Bøker av Will Adams

How is a volcano like a soft drink? To visit the largest known volcano would you need a submarine or a spaceship? How fast can a pyroclastic flow go? True or False?: Volcanoes is here with answers to these questions and more! The True or False? series reveals the surprising truths behind common misconceptions and teaches the coolest facts ab...

My First Hundred Years is a memoir of the lifetime of Dr. Will Adams who shares many varied experiences culminating in the knowledge and opinions of a man who has lived a very fulfilling life.The book begins with an introduction to his family of four and the large extended family he grew up with. Many childhood memories surround that family which includes the story of starting a newspaper at a very young age with his brother, Bert, and selling out as they distributed them on their bikes.As he gets older, Dr. Adams takes the reader through his service in the Kansas National Guard as well as his days at the University of Kansas. He continued his education at Columbia University receiving a PhD and becoming a Professor of Political Science for 34 years at William Jewell College in Liberty MO.But all work and no play is NOT how Dr. Adams lives his life - he also taught Ballroom Dancing for 43 years, led and played in several bands over the decades, was involved with many women who made such an impression there's a whole Chapter dedicated to them, and invented Board games including 102 variations of checkers and 26 variations of Chess.Dr. Adams also shares his experiences with depression and the Messianic Complex as well as his views on aging, religion, and politics.You will find this book interesting, educational, funny and sad but what you won't be...is bored!

A celebration of Coventry's rich heritage and identity - its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.

Spiral Mirror is a science fiction thriller and passionate love story based on tapes recorded by a college professor, Karl Grayland, while trapped at the foot of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 as it is about to erupt. This event brings him into the jaws of death for the love of two women: Laura Russell, a young attorney who on their journey to Seattle reveals to Karl that she is pregnant with his child; and Ariel, a sprite of a girl whom they rescue along the way only to be lured by her to Mt. St. Helens on that fateful day in May. With the web of time shredded by the convulsing mountain, Karl, led by Arial, is thrust through a magic mirror fifty years into a future in which mankind's fate comes to rest squarely on him. He learns from his captors how he in a spectral guise can invade the minds of their rivals and control or destroy them at will. Karl soon discovers that his godlike powers come with a compelling need to deploy them. While on the attack, Karl finds a dying Laura and a daughter he never knew, and enlists them to help his captors protect the Spiral Mirror and with it access to all human history. Only after his bloodlust is spent, leaving untold death in its wake, does Karl come to grips with the enormity of his deeds and what it truly means to be human. After learning the true purpose of his ordeal, Karl is returned home by his captors where he and Laura must again face the Mountain's mighty blow.

Explore the Warwickshire town of Stratford-upon-Avon in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

A beautifully photographed selection of 50 of Northamptonshire's most fascinating features, both natural and man-made.

A high-stakes thriller which weaves Turkey's war-torn past with action, adventure and conspiracy.A TERRIFYING ATTACKSouthern Turkey. Business intelligence operative Iain Black, having survived the hotel bombing that killed his friend and partner, vows to find out who was responsible - then make them pay.A PAST THAT WON'T STAY BURIEDHistorian Karin Visser, who also lost friends in the blast, teams up with Iain to uncover secrets hidden deep within the region's past, from the bloody division of Cyprus all the way back to the Trojan War.AN EXPLOSIVE SECRETPiecing the puzzle together, Iain and Karin discover the shocking conspiracy behind the blast. But now they're running out of time to reveal it - before they're silenced for good.

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's fourth pulse-pounding adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.Welcome to Eden. Population: Zero.After she finds out her estranged father and sister are missing from their coastal nature reserve in Madagascar, TV zoologist Rebecca Kirkpatrick is on the first flight home. Underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox is searching for a sunken Chinese treasure ship when he hears of the disappearances and ventures to The Eden Reserve to investigate.Still with a vendetta to settle, Georgian gangster dynasty the Nergadzes send a hitman to hunt down Knox and avenge them. As Knox chases answers he realizes that the idyllic coral reef of Eden hides an ugly truth - someone is willing to kill and exploit people for a secret that will rewrite the history of the New World...

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams third pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox.Twenty years after vanishing without a trace, French archaeologist Roland Petitier makes a dramatic reappearance at a major Athens conference, promising an astonishing find - the legendary Golden Fleece.But before he can give his talk, he's found dead in a hotel room; and an out-of-control policeman puts Petitier's onetime protege Augustin Pascal into intensive care, then later accuses him of Petitier's murder. Only Augustin's two closest friends, Daniel Knox and Gaille Bonnard can prove his innocence.However, rumours of the fleece's rediscovery have spread, and. ambitious Georgian oligarch Nergadze is determined to get it first. He sends his psychopathic grandson Mikhail to Athens with orders to bring it back. Mikhail quickly becomes convinced that Dan Knox has it, and slowly moves in for the kill...

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams second pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox.Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams second pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox. On the trail of a Dead Sea Scroll, Knox stumbles across an ancient temple being surreptitiously excavated by evangelical Christians outside Alexandria. A chase ends in tragedy with the death of Alexandria's senior archaeologist, and Knox the chief suspect. Meanwhile, Knox's partner Gaille Bonnard is baby-sitting a television crew around the ancient city of Amarna, home of the multiple mysteries of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Kidnapped by rogue soldiers, her time fast running out, she sends Knox a message hidden in a hostage video, pleading with him to come to her rescue. But Knox has problems of his own, under arrest on suspicion of murder, locked in a police cell half a country away. And the only way for him to find and save her is to crack one of the great unsolved mysteries of the ancient world.

Non stop adventure and death defying chases in Will Adam's outstanding debut novel.It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a golden Sarcophagus in a catacomb of chambers, each packed with diamonds, rubies and gold. This was how he should have remained, but time waits for no-one.2007 and underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox has been on the trail of Alexander's Gold ever since he can remember. When a tomb is uncovered on the construction site of a new hotel, Daniel believes he has found the clue to what he has been working towards for years. But the discovery has alerted two of the most dangerous men in the world, and Daniel is now a marked man.