Books with author John Philip Long

Riding tubes in Venezuela. BASE jumping in Europe. Climbing big walls in Yosemite. Riding bulls in Texas. These first-person stories from acclaimed climber and adventurer John Long may be vastly different in content, but they share an identifiable emotional texture, tone and delivery, and fundamentally are of one piece. This is storytelling at its best—nonfiction that reads like fiction. In Stories from the Dirt, the action leaves you breathless, but it’s the characters that really leave a lasting mark. Like all stories worth a damn, this collection is all about the people.

INSIDERS -- a visually groundbreaking, state-of-the-art nonfiction series that outshines Eyewitness and Discoveries. This stunning new series offers an inside look into twelve riveting subjects, beginning with Dinosaurs, Egypt, Oceans, and Space. Expertly written, each book will feature an arresting design, complete with dynamic, multi-layered CGI and 3-D model imagery that is complemented by fascinating, up-to-date information presented in a user-friendly format. Dinosaurs explores every aspect of the time when these real-life monsters ruled the Earth, with illustrations that reveal the layers of dinosaur anatomy, show the process of fossil formation, and explore several well-known species in depth.

"Don was up early the next morning. He was too excited to sleep for long. He ran to the field where the match would soon be played. Don imagined crowds of people arriving and standing around the pitch. In his mind he could hear them cheering as he ran with the ball towards the goal. Where would the television cameras be? Would they have one high up to cover the whole field? And another for a close-up, as he scored?"Don's holiday in France is rather dull until he comes across others of his own age who enjoy playing football as much as he does. Things start to improve one afternoon as he kicks a ball around in a French neighbour's garden. During the following days, Don meets youngsters from Holland and Germany and other parts of the world - summer visitors like himself on holiday in France. Before a week is over, Don manages to arrange a match for all his new friends, a proper match with team colours, and older relatives as spectators, and a television crew filming the game for the early evening news.This is also a story about hopes and disappointments. Don begins to notice the ups and downs of other people's lives, as well as his own, and to understand how to deal with others and to learn from them. He discovers too that the most unlikely people can make a valuable contribution when they become members of a team.

Do responsibilities, school or work get you stressed? Do you often catch yourself fidgeting due to anxiety? Then this book will show you how a Fidget Toy can be an essential tool in ones toolkit for combating stress. Find out how in this fun eBook.•Get the inside knowledge why fidget toys is beneficial to stress relief, ADHD, AUTISM and ADD. •Learn some fun facts about why a fidget toy has a calming effect on the mind. •The Fidget Spinner may be a toy, but it is a toy that anyone would play to beat boredom and have a good time. •Facts why the Fidget Toy is not only for playing but with can help with anxiety, depression, boredom as well as fidgeting.Learn about different fidget toys on the market and handy spinner tricks.

With stunning images and a child-friendly text based on the latest scientific research, the award-winning author of The Big Picture Book sets out the biggest milestones in human history since the last great Ice Age.In words and pictures, this book maps the great advances and crises of human history from 20 000 years ago to now. Read about the first sculptures and paintings, first cultivated crops, new hunting methods, the earliest city, grand temples and pyramids, the taming of cats and dogs, a sudden mini Ice Age. Find out who were the great Arab thinkers of the Middle Ages, when bubonic plague struck, which scientist discovered electricity, what a hadron collider does, and lots more!Dr John Long is Head of Sciences at Museum Victoria. A previous publication, The Big Picture Book, won a Wilderness Society award and an award for Excellence in Educational Publishing, and was shortlisted for a Children's Book Council of Australia award. He has also wrote The Big Picture Book of Environments.

This long-awaited sequel to Mystery of Devil's Roost is set fifteen years after Sarah and Peter's last time-traveling adventure. Now Sarah is a paleontologist at the Queensland museum and Peter is a famous novelist. An unexpected and mysterious visit from an old man brings them back to Devil's Roost to embark on another exciting time-traveling quest backand backand back - to a time when the earth was no more than a "bubbling primordial soup." Only this time, the outcome of their quest will affect everyone on the planet!