Sky Knights: The Evolution of Air Combat & The Future of Air Combat is the definitive illustrated history of aerial warfare, from the fragile biplanes and daring aces of World War I to today's stealth fighters, unmanned systems, and the technologies that will define tomorrow's battles in the sky.
This volume presents studies of some of the key artistic manifestations in Catalonia in recent times, a period of innovation and experimentation, and addresses issues concerning literature, film, theatre and performance art.
This book sets out the options available to local housing authorities and housing associations, primarily by reference to England, in seeking to detect and act upon housing fraud.
Just in time for 75th anniversary commemorations of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, this latest addition offers a complete visual history of the attack, its aftermath, and the salvage efforts that followed.
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit.
Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century brings an original perspective on French cinema's 'return to work' in the early twenty-first century, focusing on the transformation of cinematic activism in view of the rapid dissolution of class narratives and solidarities.
A thorough yet concise walking guide to one of America's most important historic destinationsRelive the birth of America along Boston's historic two-and-a-half-mile Freedom Trail with this guide to twenty-six legendary landmarksincluding the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument.
At Novgorod's excavated cultural layers, wooden street planking dates to specific years through dendrochronology, birchbark documents preserve household correspondence, and pollen records trace centuries of forest clearance in the surrounding hinterland.
El libro es una consideracion detallada del conflicto entre Galileo Galilei y la Iglesia Catolica Romana en el siglo XVI, el evento se utiliza a menudo para culpar a los cristianos en general, y la iglesia especificamente para una desaceleracion del progreso cientifico y la investigacion.
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in California.
Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment.
Having worked on projects around the world, strengthening and restoring historically significant structures from Windsor Castle to the parliament buildings in Canada, Peter James brings insight to the structural engineering of ancient Egypt.
This classic, now available in paperback, includes all varieties of American armor in Europe from D-Day, to Normandy, to southern France, the Siegfried Line, the push to the Rhine, and finally, the Battle of the Bulge.
The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870-1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century.
A thorough yet concise walking guide to one of America's most important historic destinationsRelive the birth of America along Boston's historic two-and-a-half-mile Freedom Trail with this guide to twenty-six legendary landmarksincluding the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument.
The eighteenth-century bishops of the Church of England and its sister communions had immense status and authority in both secular society and the Church.
Life in the Iron-Mills: Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis is a poignant work of American literature that embodies the essence of social realism.
This book relates to one of Wales's most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009.
From the outbreak of war in 1914 to the creation of the Mercantile Marine Reserve and the eventual introduction of convoys in 1917, this book charts the experiences, contribution and sacrifices made by merchant mariners from Wales.
On 15 August 2021, the world watched in horror as Kabul fell to the Taliban, almost exactly 20 years after western-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban government in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
This book uses Edouard Glissant's concept of the transfer and the transplant to examine Jacques Derrida and Albert Memmi's distinctive relationships to French colonialism.
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Middle English devotional compilations - consisting of a series of texts or extracts of texts that have intentionally been put together to constitute new and unified devotional texts - have often been approached as complex collections of source texts that need to be linked with their originals.
In the summer of 1656, two Quaker women stepped off a ship in Boston harbour and walked into a world that would spend the next five years trying to destroy them.
Was treibt eine friedliche mexikanisch-amerikanische Grenzgemeinde dazu, sich schwer zu bewaffnen und in eine blutige, wochenlange Schlacht gegen die beruchtigten Texas Rangers zu ziehen?
This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known 'spirit' entities of ancient Egypt -daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian 'Otherworld' - and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all things otherworldly.
From an out-of-control wildfire that nearly destroyed a town to a serial spouse killer in Estes Park, It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Colorado's largest national park.
The World War II fighter-pilot storyOn the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets.
