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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Canterbury has changed and developed over the last century

Excerpt from A Handbook of Local Government in Ireland: Containing an Explanatory Introduction to the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, Together With the Text of the Act, the Orders in Council, and the Rules Made Thereunder Relating to County Council, Rural District Council, and Guardians' Elections, With The following pages contain the text of the Local Government (Ireland) Act of last year, and of the Orders made under it by the Lord Li...

A gripping account of Japan's great raid on the Indian Ocean in 1942, when seemingly unstoppable, they advanced on Singapore (formerly Ceylon), an action that could have threatened wholesale defeat for the British, and which Churchill described as 'the most dangerous moment of the war'.

The #1 "New York Times" bestselling master of the military genre takes to the skies with the U.S. Air Forces elite Fighter Wing. With his compelling style and unerring eye for detail, Clancy shows readers what it really means to be the best of the best.

About the Book It is an odd little story that describes an otherwise "normal" Irish family and their eventual encounters with people and things beyond them. That is a tough topic to tackle if you know the Irish! This story does not end the way one might think it would but a warm smile there is guaranteed. No dragons or robots were harmed in the crafting of this tale. There is your second guarantee!

Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Mr. Clancy's magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world...the weapons, the procedures, the people themselves...the startling facts behind the fiction that made Tom Clancy a #1 bestselling author.

This popular and useful text has been completely revised and up-dated so that it forms and indipensible handbook for any student of surveying.An additional chapter on modern developments is included and the text has also been extended to cover ordnance survey, calculation of areas, computation of true horizontal length, measurement of vertical angles, Code of Measuring Practice, curve ranging and calculations of volumes for earthworks.

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Tom Clancy brings his flair for military fiction to the real thing and takes readers closer than most civilians have ever been to the operatives on which our national security depends. "Special Forces" is a new addition to Clancy's bestselling military nonfiction library as he takes a first-hand look at the history, hardware, and heroics of today's most lethal men and women, including the Green Berets. Maps, diagrams & photos.

The new edition of this popular text continues to present homeostasis as a dynamic concept that provides the basis for understanding health and well-being, and to recognize how failure to respond to homeostatic disturbances results in imbalances responsible for signs and symptoms of ill-health, and how health care interventions seek to reverse those imbalances. It provides an integrated explanation of body functioning, with a description of re...

John Clancy / 3m, 2f Fatboy is a brutal comedy inspired by Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. This satire on modern America's insatiable appetites--from gobbling up 72oz. steaks to small nations--is presented as a live-action Punch and Judy show. In this fast-moving, shocking, profane, dead-on, funhouse mirror reflection of the world today, the brutish allegory known as Fatboy, along with his monstrous wife, Queen Fudgie the First, stands trial for war c...

The Isle of Sheppey, just 9 miles long and 4 miles wide, is situated in the Thames Estuary at the mouth of the Medway. It is a mysterious and ancient place, separated from the mainland by an arm of the sea known as The Swale. Sheppey falls into two regions - the northern half and the southern part. The island itself has a long and complex history.

In this wide-ranging and original book, John J. Clancy examines the history and current state of corporate America from a new perspective, looking at business not as a matter of economics, marketing, and management, but as a cultural artifact. The Invisible Powers examines language, imagery, values, and deeply held beliefs and the impact they all have in determining the role business plays in society.