Resultados para "Terror" en Ciencia e ingeniería

Dr. Benjamin York, a weary assistant surgeon, only wants a fresh start—but a strange illness spreading through steerage demands his attention. Fiona Lynch, a third-class passenger fleeing her past, just wants to get her son to safety—but the ship is filling with shadows. Together, they uncover a terrifying truth: a monstrous presence is turning Titanic’s final hours into a slaughter.

‘The Outcast’ tells the story of Mrs Bertha Acres, who is handsome and charming company, but inspires horror and dread in all who meet her, most notably her husband who killed himself after only a month of marriage. She starts afresh in a new village, but she is cursed to always be an outcast.

This book is a meticulous reconstruction of a tragic episode in the history of the Nazi persecution of the Jews. The SS. St. Louis left Hamburg in May of 1939 with 937 Jewish refugees on board who thought they had bought visas to enter Cuba. Refused entry in Cuba and the United States the ship eventually had to turn around and return to Europe. The voyage to freedom was in the end nothing more than a roundabout journey to the concentration camps.

Experience the visceral science and history of natural disasters as the solid ground fractures beneath your feet. Whether you are commuting or seeking an immersive educational escape, this suspenseful exploration of our restless planet will leave you breathless. Journey from the chaotic sensory...

This gripping narrative history reveals how one elemental force forged human civilization and now threatens to destroy it. From the sparks that cooked the meals of early hominids to the sprawling megafires of the climate crisis, our relationship with combustion is a tale of breathtaking progress...

I had a crazy uncle, like most everyone does. Many of his stories were about a big hairy monster that lived in the woods behind his cabin in the woods. He called the monster Bigfoot, a name I thought he made up when I was eight years old because I hadn’t heard the word before that. He had a Bigfoot encounter and was worried about abduction and attack all the time. My story takes place while I was in college, but it started way before that when Uncle Chip was still alive.

This program is read by the author A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild...