Museum Mystery Squad And The Case Of The Vanishing Viking

Author : Mike Nicholson
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782503972

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Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Vanishing Viking by Mike Nicholson Pdf

Some people think that museums are boring places full of glass cases, dust and stuff no one cares about: wrong! In a hidden headquarters below the exhibits there's a gang ready to handle dangerous, spooky or just plain weird problems: the Museum Mystery Squad. Techie-genius Nabster, mile-a-minute Kennedy and sharp-eyed Laurie (along with Colin the hamster!) tackle the surprising conundrums happening at the museum. From pre-historic creatures that move and secret Egyptian codes to missing treasure and strange messages from the past, there's no brain-twisting, totally improbable puzzle the Squad can't solve. -------------- The discovery of new Viking treasure brings the museum its biggest exhibit yet -- a giant longboat. With such a huge attraction on show there's plenty of room to hide a secret, or two. In the Case of the Vanishing Viking, the Squad investigate legendary longboats, rare runes and hidden hoards to try to solve their latest mystery. --------------- Young readers will love the riddles, red herrings and big reveals jam-packed into this fun-filled series of mystery stories by Mike Nicholson. The enjoyable extras like wacky facts and activities, as well as zany illustrations by Mike Phillips, will keep amateur detectives entertained for hours.

Author : Mike Nicholson
Publisher : Kelpies
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-06
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1782503641

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Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Roman Riddle by Mike Nicholson Pdf

Strange lights, eerie sounds -- there's something spooky happening with a Roman helmet. Join the Museum Mystery Squad as they investigate ancient treasure, mystery mosaics and suspicious centurions.

Author : Mike Nicholson
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782500711

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Catscape by Mike Nicholson Pdf

Fergus can't believe it when his brand-new digital watch starts going backwards. Then he crashes (literally) into gadget-loving Murdo and a second mystery comes to light: cats are going missing all over the neighbourhood. As the two boys start to investigate, they find help in some unexpected places.

Author : Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143118428

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Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Pdf

A celebrated writer pens an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life.

Author : Jesse McCann
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782021728

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Scooby-Doo And The Samurai Ghost by Jesse McCann Pdf

Join the gang from Mystery Inc. as they head to Japan to solve a truly creepy mystery - the ghost of an ancient samurai warrior is haunting a construction site! But Fred, Daphne and Velma smell something fishy in the Land of the Rising Sun, and it isn't the sushi! Can Scooby, Shaggy and the gang solve this mystery before it's too late?

Author : Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781906924270

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The End and the Beginning by Hermynia Zur Mühlen Pdf

First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Eric Schlosser
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780547750330

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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Pdf

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691191348

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From Caligari to Hitler by Siegfried Kracauer Pdf

An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.

Author : James Day
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520356634

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The Vanishing Vision by James Day Pdf

This spirited history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, provides a vivid and often amusing behind-the-screens history. Day tells how a program producer, desperate to locate a family willing to live with television cameras for seven months, borrowed a dime—and a suggestion—from a blind date and telephoned the Louds of Santa Barbara. The result was the mesmerizing twelve-hour documentary An American Family. Day relates how Big Bird and his friends were created to spice up Sesame Street when test runs showed a flagging interest in the program's "live-action" segments. And he describes how Frieda Hennock, the first woman appointed to the FCC, overpowered the resistance of her male colleagues to lay the foundation for public television. Day identifies the particular forces that have shaped public television and produced a Byzantine bureaucracy kept on a leash by an untrusting Congress, with a fragmented leadership that lacks a clearly defined mission in today's multimedia environment. Day calls for a bold rethinking of public television's mission, advocating a system that is adequately funded, independent of government, and capable of countering commercial television's "lowest-common-denominator" approach with a full range of substantive programs, comedy as well as culture, entertainment as well as information. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Author : Janis Mackay
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780863159732

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The Accidental Time Traveller by Janis Mackay Pdf

Winner of the Scottish Children's Book Award 2013 Younger Readers (8-11 years) category. I'm not mad, ok? I know this sounds off the wall, but I was just walking to the corner shop and this girl almost got hit by a car. She grabbed hold of me and told me her name's Agatha Black and she's here from the past. At first I thought she was nuts but maybe it's true. She doesn't get traffic, she's freaked out by photos and she's terrified of TV. And she knows about the past -- body snatchers, making fires, and pet monkeys. Her dad does a bit of time travel. But obviously, he's not very good at it. I mean, he got her lost. Now it's me that has to get her back ? to 1812!

Author : Mike Nicholson
Publisher : Kelpies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Highland games
ISBN : 1782502548

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Thistle Games by Mike Nicholson Pdf

Welcome to the Thistle Games, Scotland's best highland games, where you'll meet lots of friendly folk and learn some fun Scots words. This funny story, told in bright rhyming verse, is full of the lively Scottish characters you've met in Thistle Street and Thistle Sands, plus a whole host more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OSU:32435022600266

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The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kate McLelland
Publisher : Kelpies
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Contests
ISBN : 1782505091

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Isla and Pickle by Kate McLelland Pdf

Sweet and charming for all young girls who love ponies.

Author : James Fennel,Turtle Bunbury
Publisher : Hachette Ireland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0340920270

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Vanishing Ireland by James Fennel,Turtle Bunbury Pdf

In Vanishing Ireland II, the follow up to the bestselling Vanishing Ireland I, we take another journey down memory lane and, through a unique collection of portrait interviews, we look at the dying ways and traditions of Irish life. Illustrated with over a hundred evocative and stunning photographs, we meet the people and the customs that are fast becoming a distant memory. Through their own words and memories, men and women from every corner of Ireland transport us back to a simpler time when people lived off the land and the sea, and when music and storytelling were essential parts of life. Vanishing Ireland brings together the stories of those who lived through Ireland's formative years. These poignant interviews and photographs will make you laugh and cry but, above all, will provide a valuable chronicle that connects twenty-first century Ireland to a rapidly disappearing world.

Author : Kodwo Eshun
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781784786748

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More Brilliant than the Sun by Kodwo Eshun Pdf

The classic work on the music of Afrofuturism, from jazz to jungle More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction is one of the most extraordinary books on music ever written. Part manifesto for a militant posthumanism, part journey through the unacknowledged traditions of diasporic science fiction, this book finds the future shock in Afrofuturist sounds from jazz, dub and techno to funk, hip hop and jungle. By exploring the music of such musical luminaries as Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Lee Perry, Dr Octagon, Parliament and Underground Resistance, theorist and artist Kodwo Eshun mobilises their concepts in order to open the possibilities of sonic fiction: the hitherto unexplored intersections between science fiction and organised sound. Situated between electronic music history, media theory, science fiction and Afrodiasporic studies, More Brilliant than the Sun is one of the key works to stake a claim for the generative possibilities of Afrofuturism. Much referenced since its original publication in 1998, but long unavailable, this new edition includes an introduction by Kodwo Eshun as well as texts by filmmaker John Akomfrah and producer Steve Goodman aka kode9.