Author: Verne Patten
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: day, somewhere
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-04-22
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 059531404X
ISBN-13: 9780595314041

Author Verne Patten was born the month the huge stock market crash of 1929 occurred, which started the worst seven years of depression the USA has ever experienced. Verne’s parents sometimes brought homeless strangers to the house for a meal and a warm place to sleep overnight. Discussions heard in his early years about life on the road and his parents recounting them later, often referring to, "our hungry years," awakened a deep sympathy in Verne for homeless people that remains today. Much of the information and background for Somewhere Every Day was gleaned from conversation with stre

Author: Lyman Rollo La Verne
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: schools, american, grammar, english
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2009-05-20
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 1110352484
ISBN-13: 9781110352487

Author: Jules Gabriel Verne
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: books, forgotten, earth, center, journey
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $9.13
ISBN-10: 1606800213
ISBN-13: 9781606800218

A Journey to the Center of the Earth (A Journey to the Centre of the Earth) (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated as A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth". They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy. From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since mos

Author: Jules Gabriel Verne
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: books, forgotten, sea, leagues
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2008-10-14
List price: $9.88
ISBN-10: 1606208446
ISBN-13: 9781606208441

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou.The title refers to the distance travelled under the sea, not to the depth, as 20,000 leagues is 20 times the radius of the earth. The greatest depth mentioned in the book is 4 leagues. A

Authors:Pauline (RTL) Francis, Jules Verne,
Publisher: Skyview Book
Keywords: classics, foundation, sea, leagues
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $28.50
ISBN-10: 1607540002
ISBN-13: 9781607540007

This wonderful series is a quick way into a range of exciting stories, from the chilling tale of Frankenstein, to the gripping adventure of Treasure Island and the powerful animal story of Call of the Wild. Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel, which loses none of the strength and flavour of the original. "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea", by Jules Verne, was published in 1869. A mysterious sea monster is attacking shipping, and Arronax, a scientist, joins an expedition to find and destroy the monster. Instead, he becomes a p

Authors:Jules Verne, Lisa Church,
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: classic, starts, series, leagues, sea
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 1402725337
ISBN-13: 9781402725333

Jules Verne’s classic science fiction fantasy carries its hero—Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Paris—on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths. In the process, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented: the submarine.

Authors:Dr. R. Michael Furr, Dr. Verne R. Bacharach,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: introduction, psychometrics
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-10-19
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1412927609
ISBN-13: 9781412927604

“The main advantage of the text is a more contemporary and conceptual presentation of the material. I have been looking for a book with this level and focus for some time”                    -Steven Pulos, University of Northern ColoradoIn Psychometrics: An Introduction, authors R. Michael Furr and Verne R. Bacharach center their presentation of material around a conceptual understanding of psychometric issues, such as validity and reliability, and on purpose rather than procedure, the “why” rather than the “how to.” Their goal is to introduce psychometric princi