Geoffrey Leeming's Books

From Borneo to Lockerbie

Memoirs of an RAF Helicopter Pilot

By: Geoffrey Leeming

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Borneo to Lockerbie

Memoirs of an RAF Helicopter Pilot

By: Geoffrey Leeming

A pilot discusses his missions around the world as he chronicles his career with Britain’s Royal Air Force in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. In 1961 Geoffrey Leeming achieved his boyhood ambition to become a RAF pilot. After a period as co-pilot on the tanker variant of the Valiant bomber, a sudden change of circumstances resulted in most of his subsequent service flying being as a helicopter pilot. The helicopter most in use at this time was the Whirlwind, a good aircraft but of limited performance and lacking the technical aids enjoyed by later types of helicopters. He next flew in the little-known Borneo Confrontation of the 1960s. Living in primitive jungle bases alongside loyal and friendly natives, the Whirlwind crews supported the land forces operating along the Indonesian border with long and hazardous flights over dense, frequently uncharted, jungle. Most of the Author’s remaining helicopter service was in the Search and Rescue role, firstly from RAF Lossiemouth, then from RAF Valley, flying in the mountains and over the surrounding seas of the Scottish Highlands and Snowdonia. Many lives were saved by Geoffrey and his crewmen in weather conditions frequently exceeding the safety limits in which they were supposed to operate. His final postings were as an instructor and as commander of the Search and Rescue Training Unit at Valley. This period culminated in his traumatic involvement in the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie. From Borneo to Lockerbie is an exciting flying memoir enhanced by the Author's natural modesty.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

246

Publisher

Pen and Sword

Published Date

ISBN 10

1783469641

ISBN 13

9781783469642

Green China

Seeking Ecological Alternatives

By: Ian G. Cook,Geoffrey Murray

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Green China

Seeking Ecological Alternatives

By: Ian G. Cook,Geoffrey Murray

Drawing on a wide range of Chinese and western sources, this book offers in-depth analysis of the complete range of environmental problems facing China today, from the historical, political, economic and cultural root causes, through the successful and unsuccessful efforts which have been made to find solutions, to possible future scenarios and strategies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

299

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135787794

ISBN 13

9781135787790

A Chaos of Delight

Science, Religion and Myth and the Shaping of Western Thought

By: Geoffrey Dobson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Chaos of Delight

Science, Religion and Myth and the Shaping of Western Thought

By: Geoffrey Dobson

Humans throughout history have sought ways of understanding their place within the world. Religion, science and myth have been at the forefront of this quest for meaning. A Chaos of Delight examines how various cultures – from the early Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks to contemporary Western society – have looked at the same phenomena and devised totally different world views. The rise of modern science is examined, alongside questions of evolution and the origins of life. This comprehensive volume is an essential read for students and scholars interested in the history of ideas and the role of religion, science and myth in the development of Western thought.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

776

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1315478714

ISBN 13

9781315478715

The Digitizing Family

An Ethnography of Melanesian Smartphones

By: Geoffrey Hobbis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Digitizing Family

An Ethnography of Melanesian Smartphones

By: Geoffrey Hobbis

At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands. In this ‘technography’, Geoffrey Hobbis studies the materiality and functional attributes of smartphones and their object biographies—modes of acquisition, maintenance, uses, limitations and the problems specific to this region in adopting and adapting smartphones in everyday life. As he examines the various uses of smartphones, as both telephone and multimedia device, Hobbis also explores the social and cultural transformations, the hopes and uncertainties, with which they are associated. Ultimately, in bringing together a study of digital technologies with classical anthropological theory, The Digitizing Family develops a theory of smartphones as kinship technologies and supercompositional objects.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3030349292

ISBN 13

9783030349295

The Making of Our Urban Landscape

By: Geoffrey Tyack

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Making of Our Urban Landscape

By: Geoffrey Tyack

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most of us inhabit and know best. But what do we actually know about our urban world - and how it was created? The Making of the English Urban Landscape tells the story of our towns and cities and how they came into being over the last two millennia, from Roman and Anglo-Saxon times, through the Norman Conquest and the later Middle Ages to the 'great rebuilding' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 'polite townscapes' of the eighteenth, and the commercial and industrial towns and cities of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The final chapter then takes the story from the end of the Second World War to the present, from the New Towns of the immediate post-war era to the trendy converted warehouses of Shoreditch. This is a book that will make the world you live in come alive. If you are a town or a city-dweller, you are unlikely ever to look at the everyday world around you in quite the same way again.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

494

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192511238

ISBN 13

9780192511232

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

By: Geoffrey Sadler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

By: Geoffrey Sadler

Midlands murders take center stage in a “gripping” book that “chronicles some of Mansfield’s most gruesome deaths over the past two centuries” (Mansfield Chad). A young girl waylaid and battered with a hedge stake while returning home from Mansfield on a warm summer evening. Four family members butchered in a blazing house just off Commercial Street. An old farmer repeatedly speared by a hayfork in the mire of a rural farmyard. A drunken housewife found murdered in a haystack at Worksop, a razor killing and suicide on Nottingham Road, and the mysterious woman’s skeleton discovered in the spoil of Sherwood Colliery tip. These, and other cases detailed here, show how often violent death has visited Mansfield and North Nottinghamshire in the past. Drawing on two hundred years of reported crime in Mansfield and the surrounding area, this account reveals the grim catalog of foul deeds, the variety of lethal weapons used—from a hedge stake to a mohair bootlace—and the age-old motives of greed, jealousy, forbidden desires, and thwarted love that have so often led men and women to murder.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

295

Publisher

Grub Street Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1783408316

ISBN 13

9781783408313

A Day at the Beach

Recollections

By: Geoffrey Wolff

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Day at the Beach

Recollections

By: Geoffrey Wolff

With these interwoven autobiographical essays, Geoffrey Wolff, author of the acclaimed The Duke of Deception, recounts the moral (and immoral) education of a writer, friend, husband, and father, as he offers his spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on an extraordinary life: from wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases to a concupiscent career teaching literature in Istanbul; from a victory over the chaos of drink to a life-affirming surrender to the majesty of the Matterhorn; and from a foundering friendship to the transcending love of family. He shares with us, then, the wisdom of an alert man learning through the unsettling collisions of time, place, and local custom, and through the force of hardship and hazard, to bring his many disparate selves together -- with astonishing high-stakes candor and dazzling literary agility.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

271

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

ISBN 10

030782926X

ISBN 13

9780307829269

Doxology: A Systematic Theology

By: Geoffrey Wainwright

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Doxology: A Systematic Theology

By: Geoffrey Wainwright

Described by the author as " A systematic theology from a liturgical perspective" or "a theology of worship

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

626

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195204336

ISBN 13

9780195204339

Economics

Made Simple

By: Geoffrey Whitehead

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Economics

Made Simple

By: Geoffrey Whitehead

Economics: Made Simple, 14th Edition covers all the basic aspects of the economic organization of free-enterprise societies, with special reference to Great Britain's position in the European Community. The book tackles the production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services, both within a country and internationally. The text also discusses the basic ideas on production; the factors, scale, and location of production; and the types of business units. The theory of price determination, the money system, the importance of the distribution theory, and the theory of international trade are also discussed. The book describes macroeconomics and the problems associated with it; national income; the development of economic theory; and money, monetary policy, and monetarism. The part played by governments in controlling abuses, promoting social progress, and managing prosperity and the historical development of Economics are considered as well. Students reading books on Economics as a liberal study and practicing economists will find the book useful.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

447

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

1483105792

ISBN 13

9781483105796

The Geopolitics of Anglo-Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century

By: Geoffrey R. Sloan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Geopolitics of Anglo-Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century

By: Geoffrey R. Sloan

Anglo-Irish relations in the twentieth century can be described as being close but tortuous. This paradox is fused with Ireland's geographical location - both isolated from Europe and in close proximity to the main island of the British archipelago. Using a geopolitical analysis based on the theories of Sir Halford Mackinder, this book provides a new understanding of the strategic imperatives that have driven British policy throughout the turbulent events of the twentieth century. Containing material which has only recently been released by the Public Record Office, this book brings an entirely new perspective to the reality of Irish neutrality, and the pivotal importance of Northern Ireland in the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. Furthermore, using US archival material, it gives a new insight into Ireland's geopolitical importance in the First World War, and her contribution to victory against the German U-boats.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

350

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

0718513568

ISBN 13

9780718513566

China's Third Revolution

Tensions in the Transition Towards a Post-communist China

By: Ian G. Cook,Geoffrey Murray

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

China's Third Revolution

Tensions in the Transition Towards a Post-communist China

By: Ian G. Cook,Geoffrey Murray

Presents an in-depth picture of China today in social, economic and political terms, examining the record of 50 years of Communist rule, its successes and failures.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

324

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0700713077

ISBN 13

9780700713073

Advanced Therapy of Breast Disease

By: S. Eva Singletary,Geoffrey L. Robb,Gabriel N. Hortobagyi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Advanced Therapy of Breast Disease

By: S. Eva Singletary,Geoffrey L. Robb,Gabriel N. Hortobagyi

The information surveyed in this volulme is designed to provide the clinician with an expert overview of the current state of the art in breast cancer management. It should provide at least a flavor of the major paradigm shift that is occurring in this rapidly evolving field. Breast cancer management is moving away from a "kill or cure" model and advancing toward a model focused on strategies of prevention and of long-term management of breast cancer as a chronic disease. The acceptance of this new paradigm by patients and clinicians alike will represent a major focus for the twenty-first century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

902

Publisher

PMPH-USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

1550092626

ISBN 13

9781550092622

Eucharist and Eschatology

By: Geoffrey Wainwright

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Eucharist and Eschatology

By: Geoffrey Wainwright

Pulling together themes from 20th-century theology, this text discusses how, from scripture, tradition and practice, the Lord's Supper is shown to epitomize the Christian vision of the final ends for the individual, the Church, human society and the entire cosmos. At the same time however, at the beginning of the 21st century, just as in the past, people are posing major questions about existence. The debate is contained within.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

308

Published Date

ISBN 10

0716205637

ISBN 13

9780716205630

Flying Through Fire

FIDO - the Fogbuster of World War Two

By: Geoffrey Williams

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Flying Through Fire

FIDO - the Fogbuster of World War Two

By: Geoffrey Williams

Beskrivelse af FIDO (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation) anvendt som landingshjælpemiddel på engelske flyvepladser under 2. verdenskrig

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Published Date

ISBN 10

1856279006

ISBN 13

9781856279000

Book's by Geoffrey Leeming

From Borneo to Lockerbie

From Borneo to Lockerbie

Green China

Green China

A Chaos of Delight

A Chaos of Delight

The Digitizing Family

The Digitizing Family

The Making of Our Urban Landscape

The Making of Our Urban Landscape

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Mansfield

A Day at the Beach

A Day at the Beach

Doxology: A Systematic Theology

Doxology: A Systematic Theology

Economics

Economics

The Geopolitics of Anglo-Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century

The Geopolitics of Anglo-Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century

China's Third Revolution

China's Third Revolution

Advanced Therapy of Breast Disease

Advanced Therapy of Breast Disease

Eucharist and Eschatology

Eucharist and Eschatology

Flying Through Fire

Flying Through Fire

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email