A historic connection has the power to change the future in this classic, gripping novel from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper.
Sam Robbins is a farm boy, kidnapped to serve on HMS "Victory," the ship on which Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Molly Jenning[...]
Two brothers encounter danger and adventure in a world of the future in this classic dystopian novel from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper.
On their idyllic Bahamian island, Trey's little brother, Lou, is different. He doesn't speak and suffers from frightening seizures. But when he and Trey find t[...]
From Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper, a story of adventure and friendship between a young Native American and a colonial New England settler.
On the winter day Little Hawk is sent into the woods alone, he can take only a bow and arrows, his handcrafted tomahawk, and the amazing metal knife his fat[...]
Epic. Bestselling. Award-winning. The complete Dark Is Rising Sequence is now available as one keepsake collection.Will Stanton's ordinary life is shattered with the dreadful revelation that the Dark--the source of all evil--is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. He finds that [...]
Epic. Bestselling. Award-winning. The complete Dark Is Rising Sequence is now available as one keepsake collection.Will Stanton's ordinary life is shattered with the dreadful revelation that the Dark--the source of all evil--is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. He finds that [...]
In the winter of his eleventh year, Little Hawk goes deep into the forest, where he must endure a three month test of solitude and survival, which will turn him into a man. But outside the woods, the world is changing. English settlers are landing on the shores of the New World, and tensions between[...]
Sirens are blaring. Families huddle in bomb shelters. A nearby city is in flames. For Derek and his friends, night-time air raids are a normal part of everyday life. When a particularly violent raid closes their school for a few days, the boys use the time to complete construction of their secret ca[...]
The field of Personnel Psychology is broadly concerned with the study of individual differences and their consequences for the organization. As human resource costs continue, for most organizations, to be the single largest operating cost (50-80% of annual expenditure), achieving optimal performance[...]
Reared in the teeming streets of India at the turn of the century, the orphan Kim is the 'Friend of the all the World', a cheeky imp with an endless interest in the extraordinary characters he meets daily. One of them, an old Tibetan lama, sets him on the path that will lead him to travel the Great [...]
Commutative algebra, combinatorics, and algebraic geometry are thriving areas of mathematical research with a rich history of interaction. Connections Between Algebra and Geometry contains lecture notes, along with exercises and solutions, from the Workshop on Connections Between Algebra and Geometr[...]
Den här boken är Nalle Valtialas hyllning till Susan Fenimore Cooper. Hon var dotter till James Fenimore Cooper, Skinnstrumpas skapare och den amerikanska skogens första skildrare i det episka formatet. Efter en lång tids glömska accelererar nu en Susan Fenimore Cooper-industri i USA. Boken so[...]