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Neglected Skies

Author : Angus Britts
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682471586
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Neglected Skies written by Angus Britts and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neglected Skies uses a reconsideration of the clash between the British Eastern Fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy’s First Air Fleet in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 to draw a larger conclusion about declining British military power in the era. In this book, Angus Britts explores the end of British naval supremacy from an operational perspective. By primarily analyzing the evolution of British naval aviation during the interwar period, as well as the challenges that the peacetime Royal Navy was forced to confront, a picture emerges of a battle fleet that entered the war in September 1939 unready for combat. By examining the development of Japan’s first-strike carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, Britts charts both the rise of Japan as a wartime power as well as the demise of the Royal Navy. Japan, by concentrating their six largest aircraft-carriers into a single strike force with state-of-the-art aircraft, had taken a quantum leap forward in warfighting at sea. Simultaneously, British forces found themselves outmatched in this Eastern theatre and Britts makes the case, by looking at a set of key battles, that this is where the global supremacy of Britain’s naval power ended.

The International Review

Author : John Torrey Morse (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The International Review written by John Torrey Morse (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sky Time in Gray's River

Author : Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092781
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Sky Time in Gray's River written by Robert Michael Pyle and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author. Sky Time in Gray's River is an elegant meditation on life in the rural Northwest. Although Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, and southwestern Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies, something about the Gray's River Valley spoke to him when he visited more than forty years ago. Since then he has lived near the village of Gray's River, one of the first to be established near the mouth of the Columbia River and only tenuously connected to the world of the twenty-first century. Pyle brings Gray's River to life by compressing those forty years into twelve chapters, following the lives of the people, plants, and animals that make this valley their home, month by month through the seasons. Through his loving portrait of one riverside village, Pyle illustrates how a special place can transform anyone lucky enough to find it. He shows that you don't have to travel far to see something new every day--if you know how to look.

Bloody Skies

Author : Melvin W. McGuire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Bloody Skies written by Melvin W. McGuire and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little has been written about the contributions of enlisted combat aircrew members during World War II. Also, the importance of crew unity has not been sufficiently emphasized. BLOODY SKIES is the story of a Fifteenth Air Force B-17 crew that often flew the notorious Old Flak Holes & how they learned to respect & trust each other. Training made them cohesive; crisis & tragedy bonded them. They arrived at Amendola, Italy on the day their entire squadron, the Twentieth, had been wiped out by the Luftwaffe. That was their introduction to war. Ten enthusiastic, bright-eyed, cocky boys experience a fatigue & weariness so overpowering it seems to go deep into the bones. It is only their pride in themselves, their crew & their country that keeps them returning to the skies to face another day of that dreaded flak & German fighters. In spite of the horrors of aerial combat, they can still find humor in their lives & compassion for those innocent victims of every war--the children. These ten men, from the economic, cultural & geographic spectrum of 1940s America, represented the best their country could offer.

The Laurel

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laurel written by and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God Speaks from the Sky in Open Vision

Author : Dora J. Blackinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book God Speaks from the Sky in Open Vision written by Dora J. Blackinton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early English and Barbizon Paintings Belonging to W.H. Fuller to be Sold at Auction Sale at Chickering Hall ... Feb. 25th

Author : Fuller W. H.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Early English and Barbizon Paintings Belonging to W.H. Fuller to be Sold at Auction Sale at Chickering Hall ... Feb. 25th written by Fuller W. H. and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pictorial Effect in Photography

Author : H. P. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Pictorial Effect in Photography written by H. P. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pictorial Effect in Photography

Author : Henry Peach Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Pictorial Effect in Photography written by Henry Peach Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lumberjack Sky Pilot

Author : Thomas Davis Whittles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Lumberjack Sky Pilot written by Thomas Davis Whittles and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Keep Watching the Skies!

Author : W. Patrick McCray
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829704
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Keep Watching the Skies! written by W. Patrick McCray and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise unavailable information about the first satellites. In Keep Watching the Skies!, Patrick McCray tells the story of this network of pioneers who, fueled by civic pride and exhilarated by space exploration, took part in the twentieth century's biggest scientific endeavor. Around the world, thousands of teenagers, homemakers, teachers, amateur astronomers, and other citizens joined Moonwatch teams. Despite their diverse backgrounds and nationalities, they shared a remarkable faith in the transformative power of science--a faith inspired by the Cold War culture in which they lived. Against the backdrop of the space race and technological advancement, ordinary people developed an unprecedented desire to contribute to scientific knowledge and to investigate their place in the cosmos. Using homemade telescopes and other gadgets, Moonwatchers witnessed firsthand the astonishing beginning of the Space Age. In the process, these amateur scientists organized themselves into a worldwide network of satellite spotters that still exists today. Drawing on previously unexamined letters, photos, scrapbooks, and interviews, Keep Watching the Skies! recreates a pivotal event from a perspective never before examined--that of ordinary people who leaped at a chance to take part in the excitement of space exploration.

Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies

Author : Neale Monks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441968512
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies written by Neale Monks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies is the first book specifically written for amateur astronomers who own, or who are about to purchase, a computer-controlled ‘go-to’ telescope. The advantage of the ‘go-to’ capability is enormous – the telescope can be aimed at any object in the sky with great speed and accuracy – which is why these instruments are so popular. Making the realistic assumption that the observer is using a relatively small telescope and is observing from a backyard in a suburban area, this book provides literally hundreds more targets beyond those offered by the built-in ‘nightly tours’ that feature on the telescope’s computer tours. And instead of wasting many pages on maps and coordinates, it leads the computer to locate the targets, and so has room to suggest many more fascinating deep-sky objects and provide detailed observing lists and information about what's being viewed.

Sky-land

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Sky-land written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Flaming Sword, and Other Legends of the Earth and Sky

Author : Edith Ogden Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flaming Sword, and Other Legends of the Earth and Sky written by Edith Ogden Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roman Republican Augury

Author : Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192571273
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Roman Republican Augury written by Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control proposes a new way of understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter. Previous scholarly studies of augury have tended to focus either upon its legal-constitutional aspects (especially its place in defining, structuring, and circumscribing the precise constitutional powers of magistrates), or upon its role in maintaining and perpetuating Roman social and political structures (primarily as a tool of the elite). This volume makes a new and original contribution to the study of Roman religion, theology, politics, and cultural history by challenging the prevailing view that official divination was organized to produce only the results its users wanted, and focusing instead upon what it can tell us about how the Romans understood their relationship with their gods. Rather than supposing that augury, like other forms of Roman public divination, told Romans what they wanted to hear, it argues that augury in both theory and practice left space for perceived expressions of divine will which contradicted human wishes, and that its rules and precepts did not allow human beings simply to create or ignore signs at will. Analysis of the historical evidence for Romans receiving, and heeding, signs which would seem to have conflicted with their own desires allows the Jupiter whom they approached in augury to emerge as not simply a source of power to be tapped and channelled to human ends, but as a person with his own interests and desires, which did not always overlap with those of his human enquirers. When human and divine will clashed, it was the will of Jupiter, not that of the man consulting him, which was supposed to prevail. In theory as in practice, it was the Romans, not their supreme god, who were 'bound' by the auguries and auspices.

Art Essays

Author : Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Art Essays written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State

Author : Ellen Baumler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496226933
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State written by Ellen Baumler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds. Beginning with Montana's first known burial site, Ellen Baumler considers the archaeological records of early interments in rock ledges, under cairns, in trees, and on open-air scaffolds. Contact with Europeans at trading posts and missions brought new burial practices. Later, crude "boot hills" and pioneer graveyards evolved into orderly cemeteries. Planned cemeteries became the hallmark of civilization and the measure of an educated community. Baumler explores this history, yet untold about Montana. She traces the pathway from primitive beginnings to park-like, architecturally planned burial grounds where people could recreate, educate their children, and honor the dead. The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is not a comprehensive listing of the many hundreds of cemeteries across Montana. Rather it discusses cultural identity evidenced through burial practices, changing methods of interments and why those came about, and the evolution of cemeteries as the "last great necessity" in organized communities. Through examples and anecdotes, the book examines how we remember those who have passed on.