Second Age of Rail. A History of High-Speed Trains, Paperback - Murray Hughes

The complete story of the world's high-speed railways, from Japan's bullet trains to HS2 via France, Germany and ChinaIllustrations: 165 Illustrati...

An international history of trains, from early steam locomotives to Japan's bullet train, presented in spectacular layered pop-up scenes.Illustrati...

Celebrate the heyday of passenger rail travel around Britain with this beautiful Times railway book.

This second book features once again the photographic artistry of many of the UK's leading railway photographers who, as members of the Rail Camera...

This updated edition includes current, state-of-the art high-speed digital testing practises and references, that are becoming increasingly pertine...

"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, ...

modal balancing, influence coefficient balancing and the Unified Balancing Approach. This information is supplemented and supported through a prese...

Reducere. The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies--the car a...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our citiesPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): David CutlerNumber of pages: ...

A sumptuous visual feast of society holidaying when foreign travel was the preserve of only the elite

Reducere. During the Gilded Age, Dupont Circle was Washington's undisputed center of wealth, power and status. Over twenty years, it evolved from small farms...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Victoria GoldenAuthor: William WaltersFrom 1854 to the early 1930s, the American Orphan Trains transported 250, 000 childre...

Reducere. On June 27, 1835, New Hampshire chartered the Boston & Maine Railroad, and a juggernaut was born. By 1900, the B&M operated some 2, 300 miles of tr...

Reducere. With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black ...

In this engaging book, Wendy Hughes takes you on a grand tour of the curious and bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Sussex's past. Read abou...

Professor Roncaglia provides a critical illustration of the contemporary history of economics, from the 1940s to the present. He covers the differe...

The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn June 27, 1835, New Hampshire chartered the Boston & Maine Railroad, and a juggernaut was born. From the gravity-defying Mount Washing...

Reducere. Hike, Bike, or Ride on America's Premier Rail-Trails with This Official Guide All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted...

Churches often realize they need to change. But if they're not careful, the way they change can hurt more than help.In this culmination of his well...

One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeA New York Ti...

Reducere. Book Summary To compile the life of this amazing man in a single manuscript is almost impossible. His war years have been recorded many times, but ...

At Wimbledon 2005, Andy Murray announced himself on the tennis world stage by thrashing star pros George Bastl and Radek Stepanek: a legend was bor...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

John Valentine's letters home from his time in a Prisoner of War camp during World War Two.

Nick O'Donovan tells the story of how the techno-optimism once associated with the rise of the knowledge economy came to be supplanted by widesprea...

Reducere. It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been...

Reducere. Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914 1950, the Golden Age, 1950 1973, and the Landslide, 1973 1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast arra...

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to li...

Reducere. There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 45 bw illusNumber of pages: 288Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...