Mission: Survival. Location: The Indonesian jungle. Dangers: Lava flows; fearsome tigers; orang-utans. Young survival expert Beck Granger is supposed to be enjoying a holiday. But when a volcano erupts he is stranded & must flee from red-hot lava & molten rocks crashing out of the sky. If he is to stay alive he must make his way across the jungle to safety
- travelling right through the heart of tiger territory... The fourth book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert Bear Grylls.
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Lost in the jungle! Beck Granger is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost City of Gold. But the secret of the city died with the explorer
- until now... His uncle & Don Rafael believe they know where to find the city & Beck gets to go along for the ride. But when the two men are kidnapped Beck is left to solve this new mystery on his own. With Marco & Christina the Don's children. he must set off into the wilds of Colombia to find the city
- & bring his uncle back. Beck must build a raft & negotiate wild river rapids make camp defend his friends from wild animals & keep them all alive in the jungle. A fast-paced exciting new adventure full of real survival details & gruesome tips.

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In this his crowning manifesto on behalf of continued space exploration & travel legendary space statesman Buzz Aldrin argues passionately & articulately for continuing to push the boundaries of our knowledge of the universe & specifically for focussing assets intellect & policy toward sending humans to the planet Mars by the year 2032. A pioneering astronaut & a rocket scientist who helped develop the orbital rendezvous technique critical to America's moon landings Aldrin presents his unified space vision by tracking the history of space flight & plotting the path of future exploration & discovery that must be followed for the United States & the world to reach his stated goal. ...

Frederic Stahl a Hollywood film star travels from Beverly Hills to the boulevards of Paris. It is a dangerous difficult seductive time: Europe is about to explode & the Parisians are living every night as though it were their last. As filming progresses Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents embassy officials & spies of every sort. His engagements take him from the bistros of Paris to the back alleys of Morocco; from a Hungarian castle to Kristallnacht & the chilling heart of the Third Reich. But can he survive as German operatives track him across Paris? Gripping haunting & deeply passionate Mission to Paris is the ultimate portrait of a people at war & Alan Fursts most panoramic lovingly described & finest book to date. ...

If your shelves are overloaded with books on how to do mission create some space to engage with this book. No to-do lists. No win-win strategies. Instead this discerning book reflects on the inner resources & attitude of mind required to engage in mission in a post-modern pluralist society. Combining real-life case studies with vital lessons from her own personal journey Susan Hope explores what happens to us on the inside when we embark on mission. This gently provocative book will help us to listen to the Holy Spirit & the cultures in which we find ourselves. This book encourages the reader to discover a spirituality that envigorates & revives enthusiasm & personal vision for mission. ...

Guidance for church leaders to develop their own maps & chart new paths toward stronger more vibrant & more missional congregations In the burgeoning missional church movement churches are seeking to become less focused on programs for members & more oriented toward outreach to people who are not already in church. This fundamental shift in what a congregation is & does & thinks is challenging for leaders & congregants. Using the metaphor of map-making the book explains the perspective & skills needed to lead congregations & denominations in a time of radical change over unfamiliar terrain as churches change their focus from internal to external. Offers a clear guide for leaders wanting to transition to a missional church model Written by Alan Roxburgh a prominent expert & practitioner in the missional movement Guides leaders seeking to create new maps for leadership & church organization & focus A Volume in the popular Leadership Network Series This book is written to be accessible to all Christian congregational styles & denominations. ...

At the start of the American Civil War neither side had warships on either side of the Mississippi River & in the first few months of the war both sides scrambled to gather a flotilla converting existing riverboats for naval use. These ships wrere converted into powerful naval weapons despite a lack of resources trained manpower & suitable vessels. The creation of a river fleet was a miracle of ingenuity improvisation & logistics particularly for the South. This title describes their design development & operation throughout the American Civil War. ...

Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. A sweet sixteen party & thirteen-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister spoilt birthday-girl Gwen out of trouble. No chance. Trouble finds Gwen & drags her through the mist. Only Nell guesses whos behind the kidnap
- the boy she hoped was her friend the gorgeous but mysterious Evan River. Evan is no ordinary boy
- he has a secret which will lead Nell to question everything she has always learned from her grandmothers stories. Evan lives on the fringes of Nells world rarely glimpsed misunderstood & feared but a long-simmering showdown between the two worlds is looming.. .

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For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has been a gentleman adventurer journeying all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero the great pioneering traveller Conrad Vane. One rainy winter night Sir James returns to London. Orphaned at five it is now time to find out more about his family & origins & also to learn about the early years of Conrad Vane. But at every turn James is warned off his investigation into Conrad Vane. Do these warnings explain his flashes of intense fear & feelings of being watched? & what of the boy who has started haunting his every step & the mysterious mirror with its inexplicable reflections? Eventually Sir James quest leads him to the old lady of Kittiscar Hall & deep into a past that binds him to his hero in ways he never could have imagined. ...

Seventeenth century England is a place of superstition & fear. Deep in the Forest of Pendle people have been dying in mysterious circumstances. The locals whisper of witchcraft but Squire Roger Nowell in charge of investigating the deaths dismisses the claims as ridiculous. Until a series of hideous desecrations forces Roger & his cousin Margery to look further into the rumours. & what they discover brings them face to face with the horrifying possibility that a coven of witches is assembling preparing to unleash a campaign of evil & destruction... Robert Neills novel is a classic tale of witchcraft set in a wild inaccessible corner of Lancashire & in a time when the ancient fear of demons & witches was still a part of life...and death. ...