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Peter Raven is a midshipman in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and must help Commodore Beaumont, a spy, foil a French plot to take over the Americas.
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It's safe to say that few people have lived lives as thoroughly devoted to plants as Peter H. Raven has. The longtime director--now president emeritus--of the Missouri Botanical Garden, author of numerous leading textbooks and several hundred scholarly articles, Raven has been a tireless champion of sustainability and biodiversity, earning him the plaudit of "Hero for the Planet" from Time. Driven by Nature is the first chronicle of this prominent scientist and conservationist's life. Moving from his idyllic childhood in the San Francisco of the 1940s to his four decades leading the Missouri Botanical Garden, Raven's autobiography take readers across multiple continents and decades. Driven b...
STRANGE COMMOTIONS This book is a psychological journey into that outer fringe of reality. It is not necessarily meant to be a work of horror, suspense or science fiction, although there are elements of each, but rather a collection of stories that have a tangible sense of apprehension about them. It is more in the traditions of "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits" and not the typical horror/suspense. Now enter here into the twisted congeries and haunting reflections of the human mind where all strange commotions begin.
This collection of Poems and Stories will challenge the readers to confront personal, political and philosophical issues and will dare the reader to change the way they see the world. Prepare to see the past, the present the future, looking at a single mind or society itself for a mental journey that will help you find hope in despair and find reason in madness.
A Notting Hill children's opera is suddenly on the world stage when terrorists try to kidnap one of the children.
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An interview with Peter Dale, a leading contemporary poet.