Like most 18-year-old girls, Eden Owens has dreams for her future. But she also knows her chances of achieving her goals are overshadowed by her environment. She often sits in the dismal bedroom she shares with her younger sister, Abby, and prays for a miracle. More than anything else, Eden desperately wants a college education. When she approaches her brutish father, Clem, and nervously asks him if he has set aside money for her to go to college, her father laughs in her face. Eden knew then and there that she had no choice but to resume her miserable life in the slums of Maramount, Illinois. But fate has other plans for Eden. Mrs. Omaha, her favorite teacher, works behind the scenes with Professor Altgeld, a poet laureate, to include Eden on the meritorious Studies Abroad cruise program. As Eden embers upon a study voyage around the world, her nautical adventure opens her eyes to corruption, vice, and immorality that leads to a personal journey of self- discovery. Eden's determination to pursue her dream will drive her to excel scholastically. Although she will meet the love of her life, her journey will be fraught with bullies, rape, murder, and a mysterious stranger who exacts revenge in his own diabolical way.
Graeme Rimer Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
Graeme Rimer je akademickým riaditeľom Royal Armouries Museum a pôsobí v Leedse. Od útleho veku ho fascinovali zbrane a zbroje, čo ho priviedlo k dobrovoľníckej práci v londýnskom Tower. Po rokoch štúdia reštaurovania zbrojí sa vrátil do múzejníctva, kde sa postupne vypracoval na pozíciu akademického riaditeľa. Jeho práca zahŕňa dohľad nad projektmi, ako je múzeum delostrelectva a vývoj galérií. Rimer je autorom viacerých publikácií a prednášok o zbraniach a zbrojach, prispel k výskumu významných archeologických nálezísk a podieľa sa na redakčnej práci odborných časopisov. Jeho rozsiahle znalosti ho robia rešpektovanou osobnosťou v odbore a prispievajú k ochrane a prezentácii vojenskej histórie.
Wheellock Firearms of the Royal Armouries
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This exhibition catalogue highlights forty wheellock firearms from the Royal Armouries collection, representing a selection of some of the most highly decorated and finely formed examples of the art of the wheellock gunmakers in Europe. The development of the wheellock mechanism in the early 16th century enabled firearms to be made that could be carried and held in one hand. This mechanism demanded great skill from gunmakers. It was a complex ad expensive device in use for 200 years, and wealthy patrons had wheellocks fitted to some of the most elegant and highly decorated firearms of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Royal Armouries contains over 170 wheellock firearms and this exhibition highlights 40 of the very best to illustrate the earliest forms of the mechanism, the technical curiosities it caused and a representative selection of some of the most highly decorated and finely formed examples of the art of the wheellock gunmakers in Europe.