Author : David C. Sutton
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Philip Stibbe
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0850524768
This is one young officer's war story about training and inspiration in the Burmese jungle behind enemy lines. Beaten up and water tortured, yet only giving his captors false information, Stibbe was moved around Burma until he was eventually imprisoned in Rangoon jail. Now stricken with Parkinson's disease, probably as a result of his prison diet, Stibbe with his eldest son, also a soldier, has revised his book and this edition published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Wingate's second triumphant Chindit expedition.
Author : Carl Sagan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307801012
“Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune
Author : Guillermo Curbera
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1439865124
This vividly illustrated history of the International Congress of Mathematicians- a meeting of mathematicians from around the world held roughly every four years- acts as a visual history of the 25 congresses held between 1897 and 2006, as well as a story of changes in the culture of mathematics over the past century. Because the congress is an int
Author : Jeff Hecht
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195162554
This text presents the history of the development of fibre optic technology, explaining the scientific challenges that needed to be overcome, the range of applications and future potential for this fundamental communications technology.
Author : John Forster
Publisher :
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1818
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Trevor-Roper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300139349
The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- Pietro Giannone and Great Britain -- Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England -- From deism to history: Conyers Middleton -- David Hume, historian -- The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire -- Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976 -- Gibbon's last project -- The romantic movement and the study of history -- Lord Macaulay: the history of England -- Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy -- Jacob Burckhardt.
Author : Carroll Ann Hodges
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Mars (Planet)
ISBN :
Author : Mór Jókai
Publisher : Publio Kiadó Kft
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9633810965
Before us lies the valley of the Drave, one of those endless wildernesses where even the wild beast loses its way. Forests everywhere, maples and aspens a thousand years old, with their roots under water; magnificent morasses the surface of which is covered, not with reeds and water-lilies, but with gigantic trees, from the dependent branches of which the vivifying waters force fresh roots. Here the swan builds her nest; here too dwell the royal heron, the blind crow, the golden plover, and other man-shunning animals which are rarely if ever seen in more habitable regions.
Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623653266
Known for his black humor and expertise in military aviation, Derek Robinson is best renowned for his novels on the Royal Flying Corps. The Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate the decent, gentlemanly outlook of his young, public school-educated pilots--for their own good. But as the war goes on he is forced to thrown greener and greener pilots into the meat grinder. Goshawk Squadron finds its gallows humor and black camaraderie no defense against a Spandau bullet to the back of the head.
