following a number of violent deaths and an attempted rape, there can only be a catastrophic finale.

Scaly & Slimy

Scaly & Slimy
Author: Rick Sammon
Publisher: Random House Disney
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-02
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781573590082

Readers get a close-up look at scaly reptiles and slimy amphibians and a microscopic look at some of the creepy, crawly insects that inhabit our planet. Children of all ages will enjoy exploring the world of nature through these 3D photos from the book series from The Nature Company.

Ellen Terry and Her Sisters

Ellen Terry and Her Sisters
Author: Thomas Edgar Pemberton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1902
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

I know that to the majority of people who merely regard the theatre as a place for occasional recreation, it is a subject for amazement that others can exist who, not belonging to the theatrical profession, take an absorbing and lasting interest in the stage, and in those actors and actresses who have made its past history glorious, as well as in the artists who adorn and make it a delight in the present. I wonder how many of us truly realise the weight of Charles Dickens's words: "If any man were to tell me that he denied his acknowledgments to the stage, I would simply put to him one question-whether he remembered his first play?" Not only freely, but with gratitude, I acknowledge my indebtedness to the theatre, and it is certain that from that magic night when for the first time I saw the glitter of the footlights and watched the rise of the curtain, I entered upon a new and most fascinating life. Of course I was called "stage struck," and those who controlled me shook their heads, thought it a great pity, and did their best to thwart my inclinations.

Publications

Publications
Author: United States. Wickersham Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1044
Release: 1930
Genre: Law enforcement
ISBN:

As If She Had a Say

As If She Had a Say
Author: Jennifer Fliss
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2023-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0810146266

A new story collection from Jennifer Fliss, author of The Predatory Animal Ball Who has a right to tell us how to experience our grief? How to perform—or not perform—the roles society prescribes to us based on our various points of identity? As If She Had a Say, the second story collection from Jennifer Fliss, uses an absurdist lens to showcase characters—predominantly women—plumbing their resources as they navigate misogyny, abuse, and grief. In these stories, a woman melts in the face of her husband’s cruelty; a seven-tablespoons-long woman lives inside a refrigerator and engages in an affair with the man of the house; a balloon-animal artist attends a funeral to discover he was invited as more than entertainment; and a man loses all his nouns. Fans of Karen Russell and Carmen Maria Machado will appreciate how As If She Had a Say’s inventive narratives expose inequities by taking us on imaginative romps through domesticity and patriarchal expectations. Each story functions as a magnifying glass through which we might examine our own lives and see ourselves more clearly.

Dead Man’s Land

Dead Man’s Land
Author: George Manville Fenn
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752371978

Reproduction of the original: Dead Man’s Land by George Manville Fenn

Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies

Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Author: Lynn Turner
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2018-03-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1474418422

This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies.

Dragon Flute

Dragon Flute
Author: Jordan Zlotolow
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644244004

Welcome back as we join Jalen Bloom, old friends and new on another adventure through a world of magic and mysticism-Calladrin. Dragonsoft, the laptop business founded in Los Angeles, had been going strong for over a decade and a half, with Jim Foley happily married to Summer and raising their beloved fifteen-year-old son, Ralius. A break from adventuring had been positive as the time spent together allowed the good-natured kid to take after his father and focus on being a normal teenager. However, in his other life, Ralius was an apprentice blade-hand, or hero of Calladrin, a defender of the land. Ralius, along with his tall elven best friend, Riel, were both transitioning from boys to adults as they trained secretly with weapons to keep their abilities up in case of trouble. Both families, the human Bloom's and elven Sharpe's, worked together at Dragonsoft with Cleft, the mighty shaman, posing as lead programmer. Swen Sharp and Lexia, his wife, a.k.a. Riel's mom and dad worked as corporate lawyers and traders for Dragonsoft with the help of magic. Jim Foley, Jalen's Los Angeles alter persona, had been raising his son, rarely returning to the fantasy land of his true origin during a quiet phase of his life. It was a normal day at the office until the ghost of a fallen dwarf from the past came to warn Jim of danger, followed by goblins demanding the poor human's head. Suffice it to say, Jalen, Swen, Summer, and Cleft were needed back in Calladrin again. The question was would the kids come along this time? If you like, ghosts, remote viewing, astral projection, telepathy, portals, time travel, elemental magic, mythical and mythological creatures, paleontology, dinosaurs, alien technology, medieval armaments, demons, shape-shifting or talismans, and if even if you don't, you may want to take a look inside . . . Prepare for an adventure in the tradition of epic fantasy as you enjoy Dragon Flute, the second installment in the Dragon Talisman series!