Most Popular Books by Paul Kennedy

Melbourne Storm was created in 1998 and situated in the heartland of a rival football code, it won three NRL premierships from five Grand Finals in its first twelve seasons and produced the best players in the game. It was the envy of clubs everywhere. But in 2010 Storm''s famed winning culture was exposed as a fraud. The club had cheated. The club had consistently rorted the NRL''s salary cap. Justice seemed hard and fast. They were fined and stripped of their trophies. A few in club management were fired, some club directors left and player managers were given suspensions. That was it. Noone was charged. Storm played out that season with admirable resolve, despite playing for no reward. In the following two seasons Melbourne Storm fought back and in 2012 won the Grand Final. The rise, fall and rise of Melbourne Storm happened in a heartbeat, yet what actually took place? Stormclouds answers the question as it reveals the hidden story, with much untold to be revealed.

At school in Vietnam, eight-year-old Dulcie is teased about coming from another country. When Dulcie tells her best friend Duke, he decides to show her just why the student is wrong.Using Duke''s magical monkey wrench, the two of them travel to Turkey. In this country, many cultures and all kinds of people have mixed for thousands of years. In Istanbul, Dulcie and Duke visit the beautiful Hagia Sophia, which has been a cathedral, museum and mosque. Traveling back in time, the friends even meet a visiting Viking! Duke takes Dulcie to an ancient Turkish city, where Persians, Greeks and Romans once lived. And floating over Cappadocia in a hot air balloon, Dulcie discovers the country might also be home to fairies! When she returns to school, Dulcie tells her classmates that Turkey was a real delight. But will she persuade them that the world is better when everyone gets along?Whirling Through Turkey is the fourth book in a series that encourages its audience to be curious about the world. Often, different people and foreign languages seem alien to young children. But when they journey to Turkey, a country rich with cultures, readers will realize that humans are really all the same. Just like Dulcie, they''ll be fascinated by Turkey''s colorful history, with many layers in a single place. Thanks to the beautiful illustrations, children will also be captivated by its dramatic landscape. When they finally meet the Whirling Dervishes, readers'' heads may well be spinning! But they''ll also have a newfound passion for exploring. Based on the author''s own travels, this story will delight every child; wherever they may be in the world.

This selection of three hand-pressed postcards from printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s Sista Said series highlights the wisdom of Black women across generations—from Sojourner Truth to Rosa Parks, from Harriet Tubman to Nina Simone. Each set features three different quotations packaged in a letterpress-printed bag. Printed on chipboard in an array of vibrant inks, no two cards are alike. Includes quotations from Ella Baker, Josephine Baker, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ruby Bridges, Fannie Lou Hamer, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Coretta Scott King, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Pauli Murray, Rosa Louise Parks, Lucy Parsons, Claudia Rankine, Ntozake Shange, Nina Simone, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, and Phillis Wheatley.

The study reports on the conversion of an underground complex into a Long Duration Flow Facility (LDFF), the calibration of the facility, and a limited test program to study the effect of long duration pressure pulses on extinguishing materials simulated to have been ignited by the coincident thermal pulse (so-called ''blast-fire'' interaction). High speed photographic cameras and pressure sensing gauges instrument the test room. Three blast-fire interaction tests were conducted and it was found that the blast wave extinguished initial fires, but would not extinguish smoldering fires in upholstered materials such as mattresses. These tests demonstrated the usefulness of the facility.

Ce livre a fait l''effet d''une bombe lors de sa parution. Best-seller instantané aux Etats-Unis puis au Japon, décortiqué dans les chancelleries du monde entier, Naissance et déclin des grandes puissances prend, en ce début de XXIe siècle, des allures de prophétie : et si l''Amérique, superpuissance incontestée, se trouvait aujourd''hui à la veille de sa chute ?