In vivid detail, Tinniswood recounts the brutal struggles, glorious triumphs, and enduring personalities of the pirates of the Barbary Coast, and how their maneuverings between the Muslim empires and Christian Europe shed light on the religious and moral battles that still rage today. Historian and author Adrian Tinniswood brings alive this dynamic chapter in history, where clashes between pirates of the East-Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli-and governments of the West-England, France, Spain, and Venice-grew increasingly intense and dangerous. They attacked ships, enslaved crews, plundered cargoes, enraged governments, and swayed empires, wreaking havoc from Gibraltar to the Holy Land and beyond. Pirates have existed since the invention of commerce itself, but they reached the zenith of their power during the 1600s, when the Mediterranean was the crossroads of the world and pirates were the scourge of Europe and the glory of Islam. It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone-if not for today's frightening headlines of robbery and kidnapping on the high seas. The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam.
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This complicated process has no one explanation - and more to the point, no one cause. And in any case, the collapse of civilization among the distinct but interconnected Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians, and Babylonians of the Bronze Age took not a year, he explains, but more like a century. The title, which seems to have been the result of the publishing industry’s invincible enthusiasm for naming books after years, may soon need an update: as Cline admits, it reflects a convention among scholars about how to label the titular event that has just been revised, and has since been revised back. Cline makes his own case in the book 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. What the specialists don’t quite agree on is how it happened. The Bronze Age lasted a long time, from roughly 3300 to 1200 BC - at the end of which, ancient-history specialists agree, civilization collapsed. But of course, his prospects for survival in that era - or indeed anyone’s - depend on which part of it we’re talking about. I’m sure I would not live more than about 48 hours, but it’d be a good 48 hours.” He may give himself too little credit: as he goes on to demonstrate in the hour that follows, he has as thorough an all-around knowledge of life in the Bronze Age as anyone alive in the 21st century. “If I could be reincarnated backwards,” he says in the lecture above, “I would choose to live back then. At stake is nothing less than the fate of Everlost and the living world they have left behind. Nick and Allie have to learn to survive in a world with different rules, and figure out who they can trust-and who they must oppose at all costs. It’s a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.Īllie and Nick don’t survive the car crash, and end up in Everlost, where coins are more valuable than anyone knows, fortune cookies tell the truth, monsters are real, and the queen of lost souls lives in a once-beloved tower. Some are caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. Not every child who dies goes on to the afterlife. From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Arc of a Scythe trilogy and Challenger Deep, the compulsively readable Skinjacker trilogy is now available in a collectible boxed set. Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership. NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. She was only the second woman admitted to the Air Force's elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot's wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time.Įileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force's first female pilots. Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission by Eileen M.
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Her next book, City of Nightmares, comes out in January 2023. The Webtoon adaptation of the trilogy has garnered over a hundred million reads and nearly 2 million subscribers. If you want to contact me, there's a form on my website ^_^ Rebecca Schaeffer is the critically acclaimed author of Not Even Bones, Only Ashes Remain, and When Villains Rise. **** I also don't add friends and I don't have time to keep up on all platforms, so Goodreads is just for posting book reviews. ******* I read a lot of books and have a lot of opinions, so the only books I put up and rate on Goodreads are ones I absolutely loved and would heartily recommend to my fans. Rebecca Schaeffer is the critically acclaimed author of Not Even Bones, Only Ashes Remain, and When Villains Rise. The school was especially unusual given the repression in wartime Japan. At the center of the school was its founder and principal, Sosaku Kobayashi, whose love and respect for children clearly shaped the lives and outlooks of all who attended his Tomoe School. She attended classes in old railroad cars, went on nature walks, traveled to temple fairs and hot springs and studied subjects in whatever order she pleased. ''Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window'' is the story of Miss Kuroyanagi's unconventional education in Tokyo during World War II and the values it taught her. But instead her mother took her to a different kind of school, where the principal listened to her chatter with grave interest and assured her that she was ''really a good girl.'' And young Totto-chan - as Tetsuko was called - grew up to be Japan's best-loved television star, the host of three shows with an audience of millions. The young schoolgirl could have grown up with the stigma of expulsion, an outcast from an educational system that in Japan is the path to status and power. Her curiosity got her into trouble at an early age - at 6 she was expelled from elementary school for opening and closing her desk top too often and staring out the window. TETSUKO KUROYANAGI was the kind of child who liked to talk to swallows and street musicians, who asked questions nonstop and had trouble sitting still long enough to hear the answers. TOTTO-CHAN The Little Girl at the Window. |