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Piezoelectric Aeroelastic Energy Harvesting explains the design and implementation of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices based on fluid-structure interaction. There is currently an increase in demand for low power electronic instruments in a range of settings, and recent advances have driven their energy consumption downwards. As a result, the possibility to extract energy from an operational environment is of growing significance to indu...

During the Korean War (1950-53) and the Vietnam War (1962-73), US Navy Special Warfare units played a variety of vital combat roles amid two of the deadliest conflicts of the Cold War. In Korea, underwater demolition teams (UDTs) surveyed beaches for amphibious operations, cleared sea mines from harbors, conducted seaborne raids against inshore targets, and served as scouts for the infiltration of Korean guerrillas and British Royal Marine Com...

In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Imperial Japanese Navy's First Diversion Strike Force took part in two major actions during the course of the battle: the intense air attacks from US Navy carriers on October 24 (the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, which accounted for superbattleship Musashi), and the compelling action off Samar the following day. A considerable body of myth surrounds the latter, since most accounts of the Samar fighting assume that...

A study of the Soviet and NATO armored forces that faced each other off in Central Europe in the early Cold War, and how their technology, tactics, and doctrine were all rapidly developed. For 45 years, the most disputed point in the World was the dividing line between East and West in Europe, here the use and development of tanks was key. In this fully illustrated study, author Steve Zaloga, describes how Soviet and NATO tanks were deployed ...

In the 1950s the British Army ended the selection and training of soldiers for sniping duties, instead concentrating its efforts on the perceived militarychallenges of the Cold War, in which sniping was no longer envisaged to play a part. Chambering the .303 round, the venerable Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk 1T bolt-action sniping rifle was still available, but the Soviet Union had developed a new sniper system based on the Dragunov self-loading rifle....

Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in recent history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis. Their dramatic rise has prompted apocalyptic warnings about the dangers of heavy debts - about the drag they will place on economic growth and the burden they represent for future generations. This book adds the other side of the equation: drawing on history, it provides a defence of public debt.

Pre-order the chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jørn Lier Horst.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMES_______ Wisting is back with his most gripping case yet. In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work. Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned...

The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and D...

Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct.

Des mots qui disent ce qui nous tient debout à aimer, à espérer. Des mots de chair, de coeur et d'âme. Des mots qui espèrent toutes les métamorphoses. Des mots qui vont chercher la joie au coeur de la tristesse. Des mots qui cherchent l'écho.

This book compiles commissioned texts about exhibition histories?at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in NO from 1968 to 2002. It Must Out is an attempt to disclose the institution's politics of identity through the writings of external curators who took part in a residency at the Center. The themes in the projects' analyses, such as technology, dematerialization, identity, and representation, broaden curatorial perspectives within contemporary art exh...

Sweet and petite, this holiday-themed puzzle that looks like a box of ornaments. A clever, affordable way to give the spirit of the season!

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Bestselling author Newt Gingrich exposes the anti-American forces that have grown so large and so aggressive in their quest for power.The struggle between the defenders of America as an exceptional nation and the forces of anti-Americanism is reaching a fever pitch. These forces have grown so large, so well-financed, so entrenched and aggressive that they must be studied closely and understood completely if America is to survive this imminent ...

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A History of the Desire for Christian Unity is a multi-volume reference work on the history of the Ecumenic movement. Scholars from across continents and disciplines address the question how a "desiderium" has been driving theologians, hierarchs, pastors, philosophers, historians and the common faithful to seek visible unity.

A Companion to Islamic Granada offers a fresh and updated exploration of the rich history of medieval and early modern Granada (8th-17th centuries) from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The Go-Go's were the first all-female rock group in history to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made in Hollywood is the fully-authorized visual account of the band, as told by their drummer, Gina Schock, and featuring personal photographs and memorabilia collected by Gina over the course of her 40 year career.The Go-Go's debut album, Beauty a...

Opportunity is what you make it in this up-beat and inspiring YA about food, friendship, and being true to yourself.Peyton Sinclaire wants nothing more than to escape her life as a diner waitress in her small, North Florida town, attend culinary school, and become a professional baker. So when Food TV sends out a call for Top Teen Chef, its newest show that pairs reality TV drama with a fast-paced culinary competition, Peyton knows this is her...

An exploration of the importance and meaning of Kindness in our lives, how to get more of it, give more of it and, how to live a life of kindness. Includes inspirational quotes.