Tales From The Underground

Author: David Wolfe
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786730935
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
There are over one billion organisms in a pinch of soil, yet we know much more about deep space than about the universe below. In Tales from the Underground, Cornell ecologist David Wolfe takes us on a tour through current scientific knowledge of the subterranean world. We follow the progress of discovery from Charles Darwin's experiments with earthworms, to Lewis and Clark's first encounter with prairie dogs, to the use of new genetic tools that are revealing an astonishingly rich ecosystem beneath our feet. Wolfe plunges us deep into the earth's rocky crust, where life may have begun-a world devoid of oxygen and light but safe from asteroid bombardment. Primitive microbes found there are turning our notion of the evolutionary tree of life on its head: amazingly, they represent perhaps a full third of earth's genetic diversity. As Wolfe explains, creatures of the soil can work for us, by providing important pharmaceuticals and recycling the essential elements of life, or against us, by spreading disease and contributing to global climate change. The future of our species may well depend on how we manage our living soil resources. Tales from the Underground will forever alter our appreciation of the natural world around-and beneath-us.

Notes from the Underground

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 1606800809
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description

Underground

Author: Suelette Dreyfus
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 085786260X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 517

Book Description
Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.

Tales of the Madman Underground

Author: John Barnes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101081937
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground" - a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl has decided that senior year is going to be different. He is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act - and be - Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has five after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty, uncensored rollercoaster ride, narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker.

Tales from the Underground Railroad

Author: Kate Connell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781588302045
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Describes the efforts of the vast secret network of sympathetic people who helped blacks escape slavery in the South on the Underground Railroad.

Forbidden Fruit

Author: Betty DeRamus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743482646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
A collection of true love stories from the American slavery period relates the experiences of slave, free, and black-and-white couples who risked their lives in order to be together, from a Georgia couple who fled bounty hunters for England to a Missouri slave who escaped to Canada to be with his white Mormon love. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales

Author: Nathan Hale
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419715365
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
A graphically illustrated introduction to the life and achievements of Harriet Tubman depicts her escape from slavery in the mid-19th century and her life-risking dedication to helping runaway slaves find freedom north of the Mason-Dixon line. 25,000 first printing.

Tales of the Underground

Author: Olayemi Karim
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491790571
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 63

Book Description
Several thousand people travel on the London underground daily where life is fully representative of the cosmopolitan nature and the diversity of everyday London. In Tales of the Underground, author Olayemi Karim offers a guide to help people understand the nuances and the cultural peculiarities of traveling in the city. Olayemi, who commutes daily to the city for her job, began documenting the interesting experiences of her travels on the rails on both her Facebook page and blog. She records the unspoken rules and the expected behaviors in the London transportation network, for instance, the strange look returned by commuters, when caught staring. She also explains a number of common sights and things observed on the Underground as well as unusual and often humorous situations. Tales of the Underground gives a fly-on-the-wall narrative of seemingly innocuous and unconnected events which, when pieced together, offers an understanding of both the travelers and the flavors of London.

The Big Book of Everything Underground

Author: Štěpánka Sekaninová
Publisher: Big Book Of
ISBN: 9781912006823
Category : Earth (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
A fascinating and informative guide to the hidden wonders under our feet, from coal mines to underground cities, burrowing animals to vast caves, featuring bite-sized text, fold-out pages and highly-detailed and colourful illustrations. Printed laminated case format.

One Dead Spy: Bigger & Badder Edition (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #1)

Author: Nathan Hale
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1647007771
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Experience the New York Times bestselling graphic novel—now as a deluxe, oversized edition featuring 15 brand-new pages of mini-comics The Bigger & Badder editions of Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales continues! Nathan Hale (the author’s namesake) was America’s first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” before being hanged by the British. In Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, author Hale channels his historical döppelganger to present history’s roughest, toughest, strangest stories. This book tackles the story of Nathan Hale himself, who was an officer for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War and was eventually hanged for spying. This special edition of One Dead Spy features a larger trim size, a deluxe package, and 16 pages of bonus material, including research photos, sketches, and mini-comics from the author. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales are graphic novels that tell the thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!