Books with author Woodward

From ancient heroes like the rebel slave Spartacus to modern-day dissenters who defied the odds, Stand Up, Stand Out! is the ultimate guide to inspiring tales of human passion and courage. Meet 25 of the most inspiring humans of all time! These rebels stood up for what they believed in, spoke out against injustice, and overcame impossible obstacles. From world leaders such as Gandhi and Nelson Mandela to unsung heroes like Irena Sendler (who smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II) and Juliane Koepcke (who survived an airplane crash at aged 17, followed by nine days in the Amazon rainforest), this book is filled with incredible stories of passion and endurance. It also offers encouraging suggestions on how to make your own stand when you see unfairness.Meet these heroes! - Boudicca, the Celtic Queen who battled the invading Romans - Galileo Galilei, the star scientist whose theories upset the Catholic Church - Mary Seacole, the Jamaican nurse who fought against racism to treat soldiers during the Crimean War - Martin Luther King, Jr., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize who protested segregation and inequality - Muhammad Ali, the boxer who followed his conscience and refused to join the military - Cory Aquino, who stood against corruption in the Philippines . . . even after her husband’s assassination - Malcolm Michaels Jr. / Marsha P. Johnson, the transgender icon and LGBTQ activist - J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter author who regularly speaks out for human rights and against bullying - And more!

No dog? No problem! With this book, AI, and a free app, you can say hello to your new virtual puppy friend. It’s puppy time! Bursting with the cutest doggie photos imaginable, this unique pet care book + app provides all the info you need on how to train a new puppy and keep it in tip-top condition. Plus, it includes 13 interactive experiences: just download your free app, point your phone or tablet’s camera at the book, and say hello to your individually created Fido. You can name it, feed it, play with it, choose the latest accessories, and even snap photos of your favorite moments!

Imagine a dying world where technological wonders lie dormant beneath the ruins of an ancient civilization, a world whose past eerily mirrors our own. Now fix that image in your mind and behold the terrible spectacle with awe. Got it? Good, for this is where you and Andaris are headed next. Frightened? Any sane person would be. After all, it's his last and most harrowing adventure, wherein many questions both asked and unasked will be answered.In the unlikely event you and our intrepid hero survive the scorch of dragons, wither of waste, and post-apocalyptic fallout, you'll uncover the secrets of a shared lineage, a distant past rife with wonder and devastation, but hurry, for the hour grows late and the light dim.If you enjoy this book, please leave me a quick review. Stories live and die on here based on the kind words of readers like you. Thank you. Cheers!

Young Bartholomew isn’t allowed to go to school, play outside or make art... so he sketches in secret.When Bartholomew meets the skateboarding artist, Alexander DeVinci, he’s yanked into a mythical realm of living paintings and breathing sculptures: Artania. The two soon learn that the strange world, where everything seems to be possible, is on the verge of destruction.With Egyptian gods and goddesses by their side, they face daring battles and narrow skateboarding escapes. But can they defeat the evil Sickhert's army, and bring art back to the world?Praise:★★★★★ - “A fantastically original concept. Kudos."★★★★★ - “I started to read this book myself and decided it mandatory to share with my kids. There's a good moral and everything is kept family friendly, even though the story is deep enough for most adults."★★★★★ - "A great book for kids that teaches them about the importance of art and self-expression.★★★★★ - "I started to read this book myself and decided it mandatory to share with my kids. It's like watching a Pixar movie. The children love it and the parents can derive their own enjoyment from the same story. There's a good moral and everything is kept family-friendly, even though the deeper story is deep enough for most adults."★★★★★ - Wonderfully refreshing and beautifully written... What a pleasant and appreciated surprise to see the importance of art taking main stage in a young reader's book today."

From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.S. Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The end of the Cold War saw the decommissioning of much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the phasing out of support personnel. This memoir by one of the Army's last "glow worms" chronicles his career as a nuclear weapons specialist--from 17-year-old recruit to participant in Operation Silent Echo, codename for the removal of all tactical warheads throughout Asia and Europe.

“Woodward seeks news rather desperately from outer space—and finds it in that huge vacancy, the human heart.”—Jorie Graham Short, energetic, interlinked poems describe the daily and sometimes surprisingly routine nature of grief. Relying on youthful sincerity rather than nostalgic rumination, this 2005 Verse Prize winner is a sweet, sharp, and honest elegy.

Includes 6 charts and 20 photosPulitzer prize winning author C. Vann Woodward recounts the story of the largest naval battle of all time.“The Battle for Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle of the Second World War and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. It was composed of four separate yet closely interrelated actions, each of which involved forces comparable in size with those engaged in any previous battle of the Pacific War. The four battles, two of them fought simultaneously, were joined in three different bodies of water separated by as much as 500 miles. Yet all four were fought between dawn of one day and dusk of the next, and all were waged in the repulse of a single, huge Japanese operation.“They were guided by a master plan drawn up in Tokyo two months before our landing and known by the code name Sho Plan. It was a bold and complicated plan calling for reckless sacrifice and the use of cleverly conceived diversion. As an afterthought the suicidal Kamikaze campaign was inaugurated in connection with the plan. Altogether the operation was the most desperate attempted by any naval power during the war-and there were moments, several of them in fact, when it seemed to be approaching dangerously near to success.“Unlike the majority of Pacific naval battles that preceded it, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was not limited to an exchange of air strikes between widely separated carrier forces, although it involved action of that kind. It also included surface and subsurface action between virtually all types of fighting craft from motor torpedo boats to battleships, at ranges varying from point-blank to fifteen miles, with weapons ranging from machine guns to great rifles of 18-inch bore, fired “in anger” by the Japanese for the first time in this battle.”

What’s cuter than a cuddly kitten who can’t wait to meet you? The My Cutest Kitten book + app lets you take care of your very own augmented reality kitten . . . and teaches you how to look after a real pet, too! With the unique My Cutest Kitten care book + app, you’ll learn everything you need to know about keeping a new cat in tip-top condition. The pages are bursting with the most adorable photos imaginable, and there are 13 special interactive experiences. Download the free app, point your phone or tablet’s camera at the book . . . and say hello to your new virtual friend! You can name your kitten, feed it, play with it, make it purr, choose the latest accessories, and even capture pictures of your favorite moments!

Explore astonishing landscapes teeming with giant insects, dinosaurs, and giant mammals, and see the extraordinary creatures that lived in ancient seas to discover life from ancient creatures to early humans.In a series of stunning panoramic illustrations, this ebook tells the story of life on Earth, from its earliest origins to the present day. The amazing story of life's evolution begins in vast oceans and swamp forests and is shaken by dramatic extinctions caused by ice, violent volcanic eruptions, and meteor impacts.Life Through Time explores geological time and the origins of species that still exist today in early fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals. It takes readers up to the appearance of our first human ancestors around 6 million years ago, the evolution of hunter-gathering Homo sapiens in the Ice Age, Stone Age farmers, the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia, the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the natural world, and people living with nature in the modern world.Open the ebook and let the 4-billion-year journey begin!