Hull was the most severely damaged town or city in Britain during the Second World War. This book explains how the city coped.
City on Fire is an unforgettable novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock ’n’ roll: about what people need from each other in order to live—and about what makes the living worth doing in the first ...
This sequel to Metropolitan finds Constantine in control over a segment of the vast world-city that covers the globe. Aiah, his disciple and somethimes lover, continues to support the man...
Two-time Newbery Honor Award-winning author Laurence Yep kicks off an action-packed new fantasy trilogy with City on Fire This thrilling tale takes readers on an unforgettable journey through an alternate version of our world in 1941 -- a ...
Moreover , Mui , seeing her daughter's wonder at a guppy in a fishbowl , alludes to increasing harbor pollution when she tells the young girl that ' once upon a time fish swam in the water . In their critique of the Hong Kong ...
Excerpt: ... sinned against God and his better self, and had begun his eternal life on earth. It was too late ever to turn back. "All Hope abandon, ye who...
Shaun McKinnon, “Arizona Drought Prompts Unusual Colorado River Water Proposal,” Arizona Republic (December 26, 2010). A strong La Niňa in the winter months increased the snowpack in the Upper Basin and sent higher than average flows of ...
Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements.
The commander of the 92nd Rifle Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Il'ich Tarasov and its military commissar Georgii Mikhailovich Andreev became, if one may express oneself thusly, the 'D.G. Pavlov'20 and V.Ye.
When he couldn't control the situation , he didn't attack the woman who turned on the light and he didn't chase the next victim through the house . He ran away because he lost control . But the murders signify a pathological change .
In the fall elections , however , a great burst of enthusiasm accompanied Raul Ruiz's campaign as an RUP candidate against Democrat Richard Alatorre and Republican Bill Brophy in the Forty - Eight Assembly District in East L.A. There ...