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Summary of Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Australia was originally an island, but it became a continent when it broke off from Antarctica 35 million years ago. It is currently on a collision course with Indonesia, but inhabitants of both countries should not be alarmed as it is moving at seven centimetres a year. #2 Australia is a large country that is home to many different types of terrain and climates. The majority of it is uninhabitable, and it was not until humans showed up that the Outback was populated. #3 The first recorded landing in Australia was in 1606 when Willem Janszoon and the crew of the Dutch sailing ship Duyfken went ashore in northern Australia. They thought they were on the island of New Guinea, and after a hostile encounter with locals, they soon departed. #4 The first Europeans to land in Australia were the crew of the HMS Endeavour in 1788. They were there to establish a penal colony, and the strategic implications of planting the British flag 17,000 kilometers from the center of the empire were considered.
Summary of Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Australia was originally an island, but it became a continent when it broke off from Antarctica 35 million years ago. It is currently on a collision course with Indonesia, but inhabitants of both countries should not be alarmed as it is moving at seven centimetres a year. #2 Australia is a large country that is home to many different types of terrain and climates. The majority of it is uninhabitable, and it was not until humans showed up that the Outback was populated. #3 The first recorded landing in Australia was in 1606 when Willem Janszoon and the crew of the Dutch sailing ship Duyfken went ashore in northern Australia. They thought they were on the island of New Guinea, and after a hostile encounter with locals, they soon departed. #4 The first Europeans to land in Australia were the crew of the HMS Endeavour in 1788. They were there to establish a penal colony, and the strategic implications of planting the British flag 17,000 kilometers from the center of the empire were considered.
Summary of Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Russia is vast, and its leaders must consider the implications of its vast size. The North European Plain running from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains in the south is only 300 miles wide, but it stretches from western France to northern Germany. #2 The Russian Far East is protected by geography. It is difficult to move an army from Asia up into Asian Russia, and you would only get as far as the Urals. The Russians have watched anxiously as NATO has crept steadily closer to Russia, incorporating countries that Russia claims were not supposed to be joining. #3 Russia as a concept dates back to the ninth century, when a federation of East Slavic tribes known as Kievan Rus’ was based in Kiev and other towns along the Dnieper River in what is now Ukraine. The Mongols, expanding their empire, constantly attacked the region from the south and east. #4 Russia is the largest country in the world, twice the size of the USA or China, five times the size of India, and twenty-five times the size of the UK. However, it has a relatively small population of about 144 million.
Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book
Put your geographical and political knowledge to the test and discover your geography IQ with this engaging collection of 300+ questions, puzzles, word games, and maps from New York Times bestselling author Tim Marshall. “In an ever more complex, chaotic, and interlinked world, Prisoners of Geography is a concise and useful primer on geopolitics” (Newsweek). Ever wonder just how much you really know about the world? Now, in this interactive quiz book based on the New York Times bestselling Prisoners of Geography, you can test yourself on topics every world citizen should know. Do you know your continents from your countries, your landmarks from your latitudes, your mountain ranges from y...
Fortune Follows the Fearless
Scarred by a troubled childhood, and angry at the vicissitudes of fate, Marshall Martin, a young New York portfolio manager, decides to win fame and fortune by bringing down his employer, the largest hedge fund in the world. Relying on a fabricated insider-trading plot involving his boss, he succeeds in his goal, only to find that his actions have a host of unintended consequences on him and those around him. Plagued by guilt and fear, he begins to find a degree of solace in his idealized love for the former fiance of his best friend at work. However, it is only when he realizes her own dark secrets and flaws, that he is able to embark upon a true path to redemption, and perhaps, ultimately, happiness. Set in New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Monaco, Fortune Follows The Fearless is an unflinching examination of one mans attempt to come to terms with his own mediocrity and mortality, in a world of money and ruthless ambition. It is Hunter Hammonds first novel.
Hollow Mountain Dead
For centuries, something has been slumbering deep inside of Kimmler’s Mountain. In the endless darkness, an unrelenting horror has grown...waiting. In the late 1800’s, greed sets it free. A mine owner named Martin Kimmler releases a plague upon the people of the mountain, a plague that turns the dead into ravenous demons. Cannibals. Monsters that exist only to feed and to spread the horrific infection. As the ancient cosmic evil unleashes its Hell on Earth, the men and women from the mountain towns of White Wood and Gilliam form unlikely alliances with Natives from the sacred tribe of the Madoosk. Some fight the onslaught of the dead or travel toward the heart of the mountain, to the source of the plague. Others risk life and limb to escape Kimmler’s Mountain with as much pilfered gold as possible, cutting ruthless swaths across the lawless landscape and through anyone in their way. Battles great and small will dot the blood-soaked mountain as the good in men battles the cosmic evil. The Great Evil is awake. The Great Plague is spreading. The End of Humanity hangs in the snapping jaws of the Hollow Mountain Dead.
Baseball in Long Beach
Organized baseball in Long Beach dates to 1910, when the Long Beach Clothiers of the Southern California Trolley League played opponents wherever a streetcar could take them. Exhibition games later featured Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and other Major League barnstormers. Homegrown talent includes Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Tony Gwynn. Pioneering entrepreneur Bill Feistner built the first accommodating baseball park in 1922 at Redondo Avenue and Stearns Street in the shadow of oil-rich Signal Hill. When ballplayers weren't on the Shell Park diamond, they worked the derricks.
Introduction to Design Education
This practical, engaging book offers design educators a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to design education and pedagogy in higher education. Featuring instructional strategies and case studies from diverse design disciplines, including fashion design, architecture, and industrial design, from both the US and abroad, award-winning author Steven Faerm contextualizes design pedagogy with student development—a critical component to fostering successful teaching, optimal learning, and student success in this ever-evolving industry. Features include the following: · Advanced pedagogical methods and strategies to improve design students’ learning, holistic development, and design school ...
Gothick Origins and Innovations
Gothic: Origins and Innovations brings together nineteen papers from an international group of scholars currently researching in the field of the Gothic which take a fresh, contemporary look at the tradition from its eighteenth-century inception to the twentieth century. Topics and authors include the current usage and definition of the term 'Gothic'; the eighteenth-century rise of the genre; the Sublime; Victorian sensation fiction, and authors such as Coleridge, Mary Shelly, Maturin, LeFanu, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, John Neale, Jack London, Herman Melville, Dickens, Henry James and the movie version of his Turn of the Screw, The Innocents. This wide-ranging s...
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