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The Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 15.95The world's first self-powered machine gun, the Maxim gun became a potent symbol of Victorian colonialism in the closing years of the 19th century. It was the brainchild of Sir Hiram Maxim, the American-born firearms inventor who founded the company bearing his name with financing from Albert Vickers, who became the company's chairman; Maxim's company... more...
Marine Ecology
Wiley 2013; US$ 99.95This book began life as a series of lectures given to second and third year undergraduates at Oxford University. These lectures were designed to give students insights as to how marine ecosystems functioned, how they were being affected by natural and human interventions, and how we might be able to conserve them and manage them sustainably for... more...
Introduction to Surface Engineering and Functionally Engineered Materials
Wiley 2011; US$ 183.00This book provides a clear and understandable text for users and developers of advanced engineered materials, particularly in the area of thin films, and addresses fundamentals of modifying the optical, electrical, photo-electric, triboligical, and corrosion resistance of solid surfaces and adding functionality to solids by engineering their surface,... more...
Samuel Johnson
Orion 2012; Not AvailableThe first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature more...
Samuel Johnson
Orion 2012; US$ 40.76The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literature more...
Handbook of Deposition Technologies for Films and Coatings
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 270.00Recent years have seen a rapid expansion in the applications of advanced thin film coatings in areas including photovoltaics, energy conversion, energy efficiency, biomedical engineering, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and flat panel displays. In a tough economic climate, surface engineering remains a growth industry, because surface engineered... more...
What does Tropical Medicine stand for today?
Amsterdam University Press 2011; US$ 12.50The Tropics' in geographical and astronomical terms simply refers to the area between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer; Tropical Medicine as a discipline, however, whose origins date back at least to the age of exploration, remains ill-defined and encompasses a wealth of different medical specialties and scientific areas, forming altogether... more...
Music and the sociological gaze
Manchester University Press 2006; US$ 95.00In this important new book, Peter J. Martin explores the interface between musicological and sociological approaches to the analysis of music, and in doing so reveals the differing foundations of cultural studies and sociological perspectives more generally. Building on the arguments of his earlier book Sounds and society, Dr Martin initially contrasts... more...









