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Author | : Gordon Thomas |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1497658802 |
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The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned. In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later. So how did a town of thousands not heed the warnings of nature and local scientists, instead staying behind to perish in the onslaught of volcanic ash? Why did the newspapers publish articles assuring readers that the volcano was harmless? And why did the authorities refuse to allow the American Consul to contact Washington about the conditions? The answer lies in politics: With an election on the horizon, the political leaders of Martinique ignored the welfare of their people in order to consolidate the votes they needed to win. A gripping and informative book on the disastrous effects of a natural disaster coupled with corruption, The Day the World Ended reveals the story of a city engulfed in flames and the political leaders that chose to kill their people rather than give up their political power.
Author | : Sax Rohmer |
Publisher | : Alien Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2023-11-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1667628925 |
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Brian Woodville, an adventurous journalist who investigates stories all over the world, is assigned a strange story in the Black Forest of Germany involving mysterious deaths and giant bats. Setting out to discover the truth about these apparent vampiric attacks in the village of Baden-Baden, he encounters reticent locals, strange foreigners, and a beautiful noble woman.
Author | : Joseph Marshall |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780670038534 |
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An account of the legendary battle, told from a Lakota perspective, documents key Lakota oral traditions to reveal the nuanced complexities that led up to and followed the conflict.
Author | : Lizzie Wilcock |
Publisher | : Scholastic Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781741696462 |
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The world is going to end on the 21st of September. We know because we've seen it. We were there. Thirteen-year-old twins Mac and Annie awake one morning to discover that everyone in their town-and, it seems, the entire world-has been wiped out. Searching for answers, the twins discover they are not alone: three other sets of twins, scattered across the planet, have survived. Given a chance to stop the mass extinction by their newfound ability to travel backwards through time and their mysterious powers over natural elements, Mac and Annie seek out these twins. Together they must solve the mystery of why the human race was wiped out, and stop it happening again.
Author | : Emma LeConte |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803281516 |
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"I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with life while the Civil War rages around them.
Author | : Daphne Berdahl |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1999-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520214765 |
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Focusing on the re-unification of Germany, this text asks what happens when a political and economic system collapses overnight. It concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life - including social organization, gender and religion.
Author | : Maria Manuel Lisboa |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1906924503 |
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Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production - from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This volume examines historical and imaginary scenarios of apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapes in the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effortlessly from classic novels including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, to blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Armageddon and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Lisboa also takes into account religious doctrine, scientific research and the visual arts to create a penetrating, multi-disciplinary study that provides profound insight into one of Western culture's most fascinating and enduring preoccupations.
Author | : Nicole Perlroth |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1526629836 |
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WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year 'A terrifying exposé' The Times 'Part John le Carré . . . Spellbinding' New Yorker We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world's largest attack surface. And that the same nation that maintains the greatest cyber advantage on earth could also be among its most vulnerable. Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers and a few unsung heroes, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing and gripping feat of journalism. Drawing on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel.
Author | : Frederik Pohl |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : 9780345371973 |
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Wan-To was the oldest and must powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles. Matter occupied so tiny a part of his vast awareness that humans were utterly beneath his notice. The colonists of Newmanhome first suffered the effects of Wan-To's games when their planet's stars began to shift, the climate began to cool down, and the colony was forced into a desperate struggle to survive. Viktor Sorricaine was determined to discover what force had suddenly sent his world hurtling toward the ends of the universe. And the answer was something beyond the scope of his imagination -- even if he lived for 4000 years...
Author | : Peter Darbyshire |
Publisher | : Wolsak and Wynn |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : End of the world |
ISBN | : 9781928088448 |
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"In Has the World Ended Yet? we start with retired superheroes living in a soulless suburbia where everyone gets lost trying to get home. Then the angels start to fall from the sky. Is it Armageddon? And do we want the world to end or not? In a series of linked short stories Peter Darbyshire weaves together superheroes, ghosts, the undead, a hired hitman, the Cold War, the Rapture and avenging angels in a Twilight Zone-style collection that is riveting and human. We follow characters that are identifiable through situations that are unreal, through a technicolour landscape we are all familiar with. The end of the world is not what we expect, what any of Darbyshire's characters expect and may not really be happening at all. But should it?"--