The Greatest Save Ever

Author : John W. Reid,Thomas E. Lovejoy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781324006046

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Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet by John W. Reid,Thomas E. Lovejoy Pdf

Clear, provocative, and persuasive, Ever Green is an inspiring call to action to conserve Earth’s irreplaceable wild woods, counteract climate change, and save the planet. Five stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska’s Bering seacoast to Canada’s Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America’s bulge; the Congo, occupying parts of six nations in Africa’s wet equatorial middle; and the island forest of New Guinea, twice the size of California. These megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures, and a stable climate, as economist John W. Reid and celebrated biologist Thomas E. Lovejoy argue convincingly in Ever Green. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere—the boreal alone holds 1.8 trillion metric tons of carbon in its deep soils and peat layers, 190 years’ worth of global emissions at 2019 levels—and saving them is the most immediate and affordable large-scale solution to our planet’s most formidable ongoing crisis. Reid and Lovejoy offer practical solutions to address the biggest challenges these forests face, from vastly expanding protected areas, to supporting Indigenous forest stewards, to planning smarter road networks. In gorgeous prose that evokes the majesty of these ancient forests along with the people and animals who inhabit them, Reid and Lovejoy take us on an exhilarating global journey.

Author : Andrew Strachan
Publisher : CF4Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1527102378

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The Greatest Save Ever by Andrew Strachan Pdf

Every weekend you can watch football either on a screen or on the pitch. You might play a game yourself. Perhaps you'll even see some good saves. This book will tell you about the greatest save ever ... and it wasn't in a football match! With football facts and Bible verses, this book for 8-12 year olds looks at the referee, the rules, and the greatest Substitute, explaining the gospel through football.

Author : Claude C H Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136566080

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Readings on the Character of Hamlet by Claude C H Williamson Pdf

First published in 1950. This volume contains the essence of over three hundred well-known literary critics who, between 1661 and 1947, considered the great literary riddle of the years · Entries arranged chronologically by date of publication · International authorship of material

Author : John Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Puritans
ISBN : PRNC:32101068766102

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The Works of John Owen by John Owen Pdf

Author : Clemente Angelo Lisi
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780810877535

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A History of the World Cup, 1930-2010 by Clemente Angelo Lisi Pdf

Lisi chronicles the most popular sporting event in the world, providing vivid accounts of individual games from the tournament's origins in 1930 to modern times.

Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493066148

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The Greatest Military Mission Stories Ever Told by Tom McCarthy Pdf

The orders to proceed were nothing more than an invitation to die, and usually in unpleasant ways. But the soldiers proceeded nonetheless, because a higher cause was at stake. This stunning collection of stories is a tribute to the courage, steely resolve, and discipline of men who accomplished daunting missions in the face of almost certain death. Nonetheless, they stepped into the breach and performed heroically. That was their duty and they did not question. They had a mission and they accepted. Here are ten powerful stories of American soldiers and sailors that span more than 200 years of action with one common theme, summed up succinctly a participant who took control of Omaha Beach on D-Day, 1944. “We were doing the very thing that we had trained so long to do, and we were fascinated, and eagerly excited about it. We realized that any number of things might happen to us and knew too that some things we’d never dreamed of might very well be waiting for us on the beach.”’ From Marines taking Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi or defending Khe San, Navy pilots taking to the air to defend Pearl Harbor, or an outnumbered American regiment in Korea defeating the Chinese at the Battle of Chipyong-ni, courage was the common watchword, death the common consequence. Such is the lot of soldiers everywhere. Here is a not-so-gentle reminder of the price of freedom--paid by American men for more than 200 years of struggle, from the Revolutionary War, the Spanish-American War, Civil War, World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.

Author : Robert Rayner
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781550289183

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Out of Sight by Robert Rayner Pdf

The Brunswick Valley School soccer team's star goalie has a progressive eye disease and teammate Linh-Mai helps him through the changes that will occur.

Author : Algernon Charles Swinburne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : English drama
ISBN : OXFORD:590957743

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A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne Pdf

Author : Steven K. Scott
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307446121

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The Greatest Words Ever Spoken by Steven K. Scott Pdf

Every Word of Jesus Right at Your Fingertips Haven’t you wished you could ask Jesus any question and get his immediate help with the biggest problems you face? Now you can. For the first time ever, all of the statements Jesus made in the New Testament have been brought together and organized under more than 200 topics. When you want to know his will in a specific area of life, or you’re seeking the answer to a perplexing question, or you are desperate for his encouragement, comfort, or wisdom–you can easily find the help you need. The moment you turn to the appropriate topic heading, you will have access to the breadth of Jesus’ teaching on that subject. You can also use this book as a guide for studying Jesus’ wisdom on any topic of interest, such as prayer, forgiveness, eternity, anger, temptation, relationships, grace, or knowing God. As you immerse yourself in Jesus’ words, your life and relationships will be transformed, and your faith and spiritual passion will be renewed. Let the greatest words ever spoken bring new vision, power, and joy into your life–one statement at a time.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:HXMUP6

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The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 5828 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027221325

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The Greatest Works of Sheridan Le Fanu (65+ Novels & Short Stories in One Edition) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Pdf

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels & Novellas: Uncle Silas The Cock and Anchor The House by the Church-Yard Wylder's Hand Guy Deverell The Tenants of Malory Haunted Lives The Wyvern Mystery Checkmate Willing to Die The Haunted Baronet Spalatro Short Story Collections: In a Glass Darkly: Green Tea The Familiar Mr Justice Harbottle The Room in the Dragon Volant Carmilla The Purcell Papers: The Ghost and the Bone-Setter The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh The Last Heir of Castle Connor The Drunkard's Dream Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess The Bridal of Carrigvarah Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter Scraps of Hibernian Ballads Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald The Quare Gander Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery: Madam Crowl's Ghost Squire Toby's Will Dickon the Devil The Child That Went with the Fairies The White Cat of Drumgunniol An Account of Some Strange Distrubances in Aungier Street Ghost Stories of Chapelizod Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling Sir Dominick's Bargain Ultor de Lacy The Vision of Tom Chuff Stories of Lough Guir Other Tales: The Evil Guest The Watcher Laura Silver Bell The Murdered Cousin The Mysterious Lodger An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House The Dead Sexton A Debt of Honor Devereux's Dream Catherine's Quest Haunted Pichon and Sons The Phantom Fourth The Spirit's Whisper Dr. Feversham's Story The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts What Was It? Poetry Biography Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781786993168

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Why Women Will Save the Planet by Bloomsbury Publishing Pdf

Big cities don't have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental sustainability – if we empower women. This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth showcasing pioneering city mayors, key voices in the environmental and feminist movements, and academics. The essays collectively demonstrate both the need for women's empowerment for climate action and the powerful change it can bring. A rallying call – for the planet, for women, for everyone.

Author : Briana Scurry,Wayne Coffey
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647005481

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My Greatest Save by Briana Scurry,Wayne Coffey Pdf

A deeply moving and painfully honest memoir from the trailblazing, World Cup–winning, Olympic gold medalist, and US Women’s soccer goalie Briana Scurry Briana Scurry was a pioneer on the US Women’s National Team. She won gold in Atlanta in 1996, the first time women’s soccer was ever played in the Olympics. She was a key part of the fabled “99ers,” making an epic save in the decisive penalty-kick shootout in the final. Scurry captured her second Olympic gold in 2004, cementing her status as one of the premier players in the world. She was the only Black player on the team, and she was also the first player to be openly gay. It was a singularly amazing ride, one that Scurry handled with her trademark generosity and class—qualities that made her one of the most popular players ever to wear a US jersey. But Scurry’s storybook career ended in 2010 when a knee to the head left her with severe head trauma. She was labeled “temporarily totally disabled,” and the reality was even worse. She spiraled into depression, debt, and endured such pain that she closed out her closest friends and soccer soulmates. She pawned her gold medals. She walked to the edge of a waterfall and contemplated suicide. It seemed like the only way out until Scurry made her greatest save of all. A memoir of startling candor, My Greatest Save is a story of triumph, tragedy, and redemption from a woman who has broken through barriers her entire life.

Author : John Taliaferro
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631490149

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Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West by John Taliaferro Pdf

Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell—the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America’s conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro’s commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug for dinosaurs on the Great Plains with eminent paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh—an expedition that fanned his romantic notion of wilderness and taught him a graphic lesson in evolution and extinction. Soon he joined George A. Custer in the Black Hills, helped to map Yellowstone, and scaled the peaks and glaciers that, through his labors, would become Glacier National Park. Along the way, he became one of America’s most respected ethnologists; seasons spent among the Plains Indians produced numerous articles and books, including his tour de force, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life. More than a chronicler of natural history and indigenous culture, Grinnell became their tenacious advocate. He turned the sportsmen’s journal Forest and Stream into a bully pulpit for wildlife protection, forest reserves, and national parks. In 1886, his distress over the loss of bird species prompted him to found the first Audubon Society. Next, he and Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club to promote “fair chase” of big game. His influence among the rich and the patrician provided leverage for the first federal legislation to protect migratory birds—a precedent that ultimately paved the way for the Endangered Species Act. And in an era when too many white Americans regarded Native Americans as backwards, Grinnell’s cries for reform carried from the reservation, through the halls of Congress, all the way to the White House. Drawing on forty thousand pages of Grinnell’s correspondence and dozens of his diaries, Taliaferro reveals a man whose deeds and high-mindedness earned him a lustrous peerage, from presidents to chiefs, Audubon to Aldo Leopold, John Muir to Gifford Pinchot, Edward S. Curtis to Edward H. Harriman. Throughout his long life, Grinnell was bound by family and sustained by intimate friendships, toggling between the East and the West. As Taliaferro’s enthralling portrait demonstrates, it was this tension that wound Grinnell’s nearly inexhaustible spring and honed his vision—a vision that still guides the imperiled future of our national treasures.

Author : Trina Gulliver
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782192633

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Golden Girl - The Autobiography of the Greatest Ever Ladies' Darts Player by Trina Gulliver Pdf

Trina Gulliver is indisputably the finest ladies' darts player in the world. With an amazing seven consecutive Lakeside Ladies' World Championsship titles under her belt, this inspirational woman can lay claim to being the most phenomenal player of all time. But it hasn't always been a victorious check-outs for this Warwickshire girl. Qualifying as a joiner at the age of nineteen, Trina soon set up her own business and had her first taste of making it in what has traditionally been a man's world. Her calm head, keen eye and steady hand proved to be useful skills in this trade - and would prove priceless when stepped up to the oche as a professional player. Always a lover of the game, Trina held her first 'arrow' at the age of two, and after some success later in the Warwickshire County side she went full-time as a professional player. Without any sponsorship in her first year, she struggled to make ends meet as she drove all over Europe to play. But her determination to get to the top saw her make it to number ten in the world, and she finally hit the bullseye in the form of a sponsor. Twelve months later she was number one - where she remains to this day. Fiercely passionate about her sport, Trina has long been an outspoken critic of the prize money in the women's game compared to the men's, and has done sterling work in helping to raise the profile of the ladies' game. Professional to the core, Trina works as hard as the top male players on her game, and is a role model to women in the sport. Golden Girl is the story of a woman whose talent, grit and determination saw her realise her dream. Heart-warming and inspirational, this book will appeal to darts lovers and anyone interested in a story of success against the odds.