Roman Architecture! Ancient History for Kids

Roman Architecture! Ancient History for Kids

Author: Left Brain Kids

Publisher: Left Brain Kids

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781683765943

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What beautiful architectural pieces! Who built them? This cool educational resource features the best of Roman architecture. It highlights the architectural achievements of these people, which were quite advance for their time. You can still see some of these structures today. What's your favorite among them all? Explore Roman craft. Grab a copy today!


The Children of the Pantheon

The Children of the Pantheon

Author: Mike Wild

Publisher: Abaddon Books

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1849973598

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IT ALL ENDS HERE! Kali Hooper knows how to save her world. She must unite the ‘Four’ and the magic they carry with the old Race artefact known as guardian Starlight. But there’s a problem – Kali’s dying, stripped of her essence by Querilous Fitch, who plans to use it and the artefact for his own terrible ends. In the heavens, meanwhile, the final battle between Kerberos and the Hel’ss, and beneath their glow, Twilight goes insane. Gabriella DeZantez, Silus Morlader and Lucius Kane join Kali on a final, explosive journey from the ruins of Scholten to the mysterious Congress of Ether, to the shores of an island of diamond and into the haunted void of the Expanse. Armies will clash. Churches will fall. Men and gods will die. TWILIGHT of KERBEROS: THE FINAL ADVENTURE


Age of Voodoo

Age of Voodoo

Author: James Lovegrove

Publisher: Solaris

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1849974845

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Lex Dove thought he was done with the killing game. A retired British wetwork specialist, he’s living the quiet life in the Caribbean, minding his own business. Then a call comes, with one last mission: to lead an American black ops team into a disused Cold War bunker on a remote island near his adopted home. The money’s good, which means the risks are high. Dove doesn’t discover just how high until he and his team are a hundred feet below ground, facing the horrifi c fruits of an experiment blending science and voodoo witchcraft. As if barely human monsters weren’t bad enough, a clock is ticking. Deep in the bowels of the earth, a god is waiting. And His anger, if roused, will be fearsome indeed.


Children at War

Children at War

Author: Peter W. Singer

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-03-04

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1101970057

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Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examine the growing and global use of children as soldiers. P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists. Singer writes about how the first American serviceman killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan—a Green Beret—was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy; how suspected militants detained by U.S. forces in Iraq included more than one hundred children under the age of seventeen; and how hundreds who were taken hostage in Thailand were held captive by the rebel "God's Army," led by twelve-year-old twins. Interweaving the voices of child soldiers throughout the book, Singer looks at the ways these children are recruited, abducted, trained, and finally sent off to fight in war-torn hot spots, from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He writes about children who have been indoctrinated to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; of Iraqui boys between the ages of ten and fifteen who had been trained in military arms and tactics to become Saddam Hussein's Ashbal Saddam (Lion Cubs); of young refugees from Pakistani madrassahs who were recruited to help bring the Taliban to power in the Afghan civil war. The author, National Security Fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World, explores how this phenomenon has come about, and how social disruptions and failures of development in modern Third World nations have led to greater global conflict and an instability that has spawned a new pool of recruits. He writes about how technology has made today's weapons smaller and lighter and therefore easier for children to carry and handle; how one billion people in the world live in developing countries where civil war is part of everyday life; and how some children—without food, clothing, or family—have volunteered as soldiers as their only way to survive. Finally, Singer makes clear how the U.S. government and the international community must face this new reality of modern warfare, how those who benefit from the recruitment of children as soldiers must be held accountable, how Western militaries must be prepared to face children in battle, and how rehabilitation programs can undo this horrific phenomenon and turn child soldiers back into children.


The Age of Ra

The Age of Ra

Author: James Lovegrove

Publisher: Solaris

Published: 2009-07-28

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1849979545

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The Ancient Egyptian gods have defeated all the other pantheons and claimed dominion over the earth, dividing it into warring factions. Lt. David Westwynter, a British soldier, stumbles into Freegypt, the only place to have remained independent of the gods’ influence. There, he encounters the followers of a humanist leader known as the Lightbringer, who has vowed to rid mankind of the shackles of divine oppression. As the world heads towards an apocalyptic battle, there is far more to this freedom fighter than it seems...


Child of Intention

Child of Intention

Author: Amrita Mohanty

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2021-11-25

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1665593164

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The Fae have left earth to humankind many millennia ago, dividing the sister worlds of Beluvial and Earth with the Great Veil. While man has long forgotten their shared history, the Fae have cautiously watched the human world. Keirin, one of the High Fae, has been tasked with monitoring a rare human that unknowingly holds traces of Fae blood. While the Fae world has existed in relative peace for centuries, it has not gone unnoticed that magic has been changing. Over the centuries and the Gods and Goddesses are growing quiet. When Keirin’s charge, Amara, begins displaying signs of transforming into one of the High Fae, he must find a way to protect her while answering the question of why the Fae Gods would choose to favour a human.


The Pantheon of Palmyra

The Pantheon of Palmyra

Author: Javier Teixidor

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 9004295593

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Preliminary material -- THE CULT OF THE SUPREME GOD -- THE CULT OF THE SUN AND THE MOON AT PALMYRA -- THE GODDESS OF PALMYRA AND HER ASSOCIATES -- TUTELARY DEITIES -- ORIENTAL DEITIES -- THE ANONYMOUS GOD -- INDEXES -- NOTES ON THE PLATES -- Plates I-XXXV and Map.


There Is a Tribe of Kids

There Is a Tribe of Kids

Author: Lane Smith

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1626727562

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Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal When a young boy embarks on a journey alone . . . he trails a colony of penguins, undulates in a smack of jellyfish, clasps hands with a constellation of stars, naps for a night in a bed of clams, and follows a trail of shells, home to his tribe of friends. If Lane Smith's Caldecott Honor Book Grandpa Green was an homage to aging and the end of life, There Is a Tribe of Kids is a meditation on childhood and life's beginning. Smith's vibrant sponge-paint illustrations and use of unusual collective nouns such as smack and unkindness bring the book to life. Whimsical, expressive, and perfectly paced, this story plays with language as much as it embodies imagination, and was awarded the 2017 Kate Greenaway Medal. This title has Common Core connections.