Walk Through History

Author : Christopher Winn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473551930

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Walk Through History by Christopher Winn Pdf

'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.' - W.H. Davies Walking around London is one of life's great pleasures. There is a huge amount that you can only see on foot – but sometimes it is hard to know where to look. Luckily, Christopher Winn, bestselling author of I Never Knew That About London, knows where all the hidden treasures are. This book takes the reader on a series of stimulating original walks through different areas of central London, focusing on one particular period of history, the Victorian, so ubiquitous that we take it for granted, and yet so astonishing and so far reaching in its variety, imagination, ambition and detail. Discover... ..the remarkable 300-foot bell tower at the Houses of Parliament you never knew was there.... ..the extraordinary fairytale house in Kensington where the Mikado was inspired... ..the best Victorian loos in the world near Old Street... ..a hidden chapel in Bloomsbury described by Oscar Wilde as 'the most delightful private chapel in London'... ..London's best preserved high class Victorian shop near Tottenham Court Road... ...an almost complete Victorian townscape boasting the world's oldest surviving mansion block... Walk through history and discover the hidden gems of Victorian London!

Author : Lisa Greathouse
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781480775237

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Test Prep Level 2: Walk Through History Comprehension and Critical Thinking by Lisa Greathouse Pdf

Students read a high-interest nonfiction article, strengthen comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions, study a primary source document, and demonstrate critical-thinking skills through document-based questions.

Author : Rick Barba
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781338099157

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Assassin's Creed: A Walk Through History (1189-1868) by Rick Barba Pdf

An in-depth, non-fiction look at the worlds from Assassin's Creed using a screen grabs from the game and actual historical artifacts! The characters and places from the Assassin's Creed videogames come to life in this unique non-fiction guide to the historical time periods of the games. It's a perfect-and age appropriate-- book for middle grade and YA fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, exploring how the game's characters figure into their various time periods and then diving into the real history of each. Illustrated with screen grabs from the games as well as historical illustrations and photographs, time periods include the Crusades, Italian Renaissance, Colonial Americas, French Revolution, and Victorian England.

Author : Toni L. Lazzaro
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477171622

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As I Took a Walk Through History by Toni L. Lazzaro Pdf

Take a walk through history and witness the growing pains of a budding young nation. That nationthe United States of America.

Author : Kurt Rosendahl
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595433087

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Zachor Remember by Kurt Rosendahl Pdf

I was born in 1920, in a city called Aachen, also known as Aix-la Chapelle. It was one of the most tumultuous and significant periods in world history. World War One, "the war to end all wars" had just ended. It took less than twenty years for another war to ravage Europe and plaid havoc with the entire world. In this memoir, I have researched the origins of my family, dating back to the early 17th century in the German/Dutch region of Europe. I have examined how their lives, as Jews, were influenced by their times and how their experiences set the stage for the catastrophe that befell Europe in the 1940s. I discuss my personal experiences and how these tragic events turned my life upside down and how my outlook and my future were influenced. ZACHOR, let us remember together Kurt Rosendahl

Author : Carolyn Mueller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681062216

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Forest Park by Carolyn Mueller Pdf

Author : Rick Barba
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Assassin's creed series (Video games)
ISBN : 1338099140

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Assassin's Creed by Rick Barba Pdf

The complete guide to the history behind the Assassin's Creed franchise, this comprehensive non-fiction art book covers all eras featured in the games.

Author : Justin Gatlin
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496473707

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A Brief Walk through Christian History by Justin Gatlin Pdf

How Christianity Grew from a Dozen Disciples to a Worldwide Movement At the beginning of the first century, a teacher named Jesus of Nazareth shook Roman-occupied Israel with his preaching and teaching. When, several years later, the Romans crucified Jesus and sealed him in a tomb, his disciples were crushed and confused. Two thousand years later, more than two billion followers of Jesus can be found around the globe. Justin Gatlin tells the story of how that happened—from the miraculous resurrection of Jesus to the spread of Christianity throughout Africa and Asia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For each era covered in A Brief Walk through Christian History, Justin shows how Christians from that time period responded to Christ’s call to spread the gospel message, described and defined what it means to be a follower of Christ taught and discipled people who joined the church. It is an amazing story—one in which you can see the hand of God in the growth and expansion of the church.

Author : Anne Millard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465407733

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A Street Through Time by Anne Millard Pdf

Steve Noon's award-winning A Street Through Time has been revised and updated for a new generation. In a series of fourteen unique illustrations, A Street Through Time tells the story of human history by exploring a street as it evolves from 10,000 BCE to the present day. Readers will see how the landscape and the daily lives of people changed as a small settlement grows into a city, is struck by war and plague, and gains trade and industry.

Author : Nick Neely
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640094444

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Alta California by Nick Neely Pdf

This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650–mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco—sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition—nearly 250 years later. Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California today—water, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and development—all of it one step at a time. “Rich in little–known history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." —San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Kathi (Wuebbenhorst) Overley
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490833828

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Walk in the Steps of History by Kathi (Wuebbenhorst) Overley Pdf

Sitting on musty damp blankets below deck, Maria wondered as to where all of her courage had gone. She felt that it had floated away on the stormy seas. Her children were counting on her, as well as her husband, she thought. The shadows of uncertain doubt clouded her mind as the stormy waves of the Atlantic Ocean tossed the German brig about as if it were a leaf in a pond. What did America hold for her family? The temptations of owning their own land had won over the risks they would have to take. Was it really worth the risk? Would her family truly find a place to call home? Closing her eyes, Maria allowed the grace of God sweep over her as she silently prayed.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101199558

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Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.

Author : Neil Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 0753828863

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A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver Pdf

This text presents a history of ancient Britain and the indelible marks which thousands of years of human civilization have made upon the landscape.

Author : Paul Hemphill
Publisher : Pebble Hill Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0817315454

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A Tiger Walk Through History by Paul Hemphill Pdf

In this lively and fascinating book, noted writer and Auburn alum Paul Hemphill tells the story of the progress of Auburn from that first game coached by Auburn legend George Petrie through the team’s growth and development into the national force it is today. Hemphill records the many highs and occasional lows, and the heartbreak and jubilation each caused, noting the standouts great and small on the way. A Tiger Walk through History contains 172 photographs, many of them rare and surprising. The text and photos capture the many great players and coaches in the Auburn football experience: Auburn’s first bowl appearance in 1936; coaching eras of innovative football genius John Heisman, after whom the Heisman trophy is named; “Iron Mike” Donahue; Ralph “Shug” Jordan, who brought Auburn its first national championship in 1957; Pat Dye, Terry Bowden, and present coach Tommy Tuberville; Auburn’s two Heisman trophy winners Pat Sullivan and Bo Jackson; and victories over rivals Alabama and Georgia. The 2007-2008 season is highlighted, including the sixth straight win over Alabama and a bowl victory over Clemson. As the game has grown, Auburn and its team have grown with it, and Auburn now ranks as a perennial power both in its conference and in the nation. Vince Dooley states in his foreword that “beyond the famous coaches and players and their heroics on behalf of the Orange and Blue, A Tiger Walk through History is also about time-honored traditions—rallying cries like ‘Sullivan-to-Beasley’ and ‘Punt Bama Punt’ and ‘Rolling Toomer’s Corner’—that echo in resounding fashion from the pages of Paul Hemphill’s remarkable book.” No fan, whether casual or devoted, can afford to miss this riveting account of the Plainsmen’s journey from the very beginning to today, which is the record of a great university as well as the story of the development of a great football team.

Author : Sheila Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781668007136

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Walk Through Fire by Sheila Johnson Pdf

The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph—an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in her work and life. From humble beginnings as a schoolgirl and young violinist in Maywood, Illinois, Sheila Johnson rose to become one of the most accomplished businesswomen in America. A cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, she became an entrepreneur and philanthropist at the highest levels. But that success came at a painful personal cost. Sheila grew up in a middle-class family that encouraged her love of the arts and music. But her idyllic childhood ended at age sixteen when her beloved father announced he was leaving for another woman, an act that shattered her mother and destroyed Sheila’s trust. She vowed she’d never be in her mother’s position—dependent on a man for her sense of self-worth and for financial security. Yet when she was barely out of her teens, Sheila married a man who would take her right down that same unfortunate path. Filled with sharply drawn, emotionally powerful scenes, Walk Through Fire traces the hardships Sheila faced in her marriage and her professional life. Despite her skills as a violinist and music teacher, as well as her obvious entrepreneurial talent, she had to fight to overcome self-doubt and fears of failure. Sheila vividly details her struggles, including battling institutional racism, losing a child, suffering emotional abuse in her thirty-three-year marriage, and plunging into a deep depression with her divorce. And yet, out of that pain came renewed purpose and meaning. In the third act of her life, Sheila Johnson has not only made her mark as the founder of Salamander Hotels & Resorts and the only Black female co-owner of three professional sports teams, she has also, finally, found true love. Walk Through Fire is a uniquely American success story. And it is the deeply personal portrait of one woman who, despite heartache and obstacles, finally found herself and her place in the world.