Author: Robert BullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The People's Duty, in Times of Publick Danger. A Sermon Preached in ... Gloucester, on Sunday, Feb. 5. 1715. Upon Occasion of the Present Rebellion
Author: Robert BullA Dangerous Game
Author: Luise UrbanPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752494236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Luise Urban was born in 1933 into a world about to be turned upside down. Her family lived east of the river Oder. Fatefully, her family were not Nazi Party members and suffered as a result. As the Third Reich crumbled and the Red Army advanced, she was one of 15 million Germans trapped in a war zone during the terrible winter of 1945. Weakened by starvation and forced to flee their home, it was only the bravery of Luise’s mother that saved the family from total destruction. The Oder–Neisse line (Oder-Neiße-Grenze) is the German–Polish border drawn in the aftermath of the war. The line primarily follows the Oder and Neisse rivers to the Baltic Sea west of the city of Stettin. All pre-war German territory east of the line and within the 1937 German boundaries was discussed at the Potsdam Conference in 1945. Germany was to lose 25 per cent of her territory under the agreement. Crucially, Stalin, Churchill and Truman also agreed to the expulsion of the German population beyond the new eastern borders. This meant that almost all of the native German population was killed, fled or was driven out by force. In A Dangerous Game, Luise relives that harrowing time, written in memory of her mother, to whom she owes her life. It is the story of a child, but it is not a story for children.
Extreme Fear
Author: Jeff WisePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0230101801
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Ever since the phrase "fight or flight" was coined in the 1920s, the common understanding has been that the mind respond to danger in one of two ways - either fleeing in blind panic, or fighting through it. But as scientists unlock the secrets of the human brain, a more complex understanding of the fear response has emerged. It turns out that the ancient brain circuitry wired to process fear is also intricately tied to our ability to master new skills, and that the icy sensation of terror can actually enhance both our physical and our mental performance. Veteran science journalist Jeff Wise, who writes the "I'll Try Anything" column for Popular Mechanics, journeys into the heart of the primal force to find its hidden roots: Where does panic come from? How is it that some people can perform masterfully under pressure? How can we live a more courageous life? Reporting from the front lines of science, Wise takes us into labs where scientists are learning how we make decisions when confronted with physical peril, how time is perceived when the mind is on high alert, and how willpower succeeds or fails in controlling fear. Along the way, he illuminates the science with riveting stories of true-life danger and survival. We watch a woman defend herself from a mountain lion attack in a remote canyon; we witness couple desperately fighting to beat back an encircling wildfire; we see a pilot struggle to maintain control of his plane as its wing begins to detach. Full of amazing characters and cutting-edge science, Extreme Fear is an original and absorbing look at how we can raise the limits of human potential.
American Forestry
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Canadian Forestry Association
Author: Canadian Forestry AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Extreme Danger
Author: Shannon McKennaPublisher: Brava
ISBN: 0758230079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
On the remote Frakes Island, Becca Cantrell decides to take an innocent, yet illicit, midnight skinnydip in a millionaire's pool, only to be hauled out by a sexy hard-muscled man who embodies her innermost fantasies and who draws her into a world of danger.
The Life and Times of Louisa Queen of Prussia
Author: Elizabeth HudsonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368803891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Moses, His Life and Times
Author: George RawlinsonForest Protection in Canada, 1912
Author: Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on ForestsPublisher:
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Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Author: