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Worlds Of Wonder, Days Of Judgment
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 29.95This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of conflicting... more...
The ICT Handbook for Primary Teachers
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95The ICT Handbook for Primary Teachers will help all those involved in primary education, whether in training, teaching or leadership roles, to develop the ICT knowledge, understanding and skills required to enhance children?s learning in the classroom. Covering theory and practise this essential Handbook explores and outlines the usefulness... more...
Fred Dibnah - Made in Britain
Transworld 2010; US$ 10.67In 2004, after felling his last chimney and retiring from steeplejacking, Fred took to the road on his beloved traction engine for the BBC series Made in Britain . Travelling the length and breadth of the country, the intention was to seek out the remarkable achievements of the craftsmen, engineers, inventors and industrial workers whose endeavour... more...
Fred
Transworld 2010; US$ 12.00Fred Dibnah's World celebrates the life and work of Britain's best known steeplejack and national treasure, Fred Dibnhah. Before his death in 2004, Fred presented many popular series, including Magnificent Monuments , The Age of Steam and Made in Britain, all of which attracted viewers in their millions. Fred is the companion to the... more...
Manchester's Finest
Transworld 2009; US$ 13.34On 6 February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from an icy runaway in Munich. On board were the Manchester United football team as well as a number of journalists and other passengers. News of the disaster sent shockwaves around the world. For people who lived in Manchester at the time... more...
Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes
Transworld 2011; US$ 10.67Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century - and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public. ... more...
Working Lives
Transworld 2012; US$ 33.37In the early 1950s Britain was still the most urbanized and industrialized nation in the world, a global power in shipbuilding and the leading European producer of coal, steel, cars and textiles. For the many millions of men and women hard at work during that time, an infernal landscape of smoke-blackened factories, towering slag heaps and fiery furnaces... more...
Peasants, Famine and the State in Colonial Western India
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 120.00Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex, long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district, Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does so by investigating their factors of production - land,... more...
Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion
CRC Press 2001; US$ 239.95The emerging technology of multisensor data fusion has a wide range of applications, both in Department of Defense (DoD) areas and in the civilian arena. This work provides a unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource for data fusion systems designers and researchers. more...
Strategy for Victory
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 125.00Unlike any other book that has looked at air support for the British army in the Second World War, Strategy for Victory: The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1919-1943 examines the highly contentious and protracted debate between the British army and the RAF over air support from the perspectives of the airmen - both the Air Staff in the... more...









