Focusing on various countries from around the world, 40 different puzzles are filled with the names of cities, capitals, rivers, famous residents, currency, natural resources, native flora and fauna, and more. Terms appear vertically, horizontally, forward, backward, and diagonally within the grid. [...]
Brave, resourceful, adventurous Fremont (née Caroline) Jones is a woman ahead of her time. Hungry for independence, she's traded in her conventional life in Boston for a career as a "type-writer" in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. But Fremont soon discovers that her clients aren't always what th[...]
The 'wooden walls' of the Royal Navy formed the country's most important line of defence during the Napoleonic Wars, protecting Britain from Napoleon's intended invasion. Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, perhaps Britain's most popular hero, instilled unswerving confidence in his men and led them to[...]
Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the lives of the American Bomber Crewmen of the Eighth Air Force, "The Mighty Eighth," who crewed, maintained and repaired the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and the B-24 Liberators that flew from the airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk and other counties of England durin[...]
When is a car not a car? (When it turns into a driveway.) Why was the math book so sad? (It had too many problems.) Jokesters from eight to eighty will love regaling friends and relatives with these and 58 other zany teeth-gritters. Accompanied by Larry Daste's amusing illustrations.[...]
"With her independent spirit and youthful determination, Miss Jones is virtually invincible," raved The New York Times Book Review upon meeting Dianne Day's spunky and appealing new heroine in her debut, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones. Now Fremont Jones returns, awakened by a terrible rumbling, [...]
Forced to leave San Francisco after the devastating earthquake of 1906, Fremont (née Caroline) Jones follows her heart to the bohemian beach community of Carmel-by-the-Sea. She is eager to be reunited with her elusive suitor, retired spymaster Michael Archer, but finds him mysteriously metamorphos[...]
Autumn 1908 finds Caroline Fremont Jones and her partner in love and work, Michael Kossoff, traveling incognito, riding the rails from San Francisco to Boston. The railroad hired the sleuthing couple to investigate a series of accidents. But before they can solve the mystery, they become victims of [...]
Still not completely recovered from the two broken legs she suffered in her previous adventure, Fremont Jones learns that her father, Leonard Pembroke Jones, is gravely ill and hospitalized in Boston. Deeply distressed, and always suspicious of her detested stepmother, Augusta, Fremont sets out at o[...]
This two-volume history of counterinsurgency covers all the major and many of the lesser known examples of this widespread and enduring form of conflict, addressing the various measures employed in the attempt to overcome the insurgency and examining the individuals and organizations responsible for[...]
Europe's great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France, yet force of numbers, superior leadership and the patriotic fervour of France's citizen-soldiers not only defeated each in turn, but closed the era of small, professional armies fighting for limited political objectives. This perio[...]
Victorious in her previous campaigns in Africa, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. As this book explains, the Boers proved themselves formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for interior numbers through their resourcefulness, grim determination, strong religious faith and, ab[...]
During the 19th century Britain entered into three brutal wars with Afghanistan, each one saw the British trying and failing to gain control of a warlike and impenetrable territory. The first two wars (1839-42 and 1878-81) were wars of the Great Game; the British Empire's attempts to combat growing [...]
The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-establish itself on the British throne. No event in British history has been more heavily romanticized, but Gregory Fremont-Barnes succeeds in stripping away the myths to reveal the key events of this crucial period. From ques[...]
The Soviet invasion of its neighbour Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a bloody nine-year conflict in that country until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988-89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat at the hands of the Mujahideen, the Afghan popular resistance backed by the USA and ot[...]
Hear the name Andy Warhol and what comes most immediately to mind are iconic images of Campbell's soup cans, the Velvet Underground's ubiquitous banana cover art, and quirky color-adjusted panels of pop icons, including Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, and Marilyn Monroe. But Warhol was also a ski[...]
Nykyajan kotien vitsauksena ovat niukat säilytystilat ja kaikkialla vyöryvät tavarat, joiden alle monet tärkeät paperit katoavat. Jotkut ansaitsevat jo elantonsa järjestelemällä kaaoksen valtaamia koteja. Edullisemmaksi tulee hyvä opaskirja, jonka avulla hallinnasta karanneet kamat saa taka[...]
Digitaalinen e-valokuvakirja. Ruskealan marmoria - Sortavalan katuja.
Valokuvamatka Ruskealaan ja Sortavalaan.
Ruskealassa näemme valokuvin kylän keskustaa, Herrankukkaro kirkon, vanhan kirkon kivijalan ja Ruskealan marmorilouhoksen, mikä on tänä päivänä matkailu koh[...]