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The author brings together a range of primary and secondary sources, as well as drawing on recent research, to examine key aspects of economic change in Britain between 1750 and 1850. The aim is to encourage students to consider the nature of economic revolutions.

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Iran has been invaded. And America responds in a grueling counterattack by air, by sea - and by a brave new technology that will redefine war. The most sophisticated laser defense system ever. It is called Silver Tower. And it will change the balance of world power forever.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

As in the days following Skylab, solar physics came to the end of an era when the So­ lar Maximum Mission re-entered the earth's atmosphere in December 1989. The 1980s had been a pioneering decade not only in space- and ground-based studies of the solar atmosphere (Solar Maximum Mission, Hinotori, VLA, Big Bear, Nanc, ay, etc.) but also in solar-terrestrial relations (ISEE, AMPTE), and solar interior neutrino and helioseismol­ ogy studies. The...

Features a history of reliability indices, guidelines for using the IEEE 2.5 Beta methodology, a treatment of storm hardening, and a section on overhead to underground conversion. This book contains a chapter on aging infrastructure, with a discussion on how to effectively manage equipment when it nears the end of its useful life.

This first appearance of PascoliÆs poems in English translation provides an introduction to his work for the English-speaking reader. The first section of the book includes some of PascoliÆs brief lyric poems, many of them displaying his innovative use of image narrative. We see scenes of country life in his village near Barga, Italy, in the Apuan Alps, at the end of the 19th century. We see the aurora borealis, chickens, donkeys, women hangin...

This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls ¿postmodern interpretations of science¿ (PIS) and the closely related ¿sociology of scientific knowledge¿ (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a ¿social construction¿, having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual force...

Excavations at nine sites along the route of the Great Barford Bypass provided a rare opportunity to investigate an extensive area of the South Midlands claylands, a landscape that has hitherto seen little archaeological work. The excavations produced evidence for the long-term development of the social landscape, agrarian economy and environment of the area from prehistory to the Middle Ages. Sporadic occupation took place during the Neolithi...

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The book shows how stories of suffering are created and their impact on global politics.

Die klassische Geschichte über Alice, das Mädchen, das in ein Loch fällt und sich in einer anderen Welt wieder findet. Dort muss sie sich erst einmal zurechtfinden, trinkt und isst Gift, wächst und schrumpft und begegnet so mancherlei seltsamen Wesen.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown. It is the riveting story of America's military superiority being surpassed as our greatest enemy masters space-to-Earth weapons technology - neutralizing the U.S. arsenal of nuclear missiles.America's only hope: The Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with modern hardware - and equipped with the deadliest state-of-the-art ar...

In Windows to Heaven, walk with Richard D. Brown through mortal peril, private meditations and unexpected encounters with God, in diverse settings as the desert, jungle, forest, streams, arctic ice, even the White House. Join him as he interacts with God from childhood on a small Indiana farm, to the Marine Corps, graduate school, career, then children and grandchildren while shaping his life and the lives of others. In Windows to Heaven, find...