Great Explorers

Great Explorers

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  • Author: Stewart Ross
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  • ISBN: 9781406348668
  • Category : Discoveries in geography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 96

From Pytheas the Greek, who sailed to the Arctic Circle without a compass, to Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, here are 14 extraordinary journeys by land, sea and air - each remarkable for the way it was made, for the technology behind it, and for the inspiration it gave to future generations. Storytelling, fold-out cross sections, detailed maps and technical drawings enable readers to experience the excitement of exploration.


Into the Unknown

Into the Unknown

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  • ISBN: 9781635701777
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In middle school, life changes FAST.From new schools to new friends, middle schoolers can feel like they are constantly walking into the unknown. In fact, that's the purpose of this journal--to give middle schoolers a place to think, pray, and process when life is changing around them.As they do, we hope they'll discover a few things that never change in the unknown: God is with them, God is bigger than what they're facing, and God can use even their biggest unknowns to make them stronger.In this journal, middle schoolers will find?4 weeks of devotionals7 days of interactive, directly applicable content for each weekAn engaging intro for each week, designed to pull readers in immediately and help them self-evaluateWhether you're a parent, a small group leader, or a youth pastor, Into the Unknown makes a great gift for the middle schoolers you love as they navigate a season of change like no other. Into the Unknown can be used any time, by any church or middle schooler, and pairs well with the high school edition of this journal, called Even If.


Into the Unknown

Into the Unknown

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  • Author: Jack Uldrich
  • Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
  • ISBN: 9780814427811
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

If life is an adventure, no one will ever live it more fully than Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the rumored Northwest Passage, Lewis and Clark instead discovered a seemingly endless land whose very existence foretold a future America infinitely different from what had been imagined. May 2004 marks the beginning of a two-and-a-half year bicentennial celebration of their incredible journey and its significance to the history of America. Against staggering odds, these unique men inspired such absolute loyalty in each other and in their group that they are still widely regarded as the most successful leadership team in American history. Today's leadership adventures unfold in the rugged terrain of business, and who better than Lewis and Clark to lead us through its toughest challenges? Their story resonates with business leaders of our time because they had to: * Think strategically * Make tough and timely decisions * Surround themselves with good people * Manage resources * Motivate the team * Deal with different cultures * Assimilate information from many sources * Balance long-term goals against short-term realities * Learn from their mistakes * Try new approaches Most importantly, they had to persevere and change course in the face of adversity. Their lessons will inspire business leaders to take their teams to new adventures of great discovery.


Into the Unknown

Into the Unknown

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  • Author: Stewart Ross
  • Publisher: National Geographic Books
  • ISBN: 076366992X
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

"Lively writing captures the excitement of exploration while providing just enough geographic and historic detail." — School Library Journal (starred review) Ready to relive some of the most daring voyages of all time? Unfold these spectacular cross sections and explore fourteen historic journeys, with the help of dramatic storytelling and sidebars that highlight key concepts, places, and technology. Presented in a larger format to make these exciting journeys even more accessible and engaging. Back matter includes an index, a glossary, and sources.


Into the Unknown

Into the Unknown

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  • Author: Ian Trafford
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • ISBN: 0143775138
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

A personal account of WWI from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist’s grandson 100 years later. Follow Alick as he moves from his last night on the farm in early 1916, through enshipment and training, then off to the battle fields of France and Belgium, occupied Germany and back home. His treasured diaries covered the tedium, the mud, the fear and sorrow, the discomfort, the periods of leave and the letters from those back home. See the war unfold through Alick’s eyes and learn about his and his companions' attitudes to the army, to female company, to the enemy soldiers, to the hospitality provided by people under pressure, to the war itself. And after the drama and tragedy of war, comes the return home and the efforts required to make a living while remaining steadfastly silent about the traumas of those terrible years - an unseen fight that continued and affected generations to come.


Adventures Into the Unknown!

Adventures Into the Unknown!

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  • Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
  • ISBN: 159582930X
  • Category : Comic books, strips, etc
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

Systematic reprint of the periodical that began in Fall 1948.


We Have No Idea

We Have No Idea

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  • Author: Jorge Cham
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0735211523
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 369

Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science, they give us the best answers currently available for a lot of questions that are still perplexing scientists, including: * Why does the universe have a speed limit? * Why aren't we all made of antimatter? * What (or who) is attacking Earth with tiny, superfast particles? * What is dark matter, and why does it keep ignoring us? It turns out the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense. But Cham and Whiteson make a compelling case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can. This fully illustrated introduction to the biggest mysteries in physics also helpfully demystifies many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, Cham and Whiteson invite us to see the universe as a possibly boundless expanse of uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.


Quest into the Unknown

Quest into the Unknown

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  • Author: Tony Howard
  • Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
  • ISBN: 1911342843
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 805

We are all climbing where we are and with the gear we use in no small part due to Tony Howard's quest for adventure. Tony Howard rose to fame in 1965 as a member of a group of young climbers from northern England who made the first British ascent of Norway's Troll Wall; a climb described by Joe Brown as, 'One of the greatest ever achievements by British rock climbers'. Tony went on to design the modern sit harness, now used worldwide by most climbers. He founded the company Troll Climbing Equipment but never stopped exploring. Quest into the Unknown is his story. Tony has dedicated his life to travelling the world in search of unclimbed rock faces and remote trekking adventures. The scale of his travels is vast: he has visited all of the North African countries, much of the Arab land of the Middle East, the mountainous regions of Scandinavia, Canada and the rocky spine of the Americas, the Himalaya, remote Indian provinces, South East Asia, Madagascar, South Georgia and Antarctica. This book, the last word in adventure travel, takes the reader from Tony's youth spent developing the crags of the English Peak District, via whaling ships in the Southern Ocean, thousand-mile canoe trips in the Canadian Arctic, living amongst the Bedouin in the rocky mountains of Jordan, to the isolated opium tribes of Thailand. Tony Howard's Quest into the Unknown is the jaw-dropping account of a life of adventure that is the very definition of true exploration.


Into The Unknown

Into The Unknown

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  • Author: Ann M Connelly
  • Publisher: FriesenPress
  • ISBN: 1039156916
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 156

This is a memoir about my work as a Public Health Nurse both in Scotland and Canada. It gives some insight into the diverse areas I lived and the interesting people I met. Public Health is a vastly different career from one of a hospital nurse. Working in isolation, although frightening at times, allowed for ingenuity and trying out many ideas and various ways of getting the job done.


Somewhere in the Unknown World

Somewhere in the Unknown World

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  • Author: Kao Kalia Yang
  • Publisher: Metropolitan Books
  • ISBN: 1250296862
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 189

From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet. All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the rise, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a Hmong refugee—has gathered stories of the stateless who today call the Twin Cities home. Here are people who found the strength and courage to rebuild after leaving all they hold dear. Awo and her mother, who escaped from Somalia, reunite with her father on the phone every Saturday, across the span of continents and decades. Tommy, born in Minneapolis to refugees from Cambodia, cannot escape the war that his parents carry inside. As Afghani flees the reach of the Taliban, he seeks at every stop what he calls a certificate of his humanity. Mr. Truong brings pho from Vietnam to Frogtown in St. Paul, reviving a crumbling block as well as his own family. In Yang’s exquisite, necessary telling, these fourteen stories for refugee journeys restore history and humanity to America's strangers and redeem its long tradition of welcome.