Ghosts Of Vesuvius

Author : Charles R. Pellegrino
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060751005

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Ghosts of Vesuvius by Charles R. Pellegrino Pdf

A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now palaeontologist Charles Pellegrino presents a wealth of new knowledge about the doomed towns – and brings to vivid life the people, their last moments, and the aftermath. The lessons learned from modern scrutiny of that ancient eruption produce disturbing echoes in the present. Dr Pellegrino, who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, shares his unique knowledge of the strange physics of volcanic 'downblast' and 'collapse column', drawing a direct link from past to present, and providing readers with a poignant glimpse into the last moments of the 'American Vesuvius'.

Author : Charles R. Pellegrino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : OCLC:1302542574

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Ghosts of Vesuvius by Charles R. Pellegrino Pdf

An examination of the disasters at Pompeii and Herculaneum discusses what forensic archaeology and new findings in volcano physics reveal about modern events, including the "collapse column" at the World Trade Center.

Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631496400

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The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn Pdf

“A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.

Author : Hailey Scragg
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781731643957

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Abandoned Places by Hailey Scragg Pdf

Book Features: • 32 pages, about 7 inches x 9 inches • Ages 8-14, Grades 3-8 leveled readers • Easy-to-read pages with vibrant photos • Features before, during, and after reading activities • After-reading questions, memory game, and reading activity included Abandoned Places: Have you ever seen an empty city? A ghost town? Let's discover why these places were abandoned and what they look like today in Abandoned Places! Hidden, Lost, And Discovered: Go on an epic journey to explore some of the most interesting places from around the world, their history, and why they were abandoned. Some people may not even know they exist! Reading Made Fun: This 32-page nonfiction book for grades 3–8 features eye-catching photos, hidden histories, and fascinating facts about some of the world's most amazing locations. Leveled Books: Discovering the world's intriguing history will engage readers in this high-interest, easy-reading-level book with before, during, and after reading activities, post-reading questions, a memory game, and more! Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Author : Charles R. Pellegrino
Publisher : Avon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0380724723

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Ghosts of the Titanic by Charles R. Pellegrino Pdf

A member of the team that discovered the Titanic on the ocean floor recreates the final day of the ship in detail, using new technology to peer deeper into the ship than anyone has ever looked.

Author : Mark Gatiss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847396679

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The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss Pdf

An Extraordinary and Death-Defying Tour of Edwardian Low Life and High Society, accompanied by our host Lucifer Box Esq - artist, dandy, rake ... and lethal secret agent. Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have. But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. Beneath London's façade of Imperial grandeur and divine aesthetes seethes an underworld of crazed anarchists, murder, and despicable vice, and Box is at home in both. And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can turn to. Lucifer Box ruthlessly deduces and seduces his way from his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (all his father left him), to private stews of London and the seediest, most colourful back alleys of Italy, in search of the mighty secret society that may hold the fate of the world in its claw-like hands - the Vesuvius Club.

Author : Tasha Alexander
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250164759

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In the Shadow of Vesuvius by Tasha Alexander Pdf

In skillfully intertwined storylines from the dawn of the twentieth century and the heyday of the Roman Empire, Tasha Alexander's In the Shadow of Vesuvius, the latest installment to her bestselling series, brings Lady Emily and her husband to Pompeii, where they uncover a recent crime in the ancient city. Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others. But when Lady Emily discovers a body hidden in plain sight amongst the ruins of Pompeii, she sets in motion a deadly chain of events that ties her future to the fate of a woman whose story had been lost for nearly two thousand years. Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have accompanied her dear friend Ivy Brandon on a trip to Pompeii. When they uncover a corpse and the police dismiss the murder as the work of local gangsters, Emily launches an investigation of her own. She seems to be aided by the archaeologists excavating the ruins, including a moody painter, the enigmatic site director, and a free-thinking American capable of sparring with even the Duke of Bainbridge. But each of them has secrets hiding among the ruins. The sudden appearance of a beautiful young woman who claims a shocking relationship to the Hargreaves family throws Emily’s investigation off-course. And as she struggles to face an unsettling truth about Colin’s past, it becomes clear that someone else wants her off the case—for good. Emily’s resolve to unearth the facts is unshakable. But how far below the surface can she dig before she risks burying herself along with the truth?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0892369000

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Ashen Sky by Anonim Pdf

Barry Moser's extraordinarily detailed and evocative relief engravings decorate this translation of Pliny the Younger's two famous letters to Tacitus about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the death of his uncle, Pliny the Elder. Printed in black and white, the engravings are works of art that illustrate various descriptions in the letters. The text includes a brief description of the eruption of the volcano, concise biographies of Tacitus and of both Plinys, and a summary of how the texts of the two letters have survived until today.

Author : Charles R. Pellegrino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380787423

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Dust by Charles R. Pellegrino Pdf

When a gigantic ecological eruption causes dust mites to rapidly reproduce and become flesh-eating insects, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair and a group of survivors must try to stop this deadly phenomenon before the entire world is destroyed. Reprint.

Author : Charles R. Pellegrino
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780380810444

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Unearthing Atlantis: by Charles R. Pellegrino Pdf

Illustrated history of Thera Islands of Greece, the Minoan civilization and the fabled land of Atlantis.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674744417

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The Fires of Vesuvius by Mary Beard Pdf

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day. Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was—more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol?—and what it can tell us about “ordinary” life there. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath and see the intestinal tapeworms of the inhabitants of the lost city. She resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. Recently, Pompeii has been a focus of pleasure and loss: from Pink Floyd’s memorable rock concert to Primo Levi’s elegy on the victims. But Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem. This book shows us how much more and less there is to Pompeii than a city frozen in time as it went about its business on 24 August 79.

Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316262255

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Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes Pdf

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father's actions. Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today's world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death.

Author : Jeremy Dyson
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857862440

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The Haunted Book by Jeremy Dyson Pdf

· What unspeakable horror glimpsed in the basement of a private library in West Yorkshire drove a man to madness and an early grave? · What led to an underground echo chamber in a Manchester recording studio being sealed up for good? · What creature walks the endless sands of Lancashire's Fleetwood Bay, and what connects it to an unmanned craft washed ashore in Port Elizabeth, nearly six thousand miles away? In 2009 Jeremy Dyson was contacted by a journalist wanting help bringing together accounts of true life ghost stories from across the British Isles. The Haunted Book chronicles the journey Dyson, formerly a hardened sceptic, went on to uncover the truth behind these tales.

Author : D. M. Nicol
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Pub
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0841958262

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The End of the Byzantine Empire by D. M. Nicol Pdf

Author : James B. Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439188279

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Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart Pdf

From Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart comes the extraordinary story of American hero Rick Rescorla, Morgan Stanley security director and a veteran of Vietnam and the British colonial wars in Rhodesia, who lost his life on September 11. When Rick Rescorla got home from Vietnam, he tried to put combat and death behind him, but he never could entirely. From the day he joined the British Army to fight a colonial war in Rhodesia, where he met American Special Forces’ officer Dan Hill who would become his best friend, to the day he fell in love with Susan, everything in his remarkable life was preparing him for an act of generosity that would transcend all that went before. Heart of a Soldier is a story of bravery under fire, of loyalty to one’s comrades, of the miracle of finding happiness late in life. Everything about Rick’s life came together on September 11. In charge of security for Morgan Stanley, he successfully got all its 2,700 men and women out of the south tower of the World Trade Center. Then, thinking perhaps of soldiers he’d held as they died, as well as the woman he loved, he went back one last time to search for stragglers. Heart of a Soldier is a story that inspires, offers hope, and helps heal even the deepest wounds.