In the Air

Following the development of massive airships, naive Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by ai...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

DescriptionPrior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces - including the Air Force - prepared to engage the Litt...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

The Outdoor Swimming Guide features over 400 great places to swim outside in Great Britain. It includes lidos, rivers, lakes and other stretches of...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Margareta Ingrid ChristianIllustration(s): 69 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Originally published in 2001. From the foreword: "In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air ...

Why does water always take a winding course in streams and rivers? Do common principles and rhythms underlie its movement--whether in the sea, in a...

Publisher: RANDAuthor(s): Michael S ChaseNumber of pages: 44Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 215 x 279 x 9Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

Engaging decodable Biff, Chip and Kipper stories 100% matched to Letters and Sounds enable your pupils to practise phonic skills with their favouri...

Propelled into stardom at an exhilarating speed due to clever marketing and virtuosity in their musicianship, particularly violinist Darryl Way, th...

Up in the Air shows readers the world from a different perspective by taking them on an exciting trip in a hot air balloon!Oxford Reading Tree inFa...

Reducere. Do you have an Emeril Lagasse Power Air Fryer?Or Are You Planning to Get One?800 Delicious, Crispy & Hassle-free Recipes to Master Your Emeril Laga...

Long overdue biography of a leading WW2 RAF Bomber Command Officer.Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations

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Get into the holiday spirit with these magical stories of family and friends... giving and sharing... joy and blessings Prepare to be inspired by t...

Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refiner...

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Covers the author's flying career from the finish of World War II until his final appointment as CO of the Naval Test Squadron at Boscombe Down. Mi...

DescriptionThe work of American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to acco...

DescriptionTitled after the wartime nickname for the part of North Korea that was the epicenter of a bitter struggle for air superiority over the K...

DescriptionFlight to Fame, a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words...

Reducere. Air Cav: History of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam 1965-1969 is the story of the small, close world of fighting men in action. This volume can...

Reducere. Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways...

A detailed account of the development of anti-aircraft systems since 1972, revealing the battle between aircraft and ground-to-air defences around ...

The memoir of a Royal Air Force officer who rose to the rank of Air Marshal. The author's own reminiscences are interwoven with those of his father...

At the end of the eighteenth century, the tradition of plein air painting gained considerable popularity in Rome. Artists came from all over Europe...

When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuri...

Reducere. Air Cav: History of the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam 1965-1969 is the story of the small, close world of fighting men in action. This volume can...

Reducere. August 1990. Iraq invades Kuwait. During the invasion, an intrepid band of Kuwaiti aviators evacuate twenty A-4 Skyhawk attack jets to Saudi Arabia...

Learn about the airline industry and strategic air transport management, through in-depth analysis and new models for practice.

(Music Sales America). Raymond Briggs' charming Christmas story about the adventures of a boy and the snowman that comes to life is a modern childr...

Reducere. Pave Low. The term itself generates an image: a dark, wispy night; a low, pulsating rumble approaching from the distance. The rumble becomes a pres...

DescriptionThe Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of war...

Reducere. "The four elements of Air, Fire, Water and Earth exist as spiritual essences, as philosophical concepts, as energy states and as a tangible physica...

DescriptionLearn the core concepts of painting on location with En Plein Air: Acrylic, the definitive resource for experiencing the peace and rewar...

Reducere. The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutralit...

DescriptionThough World War II took place after the development of color photography, nearly all of the familiar images of it are in black and whit...

Reducere. Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly po...

Reducere. DescriptionHelicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands o...

Reducere. DescriptionSomething in the Air is Richard Hoffer's gripping sports narrative that tells the individual stories of the athletes who gathered in Mex...

The Silent Warriors of the U.S. Air Force Security Service, the "back-enders" on SAC's Hognose RC-135 reconnaissance planes, had quietly been in al...

Discover all the foul facts about the history of flight in this brand new Horrible Histories book. From the prisoners who were sent up on kites and...

Reducere. This tried and true method for improving and maintaining your overall physical fitness has been enthusiastically endorsed by the public since its i...

Photographic history of the French air force in the First World War

With over 200 photos, Luftwaffe provides a full pictorial history of the aircraft and key figures of the German Air Force in WWII, from the Blitzkr...

Nora Roberts: fall into her grip and she'll never let you go

Explore this revealing, well illustrated look back at American airbases in Britain in the post-war era.

A collection of photographs of the Fleet Air Arm, illustrating the activities, ships and aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm and its predecessor the Roya...

Reducere. Castles in the Air recreates, in the words of surviving aircrew members themselves, all the tension and terror of their exhausting sorties deep int...

DescriptionThe book covers the three largest sources of particulate matter pollution in five chapters. These sources constitute three of the top te...

Reducere. Rainbows, mirages, multiple moons, black snow, colored shadows, irridescent clouds, halos, green surf, and hundreds of other natural phenomena are ...

DescriptionMany stories abound of the daring exploits of the RAF's young fighter pilots defying the might of Hitler's Luftwaffe, and of the dogged ...

Reducere. The crashes of Air Rhodesia Flight RH825 and Air Rhodesia Flight RH827 were two of the deadliest aviation incidents in the history of Zimbabwe-and ...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksAuthor(s): Eleonora RohlandNumber of pages: 252Collection: Environment in History: International PerspectivesPublication d...

Reducere. Description"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." But dying for freedom isn't the worst that co...

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.(The War in the Air Book Two) VOLUME 3 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The ...

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL IN THE BEST SELLING 'The Things Our Fat...

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DescriptionDuring the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. After major s...

Reducere. This book intends to arouse the reader's interest in geometry especially teens who see it as a cold abstract area of mathematics. Through simple pr...

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.(The War in the Air Book Two) VOLUME 3 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The ...

Reducere. Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol stars in two stories in one all-new Step 2 deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader--plus a poster Boys and girls ages 4 to...

Contributor(s): Author: Alfred K. FlowersGrowing up in a family of sharecroppers in the segregated South in the 1950s and '60s, Al Flowers never dr...

Reducere. Many books may tell you how to cast a Wiccan circle, but none really bother to explain why. When you finish reading The Elements of Ritual, you'll ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xiaoming ZhangThe Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted...

The life and experiences of Gulf War Ace Rick Tollini, in his own words.Illustrations: B/w and colour

Until now the day-to-day working and opinions of the Vietnamese Peoples' Air Force (VPAF) has remained relatively unknown. For the first time the a...

Reducere. NEWLY UPDATED. WORLD WAR II 70TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE EDITION. Foreward written by Eric Shawn, Fox News Anchor and Senior Correspondent. Newly...

Reducere. For sheer daring, danger and drama, Doolittle's Raid must rank at the top any list of World War II battles. Few other events of the war had such an...