Author | : Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140324112 |
Author | : Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140324112 |
Author | : Robert Lynn Fuller |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786486856 |
In March 1933, in one of his first acts as president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a bank holiday throughout the United States. Considered by many to be a bold step to curb the mounting bank crisis, the decree closed banks in all 48 states and overseas territories, putting money out of reach of citizens, businesses and all levels of government. This narrative history recounts and explains the economic, financial and political backgrounds of the banking panic, arguing that the holiday was not only unnecessary but actually damaging to the economy. The holiday did, however, provide Roosevelt with the momentum to push through a series of historic reforms that remade the federal government. This revisionist work not only reveals the circumstances around the panic but debunks numerous myths that have clung to it ever since.
Author | : Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | : Puffin HC |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140321548 |
Author | : Dean Ray Koontz |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1989-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780425119846 |
A psychopath terrorizes a man and a woman who are left terrified and trapped on the fortieth floor of a deserted office building, with elevator service completely cut off and the security guards murdered. Reissue.
Author | : Ian Livingstone |
Publisher | : Wizard Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9781840465655 |
Life is lawless and dangerous. Survivors like you either live in scattered, fortified towns or roam outside as bandits. YOUR mission is to cross the wilderness to the far-distant oil-refinery at San Anglo and bring vital supplies back to the peaceful town of New Hope. Even in the armed Dodge Interceptor you are given, the journey will be wild and perilous. Will YOU survive?
Author | : Andrew Todhunter |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-02-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0307831981 |
In 1989, while attempting a new route on a difficult overhanging rock face, climber Dan Osman fell. Again and again, protected by the rope, he fell. He decided then that it would not be in climbing but in falling that he would embrace his fear--bathe in it, as he says, and move beyond it. A captivating exploration of the daredevil world of rock climbing, as well as a thoughtful meditation on the role of risk and fear in the author's own life. In the tradition of the wildly popular man-versus-nature genre that has launched several bestsellers, Andrew Todhunter follows the lives of world-class climber Dan Osman and his coterie of friends as he explores the extremes of risk on the unyielding surface of the rock. Climbing sheer rock faces of hundreds or thousands of feet is more a religion than a sport, demanding dedication, patience, mental and physical strength, grace, and a kind of obsession with detail that is crucial just to survive. Its artists are modern-day ascetics who often sacrifice nine-to-five jobs, material goods, and the safety of everyday life to pit themselves and their moral resoluteness against an utterly unforgiving opponent. In the course of the two years chronicled in Fall of the Phantom Lord, the author also undertakes a journey of his own as he begins to weigh the relative value of extreme sports and the risk of sudden death. By the end of the book, as he ponders joining Osman on a dangerous fall from a high bridge to feel what Osman experiences, Todhunter comes to a new understanding of risk taking and the role it has in his life, and in the lives of these climbers. Beautifully written, Fall of the Phantom Lord offers a fascinating look at a world few people know. It will surely take its place alongside Into Thin Air and The Perfect Storm as a classic of adventure literature.
Author | : Ian Livingstone |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2024-09-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1800183666 |
Magic Realms celebrates the incredible art of the brilliant and highly respected fantasy and science fiction artists who, over the years, worked with the Fighting Fantasy authors to bring their interactive adventures to vivid life. Each artist is profiled along with select examples of their best work – in vibrant full colour, the astonishing detail on display in all its glory. It features the work some of the world’s best fantasy artists including Chris Achilléos, John Blanche, Jim Burns, Les Edwards, Karl Kopinski, Iain McCaig, Martin McKenna, Ian Miller and Russ Nicholson, among others. Written by Fighting Fantasy co-creator Ian Livingstone and Fighting Fantasy historian Jonathan Green, Magic Realms is a Who’s Who of fantasy art – an absolutely essential collector's item for any Fighting Fantasy fan.
Author | : Steve Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fantasy games |
ISBN | : 9780140321272 |
Covers the turbulent history of the planet Titan, from its early civilizations, through the devestating war of the wizards, to the present-day wilderness and anarchy where the delicate balance between good and chaos could at any moment be overturned.