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Extreme Photography: The Hottest, Coldest, Fastest, Slowest, Nearest, Farthest, Brightest, Darkest, Largest, ...
Terry Hope
Rotovision
, 2004
Photography is about much more than putting the camera to the eye and pressing the shutter. Sometimes what is being recorded is impossible to approach in a convetional way, for a number of reasons: it's too small, too large, far away, too hot, too cold or hidden away somewhere where the eye can't see. Extreme photography takes the medium to the ...
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
David Halberstam
Hyperion
, 2007
A Good Solid Story of the Causes of the Korean war & Fall of MacArthur
While this is not a complete story about Americas Most Forgotten War- The Second Korean War. (We fought a brief Campaign in Korea during the Post Civil War Era of showing the Flag) It is however a brillantly written story of the fall of General of the Army Douglas ...
The Coldest Call
Gerry Cullen
AeroZoo, LLC
, 2007
A Tell-It-Like-It-Is Guide to Picking Lucrative and Satisfying Sales Jobs
The title of this book is terribly misleading: A more appropriate title would be "How to Pick a Lucrative and Satisfying Sales Job." I begin by mentioning this point because I found the title to be such a turnoff that I almost didn't read and review the book. That ...
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
Steve Jenkins
Houghton Mifflin
, 2004
Innovative and informative
In "Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest," author/artist Steve Jenkins uses cut-paper collages to teach children about some of the most extreme places on earth. Jenkin's artistic technique really sets this book apart among educational books for young readers. Jenkins ...
The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition
Susan Solomon
Yale University Press
, 2002
"The worst weather in the world"
The Coldest March (referring to the month as well as the verb) is about British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his team of explorers and scientists who raced a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen to the South Pole in 1911-12. Amundsen was the first ever to reach ...
Coldest Winter, The: America and the Korean War
David Halberstam
Hyperion
, 2008
"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home." -- The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic ...
The Coldest Blood (Journalist Philip Dryden)
Jim Kelly
St. Martin's Minotaur
, 2007
A solid plot, vivid setting and involving protagonist make this a stand-out series
Kelly's fourth begins with a 1974 prologue: a man on a boat ritualistically mutilating himself outside a children's holiday camp, an apparent suicide. Jump ahead 31 years and talented and tenacious journalist Philip Dryden, stuck on a rural weekly in the bleak ...
The Coldest Mile
Tom Piccirilli
Bantam
, 2009
The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea
James Brady
St. Martin's Griffin
, 2000
A Knockout!
I first read, "The Coldest War" when I was in the military myself. My training and duty seemed hard and long to me, but compared to what the guys in the Korean War went through, it was a cake walk. This book reads smoothly, transitioning from his training to his ...
The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah
Pocket Star
, 2006
this book got me back to reading
when i started this book i have never read a book out side of a school assignment.i read the book in like 2 days i didn't sleep. i lived a smiler kind of life so i could relate to it very well.when i was finished with this book i wanted to pick it up and read it ...
Seven Weeks on an Iceberg: A Journy to the Coldest Place on the Planet...Antarctica (Doodlezoo)
Keith Potter
Chronicle Books
, 1999
Good combo of "funny" and "informative"
I picked this up for our daughter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Splash Zone exhibit. I had some reservations at first but they were quickly put to rest after my daughter started laughing and quoting facts about penguin behaviour and penguin species (for about 1 hour ...
Cold, Colder, Coldest: Animals That Adapt to Cold Weather (Animal Extremes)
Michael Dahl
Picture Window Books
, 2004
Describes some animals that survive extremely cold temperatures and the different ways that these animals stay warm. Some of the animals shown include the tundra bumblebee, the Alaskan blackfish, the polar bear, and the emperor penguin.
The Coldest Day in Texas (Chaparral Book)
Peggy P. Freeman
Texas Christian University Press
, 1996
What a great story! - Real Texas!
The characters experienced the full range of emotions. I felt like I was right along with them for the adventures. Such strong characters, determination. Very inspiring!
The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
Paula Fox
Picador
, 2006
Sparse yet moving
Those who did not like this book must not have read any of Paula Fox's other books. Her sparse, unsentimental style may not appeal to anyone, but to those who know and love her writing, of which there are many, this book is representative of her work and highly ...
The coldest winter in Peking: A novel from inside China
Chih-yen Hsia
Doubleday
, 1978
Important documentary value
This documentary novel explains the 'Tiananmen' incidents of 1976. They were not less than a power struggle between the partisans of Mao Zedong and his Prime Minister Zhu En Lai, where the latter were beaten. This struggle continued with the `Gang of Four', whose ...
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