John Parslow's Books

The Victoria Cross at Sea

The Sailors, Marines and Airmen Awarded Britain's Highest Honour

By: John Winton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Victoria Cross at Sea

The Sailors, Marines and Airmen Awarded Britain's Highest Honour

By: John Winton

Naval VCs have been won in places as far apart in time and distance as the Baltic in 1854 and Japan in 1945, in the trenches from the Crimea to the Western Front, in harbours from Dar es Salaam to Zeebrugge, from the Barents to the Java Sea, from New Zealand to the North Atlantic, and from China to the Channel. They have been won in battleships and trawlers, in submarines below the water and aircraft above it, on horseback and on foot.Age and rank meant nothing. Boy Cornwall was not seventeen at Jutland, and Frederick Parslow was in his sixtieth year when he earned his VC on board a horse transport ship. William Hall was the son of a freed slave; Charles Lucas, awarded the Royal Navys first VC, became a Rear Admiral. Neither were all the recipients of Britains highest gallantry decoration British, and men from Canada, Australia and New Zealand were included in those whose actions were recognised by the awarding of the VC. Yet every one of them had one thing in common uncommon valour.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Frontline Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1473876141

ISBN 13

9781473876149

Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

By: Paul Van Helvert,John Van Wyhe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

By: Paul Van Helvert,John Van Wyhe

This is a book that required a great many research hours, the kind of volume you may be glad someone took the time to compile.'The Quarterly Review of Biology This is the ultimate guide to the life and work of Charles Darwin. The result of decades of research through a vast and daunting literature which is hard for beginners and experts alike to navigate, it brings together widely scattered facts including very many unknown to even the most ardent Darwin aficionados. It includes hundreds of new discoveries and corrections to the existing literature. It provides the most complete summaries of his publications, manuscripts, lifetime itinerary, finances, personal library, friends and colleagues, opponents, visitors to his home, anniversaries, hundreds of flora, fauna, monuments and places named after him and a host of other topics. Also included are the most complete lists (iconographies) ever created of illustrations of the Beagle, over 1000 portraits of Darwin, his wife and home as well as all known Darwin photographs, stamps and caricatures. The book is richly illustrated with 350 images, most previously unknown.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

483

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

9811208220

ISBN 13

9789811208225

Hussars, Horses and History

The Military Memoirs of Major-General John Strawson

By: John Strawson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hussars, Horses and History

The Military Memoirs of Major-General John Strawson

By: John Strawson

John Strawson describes joining the 4th Hussars in the Middle East in 1942 and serving with them until amalgamation with the 9th Hussars in 1958 as The Queens Royal Irish Hussars. He commanded the Regiment during the Borneo campaign and was Colonel from 1975 to 1985. His account of war in Italy and of operations in Malaya and Borneo are of special interest.This light-hearted memoir reveals devotion to his family, friends, Regiment and to horses. His adventures with horses and hounds, whipping-in to the legendary Loopy Kennard, and during his time as Master of the Staff College Draghounds are particularly diverting. Addiction to reading and writing led to authorship of twelve military history books.Military appointments included command of a brigade, two years at SHAPE and finally Chief of Staff, UK Land Forces. He then describes working as Westland Aircrafts Military Adviser, mainly in the Middle East and gives a vivid account of life in Cairo in the latter 1970s.In sum General Strawson shows how enjoyable, how varied, sometimes how demanding a soldiers life can be, above all how rewarding, made so by the priceless quality of the regimental system and the comrades with whom he served.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

344

Publisher

Casemate Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1783460458

ISBN 13

9781783460458

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

A Comprehensive Record

By: Travis W. Busey,John W. Busey

This reference work chronicles and categorizes more than 23,000 Union casualties at Gettysburg by generals and staff and by state and unit. Thirteen appendices also cover information by brigade, division and corps; by engagements and skirmishes; by state; by burial at three cemeteries; and by hospitals. Casualty transports, incarceration records and civilian casualty lists are also included.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1911

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786456183

ISBN 13

9780786456185

Signal Transduction in Leukocytes

G Protein-Related and Other Pathways

By: Pramod M. Lad,John S. Kaptein,Ching-Kow Lin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Signal Transduction in Leukocytes

G Protein-Related and Other Pathways

By: Pramod M. Lad,John S. Kaptein,Ching-Kow Lin

Signal Transduction in Leukocytes presents important principles and various aspects of cellular regulation in leukocytes. The book discusses receptor structure and signaling, emphasizing cytokine receptors and the T cell and B cell antigen receptors. It investigates the role of the heterotrimeric G proteins and small G proteins as transducers. Authorities in each field cover a wide range of topics. They explore propagation of signaling cascades through second messengers and serine/threonine kinases, the initiation of signaling from the B and T cell antigen receptors by tyrosine phosphorylation and protein recruitment, and the role of signaling in cell-cell interactions and the regulation of the cell cycle. The book outlines the relationship of receptor signaling to inflammatory reactions of neutrophils, eosinophils, and macrophages.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

400

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0849366941

ISBN 13

9780849366949

Death, Money and the Vultures (Routledge Revivals)

Inheritance and Avarice 1660-1750

By: John Addy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Death, Money and the Vultures (Routledge Revivals)

Inheritance and Avarice 1660-1750

By: John Addy

By the latter half of the seventeenth century, the practice of drawing up a will had become commonplace, and people were increasingly encouraged to set down their final wishes in a ‘last will and testament’. Although intended to clarify ownership, these documents often provoked conflict amongst those who had survived the testator. As John Addy shows in this study, first published in 1992, where there was a will, there were relatives. Drawing on a large corpus of contemporary evidence, this survey analyses numerous cases of the family disputes that arose from wills, to form a picture of the attitudes and priorities possessed by those who contested them. This was one of the first studies to use contested-will material, and remains of great value to students of early modern history, sociology and genealogy, as well as general readers with an interest in local history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000082903

ISBN 13

9781000082906

B-Lymphocyte Differentiation

By: John C. Cambier

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

B-Lymphocyte Differentiation

By: John C. Cambier

This book discusses the mechanisms of transmembrane signal transduction during B-Cell Activation, the Regulation of Gene Expression during B-Cell Differentiation, Anti-immunoglobulin antibody induction of B-Lymphocyte activation and differentiation in vivo and in vitro, Helper signals in B-Lymphocyte differentiation, Growth and differentiation of b-cell clones in vitro, B-Cell tumors as models of lymphocyte differentiation, and Memory b-cell activation, differentiation, and isotype switching.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

404

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

135108691X

ISBN 13

9781351086912

Accents of English: Volume 3

Beyond the British Isles

By: J. C. Wells

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Accents of English: Volume 3

Beyond the British Isles

By: J. C. Wells

Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. Volume 1 provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age; and in volumes 2 and 3 the author examines in greater depth the various accents used by people who speak English as their mother tongue: the accents of the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (volume 2), and of the USA, Canada, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Black Africa and the Far East ( volume 3). Each volume can be read independently, and together they form a major scholarly survey, of considerable originality, which not only includes descriptions of hitherto neglected accents, but also examines the implications for phonological theory. Readers will find the answers to many questions: Who makes 'good' rhyme with 'mood'? Which accents have no voiced sibilants? How is a Canadian accent different from an American one, a New Zealand one from an Australian one, a Jamaican one from a Barbadian one? What are the historical reasons for British-American pronunciation differences? What sound changes are currently in progress in New York, in London, in Edinburgh? Dr Wells his written principally for students of linguistics, phonetics and English language, but the motivated general reader will also find the study both fascinating and rewarding.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521285410

ISBN 13

9780521285414

Secret Victory

Ireland and the War at Sea, 1914-1918

By: Liam Nolan,John E. Nolan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Secret Victory

Ireland and the War at Sea, 1914-1918

By: Liam Nolan,John E. Nolan

A study of the often overlooked role that Ireland played in assisting Britain in World War I.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

321

Publisher

Mercier Press Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

1856356213

ISBN 13

9781856356213

Nocturnal America

By: John Keeble

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nocturnal America

By: John Keeble

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this collection of loosely connected tales returns readers to the American Northwest so finely observed and powerfully evoked in John Keeble’s previous, celebrated works. Nocturnal America occupies a terrain at once familiar and strange, where homecoming and dislocation can coincide, and families can break apart or hone themselves on the hard edges of daily life. In these stories, Keeble populates what journalist Joel Garreau once called the “Empty Quarter” of North America with complex humanity. Life ranges vibrantly through these airy spaces, at times finding itself thrown up against the shifty terrors of political change and the antic scrim of culture. Keeble’s stories hinge on love—its difficulty, its loss and pangs, but also its discovery of good fortune and even illumination in steadiness through travail. As his characters come and go, unexpectedly converging, vanishing, or reappearing, their stories reach beyond the ordinariness of life and the particularities of place to create something akin to community.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0803207085

ISBN 13

9780803207080

Perspectives On Vasopressin

By: John Francis Laycock

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Perspectives On Vasopressin

By: John Francis Laycock

Vasopressin is a hormone which has an increasingly important profile. Not only does it play a physiologically significant role in renal water regulation but it also has other renal actions and plays a role in overall cardiovascular control. Even more interesting is the recent growing interest in its potential effects on the brain, notably its influence on specific behaviours.This monograph about the polypeptide vasopressin covers all aspects relating to the production, control of release, and actions of this molecule within the body, including its roles as a hormone and as a central neurotransmitter. A consideration of the evolution of the molecule across the species and a brief historical perspective are also included. Clinical conditions associated with hypo- and hyper-production states are considered together with aspects of treatment, in addition to other clinical correlates./a

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

357

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

1908978643

ISBN 13

9781908978646

Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

By: John Grattan,Robin Torrence

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

By: John Grattan,Robin Torrence

Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that diverse human cultures had well-developed strategies which facilitated their response to extreme natural events.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

441

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134604904

ISBN 13

9781134604906

"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving

By: John M. McManamon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving

By: John M. McManamon

In "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving, John McManamon documents the revival of interest in swimming during the European Renaissance and its conceptualization as an art. Renaissance scholars realized that the ancients considered one truly ignorant who knew “neither letters nor swimming.”

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

483

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004446192

ISBN 13

9789004446199

Thomas Erskine and Trial by Jury

By: John Hostettler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thomas Erskine and Trial by Jury

By: John Hostettler

A biography of Thomas Erskine, one of the greatest advocates ever to appear in an English court of law.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

Waterside Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

190438059X

ISBN 13

9781904380597

Book's by John Parslow

The Victoria Cross at Sea

The Victoria Cross at Sea

Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

Hussars, Horses and History

Hussars, Horses and History

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

Union Casualties at Gettysburg

Signal Transduction in Leukocytes

Signal Transduction in Leukocytes

Death, Money and the Vultures (Routledge Revivals)

Death, Money and the Vultures (Routledge Revivals)

B-Lymphocyte Differentiation

B-Lymphocyte Differentiation

Accents of English: Volume 3

Accents of English: Volume 3

Secret Victory

Secret Victory

Nocturnal America

Nocturnal America

Perspectives On Vasopressin

Perspectives On Vasopressin

Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving

"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving

Thomas Erskine and Trial by Jury

Thomas Erskine and Trial by Jury

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email