Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6465+6643+6645 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711719 Reviews topics covered on the exam, offers test taking tips, and includes six practice exams. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682896 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544182 With newly commissioned artwork, Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic is a deluxe reproduction of the 1912 memorial edition edited by the great descriptive writer Marshall Everett and published immediately after the even occurred. This collectible volume gives a sobering account of the disaster, detailing exciting escapes from death and acts of heroism not equaled in ancient or modern times.--P. 4 of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582182 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647789 [This book] explores every aspect of the development of the automobile from the evolution of the family car to the desire for speed and the need for green technology--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1263584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1481081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1509010 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1223471 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557632 Discusses rarely touched-upon components of the Titanic disaster, including the accounts of survivors, the role played by the new wireless telecommunication system, and the effect the accident had on the shipyard in Belfast. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262721 This history recounts the numerous military events along the L&N in the years 1861 through 1865, and also examines the still-resonant theme of the relationship between a major corporation and the government during a time of national crisis--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1197778 When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her mysterious disappearance continues to inspire speculation. In this nuanced and often surprising biography, acclaimed aviation historian Kathleen C. Winters moves beyond the caricature of the spunky, precocious pilot to offer a more complex portrait. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, airline records, and other original research, this book reveals a flawed heroine who was frequently reckless and lacked basic navigation skills, but who was also a canny manipulator of mass media. Winters details how Earhart and her husband, publisher George Putnam, worked to establish her as an international icon, even as other spectacular pilots went unnoticed. Sympathetic yet unsentimental, this biography helps us to see Amelia Earhart with fresh eyes--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1127764 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1022676 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=789769 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611608 The Desert Southwest is home to many mythic roads-the Santa Fe Trail, the legendary U.S. Route 66, and the lines of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Upon the latter, the signature trains-the trains that inspired their own following-were the Santa Fe Chief and Super Chief. Not only did these provide the fastest ride (57 hours and 40 hours, respectively) from Chicago and Los Angeles, but both became known for their top-notch service and famous warbonnet livery. With world-famous Fred Harvey food, an opulent Turquoise Room, and Pleasure Domes, the Super Chief became the train of the stars. In Santa Fe Chiefs, avid rail fan and author Bill Yenne chronicles the history of these great passenger trains from 1926 until their 1971 Amtrak takeover and beyond. Their counterparts-the Texas Chief, San Francisco Chief, and Southwest Chief-are also featured, as well as a wealth of period advertisements, historic and modern photographs, dining menus and recipes, and other Chief memorabilia. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=429693 James Cooks three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. When he embarked for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in 1779, during a bloody clash in Hawaii, the map of the world was substantially complete. Cook explored more of the earths surface than anyone in history - sailing from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Tahiti to Siberia, from Easter Island to the Great Barrier Reef - and introduced the West to an exotic world of taboo and tattoo, of cannibalism and ritual sex. Yet the impoverished farmboy, who broke the bounds of social class to become Britains greatest navigator, remains as mysterious today as the uncharted seas he sailed more than two centuries ago. In Blue Latitudes, Tony Horwitz sets off on his own voyage of discovery. Adventuring in Cooks wake, he relives the captains journeys and explores their legacy in the farflung lands Cook opened to the West. At sea, aboard a replica of Cooks ship, he works atop a hundred-foot mast, sleeps in a narrow hammock, and recaptures the rum-and-lash world of eighteenth-century seafaring. On land, he meets native people - Aboriginal and Aleut elders, Maori gang members, the king of Tonga - for whom Cook is alternately a heroic navigator and a villain who brought syphilis, guns, and greed to the unspoiled Pacific. Accompanied by a carousing Australian mate, he meets Miss Tahiti, visits the roughest bar in Alaska, and uncovers the secret behind the red-toothed warriors of Savage Island. Throughout, Horwitz also searches for Cook the man: a restless prodigy who fled his peasant boyhood, and later the luxury of Georgian London, for the privation and peril of sailing off the edge of the map.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=398830 Who was the real Robinson Crusoe? And what did he really experience during his solitary stay on a desert island? Souhamis revelatory account of piracy, betrayal, and raw survival in the eighteenth century leads us to the answers to both these questions. Born a poor Scotsman, Alexander Selkirk signed with William Dampier, a pirate as famous for his self-promotion as for his naval success, on an ill-fated quest to sack the famous Manila galleon, one of the richest prizes on the southern seas. Put ashore on an island three hundred miles west of South America, Selkirk spent four years learning to survive with little more than his bare hands. By using accounts from Selkirk, his fellow sailors, two women who claimed to be his wife, and her own experiences of spending three months on the island, acclaimed biographer Diana Souhami evokes all the strangeness and wonder of his story and interprets the haze created by time, literature, and legend. The result is a brilliantly lucid and lyrical recovery and discovery of a forgotten man and his unforgettable experience.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=364108 This fully revised second edition shares Monaghans insider information on how to use the Net wisely, not blindly, and offers sage advice on all the ways to beat the airlines at their own game. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=359322 Updated maps, new appendices, a greatly expanded bibliography, detailed discussions of the recent proposed mergers of the Canadian Pacific and the Burlington, of the diesel locomotive, and of railroad electrification make Trains Across the Continent the complete and concise introduction to North American railroads.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=215885 For the first time, here are the dramatic, true accounts of the twelve most remarkable underwater discoveries made by Cussler and his team of NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency) volunteers. As suspenseful and satisfying as the best of his Dirk Pitt novels, this is a unique story of true commitment and courage. Includes 16-page photo insert. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=30322 Piracy has always provided a good opportunity for ruthless men to seek their fortunes. For the young man - very few older men went on the account - piracy offered a means of escape from the monotony of shore-based jobs and brought with it the added spice of treasure, definite danger and excitement, wine and women, and a chance to see the world. But it was a dangerous calling, and few took up active piracy for more than a decade: the careers of some famous pirates like Blackbeard, Kidd, and Avery lasted no more than two or three years, and few, like Morgan or Drake, lived long enough to enjoy their plundered wealth. From time immemorial there have been pirates: In the second millennium B.C., Phoenician merchant ships were preyed upon in the Mediterranean, and in the classical age of Greece, the islands of the Aegean were home to generations of pirates. In 78 B.C., young Julius Caesar was held for ransom by pirates. Much later, when Spanish conquistadores discovered astonishing quantities of gold treasure in the New World, this provoked two centuries of buccaneering on the Spanish Main - the Golden Age of Piracy. And on the other side of the world, the fabled riches of the East brought forth in the South China Sea the most formidable of all the worlds pirates in both numbers and in cruelty. Nor has piracy ever died out; along the coast of Brazil, the west coast of Africa, and above all in the Malacca Strait - the greatest concentration of merchant shipping in the world - pirates still practice their ancient trade.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=137296 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=202639 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=216761 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=580574