Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer, Hardcover - Nevil Shute

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Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This a...

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Publisher: New Village PressAuthor(s): Aviva RahmaniIllustration(s): 12 color illustrations, 6 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Publication dat...

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit...

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A compellingly powerful novel about racial relations that is as relevant now as it was one hundred years ago.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Jam...

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his desert...

Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from the United States and the submarine must set sail through the bleak ocean to search ...

Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were looked down on by literary critics and yet when he died he was one of the best selling novelists of his d...

If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. However, when Mollie travels to Ame...

When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured. As he waits overnig...

Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a 2, 000 mile voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable w...

Reducere. DescriptionShute's speculative glance into the future of the British Empire. An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James Weldon JohnsonFirst published anonymously in 1912, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" is James Weldon's Johnson...

Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experime...

After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his myster...

One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songw...

Nuclear war has destroyed all life in thenorthern countries of the world. Now the deadly radiation is travelling south. In Australia, where people ...

In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against t...

Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplaine...

Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its ...

John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very diff...

A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and wit...

Nevil Shute's classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story. John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by ...

Practical Communication Theory, 2nd Edition enables the reader to quickly and easily generate the answers to real-world problems encountered in spe...

James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African Ameri...

The shocking, seminal memoir of a key member of L.A. gang the Crips, first published in 1990.Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressAuthor(...

remarkable' Guardian Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. While on the march, the group run...

An unusually rich selection of "Backgrounds and Sources" focuses on Johnson's life; the autobiographical inspirations for The Autobiography of an E...

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The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance. Alan Duncan returns to his fami...

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"You may think I'm crazy, but the gun actually talks to me, " says Francis Kane, who has agreed to write the autobiography of a gun that had twelve...

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Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competi...

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