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The Great War in the Air

Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921

By: John H. Morrow

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The Great War in the Air

Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921

By: John H. Morrow

Starting in 1909 with the beginnings of military aviation and the aviation industry and ending with their catastrophic postwar contraction, the book examines the totality of the air war: its heroism, romantic myths, politics, strategies, and cost in men and materiel. John H. Morrow, Jr., also elaborates on the advancements in aircraft and engine technology and production during airpower's development into a viable and threatening military weapon within a decade of its origins.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817355456

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9780817355456

Safety is No Accident - From 'V' Bombers to Concorde

A Flight Test Engineer's Story

By: John R W Smith

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Safety is No Accident - From 'V' Bombers to Concorde

A Flight Test Engineer's Story

By: John R W Smith

Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest means of transportation. Yet for that to be the case an enormous amount of testing is undertaken. Central to this, of course, are the test pilots, who fly the aircraft, but it is the men behind the scenes who deal with the technical aspects of the aircraft – the flight test observers and engineers. Numerous books have been written by Test Pilots, but few, if any, from the perspective of an Aeronautical Engineer working as Flight Test Observer/Engineer in partnership with the Test Pilot. This book is an account of the author’s flight-testing career, from the 1960s to early 1980s, at Avro and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). During the author’s time at Avro, he flew on the development and certification test flights of the Avro 748, 748MF, Shackletons, Nimrod and Handley-Page Victor tanker. In the CAA, his role turned to regulation, making flight test assessments of manufacturer’s prototypes and production aircraft, to check compliance with the CAA’s flight safety requirements. The scope ranged from single-engine light aircraft to large civil transport aircraft. It involved frequent visits to foreign manufacturers and also included his participation in the CAA’s Concorde certification flight test programme. Flight testing involves risk. Advancements in the understanding of aerodynamics and an increasingly professional approach to risk management improved safety, but it would never be risk-free. Several of the author’s close friends and colleagues died in flight test accidents during this period of rapid aeronautical development; all on civil aircraft types. It is because of such people that the millions of flights undertaken each year are trouble-free.

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Air World

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1526769476

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9781526769473

International Warbirds

An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1914-2000

By: John C. Fredriksen

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International Warbirds

An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1914-2000

By: John C. Fredriksen

In depth descriptions and photographs of the aircraft of 21 nations presented with a unique human dimension that goes behind the machines to the people involved. Invaluable for specialists, accessible to enthusiasts, International Warbirds: An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1914–2000 puts the most legendary fighter aircraft of the 20th century developed outside the United States on vivid display. It offers 336 illustrated "biographies" of the most significant warplanes used in squadron service from World War I to the Balkan conflict, including numerous models from Great Britain, France, Russia, and Japan, as well as notable machines from Israel, Canada, China, India, Brazil, and other nations. Entries span the history and scope of military aircraft from bombers and fighters to transports, trainers, reconnaissance craft, sea planes, and helicopters, with each capsule history combining nuts-and-bolts technical data with the story of that model's evolution and use. Together, these portraits offer an exciting, well-researched tribute to visionary designers and builders as well as courageous pilots and crews across the globe, and tell a vivid tale of how air power became such a decisive factor in modern warfare.

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407

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576075516

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9781576075517

An Occupational Therapy Practitioner’s Guide to School-Based Practice

By: Karel L. Dokken,John S. Luna,Susan E. Still

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An Occupational Therapy Practitioner’s Guide to School-Based Practice

By: Karel L. Dokken,John S. Luna,Susan E. Still

Using a practical, ‘nuts and bolts’ approach to school-based occupational therapy services, this unique text guides both entry level and experienced practitioners through the evaluation, intervention, and dismissal process in an educational setting. Beginning with an overview of the purpose of school-based interventions, the authors map out current populations, programs, and legal and licensing standards to give school-based practitioners the knowledge to practice safely and ethically. The book then explores how to successfully navigate the referral process from eligibility to intervention, incorporating helpful tips and references to help establish patterns of best practice. It also features numerous examples of current and reliable evaluations so that practitioners can expand their repertoire of assessments while ensuring a holistic avenue of care to reflect the distinct value of occupational therapy. Written by authors with a wealth of experience in this field, the book will be essential reading for both new and more experienced occupational therapy practitioners, as well as students training towards working in a school-based context.

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400

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Taylor & Francis

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1040135595

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9781040135594

Dark Horses

By: John W. Russell

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Dark Horses

By: John W. Russell

When she rides Dantes into the winners circle for him at Newmarket Racecourse in England, Fiona Kent becomes involved with the enigmatic British aristocrat, Viscount Adrian Harrington. Fiona is not only a talented jockey, but she is beautiful and vulnerable. Her relationship with Adrian becomes strained by a series of violent events. She becomes inextricably tied to Adrian, knowing he is working secretly in international affairs for the British government. A brief respite from danger and a growing affection for an American veterinarian, Mark McLennan, further complicates Fionas life. But Mark becomes a false haven from danger, and only murder can resolve the affair.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465325328

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9781465325327

Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I

British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats

By: John Abbatiello

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Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I

British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats

By: John Abbatiello

Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War. The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all types—aeroplanes, seaplanes, airships, and kite balloons—in order to counter the German U-boats. Under the Royal Air Force, the air campaign against U-boats continued uninterrupted. Aircraft bombed German U-boat bases in Flanders, conducted area and ‘hunting’ patrols around the coasts of Britain, and escorted merchant convoys to safety. Despite the fact that aircraft acting alone destroyed only one U-boat during the war, the overall contribution of naval aviation to foiling U-boat attacks was significant. Only five merchant vessels succumbed to submarine attack when convoyed by a combined air and surface escort during World War I. This book examines aircraft and weapons technology, aircrew training, and the aircraft production issues that shaped this campaign. Then, a close examination of anti-submarine operations—bombing, patrols, and escort—yields a significantly different judgment from existing interpretations of these operations. This study is the first to take an objective look at the writing and publication of the naval and air official histories as they told the story of naval aviation during the Great War. The author also examines the German view of aircraft effectiveness, through German actions, prisoner interrogations, official histories, and memoirs, to provide a comparative judgment. The conclusion closes with a brief narrative of post-war air anti-submarine developments and a summary of findings. Overall, the author concludes that despite the challenges of organization, training, and production the employment of aircraft against U-boats was largely successful during the Great War. This book will be of interest to historians of naval and air power history, as well as students of World War I and military history in general.

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Routledge

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1135989532

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9781135989538

Soldiers' Pay and War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator

By: William Faulkner,John McGavock Grider

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Soldiers' Pay and War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator

By: William Faulkner,John McGavock Grider

Examining the reality of First World War aviators, this volume features William Faulkner’s astonishing first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, alongside the diary of an unknown veteran who died in action. William Faulkner’s Soldiers’ Pay was first published in 1926 and explores the life of a severely wounded aviator when he returns from war to his small hometown. The seminal novel presents the struggles of many soldiers following the First World War and gives insight into the men’s physical and psychological trauma. Accompanying Faulkner’s masterpiece is the diary of an American WWI aviator. The diary’s author served alongside the aviator in battle and published the text in honour of his comrade. John MacGavock Grider is commonly thought to be the diarist, with his memoirs being edited and published in 1926 by his friend and fellow aviator, Elliot White Springs. Detailing his life in battle from 20th September 1917 to late August 1918, Grider describes his flying experience and provides glimpses into a soldier’s off-duty life. This new edition of Soldiers' Pay and War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator is complete with two introductory poems by Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen. A remarkable volume, not to be missed by those interested in the First World War and American history.

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Read Books Ltd

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1528798201

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9781528798204

A History of Aerodynamics

And Its Impact on Flying Machines

By: John David Anderson,John D. Anderson, Jr

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A History of Aerodynamics

And Its Impact on Flying Machines

By: John David Anderson,John D. Anderson, Jr

From the Foreword: 'John Anderson's book represents a milestone in aviation literature. For the first time aviation enthusiasts - both specialists and popular readers alike - possess an authoritative history of aerodynamic theory. Not only is this study authoritative, it is also highly readable and linked to the actual (and more familiar) story of how the airplane evolved. The book touches on all the major theorists and their contributions and, most important, the historical context in which they worked to move the science of aerodynamics forward.' Von Hardesty, Smithsonian Institution From the reviews: 'Something of the unexpected quality of this book can be inferred from its full title A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines. Pilots tend to suppose that the science of aerodynamics began empirically, somewhere around the time of Lilienthal and the Wrights, and that aerodynamics and manned flight are roughly coeval. It is therefore surprising to come upon a photograph of the Wright Flyer as late as page 242 of the 478-page volume.' Peter Garrison, Flying 'This book successfully straddles the boundary that separates a text book from a history book. It is of equal interest to both the aerodynamicist and the layman. The textual balance achieved by the author has resulted in a book that is enjoyable and educational.' Earl See, American Aviation Historical Society Newsletter

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Cambridge University Press

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0521669553

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9780521669559

Redneck Country...Black Letter Law

By: John Russell Smith

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Redneck Country...Black Letter Law

By: John Russell Smith

Criminal defense attorney J.R. Cuttler begins his Sunday with thoughts of flying his airplane around the East Texas area and later watching his Dallas Cowboys play the hated Washington Redskins. That thought is shattered in an instant when the local radio station reports the abduction and rapes of a twenty-nine-year-old woman and her twelve-year-old cousin from the local Walmart parking lot. The identity of the victims and the initial allegations as to their assailant would draw Cuttler into a capital murder case that would forever change his life and his practice of law. This small, deep East Texas town located on the Texas-Louisiana border still lives in times we would all like to forget...times most of us have fought to forget. Therefore, when two White women are allegedly abducted, beaten, raped and sodomized by an uppity young Black man, the county digresses into the mindset of Coloreds use back door. After his arrest in another jurisdiction, Lincoln Johnson is beaten beyond recognition by two deputies returning him to the local jail. It is this senseless barbarity that raises Cuttler's ire to the degree that he agrees to represent the accused. The development of pre-trial tactics, the trial, and hypnotic conclusion pits modern scientific methodology and old time trial theatrics.

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Xlibris Corporation

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145350852X

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9781453508527

British Banking

A Guide to Historical Records

By: John Orbell

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British Banking

A Guide to Historical Records

By: John Orbell

This substantially expanded new edition of the Guide to the Historical Records of British Banking contains details of over 700 archive collections held in local record offices, university and local libraries and of course, banks. This monumental reference work facilitates a wider knowledge and understanding of the history of British finance.

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674

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Taylor & Francis

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1351954687

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9781351954686

Dynamics of Regenerative Heat Transfer

By: John A Willmott

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Dynamics of Regenerative Heat Transfer

By: John A Willmott

The author, a respected authority on heat recovery, provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the modelling of the process of heat transfer embodied in regenerative devices. He brings together material on storage and thermal generators and gives great emphasis to non-linear problems including the representation of temperature dependence of thermophysical properties involved.; In ten dynamic chapters, you will find coverage of: the storage of heat in packing; the Single Blow problem; basic concepts in counterflow thermal regenerators; counterflow regenerators; finite conductivity models; non-linear models of counterflow regenerators; transient response of counterflow regenerators; and parallel flow regenerators. Bringing together material developed over the past twenty years, the book will be of great interest to mechanical and chemical engineers as well as applied mathematicians concerned with models of heat transfer processes.

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CRC Press

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1040285325

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9781040285329

History, Society and the Individual

Essays by John Morgan-Guy

By: John Morgan-Guy

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History, Society and the Individual

Essays by John Morgan-Guy

By: John Morgan-Guy

This volume consists of five papers selected from a corpus of material researched over the past quarter of a century. None has previously been published, and they represent the author's interest in church history, medical history and the visual arts. Three of the five papers are based on lectures given at conferences or public occasions; the other two derive from research conducted at the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History in 2010 and 2020.

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University of Wales Press

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1786838109

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9781786838100

Innocents Abroad

How We Won the Cold War

By: John H. Esterline,Mae H. Esterline

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Innocents Abroad

How We Won the Cold War

By: John H. Esterline,Mae H. Esterline

Light-heartedly describes the goals and adventures of the Esterlines as they studied the history and learned the customs and mindsets of the peoples and cultures of India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Egypt, Syria, and the Philippines. John Esterline was an officer in the United States Information Service during the Cold War period. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University Press of America

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0761808345

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9780761808343

Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

By: John Stewart

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Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

By: John Stewart

On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals--some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference work provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma's 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a three-part history: first, the pre-Broadway story of the show, including out-of-town try-outs and Broadway previews; next, the Broadway run itself, with dates, theatres, and cast and crew, including replacements, chorus and understudies, songs, gossip, and notes on reviews and awards; and finally, post-Broadway information with a detailed list of later notable productions, along with important reviews and awards.

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McFarland

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1476603294

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9781476603292

The Red Dress - A Christmas Story

By: John Machir

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The Red Dress - A Christmas Story

By: John Machir

An antagonistic relationship between Dane Williams and his ex-wife threatens the peace for both his children and the the Christmas holiday until God and Laura Turner take a hand in his life. See how friendship, love and forgiveness can transform lives in a small New England town in this heart-warming holiday tale.

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Lulu.com

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1411662024

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9781411662025

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The Great War in the Air

The Great War in the Air

Safety is No Accident - From 'V' Bombers to Concorde

Safety is No Accident - From 'V' Bombers to Concorde

International Warbirds

International Warbirds

An Occupational Therapy Practitioner’s Guide to School-Based Practice

An Occupational Therapy Practitioner’s Guide to School-Based Practice

Dark Horses

Dark Horses

Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I

Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I

Soldiers' Pay and War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator

Soldiers' Pay and War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator

A History of Aerodynamics

A History of Aerodynamics

Redneck Country...Black Letter Law

Redneck Country...Black Letter Law

British Banking

British Banking

Dynamics of Regenerative Heat Transfer

Dynamics of Regenerative Heat Transfer

History, Society and the Individual

History, Society and the Individual

Innocents Abroad

Innocents Abroad

Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

The Red Dress - A Christmas Story

The Red Dress - A Christmas Story

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