A Giant Problem

A Giant Problem
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9781665930246
ISBN-13 : 1665930241
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis A Giant Problem by : Tony DiTerlizzi

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles and get ready for the series soon to be streaming on Disney+ with this seventh installment in the fantastical adventures featuring updated text. A Giant Problem was previously published under the series title Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles. After his last tangle with the magical creatures in his stepsister’s field guide, Nick is looking forward to kicking back and beating Laura at video games. But when even more fire-breathing giants begin to wake up, it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire for the two siblings. Can they stop the giants before they destroy all of Florida?

The Giant of the Beyond

The Giant of the Beyond
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Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages : 86
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ISBN-10 : 9781638298168
ISBN-13 : 1638298165
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Giant of the Beyond by : Shane Offerman

Professor Stan Christen struggles to come to terms with a dark moment in his past. Driven to write to ease the pain, The Giant of the Beyond is his therapy. The Giant sees Stan as a 10-year-old boy. With his friend, Walter Davidson, they both conjure up a plan to take an ill-advised bike trip in Rougemont Forest. Driven by a sense of adventure and a cavalier attitude, they each defy the stern warnings of their parents and Mrs. F., their teacher. To some, the forest was hell. To Stan and Walter, it represented freedom. To one man, it was the chance to mop up unfinished, twisted family business.

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9780821379424
ISBN-13 : 0821379429
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant by : Michael L. Morris

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful examination of the factors that contributed to the successes achieved in Brazil and Thailand, as well as comparative analysis of evidence obtained through detailed case studies of three African countries--Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia--the authors argue that opportunities abound for farmers in Africa to.

Out of the Shadow of a Giant

Out of the Shadow of a Giant
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780300226751
ISBN-13 : 0300226756
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Out of the Shadow of a Giant by : John Gribbin

What if Newton had never lived? A compelling dual biography argues that Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley easily could have filled the giant's shoes--and deserve credit for the birth of modern science. Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society. Although Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and the father of the English scientific revolution, John and Mary Gribbin uncover the fascinating story of Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose scientific achievements neatly embrace the hundred years or so during which science as we know it became established. They argue persuasively that, even without Newton, science would have made a great leap forward in the second half of the seventeenth century, headed by two extraordinary figures, Hooke and Halley.

Beyond the Giant

Beyond the Giant
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Publisher : NBT India
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 8123753322
ISBN-13 : 9788123753324
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond the Giant by : D. R. Pendse

Biography of Jehangir Ratanji Tata, b. 1904, industrialist from India.

Out of the Shadow of a Giant

Out of the Shadow of a Giant
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9780300231540
ISBN-13 : 0300231547
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Out of the Shadow of a Giant by : John Gribbin

The authors of Ice Age “present a well-documented argument that [Newton] owed more to the ideas of others than he admitted” (Kirkus Reviews). Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society. Although Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and the father of the English scientific revolution, John and Mary Gribbin uncover the fascinating story of Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose scientific achievements neatly embrace the hundred years or so during which science as we know it became established. They argue persuasively that, even without Newton, science would have made a great leap forward in the second half of the seventeenth century, headed by two extraordinary figures, Hooke and Halley. “Science readers will thank the Gribbins for restoring Hooke and Halley to the prominence that they deserve.”—Publishers Weekly “Engaging . . . They offer proof that Hooke was an important scientist in his own right, and often had physical insights that were borrowed (usually without acknowledgement) by Newton.”—Choice

Becoming a Giant

Becoming a Giant
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 194
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781312615687
ISBN-13 : 1312615680
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming a Giant by : Cole Lemme

Most of the written works of Cole D. Lemme, including the weird poetry, short stories, other tales, notes, and essays.

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780385353229
ISBN-13 : 0385353227
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Buried Giant by : Kazuo Ishiguro

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

Worlds Beyond

Worlds Beyond
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435023269418
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

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Sleeping Giant

Sleeping Giant
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101873069
ISBN-13 : 110187306X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Sleeping Giant by : Tamara Draut

REVISED AND UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE Today’s working class is a sleeping giant. And as Tamara Draut makes abundantly clear, it is just now waking up to its untapped political power. Sleeping Giant is the first major examination of the new working class and the role it will play in our economic and political future. Blending moving individual narratives, historical background, and sophisticated analysis, Draut forcefully argues that this newly energized class is far along in the process of changing America for the better. Draut examines the legacy of exclusion based on race and gender that contributes to the invisibility of the new working class, despite their entwinement in everyone’s day-to-day life. No longer confined to the assembly line, today’s working class watches our children and cares for our parents. They park our cars, screen our luggage, clean our offices, and cook and serve our meals. They are us. With “Fight for $15” minimum-wage protests popping up throughout the country (and in some places winning) and economic inequality being recognized as one of the defining issues of our time, today’s working class will soon become impossible to ignore and foolish to dismiss. Sleeping Giant is the first book to tell the story of this extraordinary transformation in full and inspiring detail.