Arcade Catastrophe

Author : Brandon Mull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481411209
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arcade Catastrophe written by Brandon Mull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nate and his friends think the new Arcadeland, where tickets can earn jets, tanks, subs, and race cars, is totally cool, until they learn that the arcade owner is hiding a secret.

Author : Brandon Mull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481411195
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Candy Shop War written by Brandon Mull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fifth-graders Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon meet the new candy store owner Mrs. White, she gives them magical candy that endows them with super powers, but soon they find that along with these benefits are dangerous consequences.

Author : Alexandra Adornetto
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 0730400026
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Von Gobstopper's Arcade written by Alexandra Adornetto and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third in THE STRANGEST ADVENTURES series. Ages: 10+ After a perilous journey to the Conjuror's Realm, Milli and Ernest have again escaped the clutches of the wicked Lord Aldor. But their strange adventures are not over yet. to commemorate the extraordinary bravery of Drabville's children, millionaire philanthropist and master toymaker Gustav Von Gobstopper builds the children a special toy Arcade. But upon visiting the arcade, Milli and Ernest's excitement turns to intrigue when they encounter a small band of toys hiding underground, deranged designer tempest Anomali and a cohort of discredited surgeons, the Botchers. A macabre plot - to be executed at Christmas - emerges. Could Aldor be behind this pernicious scheme to eradicate childhood? As Christmas Eve draws close, Milli and Ernest find themselves enlisted as Santa's helpers for a Christmas spectacle that will be like no other ... Can they protect the town before catastrophe strikes? Praise for Von Gobstopper's Arcade: 'we predict this latest hit will be just one in a long line of books from this talented writer'Dolly magazine 'Alexandra Adornetto ... has a formidable writing talent'the Courier-Mail

Author : David Keys
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345444361
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe written by David Keys and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2000-10-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped out entire populations in Europe. Flood and drought brought ancient cultures to the brink of collapse. In a matter of decades, the old order died and a new world—essentially the modern world as we know it today—began to emerge. In this fascinating, groundbreaking, totally accessible book, archaeological journalist David Keys dramatically reconstructs the global chain of revolutions that began in the catastrophe of A.D. 535, then offers a definitive explanation of how and why this cataclysm occurred on that momentous day centuries ago. The Roman Empire, the greatest power in Europe and the Middle East for centuries, lost half its territory in the century following the catastrophe. During the exact same period, the ancient southern Chinese state, weakened by economic turmoil, succumbed to invaders from the north, and a single unified China was born. Meanwhile, as restless tribes swept down from the central Asian steppes, a new religion known as Islam spread through the Middle East. As Keys demonstrates with compelling originality and authoritative research, these were not isolated upheavals but linked events arising from the same cause and rippling around the world like an enormous tidal wave. Keys's narrative circles the globe as he identifies the eerie fallout from the months of darkness: unprecedented drought in Central America, a strange yellow dust drifting like snow over eastern Asia, prolonged famine, and the hideous pandemic of the bubonic plague. With a superb command of ancient literatures and historical records, Keys makes hitherto unrecognized connections between the "wasteland" that overspread the British countryside and the fall of the great pyramid-building Teotihuacan civilization in Mexico, between a little-known "Jewish empire" in Eastern Europe and the rise of the Japanese nation-state, between storms in France and pestilence in Ireland. In the book's final chapters, Keys delves into the mystery at the heart of this global catastrophe: Why did it happen? The answer, at once surprising and definitive, holds chilling implications for our own precarious geopolitical future. Wide-ranging in its scholarship, written with flair and passion, filled with original insights, Catastrophe is a superb synthesis of history, science, and cultural interpretation.

Author : Jennifer Nielsen
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402240228
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elliot and the Goblin War written by Jennifer Nielsen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most kids, accidentally starting an interspecies war on Halloween would be the biggest event of their lives. For Elliot Penster, it was only the beginning. Now, three years later, the Brownies, who are hopelessly losing the war against the Goblins, make 11-year-old Elliot their king.

Author : Jody Feldman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061957313
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gollywhopper Games written by Jody Feldman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jody Feldman's popular, award-winning novel about a group of kids playing the Gollywhopper Games—the fiercest toy company competition in the country—will appeal to fans of The Amazing Race and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Gil Goodson has been studying, training, and preparing for months to compete in the Gollywhopper Games. Everything is at stake. Once Gil makes it through the tricky preliminary rounds and meets his teammates in the fantastical Golly Toy and Game Company, the competition gets tougher. Brainteasers, obstacle courses, mazes, and increasingly difficult puzzles and decisions—not to mention temptations, dilemmas, and new friends (and enemies)—are all that separate Gil from ultimate victory. An interactive and inventive page-turner perfect for young readers who love to solve puzzles!

Author : Will Lach
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789212749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master-Pieces written by Will Lach and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mix and match pieces of the world's greatest artworks from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Gilbert Stuart's George Washington to create new portraits. Flip Flora's pretty hairstyle on the head of a Kabuki actor. Top Frida Kahlo with the straw hat of Vincent van Gogh. Printed on heavy board and laminated, Master-Pieces will stand up to the most enthusiastic flipping, at home or in the classroom. Including full images with captions, short descriptions of the works, and artists’ biographies, it features artworks from the world’s most magnificent public collections, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Louvre. With one thousand possible portrait combinations, Master-Pieces will have children looking at art in a whole new way. Featured artists include Leonardo da Vinci · Vincent van Gogh · Frida Kahlo · Sandro Botticelli · Gilbert Stuart · Toshusai Sharaku · Archibald J. Motley Jr. · Giuseppe Arcimboldo · Rogier van der Weyden · Diego Velázquez Featured museums include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC · Art Institute of Chicago · The Louvre, Paris · The Uffizi, Florence · Skokloster Castle, Sweden · The Prado, Madrid · Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

Author : Anson Rabinbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520926250
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Catastrophe written by Anson Rabinbach and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays by eminent European intellectual and cultural historian Anson Rabinbach address the writings of key figures in twentieth-century German philosophy. Rabinbach explores their ideas in relation to the two world wars and the horrors facing Europe at that time. Analyzing the work of Benjamin and Bloch, he suggests their indebtedness to the traditions of Jewish messianism. In a discussion of Hugo Ball's little-known Critique of the German Intelligentsia, Rabinbach reveals the curious intellectual career of the Dadaist and antiwar activist turned-nationalist and anti-Semite. His examination of Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" and Jaspers's The Question of German Guilt illuminates the complex and often obscure political referents of these texts. Turning to Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, Rabinbach offers an arresting new interpretation of this central text of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. Subtly and persuasively argued, his book will become an indispensable reference point for all concerned with twentieth-century German history and thought.

Author : Margaret George
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440650306
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary, Called Magdalene written by Margaret George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Splendor Before the Dark reveals the untold story of Mary Magdalene—a disciple of Jesus Christ and the most mysterious woman in the Bible. Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute, a female divinity figure, a church leader, or all of those? Biblical references to her are tantalizingly brief, but we do know that she was the first person to whom the risen Christ appeared—and the one commissioned to tell others the good news, earning her the ancient honorific, “Apostle to the Apostles.” Today, Mary continues to spark controversy, curiosity, and veneration. In a vivid re-creation of Mary Magdalene's life story, Margaret George convincingly captures this renowned woman's voice as she moves from girlhood to womanhood, becomes part of the circle of disciples, and comes to grips with the divine. While grounded in biblical scholarship and secular research, Mary, Called Magdalene ultimately transcends both history and fiction to become a “diary of a soul.”

Author : David Culshaw
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1874105936
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975 written by David Culshaw and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of British cars, this book presents a large amount of information - historical as well as technical - in a way which should serve the needs of the dedicated enthusiast and the general reader. Nearly over 700 manufacturers and some 3700 individual models are covered - including technical specification for most cars. A wide selection of photographs feature all the major marques and some minor ones.