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Christopher Hawkins and His Daring Escapes
A true story of a patriotic young sailor during the American Revolution For readers of all ages The Revolutionary War is raging, and 12-year-old Christopher Hawkins runs away to follow his dream of being a sailor and a patriot. During his first sea adventure, the British capture his ship. Quick-witted Christopher escapes at his first opportunity. At 17, Christopher joins another American privateer ship but is soon captured by the British. This time, he is delivered to the notorious British ship HMS Jersey, the war's deadliest prison. Armed with only courage, cunning, and a sense of humor, Christopher Hawkins will face death unless he can escape from his British captors twice more. "A rare book that brings history alive in the most exciting way-full of memorable characters and real-life, harrowing adventures!" -Carol Cujec, award-winning author of REAL This novel is adapted and expanded from the author's great-great-great-great-grandfather's often-quoted memoir, The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins.
Christopher Hawkins and His Daring Escapes
- Christopher Hawkins and His Daring Escapes is a novel based on the true story of a young sailor in the Revolutionary War. In 1777, the American Revolution is raging and 12-year-old Christopher Hawkins runs away to join a patriot privateer. His ship is captured, but he later escapes from the British. At 17, Christopher again joins a privateer and once more is captured by the British. His daring escape from the HMS Jersey, the war's deadliest prison ship, is recorded in history. This novel is expanded and adapted from Christopher Hawkins' memoir.
Additive Manufacturing
The field of additive manufacturing has seen explosive growth in recent years due largely in part to renewed interest from the manufacturing sector. Conceptually, additive manufacturing, or industrial 3D printing, is a way to build parts without using any part-specific tooling or dies from the computer-aided design (CAD) file of the part. Today, mo
Contemporary English
Contemporary English second edition has refined the content and skills adult ESL students need to know to survive and thrive living in the United States. The emphasis on grammar, vocabulary, graphic literacy, critical thinking skills, life skills, and workplace skills has all been retained and presented in meaningful contexts through topics of high interest to adult students. Lessons are self-contained, remaining appropriate for both standard and open enrollment situations. Student Book Features Student Book interiors are now in 4-color with more real-life photographs. New vocabulary is introduced twice in each student unit along with practice exercises. It is then recycled throughout the se...
Sophia's War
A beloved Newbery Medalist pens a gripping adventure set during the Revolutionary War. After witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. On the other hand, scholars in disability studies have demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others, yet they have rarely examined the ways in which toxic environments engender chronic illness and disability or how environmental illnesses disrupt dominant paradigms for scrutinizing "disability." Designed as a reader for undergraduate and g...
Toliver's Secret
When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret patriotic mission. Disguised as a boy, she manages to smuggle a message to General George Washington.
The Sundays of Jean Dazert
Jean de La Ville de Mirmont left behind one undisputed classic, self-published a few months before he would meet his fate on the front lines of World War I: an understated, almost humorous tale of urban solitude and alienation that outlines the mediocrity of bureaucratic existence. Jean Dézert is an office worker employed by the ministry, who rounds out his regimented life with snippets of Eastern philosophy, strolls through the city and consumerist efforts at injecting content into his life by structuring his Sundays through a rigorous use of advertising flyers that take him from saunas to vegetarian restaurants to lectures on sexual hygiene. In his mortal boredom, his modernist engagement...
