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Myths and Legends of All Nations - Famous Stories from the Greek, German, English, Spanish, Scandinavian, Danish, French, Russian, Bohemian, Italian and other sources (Illustrated) (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Logan Marshall
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R710
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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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Devil (DVD)
Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Geoffrey Arend, Bojana Novakovic, Caroline Dhavernas, …
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R58
Discovery Miles 580
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Supernatural sci-fi suspense thriller produced and based on a
concept by M. Night Shyamalan, but directed by Drew and John Erick
Dowdle. Set inside a skyscraper office block, the film revolves
around a group of five people trapped inside an elevator - one of
whom, unbeknownst to the others, is the Devil in disguise.
Originally written in the late 1970s, this book was untouched for
more than 35 years. McLuhan passed away before it went to press,
but Logan always intended to finish it. Even though much has
changed in the three decades since work on the project was halted,
many of the points that McLuhan and Logan made in the era of
'electric media' are highly cogent in the era of 'digital media.'
Looking at the future of the library from the perspective of
McLuhan's original vision, Logan has carefully updated the text to
address the impact of the Internet and other digital technologies
on the library. McLuhan prophetically foreshadowed the
transformative effect that computing would have on "mass library
organization," saying it would become obsolescent. It is perhaps no
coincidence that a key theme of the book is that libraries must
strive to create context given today's hyper information overload.
The authors believe this task can be achieved by putting together a
compact library of books providing an overview of human culture and
scholarship. This book is based on the original text that McLuhan
and Logan wrote. Logan's updates are integrated in the main text
and clearly identified by markers. This preserves the flow of the
original text and at the same time provides updates in the context
of the original study. Other significant updates include two new
chapters: Chapter 6 provides a LOM (Laws of the Media) treatment of
the new post-McLuhan digital media, and Chapter 7 discusses the
impact of these media on today's library. A second part to the
concluding Chapter has been added to update some of the conclusions
reached in 1979, and there is also a new preface.
A century after it sank to the bottom of the St. Lawrence River,
the ruin of the "Empress of Ireland "has remained one of the most
devastating tragedies in maritime history. Logan Marshall's vivid
and detailed reportage was the first account of the disaster and
has endured as a classic chronicle of what happened that fateful
night.
On May 28, 1914, the grand ocean liner, the "Empress of Ireland,"
left Quebec on the St. Lawrence River, bound for an Atlantic
crossing to Liverpool, England. At a few minutes before two o'clock
on the morning of Friday, May 29, the "Empress "sighted the
Norwegian collier, "Storstad, " at the same time as a heavy fog
bank was descending. Despite warnings and evasive maneuvers, the
"Empress" was struck on the starboard side by the "Storstad," which
penetrated its hull by twelve feet. The captain and crew had less
than fifteen minutes to save their passengers before the ship
slipped under the waves. Of the 1,475 aboard, 1,078 perished in a
matter of minutes. It remains the worst peacetime catastrophe in
Canadian history.
In addition to his unforgettable account of the sinking, Logan
Marshall also presents a gripping retelling of the "Titanic"
disaster, as well as other maritime tragedies. For decades,
Marshall's account of the "Empress of Ireland "has remained the
definitive version, comparable to Walter Lord's chronicle of the
"Titanic" sinking, "A Night to Remember."
CENTENNIAL EDITION: INCLUDES PHOTOS AND A NEW AFTERWORD UPDATING
THE STORY
When she set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York
on April 10, 1912, RMS "Titanic," the pride of the White Star
fleet, was the largest ocean liner in the world. Deemed
"practically unsinkable" because of her double-bottomed hull and
watertight compartments, she carried more than 2,000 passengers and
crew, although only sufficient lifeboats for just over half that
number. Four days out of Southampton, on the night of April 14, she
struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank within a matter of
hours; 1,503 lives were lost. Logan Marshall interviewed the
survivors in the immediate aftermath of the disaster and in this
book he records the facts as they were known, together with
numerous maps, diagrams, drawings, and photographs (including a
picture of the actual iceberg that sank the "Titanic"). Well
established as part of the canon of "Titanic" literature, this book
is a must-have for anyone with an interest in the ship and her
sorrowful fate.
An authentic account of one of the most horrible disasters in
Canadian history. Soon after leaving Quebec on her voyage to
Liverpool with over 1,300 souls on board, she was struck by the
Norwegian collier Storstad off Father Point, Quebec, on 29 May
1914, at 2.10 a.m., and sank about fifteen minutes later, carrying
a thousand of her passengers down with her.
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